Only two major cities remain under the governments control. One of them is afghanistans capital of kabul but there is no longer question there appears to be no longer a question of if kabul will fall but when. Theres also an urgency at the u. S. Embassy In Kabul as 3,000 new troops arrive to get americans to safety and destroy sensitive material. Arlette saenz is at the White House for us. The president is at camp david. We have this statement from the president in just the last hour or so, arlette. What more are you learning . Reporter jim, this is really the most robust Statement Weve gotten from President Biden since the Security Situation in afghanistan has deteriorated. And the president explains how he has authorized the deployment of 5,000 american troops to afghanistan to help draw down and evacuate american civilians, and also help get those afghans who had helped the u. S. Over the course of this 20year war. Now, just to clarify, the majority of those 5,000 troops were either
Same. Commander kenneth hodder, thank you so much, thank you for all you re doing. You always, salvation army, is always doing extraordinary work to help one another out. Thank you, fredericka, so much. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. I m fredricka whitfield. Legal pressure surrounding florida congressman matt gaetz continues to mount. The republican lawmaker is under a federal probe over allegations of sex trafficking. Cnn has learned gaetz s former girlfriend has now agreed to cooperate with investigators. This coming after joel greenberg, a close gaetz associate, recently pleaded guilty to six federal charges, including a count of sex trafficking of a child. As part of his deal, greenberg agreed to cooperate with ongoing investigations. Gaetz has not been charged in the investigation and denied any wrongdoing. Senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid joining us now. Paula, so good to see you. You helped break this story or gaetz s exgirlfriend s coopera
as going to the park s many parks actually are shut down and my colleague sarah stinson will have a little bit more on that and just a few moments but a lot of people are still walking past the barriers, the fences and enjoying the parks and obviously getting too many of those remote parks, they have to drive in moving forward. you will be issued and take it we re not sure what s going to happen if you get repeated tickets. but they obviously want to crack down on that especially since a lot of officials are praising the bay area for doing such a great job with flattening the curve a lot of people are not and we saw this a couple of weeks ago where governor newsome he saw our footage and many other news footage of people flocking to the beaches and he told people to grow up and if they re not growing up moving forward they will pay up. i can t believe at this point they re still not listening you don t want that ticket thank you will we appreciate well as the u.s. death tol
facilitator to conspiracy theorists, and who was always eager to present trump with new material to bolster his false claims. as one former administration official said, people received voice mails from election conspiracy theorists who would begin their message by saying meadows had shared the number and suggested they call. now let s not forget that among other things, meadows was in possession of a power point presentation that recommended that trump declare a national security emergency, a move straight out of the authoritarian playbook. the committee today subpoenaed the person responsible for promoting that power point. described by the post as a retired army colonel with a background in psychological influence operations, aka information warfare, who described himself on his linkedin page as the founder, forklift driver at one shot distillery and brewery at dripping springs, texas. and who reportedly spoke to meadows up to eight or ten times as well as to members of
roe v wade. plus millions in the skies and on the roads in the busiest travel day of the year. we will have a live report on that. we will have an amazing story of survival, a stowaway who made it through hours of subzero temperatures. that is ahead this hour as well. we want to start with the breaking news that has much of the world on edge. more countries have been added to the list of places with the omicron covid-19 variant. australia denmark have been added in the past hours. all of those cases linked to travelers who arrived from south africa. with these new cases new travel restrictions as well. israel is stopping entry from some african nations. nbc s saf sanchez has more. reporter: governments around the world are racing to bring in new measures to try to shut out or slow down the omicron variant. in just the last couple of hours morocco announcing it is halting all incoming flights into its territory. that is the toughest known restriction we have seen so fa