people s reliance on their faith and on prayer. but i think somehow this has gotten twisted around in a way that doesn t make as much sense perhaps as people are making it sound to. if you ve prayed to god to give you protection against covid-19 and along come these vaccines created by science, which god has given us the ability to do and they re incredibly safe and effective, maybe that was the answer to prayer. i do have a little trouble understanding why that doesn t make sense to some people. you know, there s an old story about the guy who his house was caught in a flood and he had to go up to the second floor because the water was rising. and somebody came by in a boat and said, hey, get in the goat. he said, no, i m praying to god. after a while, he s up on the roof. another boat comes by, and he says, no, i m going to be find. god is going to take care of me. he drowns and goes up to heaven. st. peter was there, and he says, what happened? you were supposed to save me. and st.
we cannot use another big weapons, the heavy weapons. reporter: up on the roof, the major wants to show us something. you can see the flag on the mountain top there. it s been nearly a month since the taliban penetrated afghanistan s second largest city. since again, these men haven t had a break. u.s. air strikes only come in an emergency. the rest time it is up to them to hold the line. we feel a little weak without u.s. air strikes and ground support and equipment, he says. but this is our soil. we have to defend it. using heavy weapons. reporter: in a villa in the eastern part of city, this fighter is hunkered down. in decades of war, he says he s never seen the fighting this bad.
fighting there. reporter: on the road to kandahar s front line, there is still civilian traffic even as the taliban inches deeper into the city. afghan commandoes most of the fighting here happens at night. the taliban snipers are at work 24 hours a day. from snipers? yes. the men tell us the taliban are hiding in houses just 50 yards away from us. and they shoot from people s homes? yeah. you see this is our civilians homes. we cannot use, you know, the big weapons, the heavy weapons. reporter: up on the roof major habibula shahin wants to show us something. you can actually see the taliban flag just over on the
maintain control. but kandahar s half-million residents have few routes of escape and even fewer options. our clarissa ward takes us behind the front lines in the besieged city. reporter: on the road to kandahar s front line, there is, still, civilian traffic even as the taliban inches deeper into the city. afghan commandos have agreed to take us to one of their bases. this used to be a wedding hall. now, it s the frontline position. most of the fighting here happens at night. but taliban snipers are at work, 24 hours a day. snipers? yes. reporter: the men tell us, the taliban are hiding in houses, just 50 yards away from us. and they shoot from people s homes? they shoot from civilian homes? yeah, you see these are our civilians homes. we cannot use the big weapons, the heavy weapons. reporter: up on the roof,
reporter: up on the roof major habibulah shaheen wants to show us something. you can actually see the taliban flag just over on the mountaintop there. you see flag. reporter: it s been nearly a month since the taliban penetrated afghanistan s second largest city. since then these men haven t had a break. u.s. airstrikes only come in an emergency. rest of the time it s up to them to hold the line. we feel a little bit weak without u.s. airstrikes and ground support and equipment, he says, but this is our soil and we have to defend it. using heavy weapons. reporter: in a villa in the eastern part of the city kandahari lawmaker ghul ahmed khamin is hunkered down. in decades of war he says he s never seen the fighting this bad. millions of people in this city are waiting for when they