good morning to you. it's good morning to you. eets wednesday, august 18, 2021. i'm gayle king. that is anthony mason. that's tony decouple. let's go. we welcome you to cbs this morning. president biden is facing new backlash after intelligence officials say the white house was warned that the afghan military could collapse. fear in afghanistan as the taliban take over, what it means for the terror threat here at home. a powerful earthquake killing close to 2,000 people in haiti. tropical storm grace is hampering rescue and he leaf efforts. >> this is what's left of the only hospital. the caldor fire is rapidly

expanding through northern california, prompting mandatory evacuations for over 190,000 residents. >> we're just getting snowed on by ash. r. kelly's sexual abuse trial gets underway today. >> my hope is for everyone to get peace of mind. mask mandate through january 18th. >> the current order was set to expire next month. all that, a russian prototype military transport plane crashed while performing a test flight out of moscow. gayle questions facebook founder mark zuckerberg about covid misinformation. >> if we see harmful misinformation on the platform and we take it down. >> how many people have viewed the misinformation. maybe you all don't know that number. >> on "cbs this morning." >> there comes a time when you have to pull out all the stops. that's what one dad did when he found out his son was sneaking

out of the house. alexa read out the preprogrammed message. >> i hope you had fun, was safe and didn't crap your pants when i started talking. i may go viral on tiktok for this. this. thanks for the content. captioning funded by cbs i'm trying to find out if they're sneaking in or out, but they're busted. that's the bottom line. >> i love the thanks for content line. welcome to "cbs this morning." we have breaking news from eastern afghanistan where the taliban broke up a protest against their rule. the health official says one protester was killed and six wounded. earlier a nato official said a stampede at kabul's airport this morning injured at least 17 people. the taliban control access to that airport, but evacuation flights are taking western diplomats and others out of the

country. roxana saberi and her cbs news crew travelled with one group of refugees on an overnight flight. this morning she's in doha, qatar. >> reporter: crowded into this u.s. cargo plane, afghans fled the taliban last night carrying little but hope and relief. >> they're going to kill me. >> reporter: this man is a translator for the u.s. army. he just got american visas for him and his family. they left behind afghans so desperate to escape hundreds stormed the runways on monday, some clinging to this u.s. military plane as it took off. amid the chaos, the u.s. shut down the airport for hours. when some flights resumed, we headed there too. so, we're headed now to the military side of kabul airport, which has reopened for flights for foreigners like us to leave and afghans that the u.s. is

trying to evacuate. looks like all these people are trying to get into the airport. inside, we saw some of the roughly 4,000 u.s. troops preparing to air lift afghans out. just after midnight, we joined them. we're about to take off from kabul in a u.s. military transfer plane with 300 afghans, men, women and children. the taliban say they won't harm people like these. in what seemed like a charm offensive, they said in their first news conference they'll respect women's rights and won't take revenge on former enemies. >> i don't believe it. >> reporter: he told me he hopes these kids see afghanistan again. the taliban won't be in power. >> what is your dream now for your kids and your family in america? >> my dream, only one dream, to make them bright future. >> reporter: and, he says, to live in peace wherever they are.

for "cbs this morning," roxana saberi, doha. >> the taliban return is raising concerns that the country could johniller joins , pictu a so or. heartbreaking and haunting, and it makes me think right now clearly the biden administration appears to be on its heels. if they don't handle this right and do well by the afghan people, i worry about others looking at this thinking look at what america did, they would think nothing about taking out innocent people. is that a legitimate concern? >> well, anybody in the intelligence business right now here in the united states who doesn't understand we're in a heightened threat position isn't reading the anal seysis. so, that is going to be a concern. and we are in a different place than we were 20 years ago in

terms of intelligence collection, analysis, capability, and the ability to reach overseas in different edtlear thereshe ihat al quaer isis w taliban controlled spaces or ungoverned spaces to develop sanctuary again, which was what brought us 9/11. but, again, we're much better at our game than we were on september 10th, 2001. >> how are we better, john? >> more money, more sources, more allies, more friends. if you think to the two versions of a terrorist war, one is you send hundreds of thousands of people dressed in green into a country to take it over and you rout the terrorists. a more modern version of that is the use of drones, the use of air cover, the use of special forces and precision hits. so, as tom freedman wrote in

"the times" the other day, it's not the morning after we have to worry about. this is the hangover from the takeover. it's the morning after the morning after. so, where are we as we assess a month out, three months out, six months out in terms of which direction is the taliban going? are they trying to establish a nation state that has a seat at the un or a voice in the international community or qualifies for aid? or are they becoming another sponsor of terrorism again, which has got to be in their calculus too? >> how big is the taliban. we keep hearing the taliban, the taliban, and you look at the numbers. i'm still not sure how big a group we're talking about. >> well, it was big enough to run afghanistan after it overthrew the government that replaced the russians when they left. it was big enough to knock over all the key cities within a week, including the capital. so, it's -- whether it's full-time members or part-time

