about 24 people have been ev evacuated in a town called bonny doon. of highway 1 that not too many travel on. this is about an hour and a half south of san francisco and not too far from the coast. fire officials have evacuated more than 2,000 people and are working to try to contain the fire. we will keep you posted on how this mission goes. >>> south carolina's governor says his political career is dead. >> yes, david, those are his words and this is the latest revelation from him. as ethics investigation may be over several personal trips. this is sanford defending himself on the radio. >> i'm dead politically. i'm not running for another office. i just want to make the most of the 16 months that are remaining in trying to honor where i started in this thing, which is how do you do, what would make people's lives just a little bit better in south carolina. >> meanwhile, sanford will leave tomorrow for his first u.s. air force reserve duty commitment since his affair. kevin is joining us. if he's politically dead as he put it in his own words, why i

been followed by so many more. never before have so many people been wounded on one day. everyone here is reminded of how different iraq has become. >> more violence in afghanistan on the eve of elections. security forces killed three insurgents who occupied a bank in the capital. the taliban has pledged to disrupt the vote. >> the police surround a bank in kabul. taliban fighters have occupied the building. this leaves the three fighters and one policeman dead. until recently, kabul was a safe haven from the violence. not anymore. a ring has been placed around the city. security forces have been deployed elsewhere in the country. what is difficult to quantify is the extent to which people will be put off from voting by the security measures and to the threat from the taliban. every car, every driver is under suspicion. the taliban has threatened the police, the government, and even voters. they claim to have even more fighters ready to attack. now one of the most wanted insurgent leaders have spoken to the bbc he is a former anti- soviet commander and experts minister. we submitted written questions. the answers were given on camera weeks later warning that the fighting w

headlines -- at least 95 people have been killed, hundreds wounded in a series of bomb blasts in central baghdad. targeting high-profile buildings. heavy security in afghanistan on the eve of palestinian -- on the eve of national elections. >>> the man in charge of meeting the challenge, the american commander of nato forces, has told the bbc he is planning radical changes. our world affairs editor reports. >> special forces commander and now the man in charge of the faltering campaign in afghanistan. very much the thinking man's soldier, who is planning to change things. to change things in iraq by tracking down saddam hussein and catching him, but afghanistan is a far tougher proposition. >> the situation is serious and we need to turn the momentum of the enemy. the afghan people did not like the taliban. it is not popular. we need to correct some of the ways that we operated in the past and show the resolve that it will take and imagination to operate smarter and do this right. >> he soon had a chance to show what he meant. we have come to this town east of kabul. it has been a bad trouble spot. >> one of the things, arresting people without good information. >> they

have rocked baghdad. the police say that at least 75 people had been killed and hundreds more wounded. bombs targeted a high-profile government media building. security is tight in afghanistan on the eve of the presidential elections after the taliban vowed to disrupt the polls. more on those elections in afghanistan, the taliban as threatening to disrupt the vote and the helmand province has received most of the violence. that is where the u.s. forces are trying to push back the militants. the second marine expeditionary brigade is one of the battle groups taking on the taliban. >> on july 2, 4000 men from the second marine expeditionary brigade landed in southern helmand. their mission, one of the biggest assaults on fallujah -- their mission, similar to the assault on fallujah. for president barack obama it is his biggest foreign policy gamble so far. i joined echo company after they landed in a small market town that had been evacuated by its inhabitants. the taliban did not leave. they are watching the echo company's every move. >> the taliban knows that we are on patrol. >> it was not long before the taliban launched an attack. >> two guys with ak-47s! >> two men with machine gu

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