the state of nebraska seizing on vaccine skepticism among front line health care workers.oss the state receiving emails and postcards like this advertising nursing jobs and highlighting, as you see there, that covid vaccines are not required. that message reportedly approved by republican governor pete ricketts. abby kline that received an email and postcard with that. the ads also say, let me make sure i have it right. while encouraged state teammates are not required to have covid-19 vaccines, this is highlighted throughout these advert advertisements. you're vaccinated. what did you think when you got this? >> yeah, you know, i thought it was just in really poor taste. recently, the major metropolitan health care organizations have come out. they're all requiring covid vaccinations for employees and the timing of these -- this recruitment campaign was pretty suspect given that every major employer in the state of nebraska for health care was going to be requiring the covid vaccine. and i felt like it was just, you know, it was really in poor taste and not what our state

edward is next out of nebraska. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just noticed yesterday and today, watching president biden give his speech, it looks like -- this is kind of off-the-cuff, but it looks like he must have fell or something because he has scratches around his eyebrows and nose. you know, i am 72 and i have fallen a couple times and it has done the same to me, but that is off the record. host: hard to be off the record on a live show. caller: ok. host: go ahead. i am not sure i noticed what you were talking about. your thoughts on the withdrawal? caller: ok. i think that trump and pompeo had it probably right. they made the deal with the taliban and they drew down from 25,000 or whatever it was down to 2500 without incident and they realized, i think, that the taliban was going to have to play a role in, you know, in the formation or reformation of afghanistan, and i think that president biden had it in his mind that, you know, he has been so anti-trump ever since day one, he was not going to stick to that and he just would go in ther

nbc's vaughn hillyard is in jacksonville, florida, and shaquille brewster in omaha, nebraska. florida breaking all records in the wrong direction, including hospitalizations, at a pandemic high. >> reporter: yeah, this is the fourth wave that should have never happened here. you're talking about a population here in florida in which more than 40% of the adults are still not fully vaccinated, and that is exactly the individuals that you are seeing inside of these hospitals. here in jacksonville, in orlando, the hospitalization records being shattered, essentially 50% more than the highest previous peak here, and you're seeing over the likes of 10,000 plus covid patients inside of these hospitals here in florida. but this is now percolating beyond florida. yes, more than 20,000 cases, essentially making up 20% of the new daily cases across the u.s. at the same time you're seeing this take place in the likes of baton rouge, louisiana, where one particular hospital, baton rouge general medical center, i was talking with the nurse meredith cooper yesterday as they were building a f

after the war carson unrolled in the university of nebraska where he wrote his senior thesis on comedy writing and work for radio stations in lincoln while in college and then moved to omaha after graduation in 1949 with two years experience on television and on the radio in omaha. carson left hind a 15 minute show the very forgettable show called the squirrel man and headed west and got a job as an announcer on a television station in los angeles. he convinced the station to give them my timeslot where he could put together a program called carson which specializes in imitations of celebrities and botched commercials. after carson ad lib to joke about red skelton running across the set who happen to be watching the episode hired carson as a comedy writer. carson's big rate came when skelton injured himself during a rehearsal. skelton said carson had replaced him on the show that night and carson's one night star turned convinced cbs 2 establish the carson show. you may not have heard of it because it only lasted 39 weeks. carson complained the show failed because he didn't have enough

. >>> to nebraska, where three friends were literally neck-deep in trouble. heavy rains left the trio for a fight for their lives in an elevator, in a scene they said was something like a movie. >> let me see your best moose impression. >> this morning, this man breathing a sigh of relief, after his near-death experience on camera. as a storm triggered historic flooding in parts of nebraska, tony and his friends got into an elevator in omaha. as the elevator reached the ground floor, water started rushing in. >> water starts coming in through vents. i just thought it was going to go up to my ankles. >> reporter: the water kept rising. lou and friends tried to pry the door open. >> it was to my neck. calling 911, while he called his roommates. i said, you need to come down. i could be dying right now. >> reporter: the roommates coming to the rescue, helping them pry open the door. the water so high, they had to swim out. >> we just got it opened and started swimming out and once i got out, i couldn't believe, wow, this is something you see in a movie. >> repor