members, it's big enough. >> john, your particular concerns around the anniversary of 9/11 coming up in just a few weeks. >> yes. >> what are they? >> what are they? >> it's a symbolic target. now, new york city is unique in that we live in a 20-year constant state of high alert. you know, when we come down to our lower alert, that's everybody else's high alert. we've invested like no other city in terms of, you know, 1,500 people who do counterterrorism every single day and then 500 people in crc, our counterterrorism field force, srg, other long arm teams. there is no city that has an ability to respond to a terrorist attack or some other event whether it's explosives with that amount of talent and experience. and here's the important part. since 9/11, we've prevented 50 plots either targeting new york

city or emanating from new york city to target someplace else. >> what did we miss here, john? >> so, we've got a deep experience. >> what did we miss? briefly, what did we miss? we've trained for 20 years. we've put in close to a trillion dollars and it still went so wrong so quickly. >> the miscalculus, whether it's what we missed or what the afghanis missed was the belief that if you spend two decades and close to a billion dollars to fight for some form solve democracy and freedom, is that what that country wanted or needed? and if there weren't other people there fighting for it, would they fight for it themselves? that's a 300,000 strong army that a lot of people stopped showing up for. and on game day but down their guns and surrendered. >> they walk away. >> so, you can blame the biden administration for a lack of foresight or coordination or

whatever you want to call it. but you have to remember there's an entire other populous that -- and a government -- that had a chance to take a stand. >> it speaks to the optimism of americans in some way that democracy would take root in this population. maybe that optimism is misplaced, at least for now. john miller, thank you very much. now to california where multiple wild fires are costing people their homes, and that includes the caldor fire, which more than tripled in size in just a single day. it already has destroyed parts of the town of grizzly flats, where thousands were forced to flee overnight. our jonathan vigliotti is on the fire lines in el dorado county just east of sacramento. jonathan, good morning to you. >> reporter: the caldor fire has pushed into rugged terrain this morning and you can hear it ripping through this vegetation. it's 0% contained. it exploded overnight to 30,000 acres in only a few hours. the governor activating a state of emergency.

dozens of towns are in harm's way. one of those towns, grizzly flats was all but levelled. few homes still standing. the elementary school and the postoffice were destroyed. climate change is fuelling these fires and firefighters are struggling to keep up. only about 200 crews are here on this scene simply because they are stretched so thin battling other fires across the state. in fact one of those fires, the dixie fire, 600,000 acres and growing by the hour and moving into one city, population 18,000. in just the last year, i've covered five towns that have been destroyed by fires. and the concern this morning with the wind picking up is that more towns could join that list. >> very scary developments there. jonathan, be careful out there. thank you. tropical depression fred is moving northeast this morning, dumping heavy rain and causing flash flooding after slamming the southeast. asheville, north carolina, had some of the worst flooding

yesterday. fred is expected to dump up to 10 inches of rain in parts of the carolinas, alabama and georgia. up to 14 possible tornados were reported across georgia and the carolinas. the storm knocked down trees and power lines and damaged at least a dozen homes in americus, georgia. >> reporter: we're seeing new evidence of the scale of devastation from saturday's earthquake in haiti. what were once buildings are splintered piles of rubble. in some cases, entire homes have been swallowed up by the earth. >> reporter: our flight into the quake zone could not prepare us for the destruction down below. once we arrived, the devastation surrounded us. homes and businesses unrecognizable to those who call this city home. >> i'm standing atop what used to be a four-story hotel.

on saturday when the earthquake struck, many people were crushed andkilled including a former senator. about ten miles from la kei, the damage was even more profound, made even worse by the battering rain from tropical depression grace. driving through the town, we saw hundreds of villagers roaming outside without a place to call home. this car was completely flattened when this house collapsed, essentially pancaking it. across the street, this catholic church has been utterly destroyed. and now due to the aftershocks, there's a fear this tower could come crashing down and hurt more people. for those already injured, help is a world away. we showed you how victims of the earthquake are being ferried to hospitals in port-au-prince. here's why. this is what's left of the only

hospital. the town's mayor says about 98% of mannish was destroyed. >> they need water and they need food. and they need assistance with the sanitary conditions. this is exactly what leads to disease. >> we smoke to mary, who's sister died in the quake. she says many villagers have simply lost hope. she says she's seen the focus has been on the bigger cities in haiti that were affected by the earthquake. but here, no one has paid much attention to them. they feel left behind. they feel as if no one is coming for them. the damage was amplified by tropical depression grace, which caused mud slides and some rivers to swell. that's cut off some of the most remote villages from getting any aid at all. and gayle, it's unclear how and when they could receive it. >> all right. thank you vlad.

