Way out, but the State Department has reiterated it cannot ensure Safe Passage for americans trying to get there and the pentagon says u. S. Troops will not go out to retrieve them. Here is a look at the gauntlet where thousands of americans and afghans are risking confrontation with the taliban and the Talibans Gunfire just to get close to that airport. According to reuters, 12 people have been killed in that area since the taliban took control of the capital. This video was taken outside of the Kabul Airport and it shows a woman pushing her way through, ultimately being pulled over the wall to safety by american soldiers. In the past 24 hours the u. S. Has evacuated more than 2,000 people from afghanistan, Tens Of Thousands are still waiting for their chance. Nick Paton Walsh is cnns international security editor. Nirk, you are in doha, in qatar. Earlier this week you were at the airport in kabul. Having been there, what is your take on the ability to ramp up this Mass Evacuation that has to happen . Reporter ramping up is not the problem, victor. The problem is getting people inside the airport. Theres planes, theres capacity, but there are not people in the security of the airport to get on those planes. As far as i saw on tuesday afternoon. Even just a matter of hours ago, john kirby, the Pentagon Spokesperson reported the last 24 hours have only seen 2,000 people leave and they want to get to 5,000 to 9,000. Frankly, they have to to get the number of people out they want. The biggest problem, the biggest unknown question in all of this was answered by kirby a matter of hours ago, and they dont know how many American Citizens are left in afghanistan to evacuate. Theyre the priority and the priority at this point is an unknown quantity. Now, the real issue about ramping this up and he referred to it himself is that the gates have to shut when they get flooded by afghans trying to get on, be they american afghans, afghans themselves who think they have part of the Siv Program to get into the united states or whether they be europeans trying to get on as well. They flood, they crush. I was caught in the crush myself trying to get on. It is incredibly difficult for the marines to respond in any other way other than shutting down. You let one person over and everybody tries to climb over simultaneously today. We have seen video suggesting the Crush Today is worse. If someone is successful getting on through a Hole Or Gate that is loosely attended for a while people rush there. It is quite startling the crush outside, and how little about it is known inside the airport for planning. Nick Paton Walsh, that is so helpful to understand how complicated and challenging it is there. Thank you very much for your reporting. So the pentagon says there are 5,200 u. S. Troops now in afghanistan. They say that 7,000 people have already been evacuated from kabul, but thats over the past five days and that is a fraction of the number waiting to get out. Cnn Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr joins us. Barbara, the number we got from the pentagon was 2,000 people evacuated on wednesday. As nick said, the concern there is not the Air Lift capability. It is having people to fly out. What more are we learning about what the pentagon is saying, why the numbers are where they are . Reporter well, victor, as nick just so aptly explained, the problem is getting people past the taliban check points, getting them past the gates at the airport, which are manned from the inside by u. S. Troops, and on to flights. The pentagon has been working towards trying to get a capacity, if you will, of 5,000 to 7,000 to 9,000 seats per day, but they dont have the bodies to put in those seats because of the situation outside the airport. There is a top u. S. Military commander at the airport who has been talking directly to the taliban for many days now, trying to get them to ease back on their violent control of the crowds, but it is a crowd control issue, and trying to get people through, trying to get the taliban to look at the paperwork and agree to let people through still seems to be the absolute number one challenge. Victor, alisyn. Barbara starr for us at the pentagon. Thank you very much. President biden says he always knew some chaos was inevitable despite previously vowing an orderly exit from afghanistan. Now, there is this new interview and he says he insisted there is nothing he would change about the american withdrawal. Watch a portion of it. Was the Intelligence Wrong or did you down play it . There was no consensus. The Intelligence Community did not say back in june or july that, in fact, this was going to collapse like it did. You dont think this could have been handled, this actually could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes . No. Cnns Jeff Zeleny is in washington for us. What did he go on to say there, jeff . Does he think there have been no mistakes made . Reporter alisyn, of course President Biden has been defiant and defensive all along, largely trying to keep the focus on the overall strategy of withdrawing american troops. What is left, of course, is the chaos we are seeing unfold to get to that strategy. Saying no mistakes are made, he gives a bit of room saying we will look back at