afghanistan in what might be best described as the surreal end to america's 20-year end there with desperate afghans surrounding the airport there in kabul and blocking military evacuation flights. scenes show hundreds of people climbing the tarmac trying to climb the airplanes trying to escape and at one point running alongside an air force plane down the runway and some grabbing on to the jet just before takeoff. on the commercial side of the same airport, we have seen the afghans climbing on to commercial jets grounded and reports of at least seven people dead. nbc news have said that two gunmen were taken down by u.s. forces. the state of affairs is so chaotic with the taliban swarming into kabul that the top u.s. general in the region met with the taliban leader warning them not to interfere with the exit operation and this is with