The president did say, however, he asked the Pentagon And State department to continue plans to extend the stay if needed but strongly suggested this would not be the preferred option. One reason hes concerned what the Isis Affiliate might do. Another day on the ground is a day we know theyre seeking to target the Airport And Attack both u. S. And allied forces and innocent civilians. Additionally, thus far the taliban have been taking steps to work with us so we can get our people out. But its a tenuous situation. Weve already had some Gunfighting Break out. We run a serious risk of it breaking down as time goesoon. The president did not say how many americans remain in the country. That he said would be coming tomorrow from secretary blinken. The number needing to be evacuated is probably lower than one might think because this official says many left in the weeks before the country fell. More now from cnns orrin leiberman. Reporter the tide of afghan evacuees flowing out of kabul is at a new peak as the effort to move as many people as possible enters its final seven days. 12,000 people flown out in 12 hours. The u. S. Alone flew out 6,400 people averaging nearly 350 per flight. Thats 15 times what the u. S. Flew out a week ago. Since August 14th more than 70,000 people have been evacuated from kabul. The airport which once had 14,000 people on the field waiting for flights now down to about 5,000 though there are more many outside desperate to get in. But as the operation improves the environment grows more tense. The military is monitoring threats from Isis K and others and the taliban warning the u. S. To be out translator they are talented people. They should not leave this country. They should work in their own specialist areas. They should not go to other countries, to those western countries. Reporter one question the biden Administration Hasnt answered, how many americans are left in afghanistan. The White House promised to evacuate every u. S. Citizen who wants out, but the pentagon refusing to say how many that is. I dont think theres a perfect number that we know with certainty of all americans in afghanistan. Reporter the sheer number of afghans leaving the country has created its own set of problems. The lack of basic sanitation at the Air Base in qatar, the first stop for many of those fleeing kabul. We recognize many of those things were and are still not at the level of Sanitation And Hygiene we want. Reporter meanwhile afghan evacuees beginning to land in the united states. Four flights landed in dulles outside d. C. The pentagon has only days left before it winds down the effort in kabul. With 5,800 troops on the ground and an August 31st deadline to get them out the pentagon knows the last 48 hours are critaleral. The focus how to get out thousands of troops who have made it possible to move tens of thousands of people. So the president mentioned Contingency Plans possibly to adjust the timetable. Is there any detail on that . No, President Biden Srnt Offer any details what those Contingency Plans might be. As you point out, he said, its in case the u. S. Needs to adjust the timetable. Biden has made it clear so has the pentagon they want to be done with the Evacuation Mission by The End of the month, by August 31st. If its not possible they are planning to see if theres wiggle Room Or Maneuvering room or if they need more time to operate. The catch here and makes this difficult, this basically needs to be coordinated with the taliban. There has been constant communication with representatives of taliban commanders, but theyve now made it clear they want the u. S. Out by The End of the month and moving that Time Line even a little bit may be incredibly difficult. A Worstcase Scenario a Fire Fight and exchange of fire and the situation rapidly deteriorates. Itll be very difficult if the biden administration decides it needs anymore time. The goal is The End of the month. Thanks so much. I want to get perspective now from someone on the ground that knows afghanistan well. A correspondent for tv2 denmark, traveling with them at times as they patrol the streets of kabul. So a taliban Spokesperson Today said the Airport Road is now closed to afghans. Does that mean theres no chance now for afghans now to get out . Its actually an ambiguous statement. It could also be interpreted as they dont want afghans to leave. You know, hes not being really clear about what he means. And i think the main reason why hes saying that is to put pressure on The Americans so they can hurryup. President Biden Today said the u. S. Is on pace his term to finish operations by the August 31st deadline and also asked for Contingency Plans to adjust the timetable if necessary. That also seems like it could be a warning to the taliban. I mean, the idea theyre going to have Contingency Plans, it seems both the taliban and the u. S. Are trying to kind of negotiate with public statements. They are. From an american point of view, you know, its a priority to evacuate all the people that they need to get out of afghanistan and get as good terms as possible. And from a taliban point of view, from the leadership especially its about the pressure they get from the low level commanders who are not satisfied with the agreement with the united states of america. They wanted the u. S. To leave in may, and actually there have been talks and convinced to accept the u. S. Is staying until the 31st. And it just didnt look good for the leadership from doha, The Americans theyre not going to live up to this agreement. The taliban have warned thered be what they say are consequences if the u. S. Military