this and see. What the White House now is trying to do is focus on the forwardmoving steps here, trying to speed the evacuation. But as we have seen from the challenges that Nick And Barbara were both laying out there, those challenges are dire and it is nothing that can be really helped at this moment from here in the White House. So the president is not giving spending much time being reflective on this, about what, you know, he said in the months before. But at this point it is really President Bidens own words versus the reality of what were seeing here now. He said just a month ago on July 8th that this would be a safe and secure exit. He said in april when he announced this policy that it would be an orderly exit, and that, of course, we are not seeing anything like that. There are discussions behind the scenes. Were there pieces of intelligence that were missed . Obviously there were, but at least for now the president is not trying to give any public voice to that. Theyre trying to, again, be defensive, be defiant. We will see how long that lasts though because starting next week there will be congressional committees looking into all of this and even democrats, democratic allies of this White House also have many questions and, actually, quite frankly much criticism. Yeah, jeff. One exchange and one claim by the president that certainly is going to get some scrutiny by those members of congress is this exchange during this interview in which the president says that he did not get any advice from his Military Advisors to keep a small force in afghanistan to avoid crisis. Watch this. Your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this time illinline, they wante to keep about 2,500 troops. No, they didnt. That wasnt true. They didnt tell you they wanted troops to stay . No, not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame, all troops. They didnt argue against that. So No One told your military advisers did not tell you, no, we should keep 2,500 troops, it has been a stable situation for the last several years, we can do that, we can continue to do that . No, No One said that to me that i can recall. So can that be reconciled with the reporting, jeff . Reporter no, because the reality is at the time when this withdrawal was first announced here at the White House in april, there was much reporting by cnn and elsewhere that there were military commanders who were very worried about, you know, something like this ultimately happening. But even the president there himself, he said initially that there was some split advice. There were, of course, people on both sides of this. The overarching Argument And Issue here is President Biden came into office looking to end americas longest war. He campaigned on that. He ran on that, and that is something that is supported by a broad swath of the american people. Of course, it is the continuation of what President Trump was trying to do here. So that much was not in dispute. The question is in pursuit of that goal were there questions that were missed, were there Red Lights or, you know, potentially warning signs that, you know, to slow down this process, and that seems to have not happened yet. Again, all of these questions will be asked. We will see if theyre answered beginning next week when the congressional hearings begin because the secretary of state, the Defense Secretary, other top military commanders and others will be called to Capitol Hill to answer some of these questions. For now at least the urgent situation on the ground there, the math simply not adding up to evacuate all of those americans never mind the afghan nationals. That is what this White House at the moment is focused on. Thats why the president has been meeting with his advisors here and others, trying to get a handle on that. All right. We will also hopefully get some answers from the State Department just moments away because we are awaiting their briefing. Jeff, stay with us, if you would. Also still with us is cnns Barbara Starr and Nick Paton Walsh. As you can see were awaiting the briefing. We will bring it to you as soon as possible. We have Cnn Counterterror Analyst Phil Mudd who helped build the afghan government that just fell. Phil, obviously it has been a sobering few days for you to watch. What do you want to hear the State Department explain today . I want to hear the explanation, not today but in the future, of not why kabul fell so quickly. I think when you look at when the Taliban First Rose in 1995 we were surprise d, i was one o the analysts on that problem, we were surprised how quickly they moved through. We are surprised 26 years later. I think the question going down the road at the pentagon, the cia and ultimately at the White House, if we knew it was going to fall, whether days, weeks, months, if we knew it was going to fall why did we wait until the last minute . It didnt take us to have to be surprised this week. We knew this was going to happen. I think people should have been out earlier. Phil, to the point, you are just joining the conversation, i will stick with you for a moment. Was there a possibility of an extension of this stay of u. S. Forces there . The president says that his hands essentially were tied by the agreement made by the