power plant in europe after a middle of the night attack that set the facility on fire. european officials are monitoring for radiation spikes but fortunately, so far, none have been reported. russian soldiers are pressing their offensive in the south, severing ukraine s access to violates warways, frequent shelling has been heard in the center city of kyiv. the u.n. u.n. says the refugee count rather from ukraine has eclipsed 1.2 million people. ukraine s president is once again appealing to the west, to enforce a no-fly zone. and officials are, again, refusing to do so, citing fears of escalating the conflict. thousands have taken to the streets of european cities in a show of support for the ukrainian people. correspondent trey yingst is in the capital city of kyiv tonight with the very latest. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. the international community tonight is anxiously watching the situation in southern ukraine where the russian seizure of europe s largest
go ahead. thank you. over 65 democrats in congress are calling on biden to raise the refugee count to at least 200,000 i think i just answered this question. sorry. okay. and then the president had cited intelligence data earlier in the speech that isis-k was planning attacks on u.s. personnel for quite some time and that s why he was trying to get everyone evacuated by august 31st. if that was the case, why did the administration make the decision in late july to not do more evacuations on military aircrafts? well, first i would say that we have over the course of the last 11 days evacuated more than 100,000 people. and that is a credit to the u.s. military and the men and women who are serving, who have been able to conduct and oversee this operation and done it at great risk. and that was an operation that began, again, just two weeks ago. before that time, we had also evacuated a number of people. i can t speak to what the difference of the isis threat
0 operation, which says you have some fidelity on the intelligence. that s different than a lot of what i saw. bottom line, if they had that fidelity, eventually they will find these guys. all right. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. the horrific attack outside the kabul airport. moments ago, president biden honored the heroes of the mission in afghanistan, the 12 u.s. service members killed and 15 wounded in suicide bombings. the president making a solemn vow to the isis-k terrorists responsible for the attack, and i m quoting when he said we will hunt you down and make you pay. the loss of life even greater among locals so desperate to flee the country. the health ministry in kabul now says more than 60 afghan men, women and children were killed and 140 were bounded. now we re standing by for a white house briefings. we ll have live coverage of
i thought it was interesting. he did that right away. as you point out there frank, always great to see you. i notice you re watching everything closely. we ll be checking back with you. i look forward to seeing you early, late and often. thank you very much, sir. thank you. we love hearing from you at home. we want to know, what do you think about hillary clinton s low-key plans for her 2016 campaign launch? you can tweet us your answers. and we re going to read some of your thoughts later on in our show. an alert out of the middle east. isis is continuing to fight for a refugee count that s just miles from president assad s power base in damascus. amid this rebel forces are pounding a government-held neighborhood. in aleppo, as the civil war