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- Welcome to CBN "Newswatch" for Monday,

August 16th, 2021.

Coming up chaos and Afghanistan.

We have the latest information.

Plus America's largestreservoir is shrinking

and now the federal government

could shrink the area's water supply.

- You're looking at about

9 billion gallons of water, less,

that will be available for our community.

- [Mark] See how people in this area

are preparing to survive theloss of a natural resource.

And a warning for all parents.

Your child's online video games

are a breeding groundfor sexual predators.

- Wherever children arepredators are lurking.

So when you have kids onsocial media or video games,

you're going to find predators there.

- [Mark] We're arming you with the keys

to keep your child safe.

All this and more coming up next.

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- Thousands of civilians are scrambling

to flee the capital of Afghanistan.

And the conqueringTaliban are holding court

and broadcasting fromthe president's palace.

The American embassy hasshut down and the US military

is struggling to managea massive evacuation.

Dale Hurd has more.

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- [Dale] Chaos inAfghanistan's capital Kabul

as thousands of frantic civilians,

afraid of their future under the Taliban,

converged on the airport,hoping to escape.

As panicked, Afghans,clamored onto planes,

US soldiers fired warningshots into the air.

Hundreds more carried their suitcases

as they rushed out of Kabul on foot.

- This is manifestly not Saigon.

- [Dale] But it looks the same

complete with US Military helicopters,

carrying embassy personnel to safety.

The US embassy now evacuatedthe American flag lowered,

the Taliban broadcasting on live TV

from the equivalent of the Oval office

at the Presidential Palace,

after ruling into the capital Sunday,

as the president fled the country.

This is something JoeBiden said six weeks ago

would never happen.

- [Reporter] Your ownintelligence community

has assessed that the Afghan government

will likely collapse.

- That's not true.

They did not reach that conclusion.

There's gonna be no circumstance

where you see people beinglifted off the roof of a embassy.

The likelihood there's going to be

the Taliban overrunning everything

and owning the wholecountry is highly unlikely.

- [Dale] Texas Congressman Michael McCaul,

the ranking member on theHouse Foreign Affairs Committee

says Joe Biden blew it on Afghanistan.

- I think it's an unmitigateddisaster of epic proportions.

And I think this is gonnabe a stain on this president

and his presidency.

And I think he's gonnahave blood on his hands

for what they did.

- [Dale] Secretary ofState Anthony Blinken

was in full damage controlon the Sunday talk shows,

trying to defend the US withdrawal

in the chaos that has ensued.

- The fact that matters this.

We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago

with one mission in mind,

and that was the deal

with the people who attacked us on 9/11,

and that mission has been successful.

- [Dale] The Trump administration

initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal,

but Republican Congressman Steve Scalise

points out the Trump's plan

was based on the Talibanmeeting certain conditions,

like not taking the cities.

- In fact, many of the conditions included

that the Taliban wouldn't overtake

the cities that they have now overtaken

under President Biden's leadership.

- [Dale] The Talibanhave tried to reassure

frightened Afghans,

but this phone videoshows the bodies of people

pulled from their homes

by Taliban fighters in Khandahar and shot.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is being criticized

for holding himself up at campDavid away from journalists',

potentially embarrassing questions

about what his critics are calling

his foreign policy disaster.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.

- In other news,

a massive 7.2 earthquakehit the Sud region

of Southern Haiti on Saturday morning.

Rescuers are working to findsurvivors amid the rubble.

At least 1097 people deadand 5,700 people injured,

more than 13,000 homes destroyed

and nearly 14,000 damaged.

Survivors in some areas are taking shelter

in streets and soccer fields.

Right now, tropical storm Grace

is expected to hit Haiti Monday evening,

which could bring torrential rain,

flooding, and landslides to the area.

As tropical storm Gracemakes its way to Haiti

and the Dominican Republic,

tropical storm Fred isset to make landfall

in the Florida Panhandle today.

Expect heavy rain, gustywinds, storm surge,

and isolated tornadoes.

The remnants of the storm

will bring possible floodingto Alabama, Georgia,

the Western Carolinas andthe mid Atlantic region.