going to rest more in nebraska and nebraska some fantasy and all the way over too california at the front tier is moreover in the west. we're still showing a family in the 1850s farm how people could live so supplies in technology the industrial revolution machines are allowing you to cut straight boards essentially which really shapes how you can build your own house. negative clapboard on the outside of your house instead of just building a log cabin as what had been previous. those changes in technology really shift how the frontier can be lived on. that shapes the differences between 1820s frontier and 1850s frontier. probably the biggest national political issue in the 1850s is slavery. she's going to have things like a flavored award poster they're going to find in their local tavern the family living might be a very viable reward they want there might be more about how they feel about slavery some are okay with it and rent a slave. others are very against it an abolitionist. this depends on their religious beliefs and the family background. but finding a reward poster in your local

a high school football player collapses and dies in nebraska. the latest on a storm gathering strength in the caribbean. when will it hit the u.s.? portrait of america. less white, more diverse. what the census report tell us about our country, and how changing demographics influence our politics. cycle of violence-- an officer killed, two suspects arrested. >> garrett: tonight, we speak with the man charged with supplying the gun. and, it's not heaven-- it's iowa. tonight, major leaguers emerge from a corn field to play on a "field of dreams." this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. norah is off tonight. i'm major garrett. we begin in afghanistan where, at president biden's order, the u.s. military is sending thousands of troops to safely remove state department staff from the embassy in kabul. the emergency move comes as a taliban takeover of the country could be weeks, if not days away, and it's all happening with a

host: nebraska republican, congressman don bacon, member of the armed services committee.our military background -- you served in the u.s. air force, retired as a brigadier general, specialized in electronic warfare, intelligence, and reconnaissance. you had to -- deployments to the middle east. with that background, what do you think about the way we withdrew from afghanistan? guest: it has been a colossal disaster. it is going to embolden air adversaries, china, russia, iran. we already see things was taiwan and the baltics. their heightened fear of our weakness. also, i think it is alienated our allies. you hear what is going on in great britain. the person to likely replace president merkel from germany said this is the biggest debacle in nato's history. the worst thing is we have 10,000 americans still in afghanistan. i heard from some last night that cannot get through the tell that checkpoints -- the taliban checkpoints. we have a potential for lots of american hostages, lots of people stranded. that is the immediate disaster, but this is a colossal disaster. it was

she is a fulbright scholar at the university of nebraska-lincoln. she is a former journalist with bbc persian based in kabul and her piece published monday in "the washington post" is titled "my taliban nightmare came true. i left, but my sister couldn't." in it, she writes -- "since before i left kabul a few days ago, i keep having the same nightmare -- my sister running, sweating and bleeding, followed by taliban fighters on the streets of kabul. then the nightmare came true." nasrin nawa, your sister is a journalist, like you. tell uaps atnewh htoped her on sunday after the taliban seized control and since then. >> she was out of the house like so many other people in kabul. [indiscernible] my sister went to the bank to take some money but the bank refused to give her money. it was two days before the takeover that banks did not have enough money. we were actually facing difficulties, thinking something bad s happening but not that they would get power. my sister said everyone is shouting. taliban came and should run away. she starts running to t

the mic is hot. >> oops. >> nebraska we grew up with nebraska being great i grew up as an alabama fanme right now, any hope on the horizon? >> lots of hope. we'll be back. we have a ways to go, we have to rebuild but coach frost is doing a good job. >> all right. let's get to afghanistan now. so what -- how long do you think america should stay there? how long should they continue evacuating americans past the deadline? >> until every american is out. there's no excuse for leaving americans behind. the president seems to be content with a plan that is going to end up in some sort of a hostage situation. it's completely indefensible. we need to finish the job. i'm against the withdraw decision but that's no what he're talking about right now. we're talking about the fact that this evacuation has been so ham handedly planned and the administration goes out to take these weird victory laps every 36 hours like things are working well. things are not working well. we should celebrate every american and american ally who fought alongside us against a common enemy. every one that gets out is

