looking so forward to sheryl crow this morning. i really am. love her.'s friday and the grammy winner is joining us to bring special performances for our concert series. cannot wait. >>> the best in back to school as your students had he had to the classroom, the top rated computers and the features to look out for. >>> all coming up but first we do have a lot of news starting with the crisis in afghanistan. as the taliban surges, the biden administration is now escalating the u.s. military presence there. just 2 1/2 weeks before the scheduled withdrawal of all troops. ian pannell has the latest details for us, good morning, ian. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, that's right. just seven days afghanistan's gone from a crisis situation to the brink of disaster but this u.s. announcement of this emergency evacuation risk upending everything. this morning, afghanistan reeling as around 3,000 u.s. troops set to deploy back into afghanistan to help an emergency evacuation of some embassy staff and others out of kabul as the taliban's grip around the country ti

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on this summer friday morning, sheryl crow will be joining us with one of her performances on this summer. that will be a tree. plus much more comin [ sfx: bzzz bzzz bzzz ] [ sfx: ping ping beep beep bloop bloop ] [ sfx: honk ] [ sfx: pop pop pop pop ] [ sfx: pop ping bloop pop ping bloop ] the day can wait. enter the gold reday. julian: europe just recorded its how to on record. temperatures on the italian island of sicily reaching 120 degrees on wednesday. they had the fans out there. the city of syracuse a hit the blistering record as an anti-cyclone dubbed the lucifer, because they are dealing with heat there, sweat there italy. cyclones occur when air sinks rather than rises, resulting in warm and dry weather. this way, the hottest temperature in europe was 118 degrees. that was athens in 1977. how do i do with that description of an anti-cyclone? mike: fantastic. great job. anticyclone is an area of high pressure is all it is. julian: helpful information there. mike: i like lucifer. that was pretty ingenious. how about something fun? how about fireworks? the giants game tonight, roc