previous president. Could there have been more time for u. S. Troops to stretch this out a bit . Sure. I mean i would have disagreed as an analyst with that decision, but the president can overturn the decision of a previous president. The problem is if you are looking at the numbers on the ground, the amount of territory the taliban was gaining was escalating. That territory was across afghanistan. They were moving into areas where they would control entry points. That means a lot of money. You bring an Oil Truck into afghanistan, you are going to pay off the taliban. So you are moving into those districts, you are gaining equipment as you capture people, as you capture outposts, you are gaining support, you are gaining money. What are 2,500 people supposed to do . You tell me. Im going to tell you, not that much. Not that much. Barbara, have you gotten any response from military leaders of the pentagon to President Bidens interview this morning with George Stephanopoulos in terms of his basically saying he didnt think there was much that could have gone differently, you know, that the Intelligence Wasnt what ended up happening and that basically theyve done the best they can, no major mistakes made . Well, you know, officially the u. S. Military always agrees with the commander in chief. Thats how it goes. Thats the official word. I think it is really important to remember general milleys Words Yesterday at the pentagon Press Conference, chairman of the joint chiefs, Chief Military Adviser to the president of the united states, and general milley said he never saw any intelligence that would indicate the collapse of the afghan government or the afghan military in just 11 days time start to finish. So the question is and i think it goes very much back to what phil is, you know, so directly we need to interrupt you. We understand that the News Conference at the State Department is beginning. This is ned price, the spokesperson. Weve airlifted 7,000 total evacuees. I can also confirm there are 6,000 people at the airport right now who have been fully processed by our consular team and will soon board planes. Overnight we significantly expanded how many American Citizens, locally employed staff, siv applicants and other vulnerable afghans eligible for departure, and we offered them to consider transit to the airport. Were aware of congestion around the airport. We are working closely with the Department Of Defense to facilitate safe and Orderly Access For Consular Processing on the airport compound. U. S. Military and other country flights continued throughout the last 24 hours, and American Citizens and legal permanent residents will be given the first opportunity to board with other priority groups filling in seats from there. Were continuing to rapidly deploy additional consular officers to ensure we can to ensure we can welcome americans and others and well continue to do so over the coming days. The department is sending Consular Staffing Teams To Qatar and kuwait to assist with the Transit Effort and we are preparing teams to surge to other Processing Locations as well. Additional consular officers have also now landed in kabul and we will nearly double the number of consular officers on the ground by tomorrow, by friday. I can also announce that Ambassador Bass arrived in kabul this morning to league Logistics Coordination and consular efforts within the personnel who remain at the airport. As you heard Secretary Sherman say yesterday, our diplomatic and Military Personnel are working in Lock Step towards the same goal, and that is to get as many people who want to leave afghanistan and who are vulnerable to taliban reprisals because they helped the united states and our allies and partners or who are otherwise at risk because of who they are, what they do or what they believe out of the country as quickly as possible. Our diplomats around the world are tirelessly engaging with their counterparts to ensure Transit And Passage for americans, vulnerable afghans and others. This is absolutely an Allhand Allhaall Allhandsondeck to ensure the evacuation of thousands and thousands of individuals. Additionally Secretary Blinken spoke today with the g7 ministers, canada, france, germany, japan, the High Representative of the European Union to discuss the situation in afghanistan. All leaders underscored the imperative of Safe Passage For Those Who Wish To Leave Afghanistan and the need for an inclusive political resolution that protects the fundamental Human Rights of all afghans. The leaders agreed that the international Communitys Relationship with the taliban will depend on their actions and not their words. Secretary blinken and the g7 foreign ministers also exchanged views on counterterrorism, on humanitarian efforts, refugee migration, and they agreed to remain in close contact on all fronts going forward. Secretary blinken thanked his foreign counterparts for their decide fast commitment to supporting the afghan people. With that i am happy to turn to your questions. Reporter can i ask you, this is an extremely logistical question and i hope there will be a very short answer. But does operation Allies Refuge now include all of the categories of people who can go out, that means sivs, p1, p2 and this other atrisk