we are far from seeing the worst here in nebraska and across the rest of the country. there is a significant portion of the u.s. and this is probably going to be the worst phase of the pandemic. >> i mention the strain that you are hearing among medical professionals. a month ago there were three covid-19 patients and now he is dealing with 30 patients. they were already busy when just dealing with the three covid-19 patients. the coronavirus is the no the only element people that people suffer from, they were dealing with the surge of patients already. and this just added, it compounded the problems that they were fatesing here at this medical center. ayman? >> we're back to using words like front lines. i know you spent the weekend talking to health care workers on the front lines fighting the virus. what has this surge been like for them? >> exactly. of just take into account what the hospital workers, the doctors, nurses and other staff are working through. and that is the reality that this is a fourth wave. there is a record number of individuals hospitalized with

iowa versus nebraska, nebraska, up to one last inning tying run at second base, said to write. game saving. catch by a kid by the name of jude. hey jude. nice play game, samer. right there. he's going to remember that the rest of his life they basically carry him off the field and his team. nebraska will go on to the little league world series, little league world series, man. that is just awesome. i was unstoppable. i mean, i was... i was on fire. it was like my mind and my body were totally connected, like-like athletes must feel when they're in the zone. again, it was miniature golf. admit it, you're a little turned on. you can't be this proud. why not? because i beat you. hey. hi. oh, good. you're back. we have some exciting news. okay. as you know, amy and i have been together a long time, and a lot of things i never thought possible now seem possible. okay... after a careful evaluation of our relationship, we decided that the time was right to take a step forward. okay. do you want to say it? let's say it together. both: we're getting a turtle! this is why i've been sayin

dr. nebraska, and i have talked in the past, obviously about everything from vaccines to what people should really be fearful when it comes to code, etc. right? now the big fear factor is these hospitals are overwhelmed, cova numbers are up and that's what's causing these major runs for it. those are being used to justify a lot of cases. the locking down of cities, putting mask on kids mandates. all sorts of government policies are being made because these hospitals are overwhelmed. what are you seeing or you see that these hospitals are being overwhelmed? is it a fact that there's just more patients, or is there not a lot of the same amount of staff to take care of? what would be a typical number at this time? i think it's multi factorial unfortunately, not one answer, but your point is incredibly well. take an old case or the case or not. i don't care about cases. i care about death. i mean people are sick, things like that. come at 19 and their own studies show this on the cdc, it's 99.9 percent recoverable. obviously, if you're all over $74.00, is 94 percent recoverable. so we ha

reporting to take an in-depth look at the 20 year war in afghanistan, former democratic senator from nebraska, bennett nelson offers his thoughts on how to fix the senate and death of the senate. historian kate clifford larson recalls the life of civil rights activists and walk with me. also been published this week, best-selling science writer richard dawkins provides a collection of book reviews and essays and books to furnish a life, and power and liberty pulitzer prize winning historian gordon wood examines the political debate that surround the creation of the u.s. constitution. physicist stefan alexander argues good physics require stepping outside conventional and fear of a black universe. find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold. on book tv. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a right good evening everyone. i'm the executive director of the nonprofit program is independent feminist bookstore , were located in decur

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more than 75% of voters in nebraska and south dakota supported the ballot initiatives to cap interest rates on payday loans. in recent years, new fed caps have emerged to offer small loans at affordable rates. of course, the payday lobby didn't give up. we now have a separate group of online payday lenders resurrecting the rent a bank scheme. and not even attempting to hide it. one online lender recently told its investors it would get around california's new law by making loans through bank sponsors that are not subject to the same proposed state rate limitations. in other words, said there's no reason they would not be able to replace their california business with a bank program. given the broad by the support for these laws, we all hoped that the trump occ would take action and crack down on these schemes, schemes that have been rejected by voters and legislatures state after state. the last republican legislation stood up for consumers. last year, the occ issued the true lender rule, overruling voters of both parties and giving a free pass to these abusive rent a bank schemes. th

