katie? governor newsom panders to voters as his top opponent in next week s recall election gains grounds. a fox news alert. the taliban holding 60s planes on the tarmac at the sharit airport. we have hundreds of american citizens left behind enemy lines in afghanistan as i speak. we have 6 airplanes at masar-sharif airports with the interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. the taliban will not let them leave the airport. reporter: unbelievable. a state department spokesperson saying we do not have hers nell on the ground. we don t have air assets in the country. we do not control the air space over afghanistan or the region. we remind the taliban that the entire international community is looking to see if they live up to their commitments. [inaudible] walking as fast as i can and they started shooting right back at my legs to come back or they will shoot me i never experienced in my you life anything like this. it was like a movie scene. i
this is load off from the secretary of defense been a resounding success. of course if you subtract the 13 dead americans, the two dozen trapped school children, the afghans falling off airplanes, or the fact that we armed the taliban with $90 billion worth of automatic weapons and helicopters, it s been great. they are saying this so often, however, that it may not be propaganda. it is starting to seem like everyone in the biden administration actually believes they just won. that might explain why they are promoting jennifer rubin columns from the washington post and walking away from reporters without taking any questions. they don t have to explain themselves. it s obvious this is a victory. watching all of that should worry you. there are only two explanations for it. either every senior government official in washington has been chugging i waltzed out and departed from reality on the early train, and that s possible. or on some deeper level, may be they are actually t
can come avoid any unnecessary travel. flash flood warning for the area has been extended to 3:00 a.m. eastern. of the flooding also stranding air travel, with water rising in new york international airport. earlier, tornadoes touched down in new jersey, dozens of homes destroyed. joining us now for more on the situation is new york city councilman, in staten island, one of the hardest hit areas. joe, can you hear me? i can, thank you very much. what does it look like where you are right now? it s more widespread in terms of damage that hurricane sandy. with that storm, it was the storm surge and some of the low lying areas. we have the coast affected come almost predictably. with this, just the sheer volume of water is something i have never seen in all my years living in staten island, and it just overwhelms the sewer system and has backed up so many basements with sewage water and flooded garages and flooded houses, and i have to say, i ve never seen damage this wide
we can help you today, or tomorrow, but hang in there. we are going to make it work. we have so much to do. it s within our capacity to do it. we have to remain steadfast. steadfast. we will complete our mission. we will continue after the troops have withdrawn defined means of which we can find any american who is wishes 2 out of afghanistan. we will find them and get them out. jesse: don t worry, you re in good hands. u.s. government is sharing its list of all the americans in danger with the new list allies, the taliban. seriously, listen to this. there s been occasions where they military has contacted their military counterparts in the taliban inside this, for example, this bus is coming through. x number of people on it. made up of the following group of people. we want you to let that bus or that group through. yes, there have been occasions like that. jesse: the president was pressed on the insane idea giving americans names to the taliban but insisted over an
you can bet the issue of what is happening at kabul and the airport and the bedlam in and around there going on and on and disrupting thousands from even getting out of the country will come up. ahead of that, to jennifer griffin at the pentagon on where this stands right now. jennifer? neil, a somber briefing with very few answers. a defensive posture from the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs that said now is not the time for after action reports or discussion of regrets. the picture that they painted was bleak and dependent on the taliban. the bottom line is afghans and americans can not get to the airport due to taliban checkpoints. u.s. military planes are leaving halfful due to bureaucratic bottle necks. people told that their paperwork is not in order around turned away. the defense secretary said there were limit tos the u.s. forces on the ground and offered this frank admission. we don t have the capability to collect large numbers of people. t