category, or does it still just apply does that term, Allies Refuge, only apply to sivs . So operations Allies Refuge reporter we are getting briefed on different things all over town. Understood. It was a Military Term coined by the pentagon, so i need to refer you there to speak precisely to what the operation now entails. What i will say more broadly, of course, is that operation Allies Refuge was in first instance an effort, an Air Lift Operation, unprecedented Air Lift Operation that no other administration no, no, i will get there. But no other administration either in the afghan Context Reporter pat yourself on the back all you want. I just want to know does it include all of the categories now or just the sivs . Matt, it was in the first instance an Air Rift Operation for sivs. Now we are offering an Air Lift Operation, we are in the midst of Air Lift for American Citizens, locally employed, for sivs and the vulnerable afghans. Reporter so the entire effort is for refuges. My point is you have to talk to dod to see what it encompasses, but we have a vast Air Lift going on that encompasses all of the categories. Reporter No One is trying to say you dont. Secondly, i realize and i want to make sure this is understood. Getting people out i understand that getting people out safely is the most important thing. But are there any covid protocols for these flights . So our first priority is to get as many people out as we can. What we are doing, depending on where these individuals go and, as you know, there are several transit countries, there sometimes will be testing in those third countries, but our first priority right now is to bring as many people to safety as we can. Reporter so there isnt a protocol at the airport . If they are lucky enough to get through and get on to there isnt theres no testing that happens beforehand . Because, you know, if you look at the pictures of packed transport planes, whatever, you know, one or two people who are infected could, you know, that could be disaster, right, especially when they arrive someplace . So anyway, you are saying there are when it comes to the transit countries, it is we are abiding by the regulations of those transit countries. Reporter so there isnt any testing that happens before you get on a plane . In kabul we dont have the capacity to test them. Reporter lastly and it will be brief because it was answered last night. There were a bunch of reports last evening about the Contingency And Crisis Response Bureau Proposal that had been made by the previous administration, and i just want to know if you guys still think that getting rid of it was the right thing to do . Was it necessary . Was it a necessary element of the bureaucracy . I just want to correct something you said. We didnt get rid of any bureau. It was never created. The bureau was never created. The bureau was proposed by the previous administration in its final days. It was importantly when it was conceived it was not proposed to introduce any new capabilities whatsoever. That may have been the cause for concern on a bipartisan basis on Capitol Hill. As you know, there were holds on the idea, on a bipartisan basis, republicans and democrats opposed this. In fact, the memo that explained what this proposal was to do actually was explicit. Im saying that it would not bring any new capabilities on board. So when this administration came in, we studied the issue and we determined, just as lawmakers on a bipartisan basis had determined, that a new burreau,a whole new structure was not the right way to go, that we could make improvements in other areas and thats what we continued to do. Kylie. Reporter okay. These numbers here. How many afghans, sivs, p1, p2, however theyre being considered, have been evacuated since August 14th . I know we have the 7,000 number in total for people, but how many afghans are in that group . Well, the 7,000 figure, at this point im not in a position to break it down much further. As you know, it consists of American Citizens, it consists of our locally employed staff who are afghans, it consists of third country nationals as we have worked very closely with our partners on the ground to help bring some of their nationals to safety, and vulnerable afghans. Right now im not in a position to break that down further. Reporter can you break down that 6,000 . Break down the 6,000 . Reporter the same way the 6,000 waiting to board . What about them, how many of them are siv . Obviously theyre at the airport right now, so this is really data in realtime that i just dont have access to. What i can say, what i can say is that overnight we notified all americans who had expressed an interest in being relocated to consider traveling to the airport. We notified our locally employed staff, afghans who worked at our embassy in kabul, and we also notified a segment of the siv population. So of the 6,000 that are at the airport now, that is the general makeup. So are you planning to give us a break down . Are you working on that, or is that i expect we will have greater fidelity in all of the numbers as this continues, yes. Reporter second question. There are reports with problems with these afghans who you have told to come to the airport not being able to get into the airport