0 thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary, i don t mean to interrupt you but my time is elapsing. so this gets to the overestimation that i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces. you re expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army a
things are not good in my community. thousands of people had been injured in the latest quake and remain cut off from help. us aircrews reach some of the remote areas and to critical patients while others are being treated in makeshift hospitals. there are also concerns about a looming public health crisis. the sanitation, situation is quite critical and it is our hope that we don t have an outbreak of cholera. so we are preparing for a public health disaster. all the while, tremors are adding to the anxiety. we are afraid to go inside so we sleep on the ground in the street. tens of thousands of buildings have been reduced to rubble. many of them yet to be searched. and officials say the death toll will continue to rise. makayla palazzo is policy and advocacy manager at concern worldwide, a humanitarian organisation, and joins me from port au prince.
country in the americas and it is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake which killed more than 200,000 people. hurricane matthew destroyed my house. i rebuilt it. it was destroyed again. i have eight children. things are not good in my community. thousands of people had been injured in the latest quake and remain cut off from help. us aircrews reach some of the remote areas and to critical patients while others are being treated in makeshift hospitals. there are also concerns about a looming public health crisis. the sanitation, situation is quite critical and it is our hope that we don t have an outbreak of cholera. so we are preparing for a public health disaster. all the while, tremors are adding to the anxiety. we are afraid to go inside so we sleep on the ground in the street. tens of
force, they have now been a whole fleet of various trucks, personnel carriers, jeeps, tanks, all the sorts of things, you can probably maintain and service fairly easily. i think when we get to some of the aeroplanes and helicopters, it seems as they ve managed to co opt some afghan aircrews to support these, and i suspect. reports they have pilots in their ranks as well, so maybe one or two these will be able to be used for some time, but i think they will struggle to maintain it. they need a lot of maintenance and if they do not have someone check to do that maintenance properly, it will sort of stop working. he final piece, unfortunately, afghanistan is a country full of small arms already, inciting the lonely continue for some of the final piece on this one is some of the higher end equipment may be i think that will continue. i think in some cases the concern is probably these will fall into american. or they will be
operations center. tell us what you have seen so far and what you have been experiencing. reporter: a new day here. our aircrews are eager to get to work. we have been part of 150 plus evacuations for the past 48 hours or so and because of increasing winds in the raleigh-durham area, early in the day on friday and eager to resume those, decreased below the 40 not wind gust level. jillian: you mentioned 150 plus medical evacuations. a lot have to do with high floodwaters, people trapped inside their homes. reporter: up until today the focus has been getting the most vulnerable patient populations