70,000 people. the number of evacuations has picked up in recent days, even out pacing the goal set by president biden earlier in the month of 5 to 9,000 per day. it is unclear, however, how many americans and afghans who worked with the u.s. government are still there. we have two reports now from peter alexander at the white house, and richard engel in kabul. with a frantic rush to evacuate stranded americans and desperate afghans and despite pleas from u.s. allies at a g7 meeting this morning to stay longer, president biden is sticking with his self-imposed august 31st deadline for u.s. forces to leave afghanistan. we are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. the sooner we can finish, the better. reporter: it follows a secret meeting monday in afghanistan between cia director william burns and a top taliban leader who previously spent eight years
so i think a lot of women will clearly find themselves in the position of not being able to work or not being able to go to school. this was the same trick that was played before. yes, girls can go to school. but once they hit puberty they need to go to a separate school. but there are no girl schools. so we have to wait until they build the girl schools and so on and so forth. before you know it, you find a generation of girls and young women who are completely disenfranchised, wolf. when you think about what happened 20 years ago and what is about to happen presumably right now, afghan women journalists, as pointed out, they are already getting threatening phone calls, home visits from the taliban. thousands are at risk of taliban revenge right now. does that explain this frantic rush, at least in part out of the country? well, i think, wolf, it not only explains the frantic rush
november and brag about all of her accomplishments because she will have none. impeachment isn t going to do anything to make americans lives better and she knows it. passing the usmca, prescription drug, that would have but she refuses to do it. this frantic rush to satisfy the people on the left. to impeachment trump. has only empowered the crazies and it s swamped any other agenda they could have. or platform. lock him up. laura: bernie didn t interrupt the cheers. i thought they were all against that chant. of course, that feigned outrage on their part when trump folks chanted that about hillary. it was just another lie. all in all, this week was a very good one for our pragmatic president. no wonder trump was in such a good mood tonight in kentucky.
her accomplishments because she will have none. impeachment isn t going to do anything to make america s lives better and she knows that spirit passing the usmca, prescription drugs, infrastructure, that would have but she refuses to do it. this frantic rush to satisfy the people on the left, to impeach trump has only empower the crazy and it swamped any other agenda they could have had or platform. wait a second, bernie didn t interrupt each years. i thought they were all against that chant. of course that feigned outrage on their part when trump folks chanted that about hillary. it was another lie. all in all, this week was a very good one for our pragmatic president. no water trump was in a good
towards florida. take a look at the track. it s expected to grow even stronger before striking the east coast of the sunshine state. a weather satellite capturing flashes of lightning inside the churning storm. in florida right now, there s a frantic rush to get people ready, collecting sandbags and boarding up windows. parts of the beach already looking like a ghost town. gas stations running dry. fuel trucks replenishing supplies under police escort in west palm beach. and with the threat of storm surge, boats headed to safer harbors. rob marciano starts us off, tracking it all on the beach. rob, good evening. reporter: good evening. as you mentioned, dorian now a category 3 storm. a dangerous and potentially damaging hurricane. now less than 600 miles away from this florida coastline. here you see it on the satellite imagery. it has made the westerly turn. the eye, 30 miles across, a distinct signature of a hurricane. and warnings for the