we ll be following that closely, morgan brennan, thank you. as ukraine pushes on with its counter offensive, antony blinken is in a summit discussing how to rebuild ukraine once the war is overment the scale of the destruction is staggering, unlike anything since world war ii, and there is no end in sight to the fighting. the sums are also extraordinary, ukraine says it will take $750 billion to rebuild. nbc s raf sanchez is reporting from kharkiv, ukraine, one city that has seen the full force of russia s invasion. what are you seeing, raf? reporter: chris, we are seeing devastation on a scale unlike anything in 70 years. here in kharkiv alone, there are more than 4 1/2 thousand damaged apartment buildings. we went to visit one in the north of the city earlier this week, and we met a woman who lived in one of those apartments, her name is
briefing? reporter: okay, here on the ground, at the international airport, the numbers of people waiting and this is afghans predominantly waiting to get on aircraft are significantly visibly down from where they were yesterday. there had been a peak of some 20,000 people here on the air base. that is down to around 4 1/2 thousand and small numbers coming in. some through covert routes and some being filt rated or filtered in through gates which we understand from military officials here are being opened at different times and for relatively short period of times so that perhaps they don t generate the magnetic effect that they ve had in the past of generating crowds and posing a danger both to people inside of the air base but presenting themselves as a bigger target for isis-k which is a very real and persistent threat.
seems to be coming only from the biden administration and the taliban. the taliban saying august 31st is a red line. there s tons going on this morning on covid, infrastructure, democrats going to scuttle the president s plans this morning, and afghanistan, which is where we begin. we have reporters standing by on the ground in kabul and in doha where evacuees are being taken. sam kiley, give us a sense of the situation. how many people are getting out, what are you seeing? reporter: well, the number of people down from when i was on the ground in the flight line yesterday afternoon is 10 and a half thousand. there s now 4 1/2 thousand people waiting to get out. that s less than the number of u.s. troops of 5,800 at kabul airport and there s a thousand british and numerous others from the wider coalition. of course special forces all trying to get their particular out that they have had a
the international community. the spokesperson saying they want to be able to do trade, get legitimacy, have enough aid to keep this country rolling forward. they re also facing a relatively small insurgency being conducted by elements, particularly of the former northern alliance, led by a british trained former army officer here in afghanistan. his father known as the lion, assassinated by al qaeda in 2001. all of this coming into play at this critical time and this crucial decision. as we speak, aircraft are taking off and landing, trying to clear the decks of 4 1/2 thousand people. at the moment, very few more people are coming in, and the fear must be that at some stage, particularly if the extension is not made, the u.s. operation will start to withdraw into itself to preparing for its own withdrawal, and those gates may never open formally for the large numbers that have been
i can see. but can you see where maybe that ain t enough? yeah. mm-hmm. as for treating his possible evidence, the dream sequence of a girl on meth? this is evidence? well, it s more circumstantial evidence. it s a lead. you d even call that circumstantial evidence? i think it s definitely something we d follow up with. saying she had a dream. it s a good dream. and it s pretty close. and in the end the prosecutor admitted he and the detectives got it wrong. based upon the new physical evidence that we have located, we anticipate dismissing the charges against roger and pam mortensen tomorrow. roger and pam were finally freed. those 4 1/2 months seemed like 4 1/2 thousand years. i felt like i was in there forever. pam got a standing ovation when an unlikely crowd.