r. kelley will be in a new york city courtroom this morning. the r&b star faces racketeering and other charges for illegal sexual activity for women and underage teenagers. our national correspondent is outside the courthouse in brooklyn. she spoke with a woman who says she survived r. kelly's abuse. >> reporter: good morning. for some people, this trial is years in the making. we've heard numerous accounts from women who said they were abused by r. kelly. his legal team says, wait, not so fast, because they say the public has only been told one side of the story and all of that is about to change today. ♪ next to ignition ♪ ♪ hot and fresh out the kitchen ♪ ♪ in the name of love ♪ >> reporter: r. kelly's music topped the charts for decades and at times he seemed

unstoppable. ♪ i believe i can fly ♪ ♪ i believe i can fly ♪ >> reporter: the r&b star won three grammys after marrying 15-year-old single aliyah. at the time of their marriage, kelly was 27. then in 2002, kelly was charged with making a sex tape with a 14-year-old. a jury found him not guilty. six years later, kelly continued to make more music and more money. >> i feel like justice for me has been about me being a silence breaker. >> reporter: former radio d.j. kitti jones says kelly physically, emotionally and sexually abused her when they dated in 2011. >> was there a oouhat was afraid to say something? >> yes, that's part of it. i didn't fit the profile. people who knew me knew i would never have been in a situation like that because i had so much

going for me. >> reporter: jones was among a handful of women who described life under kelly's control in a 2019 docuseries, "surviving r. kelly." >> being on punishment could be either you're not getting food or you took a beating. >> people betrayed me and i keep forgiving them. >> reporter: that same year, kelly sat down with gayle king. >> have you done anything wrong? >> lots of things wrong when it come to women that i apologize. put i apologized in those relationships at the time i was in those relationships. >> have you broken any laws when it comes to women? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: four months after that interview, kelly was arrested for federal sex crimes in chicago and new york. in july the 54-year-old was transferred to brooklyn, where he will now stand trial for allegedly running a criminal enterprise for two decades, involving sex trafficking of women and underage girls. kelly's legal team tells cbs

news the enterprise is based on a series of independent relationships and events that the government is trying to patch together like different types of fabrics and trying to pass itsi forjones, she says her focus is on the survivors. >> my hope is just for everyone to get a peace of mind finally, process their hurt. >> reporter: kelly faces ten years to life in prison if convicted on all charges in this new york case. several women are expected to testify against kelly. it's unclear exactly how many, but they will testify against the r&b singer over the next month, which is about how long this trial is expected to last. anthony? >> thank you. new white house guidance on a covid vaccine booster shot could come as soon as today, as a dire situation is developing in hospitalscrhe country. david dbegnaud has been alongsie

workers covering this. >> reporter: anthony, when it comes to first responders, these folks are truly first on that front line. we spent three days with emts in south louisiana and saw what they are dealing with. we met one woman who was waiting days to get a hospital bed. we'll take you along for the ride

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>> reporter: marine corps there wh weeper -- we were there when julia was transported to our lady of lourdes medical center in lafayette larks la. 59% of the beds here are filled with covid patients, and 93% of them are o of them. >> would have taken the vaccine. >> reporter: you wish you would have taken the vaccine? >> yes. [ sirens ] >> reporter: the ambulance based in louisiana is the largest privately owned ambulance company in the country. we spent three days with them. dr. chuck burnell is their chief medical officer. of your call volume, how much is dominated by covid patients? >> around 30% to 40% of our call volume involves covid patients. >> reporter: 27-year-old trent tarbutton is a field supervisor. >> you have three waiting. >> reporter: he took us to lafayette general where ambulances were backed up

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finding a bed for an elderly man in central louisiana who had gone into cardiac arrest. there were 15 hospitals within 100 miles, but they told us they could not find a single available bed. >> they have flow beds, no staff to -- no beds, no staff to take care of him. that's where we're at today. and that's where we've been. >> okay, you're not going to -- you're not going to transfer? >> reporter: after two hours looking, the doctor told them the patient's condition well worsened, and he could no longer be transferred. >> he has since gone back into cardiac arrest a couple of times. it's been a roller coaster ride for the family. >> reporter: again, dr. chuck burnell -- >> a lot of patients that we deem would not probably benefit from the hospital are already being treated in place at home and being left at home. >> reporter: they have not refused to transport anyone yet. >> we're days away from that happening right now. less than a week. >> reporter: it's the unthinkable, but he's got to juggle other priority, too, like

speaking almost daily with medics who are not vaccinated. two of those unvaccinated employees you met at the start of our story. they are the two medics who transported julia clay, the covid-positive patient, to the hospital. transporting it. you're up close with it. >> right. >> reporter: does that not change your opinion? >> no. i'm very -- like me and my family are very religious. we pray a lot. we've always been the type of people that we trust god. >> reporter: are you vaccinated? >> no. should i be, yes, yes, i should be vaccinate thee ed -- vaccina theed. that is careless with me because i do come in contact with other people. will i get vaccinated, yes. >> reporter: you have more exposure than most anybody else, and you still hadn't gotten it. >> haven't gotten it. do i push it? yes, i do. i push it, yes -- >> reporter: you mean push it in terms of telling other people to do it. but you haven't done it. >> i'm a hypocrite.

