important this is, you know. it could be your mother, your son, you know, your daughter. for more, we welcome back to the program dr. patel, clinical physician and former senior policy aid during the obama administration. he s one of our public health experts and a nonresident fellow at brookings. your heart breaks for that mother. they called five different states. they can t find an icu bed for her son and he dies. how worried should all of us be about the strain in hospitals right now? yeah, chris, we all should. and by the way, that physician in texas, the emergency room physician that was making calls to those outlying hospitals, she actually went on facebook to a physician s face group book that i happen to be a part of asking for help for anyone who could help get that patient transferred. and that s where we re at. we re crowd sourcing triaging
administration and their dealings with the taliban that has gotten us to this point? it is such a good question, chris because donald trump s idea of how this would happen would be like, you know, the snap of a finger. in fact, some of his aids in the final weeks and days of this administration were proposing almost like a victory announcement about how the war had been ended overnight. and that caused incredible consternation in the pentagon, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general millie and other members of the pentagon top brass were on guard for an officer to come down from the white house for this overnight departure. they envisioned the scenes from saigon or something similar, you know, the last helicopter on the top of a building and people clawing for it. i would also say that, you know, president biden has made his choice here. he is not he is not tied and bound to something that donald trump articulated, the peace
sewage and drainage continues to be a major issue. in near by jefferson parish, they re talking about getting busses to get people who stayed out of there because there is no water, power, cell service. ali, amazing reporting. i know very little sleep. thank you, sir. take very good care to yourself. to the end of two decades of war in afghanistan is tonight in the hands of the taliban. 17 military jets took the final flights out of kabul at one minute before midnight local time there. the last u.s. soldier boarding the last u.s. plane out of afghanistan. he s major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne. it comes after the evacuation of some 123,000 civilians over 17 days, including 6,000 americans. it also comes after the death of
medical care and that s insane. everyone should be concerned because, chris, if you look at the map of a country according to the cdc and transmission states, the entire thing is a block of red. it could happen to you even if you are in more of a vaccinated area, parts of the northeast and northwest, for example. it is relevant and something that all of us should consider. more than anything, when you think about needing to go to the emergency room, be thoughtful about whether you need to make that emergency room visit. many people don t need to go to an er and can find ways to deal with issues short of going into one of those hospitals that s overwhelmed. yeah. if you are not sure, there is always telemedicine. let me ask you about vaccines. i want to play for you a prediction from dr. scott gottlieb who sits on the board of pfizer and he has information on the availability of the pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.
fight. tonight, we remember their sacrifice. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. thank you. i m chris cuomo, and welcome to primetime. let s look again at that picture of the last service member to leave afghanistan earlier today. this will be in history books. the pentagon just put it out. they say the war has ended. army major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne, boarding a c-17 to depart kabul, lifted off at 11:59 p.m. local, just before the clock struck midnight. so that means it s august 31st in afghanistan right now. right? remember that date. arbitrary. set by the biden administration. it s about 5:30 in the morning there now. the taliban knows the united states is gone and is celebrating with gunfire. now, the government can tell