because gates are closed. Is there anything that the State Department is doing to help them get into the airport at this time . So what i can say, and im seeing the same reports on twitter that you are, and every report of someone unable for whatever reason to reach the airport is something we take very seriously. Our imperative is to relocate as many people as quickly as we can, and weve seen the reports of congestion. My understanding is that things are moving quite efficiently at this hour at the airport, at the airport now. But every report we see of someone unable to reach the airport is of concern. We are doing everything we can mechanically, logistically, but then, of course, theres also the diplomatic element to this as well. We are making very clear, we are making very clear together with our international partners, more than 100 countries have come together, the g7 mentioned this today as well, that Safe Passage should be guaranteed for all of those who wish to transit to the airport. That is something we have focused on. We have focused on it in the doha channel. We are focusing on it, and by we i mean both state and the Department Of Defense, which now has a channel with the taliban on the ground in afghanistan, and we have had what i would characterize as productive conversations about the need, the imperative of ensuring Safe Passage. Now, of course, we are seeing some of the same reports. When it comes to American Citizens, we have a relatively large cadre of consular officers on the ground in kabul right now. They are in regular and constant contact with American Citizens. I can tell you that they have received as of a couple of hours ago a small handful of reports from American Citizens who werent able to reach the airport for whatever reason. What we do know is that 6,000 people are now at the airport. 6,000 people have been able to make it, have made it through the processing and as of a couple of hours ago we received only a small handful of reports otherwise from American Citizens. Reporter so just to follow up on that, and you say you are doing everything you can, but also yesterday Defense Secretary austin. You have been listening to ned price there, the spokesperson for the State Department, talk about where we are and the status of all of the people, the Tens Of Thousands of people who are still trying to make it to that airport and get out of afghanistan. Lets bring back Nick Paton Walsh and Phil Mudd. We also want to bring in former Cnn And Nbc Kabul Bureau Chief atia abawi. Great to have you here. Phil, i want to start with you because it worries me, but i dont know if it worries you that ned price and No One can really give specific numbers. If they dont know the specific demographics of who theyre flying out of there, exactly how many americans, exactly how many special Immigrant Visa afghans, how do they know how many are left behind . How do they know when the mission is complete . Boy, you are a little more polite than i would be. That was unacceptable. Im not interested in hearing a u. S. Government Spokesperson Talk about how unprecedented this is with other u. S. President s and how other president s didnt have to deal with this. Im interesting in understanding why we did only 2,000 people in 24 hours, how we increase that pace over the next 24 hours, what the total number it is that we want to get out and how long thats going to take. That was pathetic explaining how well you are doing when there are American Citizens who cant get to the airport . That guy needs some training fast. That was horrible. I mean obviously it is more than just a Messaging Problem, phil. It is not just that guys messaging. It is that i dont know how theyre figuring it out. What are the logistics . I mean you have been on the ground, you know how this works. How can they find people who are hiding and cant make it to the airport right now . Well, i think you have raised one of the critical questions. Look, i think theres somebody, and i presume it is at the pentagon, who has a breakdown about, for example, which afghan citizens, whether we have U Embassy employees there, how many American Citizens there are in Afghanistan And Kabul in particular, how many have gone out on these flights. I wouldnt be worrying about testing people in the airport now. Get them out and test them in Doha Or Someplace else. But i think the key question, aside from the throughput at the airport, is when you look at the Department Of Defense, the department of state, the cia and elsewhere, do we have an understanding of not only exactly who they want to get out but how were going to identify those people when they get to the airport . If you have stragglers at The End who cant get there, i understand that, but at the front end i would be worried about the logistics of how do you figure out whos John Doe and who is not John Doe, the person who worked for the cia or the pentagon. That is tough. Nick, to you. You are in doha right now. You have obviously been to afghanistan countless times over the years. Can you just relay the reality from the journey from if there are americans in kandahar, if there are americans in harat getting To Kabul and then dealing with the may lay around the airport . Reporter yeah, i have to obviously