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bill and the latest in afghanistan with pennsylvania democratic congresswoman chrissy houlahan and nebraska republican congressman don bacon. also a look at the future of afghanistan with the american university of afghanistan professor. "washington journal watch c-span's"washington journal" live at seven eastern this morning. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> house minority leader kevin mccarthy another house republican leaders spoke with reporters about the situation in afghanistan. he responded to questions about the august 31 withdrawal deadline, intelligence failures regarding the situation and possible investigations if republicans gain control of the house in 2020 to. this is about 40 minutes. fairs committee. the news conference runs about 40 minutes. rep. mccarthy: good afternoon. with me today i have ranking member mr. bost, mr. mckaul,

.>>> wild weather in omaha, nebraska left friends trapped in an elevator at it is filling with floodwater. one happen to know the buildings maintenance technician. called him on a cell phone. after 10 minutes the group was free.>>> northern california farmers and vineyards are tapping into a six cents in search for irrigation water. bob thompson using an agent method called dowsing to find underground wells. he uses two metal rods. if they cross they will point toward a water source. >> think of us as one big radio. we tune into that change in the magnetic field. we pick response? >> i hand them dowsing rods. some can do it and say what is going on. >> critics claim there is no merit to the method. thompson says he has had for decades of success. he is busier than ever this year. >>> too bad we can't distilled. what are and as we look.>>> our chief meteorologist is here tracking the forecast. >>> the usual back-and-forth as we had through the rest of the week. temperatures will be on the warm side away from the bay. the onshore breeze reestablished over the weekend to push wildfire smoke

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apparently this allegedly happened in nebraska. the workers leaving a farewell note on the door.t can you tell us about it? >> this was kind of the perfect storm. the family dollar in lincoln, nebraska, was forced to temporarily close earlier this week when the entire staff walked off the job because they were unhappy with their pay, poor working conditions and long hours. the stores assistant manager tells fox the problem started three to four months ago when the store lost all its cashiers. the manager says the store couldn't keep cashiers hired because they were only making $10 an hour. then it got worse when the air conditioning in the bathrooms stopped working. spokesperson says the store has since reopened. >> shannon: okay. thank you very much for the update. inflation remains a big concern for many and there are questions about how decisions be made by the biden administration are impacting the issue in the short-term and long-term. let's bring into mainstream team panel. kevin walling, jason riley. fox news contributor an offer of the brand-new book "maverick." a little

new video out of omaha, nebraska showing three friends trapped in an elevator that is slowly filling up with water, floodwater swept the area over the weekend of water came rushing into an apartment building. ought to get out as a maintenance worker trying to pry his way in. after about 10 minutes they did all make it out safely. wow, nervous times as the water, kind of like a movie. no kidding. thriller . two of you not only the first place will do it too. >> just a little bit up later in the mid-levels of the atmosphere by midweek. the onshore breeze did return over the weekend having to push the wildfire smoke away from the bay area. are completely clear there is still some pain but in general things are looking pretty good we the rest of this week. her quality much better than what it looked like on friday, a green dot on the map in indicating good air quality. it looks like we had to the rest of the week, across the board tomorrow trying to drift into the east bay and what they went back on thursday and friday just briefly tipping into the moderate quality for those locations we

nebraska's governor pete ricketts slammed the move.e woke campuses here to weigh in is ricky slot, junior. >> thank you for having me. lawrence: ricky, one job to teach the theory, parts of the issue is starting to segregate some of the kids on the dorm. isn't that already illegal? >> it feels as though it should be but nyu and a lot of other schools around the country this new critical race theory segregationism has taken hold and we have -- you have racially segregated dorms on my campus as well as many throughout the country and that is extremely disheartening and concerning because ultimately it undermines martin luther king's vision, it undermines our nation's values of common humanity other immutable differences and it's hard to see that campus and truly regressive way. lawrence: rikki the young people i know they love each other democrats and republicans although they think they're a little crazy they still can hang out with each other. what do you think the motive is behind it are the professors driving this kind of division. >

