At that airport after they fired on american troops. The u. S. Believes it was an isolated incident. The situation in afghanistan spiraling so quickly that President Biden deployed an additional 1,000 troops to help evacuate americans and others. The total number is about 6,000 troops and we just got word that President Biden will speak this afternoon. The White House this morning defending the Exit Strategy from americas longest war. We went To Afghanistan for one reason, which is to get the people who attacked us on 9 11. A decade ago we got osama bin laden. We degraded al qaeda. We stop terrorists attacked against the united states from afghanistan for 20 years. But what the president not prepared to do was enter a third decade of conflict with thousand more troops which was his only other choice to fight in the middle of a Civil War that the afghan Army Wouldnt Fight for itself. That is the President S national Security Adviser this Morning And Cnn has learned that President Bidens plans today are changing. We have every angle covered. Lets begin with Nick Paton Walsh on the ground in kabul, afghanistan. Nick, you tried to make your way to the Kabul Airport today. What did you see . Reporter i got to the first entry point, the main entrance which was under taliban control. The streets outside of it. And bizarrely that one patch remaining in afghanistan after 20 years is under american control, well there were taliban in fact trying to stop those crowds from getting towards the airport. Crowd Control Essentiallyo Ofte done with the humvees and theyve taken off the afghan forces that they have moved into the capital kicked out of here. Just to let you know. You mentioned the flights resuming. I heard a plane and We Saw flares and a Minutes Worth of what could have been tracer rounds, possibly may suggest gunfire but clearly activities, but certainly the road to the airport as We Saw today was an extraordinary sight. Possibly not as crazy crowded as it has been in previous hours but densely packed. People walking in that Direction Carrying what they could because for many here who have affiliationed with the afghan government or the u. S. Presence here, they think that is the ticket out. Civilian flights stopped a while back but the sight was startling. People pushing towards gates and being pushed back by the taliban rush rushing on mass and remarkable scenes in this symbol of the american modernization here. And diplomats flew every day and now People Clamoring over walkways and stairwells trying to get on to a Cargo Plane however they possibly could to get out. So shocking scenes that i think tell you one thing, there are so many more people here who want american help to get out of here than will likely get it. The instance in which a couple of individual as peer to have been shot. We simply dont know what happened whether they were part of the crowd rushing towards here, We Saw some armed taliban trying to keep the crowd back. But the chaos is what is so startling and it makes an incredibly difficult for those even who have a confirmed seat on an american flight to get near the airfield itself. Remarkable chaos at the aeend o this 20 year war. Nick will stick around for a second. Cnn is also just learned that President Biden will be heading back to the White House soon today to address this. The fall of afghanistan. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is live at the White House with the breaking details. What are you learning . Reporter this is the first time weve heard from President Biden publicly on afghanistan since last week. And of course he did issue a entertainment over the weekend talking about the additional troops he was authorized to secure the airport given the chaos unfolding an now that government has collapsed. President biden is returning from Camp David to the White House this afternoon. Hes scheduled to speak around 3 45 from the east room. And of course a Big Question is going to be what does the President Say. Because one big thing that his top aides including the secretary of State Yesterday and the national Security Advisers today had been pressed on is what was behind the confident statements he made just about six week ago to reporters in the same room on afghanistan. When he said he doesnt believe that the take over of the taliban was inevitable and weve seen how swiftly it happened this weekend. And he also pushed back on comparisons that there could be any chance that what is happening right now in afghanistan could look like what happened in siagon in the 1970s. Those are questions that so far President Bidens top aides have had to answer including his national Security Adviser Jake Sullivan this morning. To be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last years. But you know the it is not the helicopter or the mechanism. No, it is the last minute scramble. You know that. When the assurances from the president himself were this is not what were going to see. It is the case the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. Reporter now we should note that one thing we do not hear from President Biden is a reversal on his position. Because so