israel's foreign minister touches down in bahrain, greeted by the prime minister. meanwhile, a commercial flight takes off in the other direction, headed for israel. >> i'm delighted to visit [indiscernible] only two hours and 55 minutes away from the destination. >> the visits come a year after the signing of the so-called abraham accords where israel solidified ties with a number of nations, an agreement brokered by then president trump. the new embassy in bahrain will be the second in recent months, following the june inauguration of an embassy in the uae. israel and bahrain will also send a number of agreements including economic deals as well as economic accords. mark: ethiopia is expelling seven officials days after the united nations sent officials to the tigre region. ethiopia accused them of meddling in internal ethiopian affairs. mexico sending 70 people to port-au-prince. the united states is also returning migrants to the haitian capital. >> every morning, the building of the refugee aid commission witnesses people. to achieve his goal, he took a terrib

they oppose bahrain forming diplomatic ties with israel last year in the us broker deal. they're calling for an immediate hope to the court, which they say goes against the palestinian people. he's la pete was hosted by bahrain king, crown prince, and prime minister, and signed 5 bilateral cooperation deals. a woman's protest in the african capital kabul has been quickly shut down by taliban as far as he's demonstrators stood outside a government school holding posters, stating education is essential for human identity. taliban members brandishing weapons stood close by before moving in to clear the rally. in recent weeks, the taliban announced new measures for female students despite earlier promising to uphold women's access to education. they have now been banned from secondary schools and universities. well kept out of foreign minister has expressed disappointment over recent moved by the new taliban governments of garrison mohammed been abdul rahman fanny spoke after talks with the e. u foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, in the the trying to demonstrate for body b

jordan and more recently the abraham accords that normalize relations with the united arab emirates, bahrain, and morocco. more is to come. at a ripe young age of 73, more and more nations are coming to understand israel's value and unique place in the world. some friends have stood with us since our founding. the united states of america is a long time trusted friend and ally of israel, as we saw yet again a few days ago in congress. alongside our old friends, we are gaining new friends, in the middle east and beyond. last week, this manifests itself with the defeat of the racist, anti-semitic, durban conference. this conference was meant to be against racism, but over the years turned into out and out it racism against israel and the jewish people. the world has had enough of this. i want to thank the 38 countries , 38, who chose truth overlies and skips the conference. and to those countries who chose to participate in the sparse, i can only say -- in this farce, i can only say attacking israel does not make you morally superior. fighting the only democracy in the middle east does not mak

countries that have provided critical assistance for our evacuation efforts, partners and allies -- bahrain, denmark, finland, france, germany, georgia, italy kosovo, kuwait, pakistan, spain, and others who have helped transit americans and others to safety. our close coordination with our allies and partners remains critical both on evacuation and relocation, but as we begin to scope our ongoing relationship with the afghan people and with the taliban. in the last few weeks, as you know, secretary blinken has made more than 50 bilateral calls to foreign leaders with both his g7 and nato counterparts. on monday, he convened a virtual ministerial that included canada, france, japan, the u.k., the eu, nato, qatar and turkey, to discuss safe travel out of afghanistan including the reopening of kabul airport. we expect in the coming days and weeks that that intensive effort will continue. deputy secretary sherman has made dozens of calls and convene conversations on a regular basis with deputy foreign minister's and political directors for more than 27 allied governments, sharing updates, infor

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grows on brashear and bahrain was a very bad accident and it was thought the halo really helped him. certainly lewis hamilton is come out and said the halo save life. and he's mercedes bosses saying the halo also saved him. i think anybody who had any doubts about 0k, also saved him. i think anybody who had any doubts about ok, the cars might not look great with them but they are there for a very specific reason and that reason really worked yesterday. this sort of intense driver rivalry we're seeing between hamilton and verstappen is nothing new for f1 but is this one getting too dangerous? i don't know whether it's getting too dangerous, it's very heated. and formula i at the moment has a very partisan crowd. you're either a max level or a lewis lover. and it doesn't seem like many people can appreciate them both. yesterday after the race myself and my colleagues called a racing incident and didn't think this too which are to penalise either driver. however the steward said it was predominantly go to to blame. so he gets a great place drop for the next round. and people are up in a

