the base doing the evacuation, i understand from a source familiar with the situation get a lot of phone calls from people in washington saying please can you help x or y person who is our contact. totally understandable that everybody wants to try to help their friends out. but of course it is creating a lot of chaos. and i understand from one source that at times people get asked to try to go to the gate to collect somebody fast they were going to the backyard. these gates are very secure and very volatile, so we have a very hard task for everybody involved in that base under perilous security conditions, great desperation from afghans around them and the window for it is now very small. cnn had reporting yesterday that was just so riveting about a woman who came to the airport, dressed her baby in bright yellow because the american military had been told look for the woman with the baby in the yellow. i mean, that was a series of text messages and whatsapp messages to try to conne
more than 100,000 americans are hospitalized with covid-19 for the first time since late january. among them, thousands of children as pediatric covid hospitalizations surge. and in houston, its chief says that kids are showing up sicker than ever. now as many youngsters head back to school, a cnn analysis finds that older teens are a growing risk. jacqueline howard has more. reporter: christine and laura, up until last week, teens ages 16 and 17 had the highest weekly case rate of covid-19 infections nationwide. just look at these numbers. you see here the latest rate of weekly covid-19 cases for ages
now is evacuating american citizens, evacuating afghans who worked with us, and afghans who are at risk with the priority around women and children. and we have made significant progress in that regard. the race to evacuate both dangerous and urgent. these are live pictures from kabul near the airport where the american embassy advised u.s. citizens near three of the gates to leave immediately because of security threats. a defense official telling cnn the concerns are based on, quote, a very specific threat stream from isis-k about attacks against crowds gathered outside that airport. nick paton walsh is covering the story for us and he is live in doha. nick, 36 hours left. what more can you tell us about what appear appears to be the f
own as they put guilty conscience for its failures to properly handle the covid-19 pandemic. and they say the u.s. avoids answers, keeps secrets and constantly sets up oobstacles. china accusing the united states of what the united states has been accusing china of doing basically from the early months of this pandemic. yeah, and experts say time is running out if we re to get to the bottom of this as evidence phasfades fades as you said there. will ripley, get better. i m okay, promise, just a stuffy nose. here in the u.s. former president trump is threatening to invoke executive privilege to block a congressional probe into the final weeks of his presidency but unclear how he would do that because the current president joe biden has final say over the matter. a congressional select committee is looking for a massive amount
to have friends, colleagues, understand that, it is the only way we re getting through this is because we have each other. reporter: on tuesday, mississippi governor tate reeves announced more than 1,000 health care personnel would be coming to the state to help fill the void. and the hospital system tells me the state has committed 59 nurses and 18 respiratory therapists to its three hospitals. they will be on 60 day contracts and the hope is that the first could arrive as soon as friday. in new york, i m erica hill, cnn. you re watching cnn newsroom. we ll be right back. and let me tell you something, i wouldn t be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. it s just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, it s helped over a million americans. a reverse mortgage loan isn t some kind of trick to take your home.