far the top aides have made clear he does stand by the idea that he wanted the u. S. To withdraw and did not want this conflict to go on any longer but now the questions are facing him regarding how this went down and how this transpired. Because while Jake Sullivan and the other aides were saying this morning that they did have Contingency Plans in place, No One expected it to go down the way that it is, where there are people that are so desperate to leave they are clinging to the wheels of u. S. Aircraft leaving the airport in kabul. Youve seen from our reporters on the ground the debacle and the chaos there now. And it is not just getting u. S. Staff out, but Big Questions facing the questions about getting the national afghans out who have served for two decades safely out therefore as well so they are not targeted for the taliban. That is facing President Biden when he does return to the White House in a few hours. Thank you so much for that reporting. And the Tate Department is also scheduled to hold a Press Conference in just hours. As now the united States Government faces the prospect of needing engage with a taliban government now running afghanistan. Kylie atwood is at the sTate Department with much more on this. Kylie, what are you learning . Reporter so one question that were all looking at right now is what is the biden administration going to do with the taliban . Are they going to recognize them as the legitimate government of afghanistan . How are they going to be in contact with them frankly . How are they going to handle the situation. Now the sTate Department has previously said that any group that takes afghanistan by force using the Barrel Of A Gun will not be recognized by the u. S. Or any international government. Now, we are seeing some countries stepping up and saying they are going to recognize the taliban. The sTate Department, the biden administration have not yet ruled that out. And i think that is significant. Because Secretary Of State Tony Blinken was asked yesterday, as all of this was unfolding, as the taliban was taking over afghanistan, and also coming in to kabul, he was asked if the u. S. Would recognize the taliban as a legitimate government of afghanistan. What he said is that any government that the u. S. Would recognize would have to uphold u. S. Values, right. Human rights, the rights of women and also not harbor terrorists. But he didnt say that the u. S. Has definitively made a decision on this. And i think it is important to note that the u. S. Special representative To Afghanistan who has been the top negotiator with the taliban is still in dough har. Were trying to learn about what his conversations with the taliban have looked like in recent days. Presumably hes still talking to them. But the other situation is that the unfolding chaotic, and the very scary nature is what is happening in afghanistan is front and center for the administration to try and get out these u. S. Diplomats, to try and get out these afghans who worked alongside u. S. Diplomats and soldiers. So that is what theyre focused on now. But there are real questions about what theyre going to do, how theyre going to interact with the taliban going forward. Kylie, thank you very much for that. I want to bring back in Nick Paton Walsh live in Kaboom And Kaitlan collins at the White House and general mart hertling. General, let me start with you on the the news that kaitlan was just breaking for us, that the president will be speaking this afternoon. This is the first time. And there was a lot of talk this morning of where is President Biden. Why hasnt he addressed the nation. What do you think what would you like to hear or what would you expect to hear from a president at this moment with what were seeing play out in afghanistan now in. Well i think it is what kaitlan said. It is going to be a tough conversation. Im glad hes speaking sooner rather than later. Hes probably going to double down on his decision. But hes also going to have address the lack of Planning And Collaboration with within the government in terms of getting this right. You know, this is what is called a neo operation. Although the sTate Department and the d. O. D. Have not called it that, ive seen these before. I planned them before. The noncombatant Evacuation Operation that this is is one of the tougher missions that the military executes. It is geared toward getting Embassy Staff and expats and american citizens and then local nationals out. What youve seen is it a Planning Assumption that has failed. The u. S. Government planned on having more time. They said the Intelligence Community said that they would have six to 12 months before the taliban could be in kabul. Unfortunately it came within hours as opposed to months. So that threw the planning off for the vaccination operation. And i hate to say it, but it is a saigon moment. And the president is going to have to deal with that and the Cat Catastrophe and the chaos there. I think it might get worse than better. Primarily because the majority of people Nick Paton Walsh is seeing on the tarmac there at the airfield are not those who have the immigrant visas and put in