A third shot of Pfizeror the Morderna vaccine

is now authorized for patientsthat are immunocompromised.

The CDC made this recommendation

and health officials are now evaluating

making these booster shots also eligible

for the elderly and healthcare workers.

Right now, the Delta variant

continues to rise across the country

with more than 140,000 new infections.

This is leaving a strain on hospitals

as they are running outof room for patients.

Churches across the country

are dealing with not only the pandemic,

but growing concerns ofhomelessness and hunger as well.

CBN's Brody Carterintroduces us to one pastor,

who's not letting the fear of COVID

get in the way of helping others.

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- Well COVID can cancel sportingevents, flights to Paris,

even weddings and funerals,

but one thing it can't stop

is the love one womanhas for her community

and a love for Jesus.

- If COVID doesn't killthem, hunger will kill them

- [Brody] Not even theresurgence of a global pandemic

can stop Pastor Shetigo Nakpodia

and Redeemer's PraiseChurch in San Antonio.

She and her team serve300 meals every Saturday

and not one of them has caught COVID.

- The Lord laid on my heart

to just keep going every day,

to just go and feed.

- [Brody] Serving the homeless from inside

the dilapidated walls ofthis 1869 historical church,

which has a history deeper than the smoke

you can still smell trapped in the wood

from two separate fires,

but now it's setting heartson fire for Jesus Christ

in the heart of Texas.

- So every morning, go love on the people

go to work, take care of your family,

don't quit trusting and believing God.

Together standing inFaith we will overcome.

- [Brody] The pastor now raising money

to build a community center

where the homeless can washtheir clothes, get their GED,

and also grab a hot meal.

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This is COVID chaoscontinues across the country

with mandatory mask andvaccines heating up.

The Delta virus is not slowing down,

with a daily caseloadtenfold since late June.

This week's top COVID headlines,

hospitals in Oklahoma andMississippi running out of space.

The FDA authorized booster shots,

for the at-risk population,

vaccines are now deemedsafe for pregnant women

and Virginia the lateststate to issue a mask mandate

for all K-12 students,

despite all of this, aword of encouragement.

- Don't quit stay in the word,stay in faith, stay in prayer

and let's just keep going everyday,

trusting God to take care of us.

- Pastor Nakpodia is still raising money

for Redeemer's PraiseChurch and community center,

thanking anyone who feelsconviction to help her

end hunger in San Antonio.

This as the fight againstCOVID-19 continues,

Brody Carter, CBN News.

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- [Mark] Coming up it's an epic drought,

depleting Lake Mead,

but one state is taking innovativesteps to conserve water.

Find out more next.

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- And welcome back to "Newsatch."

Here are some otherstories making headlines

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Israeli firefightersbrought a massive wildfire

outside of Jerusalem undercontrol Monday morning.

The fire began on Sunday,

filling the area with smoke

and forcing 10,000 people to evacuate.

At least one person is missing.

This is the second major blaze this month.

Loundon County publicschools passed new guidelines

requiring teachers to report as students

by their preferred names and pronouns.

This despite heavy opposition

from some parents and teachers.

The new guidelines also permit a student

to use a restroom or locker room

corresponding to their gender identity.

Ten-year-old Orion Jeanfrom Fort Worth, Texas

says it's his moral duty to help people.

One way he is doing that isby using his love of books

to help spread kindness around the world.

His current drive is calledRace to 500,000 Books.

And he is collectingthese books for children

who don't have their own.

Good for him.

He hopes to meet his goal by August 31st,

and you can get more informationon this story @cbnnews.com.

An epic drought in the West

depleted the country'slargest reservoir Lake Mead

of two thirds of its water.

This week, the federal government

plans to declare a historic shortage,

which will lead to supply cuts.

This will likely meet withresistance with some states,

but Senior National AffairsCorrespondent, Heather Sells

takes us to one state that's planned ahead

to be prepared for this moment.

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- What happens here at Lake Mead matters.

Seven Western states,

along with 29 tribes in Mexico,

depend on the waterthat flows through here.

- The Southwest is one of themost heavily populated areas

in the whole United States,

so we are concerned.