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facebook. and president biden has pushed social media companies to take stronger action to block it. nearly all of the latest covid deaths are among unvaccinated people. in a one-on-one interview we spoke exclusive with facebook ceo and co-founder mark zuckerberg. we asked how many people have seen false information about covid and vaccines on his platform. i get that you all have taken down 18 million pieces of misinformation. but one of the things that the white house has asked for repeatedly and still hasn't gotten a number is how much misinformation have people viewed and shared? do you have that number? >> well, if we see harmful misinformation on the platform, then we take it down. it's against our policy. so the 18 million number i shared is the number of pieces of content that we've seen on the platform that we take down. do we catch everything, you know, of course there are mistakes that we make or areas where we need to improve. but that's the best number that we have in terms of what we've seen and what our systems have been able to detect.

>> i do think those are two separate issues. you've takendown 18 million pieces of misinformation, but how many people have viewed the misinformation? is it more than 18 million? is it less than 18 million? that's the number i think people are talking about. you know, the white house said at one point facebook is killing people. that was very bold and very blunt and provocative. i think the president walked that back. the point he was making, i believe, is that people look at it and act upon it or don't act upon it, and facebook is being blamed for that. that's why i'm trying to nail down what is the number of misinformation that people have viewed. maybe you don't know it. maybe you all don't know that number. do you see the point i'm making? there are two different numbers here. >> yeah, no, i understand what you're saying. the number that i have off the top of my head that i can share is the number of pieces of misinformation that we've taken action against. we also have millions of people have used our vaccine finder tools to take their step toward getting the vaccine. and hundreds of millions of

people have visited in the u.s. and in other places have visited the coronavirus information hub to get authoritative information about this. >> yeah. it is an ongoing- with the tech that we have today, it seems like you would know all of that. you would know those numbers. >> the scope of the problem, the size of the audience, what draws people's attention kwha, what h their attention. if you knew that from a public health point of view you could do that. >> i can't believe he doesn't have it. >> there's a difference between misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. he said a lot of this is hesitancy, not misinformation. we'll have more tomorrow. >> lou they girlfriend it is fascinating. >> very interesting. facebook says since the start of the pandemic more than two billion people have viewed reliable information about covid and vaccines on its platform. we'll have more of our exclusive interview with mark zuckerberg. that's tomorrow right here on

"cbs this morning," including the reason why he sat down with us. he has a special announcement about the future of facebook. believe me, he wasn't saying, you know, i'd like to talk about misinformation on the platform. that is not why he sat down with us. but he certainly understands that we have to address the noouftznews of the day. >> good for him. >> exactly right.

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mandate until january 18th after covid cases spiked due to the highly contagious delta variant. the controversial rule was set to expire next month. it includes other public transportation like buses and trains. the mandate will now extend over traditionally busy periods for air travel including thanksgiving and the december holidays. >> i was so bummed to hear this, but i get it. if more people had done the right thing, we really would have been out of this by now. >> i thought we were in the clear in june. now wearing masks in christmas. >> apparently the penalty is up to $1,500 and a fine. hopefully people will abide by the rules. this next story, i promise, will make your mouths water. a new girl scout cookie will make its way into your neighborhood next year. it's called adventurefuls. the treat will join the girl scouts national lineup for the 2022 season. it's inspired by a brownie with caramel-flavored cream and hint of sea salt. we'll see if it makes it to the

list of all-time favorites. in a poll last year people across the nation named thin mints as the tastiest cookie. samoas or caramel delites came in a close second with tagalongs, also called peanut butter patties, coming in third. >> i'm a samoa fan. >> i'm feeling adventurefuls. it's a mouthful, but it has all the -- >> what i don't like, i don't like how the lines are of icing or whatever you call it are like straight. they look like bars. it looks like a peanut butter cup got in trouble. i want a little bit of curvy like a -- >> tony dokoupil, the cookie critic. >> exactly. you eat with your eyes. >> the designer -- >> it's a good point actually. >> frozen thin mints, that is the way to go. frozen. you haven't had them frozen? >> honestly, when i open the freezer, they're afternin therei see them for 30 minutes, then i'm done for the whole evening. >> bravo for the adventurefuls.

i like the combination a lot. >> sound fun. i promise this next story will make your jaws drop. the robot builders at boston dynamics are at it again. the company owned by lun day is showing a pair of robots with athletic stills that any of us would love to have. the humanoid machines leap gaps, vault beams, and even coordinate a backflip toward the end of the obstacle course, all without missing a beat. it's unbelievable. look at this. >> yes. >> we're like hay coa couple ye away from the version when chess masters play the cuter and the computer beats them at chess? >> these two look like they could do synchronized swimming. this is crazy. there is upsetting how good they are. >> i think it's very cool. i wish boston dynamics would build heads. it's creepy to me with no heads. >> with heads they're not creepy? >> heads are creepier. >> i think they would be more creepy with heads. >> a very good point. i think heads would add to.