the system to get out. They are just people flooding the airport wanting to get the hell out of kabul. Nick, as kaitlan is reporting, President Biden is noing to be addressing the nation. But that is not just not americans who will be listening in of course. It is going to be the international community, anyone in afghanistan who could hear what Joe Biden is saying and as well as the taliban leaders now will be listening to what Joe Biden said. What is your sense of what people want to hear . I think it has to celebritily be an explanation. Everybody knew there was going to be likely a very fast taliban move. No one thought it would be this fast once Joe Biden said he would unconditionally withdraw. The u. S. Said it was leaving as part of the new policies but i think there is a desperate need to explain how confident he was with his trillion dollars 300,000 strong forces. That was the key part of all american failure here. The belief that Afghan Security Forces, the vast amounts of money they spent made a difference here. And there is a institutional memory, i heard an earlier guest said the mode of transport was helicopter. That is nonsense. That came into effect when it deteriorated inside of the capital. So well explain the reality on the ground which is changing lives of people who have fought in afghanistan for america and for afghanistan too. And exactly the speeches and the policy which hes pegged the last weeks and then some. And that is Jake Sullivan who said that this morning. And kaitlan, i want to play something else that Jake Sullivan said when he was asked by George Stephanopoulos simply if the intelligence about the likelihood of the taliban taking over was wrong or if biden disregarded it. Listen to this. The president did not think it was inevitable that the taliban would take control of afghanistan. He thought the afghan national security forces could step up and fight because we spent 20 years, tens of billion dollars training them, giving them the best equipment, giving them support of u. S. Forces for 20 years. And when push came to shove, they decided not to step up and fight for their country. And so the question facing the president back in april and again as weve gone forward is should u. S. Men and women be put into the middle of another countrys Civil War when their own Army Wont Fight to defend them his answer is no and that is why he stands by this decision. So kaitlan, Jake Sullivan did not really answer the question. So what are you hearing about this . Well we know that as this debate was going on, because his top national security officials, people at the highest levels of the pentagon knew this is position that he had. When he was Vice President he was advocating to get out of afgha afghanistan. Its been clear what his position on this was. So that is why this Big Question facing the White House is not an argument on the merits of a withdrawal because that is what wr President Biden wanted to go but it is on the planning of this. And we do know that in the discussions that were happening earlier this spring, that President Bidens top aides as the White House likes to say did not give him a sugar coated view of what they expected to happen if the u. S. Did ultimately withdraw in the way that President Biden later authorized as we now know. So it is not like he was unaware that there were possibilities that this could happen. What Jake Sullivan was trying to argue earlier was that they did not believe it was inevitable that the taliban would take over. They thought it was a possibility. That is an argument that President Biden will have to square, how he weighed those risks and how he decided this was the option that he believed was a better one to take. But i do think it goes back to the planning. Because were seeing here is not the safe and orderly withdraw and evacuation that youve seen the White House talking about in recent days. And the reason that now there are 6,000 u. S. Forces on the ground in afghanistan to help make this a safe withdrawal is going to be a Big Question facing this White House. And repeatedly what weve heard from officials is them pinning this back on Afghan Security Forces saying they did not expect that they would lay down their weapons so easily to the taliban. But that is what is happened. And it does fly in the face of what President Biden was saying just in recent days which is that he thought that they had a competent security force. And so those are going to be the questions of how are they so wrong on the the idea that they believed they could hold off the taliban for a little bit longer. And so it is a lot of questions about that, it is a lot of questions about the former afghan president in ghani and the fact that he was in the White House not that long ago. So those are explanations that President Biden is expected to say. It is not just going to be those people listening, it is the foreign counter parts listen to what his explanation is for thises well because this is something that the White House talked about being done in coordination with allies. So were hearing from other World Leaders but other people are waiting to see what President Biden says this afternoon. Kaitlan, thank you. Nick thank you. Please stay safe. General, thank you as well. 