stephanie: health officials in bahrain county will begin administering boosters at the northgate shoppingenter which will have an expanded vaccination clinic, starting this wednesday. solano county, the board will be voting tomorrow on whether to reopen the fairgrounds as a mass vaccination site in mid-october. dion: certainly not wasting any time. what did dr. rutherford had to say about this booster rollout and how it could impact chances of getting to herd immunity? stephanie: she was very clear that as important as the rollout is for giving priority groups additional protection, it will not have a big impact on herd immunity, he said that will come as soon as children ages five to 11 start getting vaccinated. it will give us what we need to get closer to that. but he added that we cannot lose sight of prioritizing people who are still not vaccinated. dion: first steps first. stephanie, thank you. if you live in the south bay and you are eligible for a booster shot, but health officials say don't wait, seek out that extra shot today. >> there are certain groups for whom we urge people

i went to bahrain and we plan -- we planned we started the planning to go into bahrain. >> from first learning about the event to first decisions, all four of you were in positions of responsibility. you had to decide what to do. you said in a recent documentary that when i'm asked about some of the things we did with speed, i want to say what you -- what would you have done? we didn't have time for a lot of consultation. you are national security advisor, one of the central opponents of that job is to be the action control, you are coordinating intelligence in a sense, diplomacy and you are directly in touch with the chief executive of the nation. who, incidentally is put aboard air force one which is scrambled up and spent the day, much of the day in the air being protected by fighters touches down for a moment in louisiana, touches down again in nebraska before the situation becomes clear enough that the president is able to return to washington. maybe i could ask about that to begin with. the man to whom you report, the men was at the head of the executive branch of the united sta

i went to bahrain and we plan -- we planned we started the planning to go into bahrain. >> from first learning about the event to first decisions, all four of you were in positions of responsibility. you had to decide what to do. you said in a recent documentary that when i'm asked about some of the things we did with speed, i want to say what you -- what would you have done? we didn't have time for a lot of consultation. you are national security advisor, one of the central opponents of that job is to be the action control, you are coordinating intelligence in a sense, diplomacy and you are directly in touch with the chief executive of the nation. who, incidentally is put aboard air force one which is scrambled up and spent the day, much of the day in the air being protected by fighters touches down for a moment in louisiana, touches down again in nebraska before the situation becomes clear enough that the president is able to return to washington. maybe i could ask about that to begin with. the man to whom you report, the men was at the head of the executive branch of the united sta

wear the mask as much as you can until the amount of virus in the community goes on which heading to bahrain day quite yet. >> so different variance of opinion between the mayor and infectious disease specialists about what was done, whether it followed the mandate and what message it sends. but the focus, they say should be on the teaching moment. but if you are are in a place where you can take that mask off or eating or drinking, you should still keep an eye on as much as possible live in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news. >> all right, thank you dan. the fda meanwhile, panel is rejecting pfizer's request to administer a covid-19 booster shot to the general public, though they are recommending them for a smaller group specifically people 65 or older and people who run a high risk of severe disease said a meeting today the advisory committee said they just do not have the data to support approving a 3rd shot for everyone right now. but as kron four's, washington correspondent anna wiernicki reports that does not mean boosters are completely off the table. >> good evening. today. the pa

and this is a mile comes down the gulf, it brings dusty and dry red and tours bahrain kata. and the u. s. e, which tested reduce humidity does not much in the way of dust and temperatures dropping down to near normal, which is much different how they were study not in doha, but beyond that. the picturesque of quiet one for a re b f. and most of the middle east and, and for a ramp, there's a different taking place in turkey. and there's a weakening in the unsure breeze inside allies still clarity here. but those crowded it was, the monthly causes. thinking of retreating, the winds will change. but the change in turkey from the winds coming out of eastern europe is quite dramatic. we seen a drop in temperature was the full cost of re stumble with anchor of something like $15.00 degrees in the last 2 days. obviously, an increase in the strength of the wind, a massive rain. this potential flooding in thousands of non target even further south is dark blue center. and increase in the wind through the eastern med, eventually bring rain lebanon and probably showers the south of tha

