Everything old is new again with the pandemic: right when infections and hospitalizations started to drop ..... BOOM! They come roaring back! And now, even the *toilet paper shortages* are making another appearance! We'll go in depth on the return of panic buying.

There's some compelling new research that certainly seems to argue *against* the need for COVID vaccine boosters.......we'll explain.

And the CDC warns unvaccinated Americans NOT to travel over the holiday weekend. The odds that they'll listen?

Why did LA County supervisors back away from a vaccine mandate for indoor public spaces?

We'll take a closer look at the new highly restrictive abortion law that went into effect in Texas.

And at the end of today's In Depth: former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer will make his closing pitch to you on why Gavin Newsom should be recalled..........and why he's the only real serious candidate to replace him.

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President Biden ends Afghanistan war; CDC panel lukewarm on booster shots; revised youth sports guidelines in LA County; Caldor Fire approaches South Lake Tahoe; statewide vaccine mandate bill; Jeopardy fires Mike Richards

It's after midnight in Afghanistan, meaning August 31st has arrived -- and in theory -- so has the end of the U.S. evacuation mission. Success or failure? So much has gone wrong. But tens of thousands were airlifted out. We'll go In Depth.

Our hospital systems are operating under tremendous strain right now, especially in the southeast where COVID patients are overwhelming staff -- is there help on the way?

And sticking with the southeast, Hurricane Ida came ashore in Louisiana exactly 16-years after Katrina made landfall. This time around, did the rebuilt levee and flood control system hold up?

It might be the first family law case of its kind: a judge in Chicago has ordered a mother who had refused to get vaccinated against COVID to stay away from her own child.  

South Lake Tahoe is a ghost town right now because of the Caldor Fire.

And we mark the two-week home stretch of the recall campaign ... with the governor who was on the losing end of the last one.

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Afghanistan. The Day after. The threat continues. So do the evacuations.We'll go In Depth with the latest.

The plight of the Afghan refugees. Stories of courage and stories of sadness. We'll explore both.

And off we'll go to Lake Tahoe to find out why so many are leaving this Apline lake community.

Some interesting news about the coronavirus and natural immunity. It may surprise you.

California is considering a state-wide COVID vaccine mandate for ALL indoor spaces. How exactly would that work? 

A hot debate about hot dogs. We've been telling you this week about a study showing eating hot dogs takes days and weeks off of your life span. Today the owner of the iconic Pink's Hot Dogs in Hollywood defends the hot dog.

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Horror at Kabul's airport in Afghanistan: a terrorist attack with suicide bombers kills at least a dozen U.S. military service members, and dozens of civilians and injures hundreds more.

We will go In Depth on events on the ground in Kabul, and the complicated ramifications of today's attack.

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"The Delta Solution" to the Delta variant .... if you don't want to get vaccinated, you have to pay a surcharge on your health insurance premium.

That's what Delta Airlines is asking of its unvaccinated employees, and it could be just the start of companies making life for the unvaccinated a little more difficult - -so we'll go In Depth.

Plenty of new COVID data out of Israel. But, why Israel? And why so many different takes on it?

And would you upload your proof of vaccination card when you book a dinner reservation?

The COVID origins debate is bound to heat up with a new intelligence report: did the virus jump from animals to humans, or escape a lab?

We will that "burned down house sells for a million dollars" story that we told you about yesterday.

And then ... have you filled out your ballot? A recall roundup of hypotheticals ... Gavin goes ... who's in? And what does that look like?

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Charlie Watts is dead. If you don't know who he was, you probably haven't listened to rock music in the past half-century or so. In that case, now's a good time to grab a cup of coffee and come back in a few.

Otherwise, you know that Charlie Watts was the drummer...no...the backbone of the Rolling Stones. We will go In Depth.

In Afghanistan....confusion...chaos...danger...death.  

We'll talk with House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.

And why are we still dealing with these supply chain disruptions in just about every industry? 

Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered a cold dose of reality saying we may not return to anything like normal till well into 2022. How will we deal with that?

Hawaii to the rest of us.....stay away!.

And guess the asking price ... for a house in the Bay Area ... that burned down a year ago. 

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It's official: Pfizer's COVID vaccine, which has already gone into the arms of tens of millions, is fully FDA approved. No longer under emergency use authorization.

So we'll go In Depth on what this might mean for the vaccination effort. And will approval remove the last legal hurdles for companies to mandate vaccines?

We'll also look at some big steps forward in developing treatments for COVID-19. Treatments that aim to turn the virus into the equivalent of the seasonal flu.

What you don't want in the middle of a surging pandemic: a critical nursing shortage that may get a lot worse before it gets better.

We'll look at the start of Fall athletics in schools. Teams are eager to get in full seasons ... there will be masks and regular testing.

And why are more protests in this country turning violent? Maybe because more protesters are showing up armed.

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President Biden promised today that every remaining American in Afghanistan that wants to be evacuated will have a way out, and he pledged to do everything in his power to provide safe passage to Afghans who served alongside Americans.

But the continued chaos at Kabul's airport shows mounting desperation -- so we will go In Depth.

And how badly will this bungled withdrawal hurt Biden politically? We'll ask.

Filling the considerable shoes of former Jeopardy! host Alex Trabek isn't going to be easy: the replacement ... who was the show's executive producer ... is already out... under a cloud of misogynistic behavior.

The CDC putting a slight delay on the booster shot process. Reviewing evidence. We'll go through that.

And a woman convicted of being a witch -- at the Salem Witch Trials in 1693 -- might have her name cleared. Thanks to some middle schoolers.

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There are few more wholesome pursuits in sports than winning the Little League World Series ... and tonight the team from Torrance will represent all of Southern California -- so we'll go In Depth with the coach.

They went up over the last year and a half at stores and offices: those plastic barriers to isolate workers and customers ... to protect them from the virus. Turns out those might be worthless.

And in Petaluma .... in the Bay Area .... a gas station will never, ever be allowed to be built again.

We have a pair of vaccine mandate stories for you:

Washington state: the first in the nation to require all staffers to be fully vaccinated, with no testing option.

And here ...Culver City Unified, likely the first district in the country to require teachers, staff AND students to be fully vaccinated.

We'll also go to New Zealand where they are in another lockdown. They do not mess around.

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