stayed longer. Youve spoken to taliban fighters in a lot of different places. What are you hearing on the ground because ive heard you talk before about kind of divisions within the taliban itself. We think of it as this sort of monolithic group, but its actually its actually not. Its multifaceted group. You have different layers in this group. You have the guys who are living an international life meeting political leaders, meeting people with different political opinions in doha and other countries, sitting together with women and conversating with them. And then you have the guys living off the radar in afghanistan and pakistan. And these guys are not as pragmatic and flexible as the guy we know from the media. And theyre not as afraid of actually becoming getting on, you know, bad terms with the united states. Theyre used to fighting. Theyre used to their friends getting killed, a lot of them every year. So for them its like, okay, weve been fighting for so many years, why should it be a Problem Tonight now at The End of the battle . Americans theyre fleeing. So its just business as usual. And other guys who have fought to get international recognition, for them, you know, theyre going to lose all theyve builtup, you know, for the past years. So what taliban takes over afghanistan now . You know, theyve said weve learned from the mistakes from the past. Is that true . It seems hard to believe. I mean, they do have a very, you know, severely strict interpretation of islam. They have learned from the past. But the thing is with the taliban you have like you have the guys from the south who are the Hard Core taliban. And the ones who look most like the old taliban from the 90s, and then you have some of the other guys a bit more progressive, the taliban from east. I can give you an example of, you know, one of the experiences that i have from underground. I went to university because i thought they were opening a couple of days ago, and then i was told the School Location had been extended. And i asked from the top and he said women they cant get in. And he was from the south, from kandahar. Later i met this guy and said they were denied access to the university, and they were really angry and said you shouldnt do that, thats against islam. I followed up on the question and asked about their own sisters and wives and they were like this is of course they can get an education, of course they can work. So a clear example of how you have different segments of taliban actually disagreeing about some things. According to letters obtained by cnn the taliban sentenced an Afghans Brother who served an interpreter to american troops. The letters contradict assurances the taliban spokesman has been making at Press Conferences saying nobody would be harmed in afghanistan, and theres a huge difference between us now and 20 years ago. Do you think Reprisal Killings are going to become common . Nobody knows. Theyre rumors. But first of all the Leadership Theyve clearly said theres a general Amnesty And Nobody from the taliban should kill anybody who worked for the government or foreign forces. But the thing is you have sublevel commanders who are doing their own things, who are not listening and obeying some of these orders. This is short term. Longterm the question is whether all the people from the leadership will continue this path. We dont know that. You know, weve seen this Organization Roll some of the things they said, roll it back earlier in the history. So people they hope History Wont be repeated. Its really a pleasure to talk to you. I really appreciate your expertise. Thank you so much. Youre welcome. Pleasure to be here. More now on how the president s Words Today and his policy more broadly are being received by lawmakers especially those who have direct experience fighting the war there. Shortly before airtime i spoke with two. Congressman, President Biden cited the growing threat to u. S. Troops in afghanistan from isisk as a main factor to this decision as this withdrawal line. You served in afghanistan. Is that justification enough for sticking to the deadline . Theres a dangerous situation going on there. We understand this bipartenly. There has to be an objective thats met in order to actually withdraw otherwise youre just doing it for optics. So is our Military Safer . Is the world safer . Is our Enemy Debilitated . And if Thats Nut the case, we shouldnt move out of there. If our people arent safer we shouldnt move out there. And i dont think think that metric is going to be met. The president was asked if he could guarantee every american will be out of there. How confident are you every american will be out by the deadline . Were talking about a country whose deadline is the graveyard of monikers of deadline. By the trajectory we should be able to get americans out by August 31st. But Make Mow mistake the president has been clear every american who wants to leave afghanistan will leave afghanistan. The taliban do not have a say in that. Congressman, what about the afghans . Do you believe thats still a priority for this administration . I dont think they ever truly were a priority for this administration given the hearings weve had from the State Department over the months past but also to give you a historic vote from Joe Biden. He said this following the withdrawal from vietnam, we have zero obligation to withdraw foreign nationals moral or otherwise 1 or 100,000. That was his direct statement about foreign nationals as it related to vietnam. And i think were kind of seeing that exact same mentality as it relates to foreign nationals within afghanistan. Yeah, if