now again, places like bahrain, katara is doing that environment. though how's weather is influenced by that. it's not a shumate, it's still about sitting on a 40 degrees, which is bad average, but it feels rather different if he's not here it. now there is still monsoons type, right, and just catching parts of pakistan his shooting, crunchy, but dry. it is quite sherry and we seem flooding recently in the hall. we might see again, showers all way down the indus valley, so the potential is still there. there are a few showers in northern turkey in the forecast. the wind is much, much lighted through the jade in the eastern, met us. it's not really affecting the weather at all and still on the coast to towns in the air. and kenya is a week, but still existing, bouncing, bringing a few showers. the weather, sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021. when freedom of the press is under threat in oh, you just because i thought, genuinely about your thought toward the making government step outside the mainstream. there has been a i

now again, places like bahrain, katara is doing that at the moment. though, how's weather is influenced by that. it is not a shumate. it's still about sitting on 40 degrees, which is bad average, but it feels rather different. it is not humid. now, there is still mon sudle type, right, just catching parts of pakistan, it's shifting karate, but dry. it is quite sherry and we've seen flooding recently in the hall. we might see again, showers all way down the in this valley. so the potential is still there. and there are a few showers in northern turkey. in the forecast, the wind is much, much lighter through the g than the eastern met down is not really affecting the weather at all. and still on the coast of townsend, the air and kenya is a week, but still existing, bouncing, bringing a few showers. the in hong kong has become a dangerous business one or one east and those who refuse to be silent. oh, now he's there. on counting recall is this the end of time is experiments with capitalism . president, teaching ping launches, reaping socialist reform, t

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and it's a good to see that bahrain and g, and i did i remember maroka and sir john carrasco. i knew both mister previous and that she knew more than poor, emphasized daddy are fully committed to the yes mrs. ewing solutions on the palestinian issue. the problem of really, if you put in the bible, you say have the right to fight, do they have the right to fight that went to ask anyone when they split the problem with? not only will, this issue remains unresolved, and it's one of the strongest reasons why there is such a radical, cooper and sentiment in those nations was very surely the religious lead to say, you can see how or nations are abused to go to the proper good or abuse is very susceptible to such propaganda easily and, and when i go to new and i tried to hammer it's home and saying that it has a from the union with effect on the entire region. when i explain it to our israeli counterparts, they get offended. they say no, no, it's not a serious issue. they see a short sighted approach. this is why we have with the bus or where miss ben doors . the proposal by my boss

he will be going to the gulf region next week, we depart on sunday, september 5 for qatar, kuwait, bahrain. we meet with regional partners and military leaders as well to thank them for their cooperation as we evacuated americans, afghans, and citizens from other nations. we will reaffirm our strong defense relationships within the region. we thank them for their superb support. we talked of the u.s. service members and other government personnel including our diplomatic colleagues. we have to thank them for the scale of professionalism that they conducted and continue to conduct this onward movement of people. with that, i could take some questions. reporter: i wanted to piggyback on a previous question about it sounded like it could be indefinite. i just wanted to get some more clarity on that. the plan is through october with any possibility of an extension. can you give us more clarity so it doesn't sound like this is indefinite? sec. kirby: wouldn't want to get in that confused. i did not think the stay is going to be indefinite. that is not the plan. these are temporary housing locat

defense secretary lloyd austin spoke an hour ago during his visit to bahrain where he defended the usevacuation efforts. americans and allies were left behind by the administration. >> we evacuated 124,000 people from kabul, afghanistan, the largest airlift in our history and it was remarkably well done. jillian: in the last hour i spoke to a student who asked that we refer to her as as a har, she says she's a target for the television. >> finally able to study and be considered individuals. they are trying to imprison us once again. todd: as for those evacuated from afghanistan dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas said no credible or specific threats to the country on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, reading out potential terrorists among thousands of refugees. jillian: vice president kamala harris is hitting the campaign trail for embattled california governor gavin newsom. todd: newsom is under fire for blm activist who called for the release of convicted cop killers. marianne rafferty has more on the battle for california. >> with a week to go, vice president kamala harris is hoping

we've gone to qatar, bahrain, germany, canada, excuse me the afghans have and there are, they are usingntioned the biometrics, okay, that is all well and food. the siv visas are helping creating some levels of efficiencyies but here is something, they have instituted this humanitarian parole which allows, allows those midway through the vetting system to basically catch-and-release, that is occurring at the southern border of some of the afghans coming into the afghans coming into the country, very disturbing and troubling with need to get to the bottom of it. what level of vetting are they actually receiving? lauren: it sounds like a mess. on top of all this if we bring it back a little more home, the weather, right, pennsylvania was hit pretty hard last night, along with new york, new jersey. how did your district fare with all of this? how bad is the damage there? >> well we've got a lot of floods, particularly in the southern end of my district in central pennsylvania. many of our farms unfortunately, their cash bins and crops are underwater. we hope it drains out reasonably well. n