as a reporter I Cant be as emotional as your previous speaker, bus it is amazing to hear the way in which this chaos and utterly dysfunctional situation is being relayed as though it is something under control and orderly. I am stunned at the lack of basic numbers the State Department have. I am stunned at how he appears to be reading about instance of Congestion Or Failure to get into the base on twitter, and then takes each one seriously. He also appears to suggest that there are a small number of americans who havent managed to get on. Certainly i was there on tuesday and a woman bearing an american passport behind me, she was tearful. She was utterly unable to get any attention from the u. S. Marines, facing a crowd of hundreds pressing against the gate. She gave up frankly because of fear of exhaustion in the heat and the crowds crushing her. Just getting on the base is a problem. As i saw on tuesday, the planes were not particularly full. Unless the State Department is able to accept the fact they have a major problem in streamlining individuals through their process to get them on the base, theyre still going to be giving these Press Conferences that seem a little bit divorced from anything approaching reality. I still struggle always to understand with the u. S. Government when it comes to afghanistan again and again and again they seem to be really allergic to accepting things are not going well. When it was during the well and the surge and everything, there was a persistent desire to say things are on track, we are handing it over to the next rotation of troops, and it is going to get better. Even now in this closing moment, they simply cannot say were not doing very well here because it is a mess, and that i think, unless they can grasp the reality and that they have a Results Problem here, not a Messaging Problem as allegedly david Pe Tray yas once said in iraq, we will be having these Press Conferences again and again daily as the situation around gets more ghastly. Atia, you lived and worked as a journalist in afghanistan. What are your thoughts as you watch this unfolding . It is devastating on many fronts. I do think many people are passionate. As a journalist and not a journalist there anymore, i can express my frustration, frustration with what was promised to the afghan people. The fact that they were promised that they would help nation build. With President Bidens speech he said were not there for nation building. Then why is it that every time i went to a meeting at the embassy or a Press Conference the afghans were told, we are going to help you build your nation. Here we are watching them being handed over to the taliban, and those scenes outside of the airport, they are just as devastating. Those are the lucky ones who actually got to make it to the airport, but not able to get in. I tried to help a female commando and we were lucky enough after 17 hours, she was told to rush to the airport, to get her into the base. She got there, and she had to wait outside for 17 hours, and the only reason she got in was because of a connection she had from someone outside of afghanistan. Her other female commandos all stuck with their families as the taliban were shooting one of the sisters was shot in the hand. This is absolute chaos. Someone needs to take the blame, and we all know where the blame lies, but theyre not taking the actual blame for it. 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I asked the police here what did they say to get him to end this what was basically a Fivehour Standoff outside of the Library Of Congress. They said they had been communicating via white board, and it is not clear what in The End compelled him to bring this all to a close. Instead, he got out of the vehicle, it seems like on his own, alisyn and victor, and surrendered, again, ending the Fivehour Standoff. The questions now is whether or not this man who said he had bombs actually did have operable bombs. So this crime scene, while the suspect is in custody, will continue to go on for several hours. Basically here is what happened. Around 9 15 this man in a Pickup Truck drove up on to the sidewalk outside the Library Of Congress. Said that he had explosive devices. In addition to that, victor and alisyn, at some point he was broadcasting on facebook, about a 30minute Facebook Video in which he said a list of things. We are still trying to comb through what his motivations were. It is not immediately clear if there was a single motivation. We are still working through that within here at cnn. Let me go directly to the Sound Bite we just heard from the nowcapitol Police Chief Tom manger, just a couple of weeks on the job. Here is what he had to say about this incident, alisyn and victor. Again, thank you for your patience. Just moments ago floyd Roy Rosenberry from grover, north carolina, was taken into custody wo without incident. As we talked about earlier, mr. RM Mr. Rosenberry parked a trump and was sitting in front of the Library Of Congress for several hours, he advised he had explosives. Over the course of time we tried to negotiate with M Mr. Rosenberry. We first started doing that with a white board, Writing Messages back and forth. We used a robot to get a telephone down to him, but he