- [Heather] 40 million peoplerely on this giant reservoir,

which today is only at 1/3 capacity.

An infamous bathtub rain tells the story.

Lake water last covered thewhitish minerals on the rock

in the late 1990s.

- This is really new territory

given that all of Las Vegas

and many other cities in the Southwest

have really grown during that time.

So this is serious.

- To get a better idea,

take a look at the water level

in these pictures of theHoover Dam from 20 years ago

and compare them to today.

Those who use the lake forboating and other recreation

are well aware of the shrinking shoreline.

You can see the effects of the drought

here at the lake Mead recreation area.

They've had to build new ramps

just to get people andboats into the shallow lake.

- It's scary to think about,what happens if it drops more.

- I normally launch myjet ski off Boulder beach,

and there's probably abouta good 12 to 20 feet of mud

that you can't actuallydrive in, you will get stuck.

- [Heather] The falling levelsand shrinking water supply

didn't happen over night,

it's the result of 20plus years of more heat,

less rain and less runoff.

- Well, we think about droughts now

is it's really a balancebetween that supply

that lack of rainfall andthe atmospheric thirst.

How dry is that atmosphere?

How much water is that atmospherepulling out of the ground?

- [Heather] On one side scientists believe

the West has movedbeyond temporary drought

towards aridification a permanent phase

of more dryness and less water.

Either way, western states like Nevada

are preparing for unwelcome intervention,

when the federal governmentdeclares a historic shortage

and water supply is reduced.

- You're looking at about 9billion gallons of water less

that will be available for our community.

- [Heather] Southern Nevadagets 90% of its water

from the reservoir.

Thanks to aggressive conservation however,

the water authority here isn't panicking.

The effort dates back to 2002,

when the west drought began in earnest.

- We had to pivot very, very quickly

and reduce our water use almost overnight.

- [Heather] What that looks like,

financial incentives forhomeowners to remove grass

and replace it with dripirrigated rock scapes

also limited wateringschedules for these yards

complete with water police.

They patrol for homes with leaks

or those not following the rules.

- If they don't take corrective action,

they could end up with a water waste fine.

- [Heather] Even more important

is what Southern Nevadadoes with indoor water.

Get this, it recyclesand reuses 100% of it.

- We could turn on every faucet

and every shower in every hotel room

on the Las Vegas strip,

and it wouldn't increasethe amount of water

we deplete from the Colorado River,

'Cause all of that indoor water use

gets reclaimed treated tonear drinking water standards

and returned back to Lake Mead.

- [Heather] Last year thisconservation allowed the region

to use just 83 billion gallons of water,

far less than its 98billion gallon allotment.

That also means enough marginto absorb the expected cuts.

The work has caught theattention of neighboring states.

The region is partnering withSouthern California right now

to repurpose its treated wastewater,

which up to now has beendischarged into the Pacific ocean.

Believe it or not LasVegas was founded in part

because of its water supply,

a bubbling spring that helpedstart the city in 1905.

Today it's got a 50 year water plan,

although they're stillconcerned for the future.

Just how much water will theregion have going forward

and how will it accommodatea booming population?

It's why Southern Nevada

is joining with other Western states

to ask for up to abillion in federal dollars

to help better understand the drought

and manage the precious supply of water,

in some of the country's driest states.

Reporting in Southern Nevada,Heather Sells CBN News.

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- [Mark] Still ahead,

find out how children playing online games

are targets for sexual predators

and what you can do toprotect your children.

That's coming up next on CBN "Newswatch."

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- A sexual predator couldbe lurking in your house,

and you'd never even know it.

If your child plays computer games,

he or she could be one click away

from being sex traffickedthrough online gaming.

It's one of the fastest growingentertainment industries.

These games are also theplatforms for what the FBI calls

hunting grounds for sexual predators.

Here's national security correspondent,

Caitlin Burke with more.

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- Parents usually feel thatkids living under their roof

enjoy a layer of protection.

But if they can get online,

then danger could justbe a few clicks away.

We checked out a popular gaming platform

to get a clearer picture ofwhat kids are encountering.