think the lesson is you wear until the amount of virus in - the community goes on which heading to bahrain not day quite yet. san francisco has some of the strictest covid-19 restrictions and all of the bay area. >> no word on when those restrictions could be eased in san francisco. dan kerman kron 4 news. >> now. check on the weather. the 4 zone forecast and a live look outside looking out over downtown san francisco. and we can tell you it's dark. case. you missed that chief meteorologist lawrence karnow here with details on something we really want to talk about. i can argue about that observation certainly dark out there. now some dark clouds coming our way. we could be talking about the first rain of the season rolling on in a little early. but. >> no matter what will take it because we've got some offshore winds coming in right behind that cold front now just moving into parts of the pacific northwest. some of that rain already heading in toward the seattle area. also up in vancouver soon be moving into portland as well. we're going to catch the trailing edge of that front as it begi

other arab countries has gone through a rocky period but now where is it with saudi arabia, uae, bahraine is a willingness from all partners in order to cooperation together. actually positive environment. we have seen a willingness from all the parties that we want to sit together a common objective, common goals and build common interest. >> bret: one of the challenges obviously dealing with the u.s. is our system changes and we -- you have a new administration that has a new look on everything potentially every four years. how has this relationship with you the biden administration versus you and the trump administration. >> we have ended 0 years of conflict in afghanistan. >> bret: the message that he delivered. what did you take from it. >> president biden or with president trump all of us we realize that this partner sheep between us and the united states is very important. it is for us the most important partnership relationship that we have in any other country in the world. the u.s. has been our strategic ally. we have been standing together in the difficult time and the good ti

evacuate citizens and at risk afghans, kuwait, bahrain, qatar, and thank them, talk about the unitedoing to countries and also going to germany to visit ramstein air base where thousands of afghans settled and are waiting for resettlement. this is one important point that secretary blinken is bringing up, the resettlement, over 100,000 afghans hoping to be resettled in europe and the persian gulf. this is what's going to be on the agenda. of course, more broadly, trips are meant to reassure gulf allies that president biden's decision to enthe u.s. presence in afghanistan doesn't meanest abandoning u.s. partners in the middle east. this is a message they're hoping to bring home and that allies are hoping to hear from the united states. >> molly, can you talk more about afghan refugees? what is the reality for those that are considering fleeing the border to pakistan, may be looking to do so? >> reporter: right. so we know the airport is no longer an option. we have seen a couple of domestic flights in and out of kabul, but if you are an afghan refugee, you can't get out of kabul airpo

where they're still looking at thunderstorms over the next few hours and even though the company bahrain we all know that it has been an active fire season in the sierra already. so any sort of lightning up there is not necessarily an ideal even if it does come along with rain. this low pressure area help to steer in that cool air. and that's really trading things up for the weekend from the heat and haze of the week to the clear good air quality that we're starting with today and the cooler temperatures that you're going to enjoy along with that better air quality 60's for your highs and san francisco 60's right along the coastline to and then we've got 70's along the bayshore burlingame at 75 today. foster city there as well. redwood city at 77 and south bay temperatures in the 70's to 80's depending on where you're talking in the south bay 70's 80's for the east bay to notice something you're not seeing on the map today. any 90's, the closest you're going to get is vacaville at 87 degrees. well, the way holden i 75 in nevado at an 8081 degrees today temperatures tomorrow right around

they have 20 people from ohio profile countries, iran, iraq, afghanistan, bahrain, qatar, those countriesthat should be alarming. like you said, it didn't take a lot of people to orange county straight 9/11. every day we run the run into list of people of bad intentions who don't love america like we do into this country. elizabeth: to your point about white house misdirection, we keep hearing it, right? mayorkas says the border horse incident was not a problem. now he tells msnbc he was horrified. they are saying the border is not open. migrant crossings are at 21-year high. saying no crisis. 15,000 people are sitting under the bridge in unsane terri conditions. by the way 25,000 more may be coming. the population of del rio is only 35,000. jen psaki saying they don't intend to say. associated press say they are releasing them into the u.s. by thousands. jen psaki blamed trump for inhumane conditions. your take on all of this. >> that is such poor leadership. look i'm a leader of an agency. when we mess up we have to own it, we have to take responsibility for it. i don't get a chance to