would not use the telephone. But shortly after the we had delivered the telephone he got out of the vehicle and surrendered, and the tactical units that were close by took him into custody without incident. Im happy to answer any questions you might have. Chief, were there any explosiveness the vehicle and do you know a motive . We dont know if there are any explosives in the vehicle. It is still an active scene. While mr. Rosenberry has been taken into custody and has been removed from the scene, we still have to search the vehicle and render the vehicle safe so we dont know as of yet. We do know that Reporter Victor and alisyn, the chief shortly after he made that statement also said that his understanding was that the suspect had been dealing with a lot of personal trauma, perhaps deaths in his family, deaths from people who were close to him. There were personal, i guess i would say personal burdens weighing on him in this moment, as you might expect from someone who is desperate enough to drive up on to the sidewalk outside the Library Of Congress and say they have an explosive device. Right now the next stop for him is to sounds like to get booked. The chief indicated the next stop is to assess charges for him. We are not sure if he will then go to the hospital for a mental health evaluation, all of these questions about what happens to him next outstanding. For now fortunately it is over and No One was hurt, alisyn and victor. Thank goodness this ended peacefully. Whitney wild, we appreciate the reporting. More protests, more raucous School Board meetings and now floridas governor is taking another step that Health Experts say is threatening covid safety in class roomts. Riders, the lone wolves of the great highway. All they need is a bike and a full tank of gas. Their only friend . The open road. I have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. Thats jeremy, right there were literally riding together. He gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. Can you help me out here . No matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at 79 a year. Well, were new friends. To be fair. Eh, still. Okay. This just in. Senator Angus King from maine has covid. He says he got a test after feeling a mild fever, and he credits his vaccination for protecting him from more severe symptoms. King is the second senator to reveal that hes tested positive today alone. Senator Roger Wicker from mississippi, who is also vaccinated, revealed that he, too, has tested positive. Lets broaden the story. The Sevenday Average of new daily infections in the u. S. Is more than 137,000, and on average 820 people die each day from covid. Cnns Athena Jones has more on the growing pressure for Mask Mandates and this debate that is intensifying in some communities. Reporter as covid cases and hospitalizations rise across the country, pressure to introduce more Vaccine And Mask mandates is mounting. More than 90,000 people now hospitalized nationwide. I watched a 22yearold previously healthy, unvaccinated patient die from covid complications, and while we value every life that one was tough because it could have been prevented. Reporter Hospitalization Rates for children and adults under 50 setting new records. The biggest jump coming among adults ages 30 to 39 and children under 18, climbing more than 30 higher than their previous peak in early january according to the cdc. In the two least vaccinated states in the country, alabama and mississippi, where just 36 are fully vaccinated, hospitals are strained. Hospitalizations in mississippi setting a Pandemic Record as the state reports the highest Sevenday Average of new covid cases per capita in the country. The surge in cases leading Washington State to require that all teachers and staff in public and private schools get vaccinated. We are well passed the point where testing is enough to keep people safe. Reporter but battles over masks and Quarantine Requirements in schools continue, with kids stuck in the middle. I mean the masks are like uncomfortable but it is for safety. If i wear my mask, that means i get to see my friends, i will just wear a mask. Reporter in florida to 4,600 students have tested positive for covid and another 19,000 students and staff have been quarantined or isolated. Defying governor ron desantis, School Boards voted to mandate mask in three additional counties, Miamidade And Palm beach and in hillsborough where some parents are also arguing it should be up to them whether they keep their Child Home after covid exposure. The governor agrees. I think quarantining healthy kids deprives these kids of an ability to get an education. Now, maybe a parent would want a healthy kid to be quarantined if theres exposure, but i think that should be the choice of the parent. Reporter it is an approach that flies in the face of public health guidance. We have a moral obligation to follow the science and keep our children safe. Reporter and there is some good news on the vaccination front today. More than A Million doses reported administered nationwide, the first day with more than A Million doses reported in nearly seven weeks. Alisyn, victor. Athena jones there for us. Athena, thank you so much. Dr. Ali khan is dean of the university of Nebraskas