Within minutes, we founda publicly available chat

that included explicit language,

and even avatar pornography.

We can't even show this.

- Unfortunately, wherever children are

predators are lurking,

so when you have kids onsocial media or video games,

particularly when there'san interactive element,

absolutely you're goingto find predators there.

Big tech is not designed for children

and they know that,

and they're taking advantage of that.

- [Caitlin] In the summer of 2020,

FBI analyst, Chris Travis noticed a trend

in several child exploitation cases.

- These perpetrators wereusing online gaming platforms

to open communication with children.

So to identify base either their targets

to start communication with them,

begin that grooming processand then move them over

to other applicationswhere they can then have

video and picture sharing capability.

- [Caitlin] Once on a social media app,

the suspect would pushthe child to send photos,

getting increasingly aggressive.

- [Chris] They'll say,

"Hey, you got to keep sendingme pictures or videos,

"and if you don't,

"I will post the picturesthat you did send me,

"I'll post them on your Facebook account

"or I link it to your Discord,or I'll send it to parents."

- For all kids in this countrywho was sex trafficked,

this is the number one way it happens.

It is a meet online, it's a runaway,

it's convincing somebody to leave.

It is not "Taken," it'snot the white van pulls up,

scoops the kid up and grabs them

and then puts them some in a dungeon.

It is kids voluntarily leaving,

not realizing what they're going into.

- [Caitlin] Kevin Branzettiis an NYPD veteran

and co-founder of the NationalChild Protection Task Force.

- We are a group of professionals,

law enforcement, privatesector professionals,

all volunteers, not a singleone of us is getting paid.

We're an on-call serviceto law enforcement.

So if there is a casewhere a 14 year old girl

meets creepy guy online

and disappears with him inthe middle of the night,

and maybe there's onlya few small trace points

that are out there we'll throwin any assistance we can.

- [Caitlin] After more than a decade,

working cyber investigations,

Branzetti says some ofthe same tech he uses

to find missing kids couldalso help prevent them

from ever being targeted.

It all has to do with the personal data

collected by the websites,social media platforms and apps

that we all use.

- They wanna build informationon me to advertise to me.

So they know I'm a 50year old man in New York,

so they wanna send ads that fit me,

they don't wanna send me adsfor a restaurant in New Delhi

because that's not gonnahelp their business.

So they learn a lot ofinformation about us,

store it so they can send this ads.

Well, it happens on these sites too.

So if you have a group of people talking

and you know, this is ateenager, that's teenager,

that's teenager andthat's the 50 year old guy

it's there, it's available.

- [Caitlin] While big tech companies

may have that information,

they don't currently use it

to keep their spaces safe for children.

Lina Nealon with the NationalCenter on Sexual Exploitation

is on a mission to change that.

- We're asking these corporationsto default, to safety,

default all of the safety controls.

And we know that thesetechnology companies

can be using emerging technologies

like artificial intelligence, for example,

to be more closely monitoring,

to see what is happening on these chats,

looking for grooming behavior,looking for sextortion,

and again, proactivelyintervening when appropriate.

- [Caitlin] Nealon is makingprogress with these companies,

but it's a slow process.

So in the meantime, parentsneed to be vigilant.

The FBI has rolled out this campaign

to educate parents and childrenabout these online threats

and the controls availableto secure their devices.

Still kids are digital natives

and controls may only go so far.

Chris McKenna, founderof Protect Young Eyes

says building a strongrelationship with your child

is one of the best forms of protection.

- It has to start relationally

and that's by doing technology with them,

that's what we call Coplay.

It's copy me, modeling,

it's being curious instead of condemning,

it's having conversations about everything

and probably two years before you want to,

and then it's having a posture of coaching

instead of controlling.

- All of the experts we spoke with

stress not to attempt banningyour child from the internet,

for one, it's just not realistic,

instead, take more controlover what they can access

in order to preventunwanted access to them.

Caitlin Burke, CBN News.

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First, Mike, the tiger

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Louisiana State University's mascot

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He received the vaccineafter his caregivers worried

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It's so hot that evenbears need to take a swim.

Terry Phyllin captureda black bear cooling off

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