Flooding the airport. some dying in the process. bill: the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. it will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. that is going to be a proper cities. process. the taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. dana: look at this photo here. more than 600 people crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. they were told the flight crew let them remain on board. bill: the biden administration arguing it was inevitable. republicans calling that argument absurd. it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. they re trying to say we knew they weren t going to be able to protect things and that s why we were getting out. didn t matter if we stayed a month or year.
Without the kind of footprint, without the kind of access to human sources, to friendly forces, and all the rest of that to do that. bill: general petraeus with us earlier today. a lawmaker who served in afghanistan mark green, congressman. good morning to you. first time we had a chance to talk to you all week. what s next here? thanks for having me on. you know, the pit in my stomach is the loss, the sacrifice that our warriors have been given to this fight for 20 years. many of them are really struggling right now with the value and the feeling that i m getting calls to my office, you know, because they know i served. they call from all over the country and say why did we do this? why are my friends at arlington over this? we are just going to walk away and release bad guys from gitmo and they will turn around and
Variant poses a unique risk for children or whether the higher numbers are part of the overall surge the mutation is driving for all ages. since you have a certain percentage of children even though the percentage is small, certain percentage of children will require hospitalization. so quantitatively you will see more children in the hospital. bill: and bill in hillsborough county, florida. including the city of tampa, more than 5500 students are either in isolation for after testing positive or covid or in quarantine for possible exposure. the hillsborough county school officials have called an emergency meeting wednesday to discuss mitigation strategies. bill: jonathan, thanks. live in atlanta today. a lot to cover on that. thank you. dana: fox news alert. we re awaiting an update from the pentagon on the ground situation in kabul plus remember army deserter bow berg dawn?
600 afghans packing a cargo plane. the taliban now said to be surrounding the airport. retired general david petraeus blaming political decisions saying we have a moral obligation to support those who helped us. we need to delegate, to key people on the ground, military, state department, department of homeland security wife is which is the in visa process. wrenching decisions about who goes and gets on an aircraft and who has to stay. bill: he was excellent last hour. karl rove has analysis. rich edson has the reporting at the state department. we begin with jackie heinrich live from the white house and jackie as we await the pentagon briefing to begin let s start there with you in the north lawn. good morning. good morning, bill. the president is at camp david and after delivering those remarks last night he is
Slamming haiti last night bringing very heavy rain and strong winds raising threat of mudslides and flash flooding days after a 7.2 earthquake struck the nation and killed 1400 people. 6,000 more are injured. hospitals reportedly are overwhelmed. rescue crews are continuing the search for survivors as we bring you this news this morning. bill: back at home u.s. health officials expected to recommend a covid booster shot for every american eight months after they ve been fully vaccinated. meanwhile the students start to return back to school some are being forced into quarantine. more than 5,000 in one florida district. jonathan serrie has all the details live in atlanta. thanks for the cdc. let s start with the booster shots. federal government is recommending them for people with weakened immune systems. once the fda signs off on a third dose for the rest of us, the first shots will likely be prioritized to other high-risk