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Well that is what local officials are telling the governor of this state. Theyre putting up a fight. Even after the State Speupreme Court ruled in favor of Governor Abbott on his ban against Mask Mandates. But the local officials have good attorneys and looking at that ruling carefully and looking at the details. The texas supreme Court Ruling is very narrow according to officials here and so it is allowing for hearings in lower courts to continue. There is one going on right now in San Antonio and according to the dallas superintendent, it doesnt include his specific school district. So he said that the Mask Mandate here in Dallas Isd continues and parents that we talked to are on his side. Take a listen. Were super excited that Dallas Isd has taken the initiative and making sure our kids are safe at school and keeping their mask on. I feel like whatever is necessary to keep the children safe, we have to do it. Regardless of the mandates. So i support the superintendent. And we have masks, where is her mask . We are masks, we little bitty prek mask, and well encourage her to wear it and well wear ours as well. Reporter now kate, those parents and the superintendent, what theyre looking at are the number of hospitalizations in the state. More than 11,500 people are hospitalized in the entire state of texas that has about 30 Million people. There are 322 icu beds in the area where i am in dallas county, there is 83 icu beds available in this region. Kate. Rosa, thank you so much. There are also new warnings about how dangerous the Delta Variant could be for children. Let me play for you what the dire director of the National Institute Of Health has said about this. More than 400 children have died of covid19 and right now we have almost 2,000 kids in the hospital, many of them in icus. Some of them under the age of four. So anybody who tried to tell you well dont worry about the kids, the Virus Wont bother them, that is not the evidence and especially with delta being so contagious, kids are very seriously at risk. Joining me now is dr. Megan randy, a Emergency Physician and Associate Dean of Public Health at brown university. We heard from Francis Collins right there and we have a graphic to show for folks that shows that Covid Hospitalizations among kids under the Ang Age of 18 is back up to the levels that We Saw at really peak in december and january. And you put all of this together. What does that say to you about this moment and what it should mean to kids, parents and everyone . Im a parent myself. I have one kid who is vaccinated and one who is not. So both as a physician and a scientist and a parent as i have watched this data so closely. The biggest takeaway is that kids are not immune. There has been this Drivel Fed to us saying that kids dont get sick. Kids are less likely to get sick than older folks. But they can get really, really sick. And just as we as parents put Seat Belts on our kids or put them in car seats, just as we would never drive drunk with our kids in the car, similarly we have to Stand Up and protect our kids particularly the unvaccinated ones right now in the midst of this transmissible Delta Surge that is sickening children across the nation. Collins also projected that we will see something like 200,000 Cases Aday in next couple of weeks. Back to the case numbers that We Saw in january, i mean collins was saying that were going to be back in a place that me we ever n we never thought we would be again. Why is hearing that number so alarming . So it is horribly sobering for two reasons. First is yes we thought we were through this. We thought we were done and could go back to normal. The virus had other ideas. This new variant is putting us all much more at risk. It is just skaexhausting and frustrating. Because the politicization of those measures, it is putting people at risk who shouldnt be at risk. Everyone over the age of 12 has the chance to get a vaccine. I could tell you, i worked this weekend in the e. R. And the only people admitted were people that had not been vaccinated. So there are folks and getting sick and being admitted who could have avoided it. And for the unvaccinated or immunosuppressed, masks and Ventilation Work against this airborne Virus And Thing like from texas where theyre forbidding schools to mandate masks, that is put kids at risk unnecessarily which is also frustrating and unfair to our most vulnerable citizens. The biggest populations of unvaccinated people remain in the south right now. But you are also becoming more concerned about what this could mean kind in the northeast where you work. And you mentioned that you were working this weekend, you were in the hospital this weekend working. What are you seeing that is concerning you . So there are two things. First is that our hospitals in the northeast are tremendously full. Were facing many of the same pressures that the hospitals in the south are facing. With other diseases and injuries and illnesses and with understaffing. Our nurses are so burnt out. They are leaving bedside nursing. We simply dont have enough. Whether it is in the south or in the north. Were also starting to see the surges of Covid Hospitalizations in the north and northeast. And if and when those hit here, when kids go back to school, when we start spending time indoors again in the northeast, i worry that well see surges and our hospitals are not going to be able to handle them. Well be back where we were last fall despite the fact that we now have vaccines. I just cant emphasize it enough. Now is time to wear a mask when youre out in public situations and if you have not gotten a vaccine yet, get it now. Doctor, thank you very much. Coming up for us. 