it i think boston dynamics would be a cool place to work. >> absolutely. the point is to reach places that human rescuers could not survive. >> i thought the point is they can dance really well. >> i remember that -- >> remember we introduced you to spot robot back in july. he did a dance-off with bts. >> better than me. >> the boy band. >> again, no heads. i think they need heads. >> it is weird. >> he designs cookies. i design robots. okay. anthony. ahead, actor and bestselling author ethan hawke will join us. e but you managed to pack a record 1.1 trillion transistors into this chip whoo! yeah! oh, hi i invested in invesco qqq a fund that invests in the innovators of the nasdaq 100 like you you don't have to be circuit design engineer to help push progress forward can i hold the chip? become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq

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western diplomats and others out of the country. >> we're about to take off from kabul with 300 afghans. >> reporter: should we be worried about being under the threat of attack? >> anybody in the intelligence heg thesiin the united statesnd >> reporter: dozens of towns are in harm's way. >> it was amplified by grace and that's cut off some of the most remote villages from getting any aid at all. >> we've heard numerous accounts from women, who said they were abused by r. kelly. but his legal team says wait a minute. not so fast. >> the biden administration is expected to announce that most americans need a coronavirus booster vaccination eight months after the shot. we're going to get a third shot. so, somehow they're going to have to make the vaccination

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morning." i guess we should begin with your expectations for the opening remarks at trial today w the bigger understanding that this is a legal team you're no longer part of? >> right, well, i think what they have to do in opening statements today is convince the jurors that rmpt kelly is not the monster they think he is. the government is going to present all these stories and the defense has to humanize r. kelly. they have to tell the jurors how this is someone who started out singing in subways and is a celebrity, he just lived his life and made his music. what people are going to find out is that, sort of the morale

movement has changed the way we look at two things he but add the moment, we doo at him that way and they weren't illegal. >> is his argument going to they're alleging may be disagreeable and true but not a crime? >> i think it's going to be a combination of all of that. i think some of the women are out and out lying, some of the women are exaggerating and some of the women are perhaps telling the truth about what happened but it's not a crime. what the government has done is they used the rico statute, which is intended to prosecute gangs and mobsters and they're trying to prosecute an individual where a bunch of statute ofexpi in my opinion, it's a kim pleat

perversion of the intent. >> what are you considering to be a minor act? what would the dse concede as true to get r. kelly off in the case? >> i think the one everyone's heard the most is an algagsz that he gave someone herpes. the new york prosecutors are using a new york state law and tatz the only reason the case is in new york. that's how they get, what we call, venue. and they're using the mish demeanor law to try to get a foothold in new york on a felony case. when a prosecutor has to get truly creaative, then that's probably not whathut law was intended to punish or behavi

>> what do you say when you say the defense has to hugize him or show r. kelly is a victim. how can they do that when so many of the girls are telling the same story? they can't all be lying, can they? >> what's abuse, gale? that's what this comes down to. so, you have different categories of offenses here. alleged minor victims, some of which you're going to find out lied about their age, their families lied about their age and they tried to capitalize on r. kelly and extort him for money. then other things, like he wanted to have people call him daddy. is that -- how is that any

different than me being called sweetheart -- >> there's a difference between being called daddy and sweetheart and honey in the context the girl said were stating. they were kept locked in rooms. >> no. these are grown women, for the most part, who made a choice to be with an individual who was a celebrity. when they talk about being in a locked room, they would be in a studio and told wait in this room. someone will come and get you. there's no chains, no hooks in the floor we heard about in the so-called documentary. if i visit somebody at a police station, i get put in a room and told i can't leave the room. these women waited sometimes ut tt's locked in a room ile he forever and held for days on

end, like you see the sex slavl situations. >> they disagree. >> that's why we have trials, trars cross examination. >> and you're saying mental abuse isn't a crime. >> that's krek. and we look at something and say this is abuse. against the law? that's really what you have to do in an opening statement today is get that across to the jurors between what's morally incorrect or me too incorrect or legally incorrect. >> you were there when we did the interview with r. kelly and i'm curious about your characterization of that and the reason i'm asking you specifically is because later r. kelly sent word to me that he was thanking me for giving him the platform to express himself

because we got to see, he says, his passion and his pain. do you think that interview hurt or helped him? >> i think to some people it helped and to some people it hurt. you know, if r. kelly had sat with you perfectly stoic everyone would have said he doesn't feel bad about anything. he's got no emotion. he's got no feeling. he got very upset during that interview. that was very real. that was how he felt. that is how i feel that he's being taken advantage of here. the problem is no matter what the man does people are going to criticize, but all that matter, gayle, and you know this is what those 12 people in the courtroom think in some three or four weeks from now. >> steve greenberg, thank you very much. we appreciate you getting up with us. ica'.n ambassador on eest way to help afghanistan's women and girls now that the taliban have returned to power. we'll be right back.

as the taliban consolidates their control of afghanistan, they are selling themselves as a new more moderate group that will respect women's rights and not retaliate again being met with skepticism, big skepticism, as many afghans flood kabul airport trying to board flights leaving the country. u.s. ambassador to the u.n., that's linda thomas greenfield, joins us now to discuss. good to see you, madam ambassador. what's your biggest concern right now? >> great to see you, as well, gayle. look, our biggest concern right now and our major priority is working around the clock to get those people who need to get out of afghanistan out. we were able to get 1,000 out yesterday, and we're moving forward rapidly to move others out of danger. >> you know, people are looking at it, and i'm sure you, too, we're haunted by the images that we're seeing. why weren't preparations made ahead of time? and i know hindsight is 20/20.