we can get a few out, great. But its by any means their focus to get out afghans who stood sold by shoulder with us. Im wondering how that process has been in the people youre working or have been working on because i talked to a lot of people, a number of former Service Members who were trying to get out, former translators and stuff for years and said with the last administration and this sfrgz, the whole process, it seemed like it was being slow walked. So both of those statements are true. There have been cases weve been working for years, and youre getting the message from the State Department this person from through the cracks or finally we were able to just get them through because all of a sudden It Hit in an emergency situation. Cases wed been working like i said literally through two administrations. And there were cases veterans brought to us because of the emergency saying this interpreter are worked with, can you get their picture to the checkpoint, get their paperwork to the State Department, get them out of Kabul Or Pakistan or qatar or anywhere else . Both situations were playing out, absolutely. You also served and its remarkable how history repeats. We saw this in iraq with trying to get translators out. We saw this certainly in vietnam. It seems like theres obviously these are chaotic situations, any time a country is falling apart or a government collapses its a difficult situation. But it does seem like theres a Track Record to the u. S. Not living up to its promises to the people that helped them. This president and his administration have made clear were going to have a special priority for afghans who work as allied interpreters, prominent advocates for the rights of women and girls, journalists, those who face risk of taliban reprisal. Theyve been part of the evacuation to date. Theyll continue to be evacuated, and this president is going to keep americas promises. Not every afghan who wants to leave afghanistan is not going to be able to. Just like not every somallian who wants to leave somalia or every syrian who wants to leave syria is going to be able to. Thats why america is a global beacon for democracy and Human Rights so we can improve. The taliban said today the road is closed for afghans to get to the airport. So how confident are you thats not the case or that theres a week left before the August 31st deadline. If that road is closed what options does the u. S. Have . Its important to remember the united states retained significant leverage over the taliban. We have 90 of their assets in u. S. Controlled banks. 75 of Taliban Governing Resources come from the international donor community. The united states has leverage over the taliban to ensure we can continue to work with ngos for evacuations. And its important to remember the taliban are inheriting a country thats made significant progress over the last 20 years. Access to electricity has increased. There are 4 Million afghan girls in schools right now. The taliban may not be able to govern as brutally as they did in the 1990s. Congressman mast, do you buy that . I would say at this point maybe in the longterm we have an advantage over the taliban because we can control banks, monetary funds, things like that. In the shortterm we went from a situation where the Tal Wn were our hostages to a situation where americans and those that helped us are basically the hostage of the taliban in afghanistan. Congressmen, i appreciate your time. Thank you both. A lot more ahead tonight including a look at the legacy of americas longest war. What 20 years in afghanistan has and has not accomplished and what happens next. 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Miraculous is how he described the outcome if the effort continues at the pace its now going. However, it turns out to be just one chapter in a 20year story. Given the reconstitution of the taliban and other bad actors it might not even be the final one. Joining us to talk about it all past, president and future editor of foreign affairs magazine, the latest edition to answer question who won the War On Terror. Its an interesting issue you put out here. The War On Terror was central to u. S. Policy since 9 11. How do you think history is going to see the u. S. Involvement in afghanistan in terms of what was actually achieved . So if we go back to those days and weeks and months in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks there ws this real sense of moral clarity, this Mission And Purpose that had really taken over american foreign mall peace. President bushs rhetoric at the time was the clearest example of this. But it was really this broad sense there was this newfound mission for the country and American Foreign Policy. But we never really reckoned with what we were trying to achieve in that policy, what it would mean to win. And the 20 years is in some ways the starkest example of this, the shifting sense of objectives, what the mission was. We never really settled on that. In some way if we could go back and talk to our September 12th sefbls and tell them in the next 20 years thered be something like 1tion citizens killed on u. S. Soil, if you remembered the fear in the days afterwards that would seem like a remarkable achievement. If we had told ourselves we would get involved wed see the War On Terror as this catastrophe. Also in afghanistan there are so many layers in that society as there are in all societies. And when youre coming from outside and think you can, you know, Nation Build there are unintended consequences for all sorts of actions you take. You think its going to have one consequence and it