i've even been in the underground headquarters of the strategic air command in omaha, nebraska, withuntry by meeting people in different states. [indistinct chatter] on this campaign trip, i saw posters protesting against the a bill in congress which would have eliminated private inspections of greens from the u.s. to foreign countries. had the bill passed, these people would have lost their jobs. so, they had an interest in getting a compromise in my view, which would have maintained a certain level of private inspections and preserve the jobs at the shipping port in louisiana. [indistinct chatter] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ how are you? nice to see you. nice to have you [inaudible] . how are you, nice to see. how are you? >> nice to see you. mister president, what would you think above the [inaudible] sink at the reception yesterday? >> the marketing was superb. thank you. we appreciate it very much. >> the life of a foreign correspondent is almost a 24-hour job. every day you have a lot of things happening that are worthwhile, and a political story, an economic story, even a serious story w

since 2010, colorado, illinois, virginia, last year nebraska, all passed laws to cap interest rates on payday loans at 36%. still a very high number. several other states, including california and ohio also passed laws to limit the interests that can be charged. these laws passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. more than 75% of voters in nebraska and south dakota supported the ballot initiatives to cap interests on payday loans. in recent years -- to offer small loans at affordable rates. of course, the payday lobby didn't give up. we now have a separate group of online payday lenders resurrecting the rent a bank scheme. one online lender recently told its investors it would get around california's new law by making loans through bank sponsors that are not subject to the same proposed state rate limitations. given the broad by the support for these laws, we all hoped that the trump occ would take action and crack down on these schemes, schemes that have been rejected by voters and legislatures state after state. the last republican legislation stood up for consumers. last year, t

a storm caused flooding in nebraska. they got in an elevator.tarted rushing in. >> water starts coming in through vents and i think it was going to my ankles. >> it kept rising. they tried to pry the doors open. >> i tried to open the door it was too my neck. >> his friends called 911. while he called his roommates. >> come down. i can be dying. >> they come to the rescue. helping them pry open the door. the water so high, they had to swim out. >> we got it open and started swimming out. i just couldn't believe this was something in a movie. >> another elevator also if i would with water. trapping someone inside. the emergency crews were able to get there in time. meanwhile, they are okay. even his car outside escaped damage. others in the area not so lucky. up to five inches of rain submerging vehicles in the street. >> we didn't know how bad it was. >> incredible. one other rescue was made in the area. after two people were stranded on the roof of their car. >> a new hotel with very unusual wall paper. >> the ball girl comes to the rescue. is

in nebraska, landlords already are pressing to push people out. >> we had a case just this morning thatre yesterday at 5:00, i thought the cdc eviction moratorium was going to protect them, and then come this morning, it didn't and it's a family. there's kids. >> new york's new governor calls the supreme court decision appalling and insensitive, house speaker nancy pelosi described it as arbitrary, and cruel both women have promised to explore legislative solutions to the problem. and the president is asking state and local leaders to block evictions. >> our objective is to keep as s many people around the country in their homes as possible. >> but landlords argued in court they've lost as much as $19 billion a month. that's especially tough for individual landlords who own half the rental properties across the u.s., according to industry experts >> this decision is long overdue. the real harm has been impacted upon the small landlords who won, who had tenants who were not impacted by covid who did not pay, tenants who have absconded and abandoned the property. >> dean hunter tells me t

