days i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, august 17th. we ll start with the news. we begin with the chaotic scenes coming out of kabul s international airport where tens of thousands of afghans surrounded planes in an desperate attempt to escape taliban control. richard engel has the latest from kabul. reporter: tens of thousands of afghans swarmed into kabul airport, desperate to leave at any price. they burst through security. climbed over walls. and spilled onto the tarmac. searching for any airplane that would take them far away from afghanistan. away from the taliban. so many managed to cram into one plane, the pilot refused to take off. people on board refused to disembark. but it was across a barb wire divide where it turned really ugly. on the military side of the airport, american troops trying to evacuate u.s. embassy staff