has another. You think we come to the country and start pouring money into the country and the people we end up dealing with often, you know, if theyre not shady or skimming money, they all have their own agendas and you start to see mcmansions popping up in kabul owned by shady businessmen and afghans on the ground suddenly have a changed view of what the u. S. Is like the money were giving to these people theres still widespread corruption, and any interaction between an afghan and the government is usually involving some sort of payment. So its such a fraught, such a difficult thing to do. And i dont know if we did a good job or not. But certainly as a lot of people worked very hard to try to make it work. You raise a good point. I worked in the State Department about eight years after the War In Afghanistan had started. And even then we were struggling to define what our basic objectives were and what our basic metrics were. And there were times you could look at the numbers of say girls or women in school or the numbers of new ngos serving in kabul and you could see indicators of success. But we never really addressed the government, the corruption you mentioned. We never really had a good handle on just how many troops there actually were, how many afghan troops there were in this army we were building at huge cost. So you saw over the course of multiple administrations right, this goes back to Bush And Obama and trump and now biden trying to figure out how just to measure progress even as we didnt have a clear sense what we wanted to achieve. And biden has now gone back to this minimal sense of what we wanted to do. We killed Bin Laden and addressed that basic threat but given up on the rhetoric that was central to the mission in afghanistan certainly at the beginning in those days when we thought we could build this new nation and Transform Afghanistan and the reach more broadly but even in subsequent administrations when we thought there was something taking hold and had a really hard time as outsiders, having a sense of just how profound the problems were. I remember going out with marines on patrol and driving to some village and the marines risking their lives to get to this village, a Tiny Speck on a Map Meeting with elders who are kind of on the fence and not sure who to side with. And it was Nation Building without calling it a Nation Building. And i still cant get over the fact every time i went i was told were standing up the afghan warmy, then it was standing up the afghan police. But to your point we were never sure if anyone said there were 300,000 Afghan Army forces. That was the number on the rolls but if some commander in some province was just padding the books and taking the money. Thats right. And there were times you know as well as anyone we were perfectly aware of what was going on but felt so incapable of dealing with it there was this inclination again over multiple administrations to sweep that under the rug. If you go back tathose first years in afghanistan that was really the moment when we probably had the best chance to commit to a Nation Building mission in a more serious way, and we failed to. And we failed to in part because its much harder than we imagined at the time. We also failed because we turned our attention to iraq. But we spent many years trying to recover from those mistakes. And in the last few years youve seen American Foreign Policy just really want to wash its hands of all this. It wants to turn to new threats to China And Russia and great power competition. And whats happening in afghanistan now is just a reminder of how profoundly this reshaped American Foreign Policy, american power and the united states over the last 20 years. Yeah. I really appreciate you being on tonight. I really look forward to talking more in the future. Thanks so much. Just ahead florida School Districts fight against their governor over Mask Mandates. At least two not backing down in new letters with new polling suggesting voters on their side. The superintendent of one of those districts joins me next. Its Grilled Cheese time. Yeah, its time for Grilled Cheese. After we make Grilled Cheese, then were eating Grilled Cheese. Because its time. Yeah. Time for Grilled Cheese. You need an ecolab scientific clean here. And here. Which is why the scientific expertise that helps Operating Rooms stay clean now helps the places you go too. Look for the Ecolab Science certified seal. Monitor, check and lock down you money with security from chase. Control feels good. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Multiple breaking stories out of Florida Tonight all concerning the fight surrounding Mask Mandates. First just moments ago Orange County said it will enact a 60 Day Mask Mandate for students and staff. A Doctors Note will be required to Opt Out. Also breaking tonight a new poll that suggests florida voters may be at odds to Governor Desantis Mac mandate. Just this week two districts say theyll not comply with the Governors Order for parental Opt Out. The State Board of education is threatening to with Hold School Board members pay. And as part of their responses the School Boards in broward and counties forwarded information about members salaries demonstrating their not backing down from this fight. The superintendent said in her letter universal masking will, quote, help us keep our students in the classroom and out of the hospital. Superintendent, thanks for being with us. Before i even get into the this battle with Governor Desantis and the Board Of Education i want to give people an idea why this Mask Mandate is so important in your