countries that have provided critical assistance for our evacuation efforts, partners and allies, bahrain, finland, germany, hungary, italy, swiss lint, -- switzerland, and others who have helped transit americans and others to safety. our" nation with our allies -- our close ordination with our allies works both on a back cushion and relocation but also as we begin to scope our ongoing relationship with the afghan people and with the taliban. in the last few weeks, sick terry blinken has made more than 50 calls to foreign leaders and -- secretary when can has made more than 50 calls to foreign leaders. it also included canada, france, japan, and nato as well as turkey to discuss the facilitation of safe travel out of afghanistan. we expect that in the coming days and weeks, the intensive multilateral effort will continue. sherman has convened with political directors for more than 27 allies sharing updates, information,. i have been burning up the phone lines as and as you heard, the secretary announced earlier that while we have suspended our diplomatic process in kabul, we have set up

americans out of afghanistan defense secretary lloyd austin continuing his mideast tour visiting bahrain on wednesday after two days of talks here in qatar hoping to drum up support for the rescue effort. meanwhile in germany secretary of state antony blinken overseen operation allied refuge at ramstein air base where at risk afghans are being processed ahead of their eventual resettlement of the mission- continued obviously continues here. it continues in our own determination- to continue to stand by- of people in afghanistan it's unknown exactly how many americans remain in afghanistan the state department says it can't clear several u. s. charter flights to land in neighboring countries because there's no u. s. presence there to vet the passengers. but some non government groups say they can help through their civilian networks on the ground the people that are on those airplanes have people in the united states are talking to him they know who these people are meanwhile the taliban have named their new government its all male and heavily weighted. towards the group's senior leadersh

concern and it has been for the navy and we have to re-think their bases and huge facilities such as bahrain the fleet is harbored. >> our civilization is so finely adapted to the stable climate for the last several years from the ice age and we're changing it rapidly and the fine-tuning means that any change whether it is up or down. it happens to be going up or down now is pretty damaging to civilization and infrastructures and so on. so, yes, we have been saying for many, many years now, we have got to do something about this and we did have some of the technology in hand to get started on this. we really need it. >> but if we still have professor emanuel. i have another question i wanted to ask about wildfires and we did see a lot done for new york city, for instance and those pictures we just showed of the subways being flooded and what we see there in queens shows that we haven't accomplished that much. >> we're fighting a war and we're prepared from the last disaster. for example, new orleans didn't flood this time probably because we did build up the levees after katrina and there wi

to me, it doesn't feel that way to the american public and 20 years ago exactly i was sitting in bahrain. our marching orders were to defeat al qaeda and to ensure the afghanistan would no longer be safe haven for terrorists. fast-forward 20 years, conditions, general milley said six to 36 months, will be launching strikes like that and targeting against us. it doesn't feel like it is anything other than surrender. general mckenzie, you had mentioned that tolding bagram was untenable under the circumstances and the bagram option went away when giving end strength of 650, i understand that. i think you mean untenable because of the troop limitation. if not limited would your professional advice been to relinquish bagram? >> troop level 2500, we would have health bagram, that was my recommendation, that was my position. >> okay. so you had also mentioned no tactical reason to hold bagram. i assume that means strategically would you see value -- >> i said no tactical reason to hold bagram, talking about the neo operation. we went to 650 and given order to conduct neo. for the reason the sec

it certainly doesn't feel that way to the american public. 20 years ago, exactly, i was sitting in bahrain, planning the national strikes into afghanistan. and at that time, our marching orders were to defeat al qaeda and to insure that afghanistan would no longer be a safe haven for terrorists. now fast forward 20 years. those conditions, while general milley you said within maybe 6 to 36 months, the country will be ripe again potentially to be launching strikes like that, or targeting against us. it doesn't feel like it's anything other than a surrender. but general mckenzie, you had mentioned that holding bagram was untenable under the circumstances and that the bagram option went away when you were given an m-strength of 650. i understand that. i assume you mean it was untenable because of the troop limitation. but if you had not been limited, would your professional military advice have been to relinquish bagram? >> so at a troop level of 2,500, we would have held bagram, and that would have been my recommendation. that was my position. >> okay. so you had also mentioned there was no