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move their daughter with developmental disabilities into a group home. an emotional, difficult decision. they couldn t pay for more individualized help. listen. this pandemic has been a real breaking for us, has significantly altered the path of her life in a way that we didn t anticipate. reporter: and of course, the delta variant introducing a whole other variable and problem as americans consider and search for jobs, halle. thank you very much for that. shannon, i want to go to you. fresh office visit to the hurricane zone in louisiana, president biden for his part plans to look for damage in new jersey and new york. he will be in that region tomorrow, manville, new jersey and queens near where gabe is posted now. we mentioned gabe gutierrez is in manville, josh letterman is in indiana. tell us what the president has on the agenda the next 24 hours.
or not the administration plans to address these developments anytime soon? we did get a lengthy statement from the president yesterday. and the secretary of state put out a statement on his call with afghan officials there. we have heard a bit from them. we know the president was briefed at camp david yesterday. we got a photo of that. that was really the only image. but as far as actually hearing from the president, we don t expect him to have any public events in the coming days. he s at camp david. he s going to travel, we believe, to wilmington, delaware. this is. orchestration lead the time of presidential vacations. obviously the president not vacationing while the developments going on here. but at this point, we don t anticipate to hear from the president or have an opportunity to ask him questions on. this at least not today. shannon at the white house for. thank. you know i want to bring in congressman jake auchincloss of massachusetts.
with which the takeover has occurred. there is one difference here and that is we are talking to the taliban. and we do have the capability of making life extremely different difficult for taliban units, if, as and when they get into the city. to harass or put in our ability to evacuate. we have a large amount of air power on tap. and we can target taliban units with great accuracy. and that s one of the things we ve told the taliban. do not mess with our evacuation, because we will make life extremely difficult for you. that is the difference between kabul and 2021, and saigon in 1975. shannon, really quickly to you. at camp david, the administration has been fairly quiet. do we have any sense of whether
really just the couple promised province there. everything agree is under government control. essentially all roads in and out are under taliban control. after years of defense training and support vanishing with horse finds pete, u.s. efforts have new emergency right now. president biden now increasing troop deployment to 5000 to evacuate the american embassy and personnel. as well as allies all right, we re going to go straight to nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard angle who is live on the ground in kabul. we re also going to discuss with shannon petty and some other guests as well. including the congressman jake auchincloss, who is a military veteran and served sometime in afghanistan. thank you guys all for being here and get me started. richard, we re gonna start with you here. this is story that is literally developing by the minute. the taliban claims it captured