i get that. everybody that has no experience with anything has an opinion. but it does beg the question why preparations weren't made earlier to make sure that this transition went a little bitter -- look at this with the people literally hanging on to the plane. preparations weren't made. yeah. >> you know, gayle, absolutely preparations were made. we did contingency planning, but none of us can appreciate what happens when the end of a civil war takes place and the victors enter the city. but we were prepared for this, and we are working around the clock to ensure that people are given support to get out of the country. >> i heard a white house spokesperson say the other day, i wrote this down, "we've received assurances from the taliban that we will" -- those words don't go together to me when you hear them in a sentence. how -- what stock are you putting in what the taliban is saying, we have changed, we're

encouraging women to join the government, there will be no retaliation against any of the afghan people who have worked with the u.s.? how are you viewing that? >> you know, we have to see what they do. we hear what they're saying, but it is their actions that really will define how you that address these issues moving forward. and we will be watching very carefully what they do as it relates to women and girls and iclusiveness. >> what is the u.n. doing right now to protect girls in particular and women, the women are very afraid, many in hiding. >> i feel their fear, but the u.n. announced very early that they will remain on the ground, they will continue to support programs for women and girls, and we're all, including myself here in new york, we're pushing every single member of the u.n., of the security council, to raise their voices in unison to

say to the taliban that it is absolutely imperative that they protect the rights of women and girls. >> madam ambassador, it's tony dokoupil. we've seen pictures on line of courageous women -- good morning to you, thank you for being with us. we've seen pictures of courageous women in afghanistan protesting the taliban's takeover. some at 6:30 in the morning walking to school as though it's just another day and nothing has changed. obviously both those activities do carry new risks this morning. what would you advise, what does the u.n. advise to the women in afghanistan right now? should they stay inside watch and wait or try to go about their lives? >> you know, i have to leave that to afghan women to decide for themselves, but personally i think they need to make every attempt to go on with their lives knowing that we in the international community will be looking to ensure that they are

protected. >> are you talking with representatives in the region? are you in communication with them? >> secretary blinken has been on an almost hourly basis on the phone with his counterpart. i am speaking daily with my counterparts here in new york, and we're engaging actually in the security council on afghanistan. you may have seen that we issued a very strongly worded statement that got unanimous support and that's an important statement. unanimous support in the security council calling on the taliban to honor humanitarian programs, to support human rights, and particularly the rights of women and girls, and to ensure that afghanistan does not become a safe haven for terrorists. >> well, we're all watching, the world is watching. let's hope things improve and that this situation works out a little better than what we're

seeing so far. >> we have to do more than hope. >> you're right. >> we have to do more than hope, gayle. we really have to pull out every tool that we have t good morning. it's 8:25. the caldor fire burning in el dorado has ballooned to over 25 acres. two evacuation centers are full. two people are hurt. no containment so far. for the 6th day an air quality advisory is in effect taking a look at lafayette. you can see bad air. today shifting winds could make that wind more widespread. thousands of students now back in the classroom. masks are required indoors and out for everybody. no more social distancing and parents must fill out a

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is time to bring you some of the stories that are "talk of the table" this morning. ms. king up for us. >> i get to go first. okay. my "talk of the table" is you, lizzo, because facebook is now going to delete the negative comments on her facebook and instagram accounts that violate policies against hate speech and bullying. i'm loving that they're doing this. lizzo went on social media recently over the weekend with a very tearful message targeting what she calls fat phobic and racist comments on line after she and cardi b. released their video for the squoong "rumors." >> sometimes i feel like the world just don't love me back. like it doesn't matter how much

positive energy you put into the world, you're still going to have people who have someth somethsomething -- something mean to say about you. what i won't accept is y'all doing there to black women over and over and over again, especially us big black girls. when we don't fit into the box that you want to put us in, you just unleash hatred on to us. it's not cool. >> it is so not cool. lizzo said she will continue to love herself and keep being a great artist. when i saw the video -- because she really does have a moment -- it broke my heart that people who were just drinking big old cups of an get you to that way. you have to realize people who are famous have the same problems, have the same issues, as everybody else, and they are human beings more than anything else. and i -- i really respect and

admire lizzo very much. it got to me when i saw that she allowed those people to get to her. sometimes it's just an accelerator on hate. it bothers me. >> as she said, she is someone who puts so much positive energy in the world. to feel that coming back, that's -- >> don't let an insensitive cloud clod get to you. >> props to instagram and gabe -- >> yes. and sending congratulations to abbey phillip from cnn. i just adore her. we've never met, but i think she's so cool. she welcomed a new daughter with her husband marcus. according to "people" magazine, little naomi angelina richardson and her mom are feeling great. little naomi, they said the name means pleasant one, and abbey says she's already there. she arrived ten days, fashionably late. congratulations to abbey and her husband. first baby. i love first baby stories. great. >> awesome. my "talk of the table" is some -- some folks know i like to have a cup of coffee after the show. sometimes i like to have a scone with it. i am susceptible to -- >> not you like to, you do every