me. >> nebraska? far away. which cleared him for sure. of course, they would need to look at shannon and aaron, too, given their falling out with pam and ralph. but -- >> they were cleared almost immediately, because -- >> they were nowhere around? >> yeah, they were not involved. >> dead-end. the crime scene people did find some things, mind you, including a bloody fireplace poker that turned out to be the murder weapon. >> the marking on her head was the exact replica of the shape of the fire poker, the end of the poker. >> they cataloged everything they found. broken glass in the backdoor. they even took the knobs off drawers and sent them to the lab hoping the intruders left dna or fingerprints on them. and then quite unexpected. then, quite unexpected, something remarkable turned up. and right through the front door of the local newspaper -- so what did you think when you first read that document? >> i felt i had my own little version of the pentagon papers in a way. >> coming up, a letter that h

let's bring in nebraska republican senator ben sasse.a member of the senate intelligence committee. cnn sources tell us that the biden administration still plans to get out 30,000 afghan allies, interpreters and such out of the country, not including their family members. from what you're hearing is that realistic? >> well, first of all, let's just say that that statement should make every american want to vomit because the 60,000 number that she's naming is right, and all of their families is not some abstraction. these are moms and dads with little kids at their knees, some of them at the airport. and every one of them should have gotten out by us. we should do what is necessary to keep our word that we've given to these people. this is a shamal day in america. >> i don't disagree with you. i'm seeing a lot of voices on the right saying this is all part of biden's plan to flood the united states with immigrants, people like steven miller, his former immigration adviser and others on the far right, jd vance criticizing the idea of bring

. >> hawaii versus nebraska. delayed by rain for more than three hours. hawaii put the game away in the seventh inning, notching six runs. final score, 11-3. >>> it was all california as pitchers on the team from torrance combined to throw a no-mitter beating ohio, 9-0. >> because of covid, i think it is the first time in three decks that there will be no international teams in the little league world series. >> you're right. i was watching a game. i don't remember who was playing. i was watching a game. the only thing i can feel was pure heartbreak. one of the teams was losing, if that was my kid, we're wrapping it up. i'm not putting him through this or her through this. >> it's a lot of emotion. it's a lot of fun. and this is how the game of baseball grows, through the little league world series. >> i'm team everybody gets a trophy. >>> coming up, the detroit tigers, speaking of baseball, who just hit his 500th career home run. we're talking about the big leagues. >>> plus, what's driving americans to skip the supermarket and head to the dollar store.

. >> reporter: in nebraska shelly wachter urging people from her hospital bed not to make the same mistake she did and get vaccinated. >> i could have saved myself and my family so much by having gotten the immunization. >> reporter: the cdc suggested the delta variant is more contagious than the common cold. an average person with a cold can infect two to three people but an average person with the delta variant can infect five to nine people. mona, andrew. >> andrea, thank you. >>> and turning now to our other for xtmegeus e, millions bracing monsoon thunderstorms, flash flooding and mudslides are wreaking havoc in colorado. denver will be closed for an extended period of time after it was damaged in a mudslide. this morning, dangerous downpours swamping the west, monsoon rains inundating parts of arizona triggering flash floods and creating terrifying scenes like this. entire neighborhoods transformed into rivers as fast-moving stormwaters sweep through the streets and into homes. >> this is insane. >> within a couple of minutes it was overflowing. >> reporter: a similar scene in califo

jerry in overton, nebraska. caller: thank you. president biden said that there was no comparison between vietnam and evacuations in afghanistan. i see exactly the same. i remember the people running to the embassy to try to get out. they same thing happened in afghanistan. i had a brother a loss in vietnam. it tears me -- i had a brother are lost in vietnam. it tears me up to see it again. guest: there are many who are with you and are seeing a strong similarities. hopefully, we can use that as lessons learned. that is too often the case that as a country, we are too shortsighted in our foreign policy. yet to remember the lessons we have learned. i was hearing about it this morning, it was about the way in which many people of the vietnamese refugees have contributed so heavily and strongly to the strength and creativity and success of the country. hopefully, all they are -- while there are negative similarities between the withdrawal from vietnam and afghanistan. we have to look at the incredible contributions that were made by t