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Hospitals are being overwhelmed with injured patients and tens ever thousands of people now need shelter after their homes were damaged or destroyed as you see here by the 7. 2 Magnitude Earthquake on saturday. And this is a country already in crisis. Haitis president was assassinated last month and the country has really been spiraling since. Cnns Matt Rivers is in the Capital Portauprince for us and joining me now. Matt, youve been reporting on all of this. What is latest that youre seeing . Reporter yeah, kate. Unfortunately, the number of dead, the number of injured, that number is going to go up. There is no question about it as Search And Rescue efforts continue in haiti because authorities are having difficulty accessing the hardest Hit Areas at this point. This is a wide area that was effected. Some 2. 5 million people roughly within five miles of the epicenter and a lot of the places that have been effected are more individual locations. And so that is what authorities are trying to get to. A lot of the places are one road in and one road out kind of areas. There have been mudslides and damage from the earthquake have blocked roads and aid convoys are having trouble getting in. Unfortunately the number that we know affected about this will go up. We managed to get access to a particularly hard Hit Area via helicopter. We saw some of this damage firsthand. We saw a hotel, a several Story Hotel that had collapsed, authorities told us there were still people in the rubble. Some people that We Saw there were going through the rubble trying to help. Others were merely taking things away from the site. Things like scrap metal, airconditioners, a dresser being taken away and people looking to sell that stuff and that goes to the desperation in this part of haiti. It is already an skraermdly poor place and now dealing with a Natural Disaster yet again. And that is not the only one, kate. You could see the skies behind me getting darker, within the next few hours tropical Depression Grace is expected to impact where the earthquake happened. That is going to bring winds and rain and bringing the threat of mudslides and Flash Flooding and an already complicated Search And Rescue effort that much harder. Unbelievable. Matt, thank you very much for your reporting . And if you would like information on how you could effect those haiti, go to cnn. Com impact. Well be right back. Visible is wireless that doesnt play games. No surprise fees, legit unlimited data, for as little as 25 a month. And the best part . Its powered by verizon. But it gets crazier. Bring a friend every month, and get every month for 5. Which is why i brought them. Two 5amonths right here. both hey. Plus the players in my squad. Hey. Whats up . Then finally, my whole livestream. Boom 12 months of 5 wireless. announcer visible. Unlimited data as low as 25 a month. 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But what went so wrong as whole point was to get u. S. Troops out of that country. Joining me now is democratic congressman john garamendi, he sits on armed services committee. Thank you for being here. So the president is speaking this afternoon. Do you think he needs to address the criticism that hes facing, accept blame for what were seeing play out in the last just 24 hours . Well, the president will certainly tell the american people what we need to know. We need to know what we are doing to protect americans, what are we going to do to protect our troops and what the future holds. As to blame here and there and everywhere, really goes back many, many years actually two decades about mistakes that were made by President S in the past. Not recognizing the corruption and not able to deal with the corruption, not able to put together a government that really was broad based but rather a very narrow focused government. And what happened right now is that the government simply disappeared. Not a collapse. Just disappeared. The president ghani left and the chances are everybody else simply melted into the streets. So the president will address all of those things. Hell be very forthright as he has throughout his ten youre an campaign and tell the american people the truth as we know it now. In the past, he was expecting as were all of us that there would be a government there that would Stand Up for itself and for the people of afghanistan. That is and to that point, congressman, the now