day. >> oh -- >> walks down the street. >> guilty. so i'm susceptible to stories about scones. and this is a story about a small business that was literally saved by scones. mary o's, an irish pub in new york's east village, struggled during the pandemic and fell behind on its rent. well, owner mary o'halloran got creative. she set up an online store selling homemade soda bread scones and black bury jam using her mom's recipe from ireland. recently she was featured on the popular instagram account "humans of new york" where o'halloran explained how she and her six children, ages 8 to 17, were working so hard to keep the pub afloat. the scones were not bringing in a ton of money, but she says the kind words she received gave her a little bit of light. well, after that post, people rallied around her and began placing orders and a lot of them. humans of new york reports mary

o.'s has sold more than $1 million worth of soda bread scones, more than 150,000 as of august 7th. >> i now want to try them. >> i do, too. i do, too. i'm -- i'm hoping we can get some free samples. anyway. what's cool here is -- >> not like it's for a good cause. >> i'm just trying to work with my coffee at the end of the show, okay. but what i love here is she's -- in the beginning she started catering dinners for emergency workers. it wasn't enough. she said it felt like the walls were closing in and says now i don't feel so alone. great story. >> all right. my "talk of the table" is essentially a psa, a warning for the young whippersnappers of so far canada, but it could be crossing the border soon. >> i like this. >> watch out if you're in line waiting for a bar or a pool hall, in this case, and an older gentleman walks up to you and starts talking about a pushup cont contest. do not accept it. he will do this to you -- >> oh, no. >> that is an older man, gray haired, embarrassing, embarrassing a younger man who could only do two before the

older guy got down and did 25 one armed. >> oh. oh. >> all right, young people. consider yourself warned. we don't know the names of thes bet on it. all i know is -- >> it's a good visual. let's hear it for the old people. >> i know. >> hear it for the old people. i like it. all right. our next guest is oscar and tony hav nominated actor and bestselling author ethan hawke out with a new book. on screen, hawke starred in movies like "dead poets society" and the "before" trilogy, "training day," and a career spanning more than three decades. here he is in the coming of age film "boyhood." >> yes! yes! yes! all right. don't worry about it. >> looks like the bumpers -- >> bumpers are for kids. what are you, 2 years old? you don't want the bumpers. life doesn't give you bumpers. >> no it doesn't.

the multitalented actor, director, and writer is also the author of several "new york times" bestselling books. his latest ismeadowrk," a coming-of-age crime story ofnoitten itratorreg ethan hawke joins us now. good morning, thanks for being with us. >> yay. >> this is a beautiful book, i got to say. one thing i got to point out is that the father in this book looks very much like a well-known actor. >> i don't know -- it's the first graphic novel i've ever starred in for sure. when i was -- we were starting this book, the artist that i collaborated with, greg ruth, this is really his magnum opus. he's a brilliant artist. and we were trying to write something about being a dad and being a son and trying to do something cool with that. but at the time i just finished "magnificent seven" and had this giant kind of weird cowboy mustache. greg ran away with that.

i didn't know that he was going to draw me in the graphic novel, but it's kind of cool. >> it works. >> to star in a graphic novel. >> it works. >> it actually looks a little like a storyboard for a film. >> yeah. >> yeef thatabout graphicow, it interesting medium because it's just such a private experience reading a graphic novel. it's a little more like walking through a museum. you can decide how long you want to spend with each image and absorb it as you wish. i've learned a lot about it through working with greg. >> hey, and you describe the story in "meadowlark" as a greek myth disguised as a crime story. what do you mean by that? >> well, greg and i even had boys who were turning about 16. it seemed that when they came out of adolescence, all the sudden they woke up, they were as tall as we were, and they looked at us and were so disappointed. you know, they were like, wait,

you're all i get as a dad? and there's something ancient it felt about that expression in their eyes. it felt like something greek. we started thinking about, you know, "star wars," rooted around all this joseph campbell myths, and we thought it would be fun to try to write a myth about fathers and sons but set it in our childhood texas and make a crime story out of it. i don't know. it was a giant, long rif. anyone who knows greg, his brain is huge. he can talk about everything forever. >> it is -- listen, i love the characters. you've got somebody named wolf boy, red who's a bear size albino of a guy. it's sort of a take your child to work story that sort of goes awry because the dad is troubled and the father -- the dad is troubled and the son is troubled. but there is something about the father/son dynamic that i think you capture really well.