College of health. Doctor, thank you for being with us. First on the point from the florida governor desantis there where he says that there shouldnt be this Mass Quarantine after exposure to a positive case, what do you make of that . Thank you, victor. So hes saying quarantine is before they know theyre sick. So, yes, this may well who was exposed be exposing other people in the school, putting others at risk and risking shutting down the school. Here is what is frustrating to parents. This happened a couple of times to my kids. They were in a class with a kid that tested positive, they had to go home and quarantine ten days. They didnt have direct contact with this, with the other child who might have been far away from them in the corner of the room. Isnt there a way to keep kids, if they havent had direct contact with another kid who tests positive, cant they stay in the classroom . So, alisyn, you are spot on. Theres you wouldnt be quarantining somebody, you know, halfway across the building, because they wouldnt have the definition of contact. Thats not whats going on here. This is about people who are defined as close contacts and they dont need to be quarantined. Going back to children again, this debate about masks in school, the debate is done not because of scientists or research paper. Its the data right from the field. We have learned over the last two weeks that School Districts that went back without fully masking everybody, theyre closing. We have numerous School Districts have closed, schools have closed and classrooms have closed. The debate is over. We must send our kids to school. Make sure everybody in that school is masks. Thats how you stay out of these problems. Such a good point. Everybody agrees that kids should be in the classroom and remote learning is harder for kids. The answer to that . Masks. We also know with the Delta Variant even passing in the hallway can be enough exposure to transmit from one person to another. Lets talk about vaccines, though. The president says that he and the First Lady will get the Booster Shot. He made a quip maybe thats what it was when he said its pastime. Hes not due for that second shot until the second week of september. How urgent is that second shot at the eightmonth mark . How much of the efficacy wanes if you wait until that ninth month or so . Lets be honest. Weve already started a Booster Shot last week for those who had immuno compromised conditions. Cdc says eight months. They provided more studies to support eight months. At least eight seems to be their suggestion to get your third dose. Thank you. Dont forget, mask on, everybody. Thank you. As desperate afghans struggle to escape, americans try to help. One Marines Mission to get a translator and his family to safety, next. And join cnn for we love new york city, the homecoming concert. It all starts saturday at 5 00 p. M. Eastern exclusively on cnn. Age before beauty . Why not both . Visibly diminish wrinkled skin in. Crepe corrector lotion. Only from gold bond. 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Reporter Hajis Journey to the airport started here ten years ago. The heart of the taliban insurgency. Haji sided with the americans, a translator for the u. S. Marine corps. At least one of those kids is a fighter. Would you agree . Reporter the taliban never forgave him. Hes been On The Run with his wife and young children for. Five years. This is what haji said to cnn only a few weeks ago. Denied a special Immigrant Visa for the u. S. Twice, haji was running out of options when a former Platoon Mate stepped in. I realized that he would not be able to do this by himself at all. I felt like if i didnt see it through, there was zero chance of him getting out. Reporter from half a world away, former lance corporal Jimmy Harley applied for a new visa and started crowd funding, anticipating Hard Times ahead. I was pretty blown away at 2,000 from friends and family. Then the Cnn Story aired and hit 10, 13, 18. How quickly it grew has been really cool, really overwhelming. Reporter the Talibans Lightning Advance forced some difficult decisions. Haji, you 100 need to get To Kabul, jimmy writes. Have you gotten the money . Hours go by and finally this from haji. Getting To Kabul, walking, running, hiding, Walking Mountain and forest. Haji and his family taking every risk, skirting taliban checkpoints including this one and rushing to the airport, gambling that their Visa Application would be enough to get them to safety. What happened when you tried to get to the gate . We tried to go in. Reporter so haji waits for an elusive email. Crowds looking like this outside the airport. The taliban biding their time as the u. S. Improvises a massive evacuation. Hajis life in the hand of americans when a decade ago he risked his own. Cyril, what happens if haji doesnt get on an Evacuation Flight . Thats a great question. Frankly its one that Corporal Hurley doesnt want to contemplate. I have asked haji if he sees a future for himself in a talibanled afghanistan. The answer is a clear no. They came knocking at his door multiple times looking for him. He believes they would have killed him if they found, he do taliban promise that they will just forgive. Corporal hurley fought the taliban. He als