former president of afghanistan, he was gist at the White House in june. I mean ghani was sitting next to biden just weeks ago and we look back and biden and only called ghani a friend but said were going to stick with you. Im sitting here thinking of that meeting now and is that just proof that biden did not see this coming . Nor did the members of congress. We actually, the leadership of the congress, met with and had Lunch Abdullah as well as ghani, and they were going to defend the country. They knew that american troops were leaving but knew that american support would continue. But shouldnt the president have seen this coming . Shouldnt the president have seen this coming . Because at this point, the President Said that the Taliban Takeover, a Taliban Takeover was highly unlikely. So was the Intelligence Wrong or did the president dismiss it . You and other lawmakers were briefed by top administration officials yesterday. Which do you think it is . Well, clearly the president , most members of congress, did not anticipate that the government of afghanistan would simply melt away. Disappear. With no fight at all. That was certainly a surprise to me. We would expect that they were there. We know that in our meeting, in the capital, and im certain the president did the same, there was a promise of continuing support including Air Support as necessary and that was going on just the day before the before ghani left kabul and the government disappeared. So we were there. We were providing Air Support. We were providing the necessary equipment and whatever intelligence was available. Now, what happened was, i am sure, a surprise if not a shock to all of us, and therefore Where Do We Go From Here and im quite certain the president will address where we go from here. Initially, right now as we speak, there are american troops attempting to evacuate american citizens, families and other afghans as possible from kabul. Will that succeed . I suspect it will. The american troops have authority to protect themselves and they will do so. Now, the president will address all of these issues in about four and a half, five hours from now. And we will all learn more at that time. In the meantime, how are we going to deal with the reality of the new afghan government. I would expect that the american military on the ground and other places are in communication with the taliban Military And Leadership setting out some Rules Of Engagement as we deal as they deal with the chaos at the airport. And that is now what you face, the reality of it soon to be engaging with the taliban government in afghanistan. Congressman, thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Coming up for us, California Governor Gavin Newsom is fighting back against the Recall Election that he faces. Details in a live report. But other times, it helps knowing what to expect. At university of phoenix, you can count on fixed, affordable tuition for your program. Learn more at phoenix. Edu even if you had to miss your quince. Theres always your quince plus one. Its the biggest sale of the year, on the new Sleep Number 360 smart bed. 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Why is he fighting so hard in a state where registered Democrats Outnumber republicans nearly 21 . That is what recalls are about. They are about getting you sleepy in these offyear elections, they have an opportunity, they have a chance. Reporter that chance is because many california democrats dont know the recall is even happening. Oh, really . They want to, like, remove him. Democrats constantly lose campaigns because we dont turn out to vote. Reporter michael says voters of his party are depressed and a host of problems making this recall far closer than it should be. If we sleep on this election, then we will be waking up to a republican governor. Reporter who will that republican governor be . It seems like it might be Larry Elder. Reporter Radio Host Larry elder with no political experience, virtually no public excrete knee, has lit up republican enthusiasm. A trump supporter, he would be vastly out of step with the majority of california voters. The outrageous Unemployment Wage has gone higher and higher. You got a guiel In The Name Of Larry Elder that is not fighting for 15. He doesnt believe there should be a minimum wage. Reporter to turn up democratic passion against his recall. We thought we turned the page when trump lost this last Election And Trumpism would go and wane. Its just the opposite. Reporter underscoring the concern of california democrats is a new poll that is from Cbs Ugov and shows the Recall Yes or no is within the margin of error and why you are seeing Governor Newsom hit the trail here. Kyung lah, thank you for that. Inside politics with John King starts after the break. Well, would ya look at that it was an accident. I was speaking of accidents, we accidentally left you off the Insurance Policy during enrollment, and youre not covered. Not even a little bit . Mmmmm. No insurance. No. When Employees Cant enter and manage their own benefits enrollment information, it can be a real pain. 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