you, ethan hawke, bestselling author. >> yeah, you know, there's something -- when you're teaching your son to drive or you're teaching your daughter to drive and you're -- you have these moments that we all stumble on where you feel yourself connected to some larger force of humanity, you're a part of some -- it feels ancient. and i think that good stories help us see what is ancient in our present-day life. and so that's kind of what we were going for. it's a moment that i really cherish watching your young people grow up and turn into adults. it is a metaphor, it is like watching a butterfly fly away. >> yeah. ethan, the closest thing we have to myths and fables in our present day are kind of the big tent pole comic book movies and series, and you recently shot one of -- for a marvel character. as i understand it, you're a villain, and it's going to be

called "moon knight." at what can you tell us about it? >> i didn't say i'm the villain. here's what i can tell you. in 30 years of acting, the first thing that was totally new about working with marvel is i've been rledo many nondisclosure agreements, i -- and every time i go to talk about scolded. so here's the -- the trick is i'm shooting it in budapest, oscar isaac is in it with me. and it is -- it's been a phenomenal experience in all honesty. what i like about it is if you're doing spider-man or superman or -- you know, any of the more famous iconic superheroes, you have such responsibility to the fan base. but "moon knight" is so not well known, and it's really exciting to stir that up. >> and i love that you got the role, you and oscar bump into each other at a coffee shop and he says, hey, want to do a movie? i love that it happened just

like that for the two of you. >> well, that's what's cool about new york, right. >> yes. yes. >> i mean, it's -- it's a special city that way. and thter. we run i a, you random as it maybe seen. >> good luck. "meadowlark," available now wherever you buy your books. ahead, yale professor lori santos will share tips on how to have more fun in your life. don't we all need a little more fun? i'll go first

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wake up, people. wow! professor of happiness expert, laurie santos, turns her attention to fun in the new season of her podcast. it's called "the happiness lab" which has more than 35 million downloads. takes a look at what really makes people happy. season three begins this week, and two of the episodes focus on the important of fun in what she calls a brifun-teration. we were talking to ethan hawke who told us during the break he's in an undisclosed location but said as soon as he gets done he was going to go tubing and biking, he's hanging out ws kid'

this right. e pple not know how to have fun? >> i think a lot of adults don't know how to have fun. we prioritize work. so much that we get exhausted. when we finally get freeti, we're so burned out that we just plop down and watch, you know, netflix or something. and that's enjoyable it might be relaxing, but it's not fun like, you know, time is flying by, you're energized, feeling connected. like that's what's fun. and so many of us aren't getting enough of that in our lives. >> and during the pandemic, it's been awfully easy to be an -- in kind of a fun slump. what do you do to get out of it? >> yeah. part of it is to really actually take some time to look at fun and what's fun in your life. i was inspired to do this by the journalist katherine price who has this book called "the power of fun." i talked to her for my podcast. she suggests taking a fun audit where you say, okay, what are the times in my life that i was most having fun. you know, singing in the car with my kids, having this like, you know, fun verbal spat

like my spouse or something. what are the parts sfwriewhere enjoy it and build that into your life. >> i understand one of the things you tried in a fun intervention in your life was surfing. how did that go? >> yeah. i'm notoo at doing new things or things i was going to be bad at. i picked something that i knew as like an out-of-shape 40-year-old woman i might be bad at which was surfing. and i took a surf lesson with one of my good college friends in rhode island. and it was incredibly fun. you know, you see from the pictures it doesn't necessarily look like we're point break or anything, but we're smiling the whole time. in fact, you know, i did there yesterday, i'm pretty sore today. what's most sore is my face from smiling and laughing so much. >> what do you say to people especially adults who say, oh, you're acting like a child, that's childish? i look at those people and go is that wrong? >> yeah. i mean, you know, it is childish. but the threatening is is that what we know from fun is that fun can be so important for our well-being. >> yes. >> it can boost your immune function, playfulness can boost

your mood, it can protect your mental health. you know, can lead to less burnout over time. it's one of the easiest interventions we have for building up our mental health. we just don't realize how powerful it is. >> you say it requires self-compassion. what do you mean? >> well, you know, take surfing, for example. i think there's so many things we could try as an adult that might be really fun. but we kind of think, oh, i should know how to do that, it's too childish or foolish. i think we need self-compassion to just be nice to ourselves, to try to be a beginner again. you know, kids are having fun all the time. it's often because they're totally doing new stuff. we stop doing that as an adult. the little self-compassion, less judgment, we might be better off. >> i like that. you're writing a song here live on air. if people were asking their boss for that time off to have a little fun, would you advise that they use the word fun terve tervention? >> and say laurie santos said. >> i think you remind your boss there is the kind of thing that can lead to less burnout.

we should remember that fun can lap -- you don't have to go surfing every day to have fun. you can build it in in small increments. thinking about things that make your day happy, the things that you enjoy that make you ay build more of those.ouno, if you're singing, or if you're swinging on a swing where you're just kicking your legs up and going whee. i defy anybody to do that and not say that was fun. >> i agree. and you know, i think singing is another big one, another one of my funterventions is singing karaoke sing-alongs. >> do not believe it to professionals. >> even if you're a bad singer, it's fun. "the happiness lab" is available wherever you listen to your podcasts. you're watching "cbs this morning." we always appreciate that. we'll be right back. if you smell gas, you're too close. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out

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