district. It went into effect because you had positive cases even deaths amongst your staff. And even with the Mandate Covid is still a big issue in your schools, right . Yeah, so we lost two of our employees actually before we even had our teachers start coming back to campus the week before we had our chactual campuses start. And we were noticing as well beyond the two students that passed the Pavty Rate for employees were increasing quite quickly and we were having projects having to be shutdown because of the amount of people who tested positive. Now we are running into our students are on campus, were in our third week of classes. We have over 360 students who tested positive and we have the quarantines that are going on. We also have over 60 Faculty And Staff who are also testing positive. And were just running into the logistics of being able to run our School System so we can have facetoface. I worry had we not had mandatory masking wed be considerably worse than we are right now. The letter you received from the florida State Board of education accused School Board members of violating parents rights and called not allowing parents to Opt Out of the Mask Mandate, quote, unacceptable behavior. Whats your response to that . So we believe were in compliance with the laws. The governor and the commissioner of Education Excuse me they requested that the department of education, the Department Of Health have rules. And one of the rules that they applied was a voucher that would allow families to Opt Out. And we see that as compliance with their rule. We also have the medical exemption for individuals who have a medical need that requires them to not have a mask. And so we actually believe that we have two options for families to Opt Out, and we are following the rules of the state. And as far as punishment goes i mentioned the Board Of Education threatening to with Hold A Portion of School Board members salaries. Do you expect if the money is withheld the Federal Government would reimburse those funds . Federal government has already reached out and they said they would support us financially and also looking through supporting us through legal means as well as political means and theyre helping us and offering their support associated with us managing the actual Covid Situation from testing to just helping us keep our schools open. We want to make sure we have facetoface, and we need their support. We also have had lots of support from our local governments as well as many members in our community as well as the country. Now that the fda has given full approval for the Pfizer Vaccine for people ages 16 and up, will your District Issue a Vaccine Mandate for all teachers and for students who are eligible . I believe were at the place where we need to have serious conversations between the superintendent and our board members. We have been trying to offer carrots and incentives for people to get vaccinated but its not having the type of impact we would prefer. When our faculties specifically are not able to come because of not being vaccinated and they get ill, it has a huge impact on the system. So were running into just the logistics of needing to run our business and our organization. We need people healthy and we need people at work. And because of how fast this disease is spreading we can have multiple people who need to kwarntony for an extended period of time, and it really impacts our human resources. Do you know what percentage of teachers are not vaccinated . We dont. Were in the process of getting the actual information from the Department Of Health but thats taking time. But im estimating somewhere around 50 . Wow, that many. Superintendent simon, i appreciate your time tonight. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Still ahead ill speak with a nurse who contracted covid while she was pregnant last fall before the vaccine became available. Ill tell you what happened to her and her baby. She has a message for pregnant women next. Chines and buying a car 100 online. Now weve created a brandnew way for you to sell your car. Whether its a year old or a few years old. We wanna buy your car. So go to carvana and enter your License Plate Answer a few questions. And our Techno Wizardry calculates your Cars Value and gives you a real offer in seconds. When youre ready, well come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, thats it. So ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana. 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My husband came home from work, and he started having symptoms, and we decided he should get tested. So he was positive, and then the next day i started showing the symptoms. So the next day i tested positive. I did feel, you know, good at that point for those first couple days. Then if started to get worse. What happened with the pregnancy . I started getting weird back pains and front pains. So i went to the local ob, and, you know, they sent me home, said it was a Side Effect of covid, they didnt check me or anything. Then that night they sent me home because at that point i was stable. So at that point i went home. That night i started getting some bleeding and the pain, you know, became more. But it wasnt until the next morning around 1 30 in the morning i woke up and i realized i was in labor. So, yes. And do you what week was this in the pregnancy . I was 22 weeks, 5 days. You lost your baby. Yes. And i wasnt really saying what i thought was going to happen but i knew we got to the hospital, and they checked me out and they said can i get you upstairs now, you have membranes showing. So they rushed me upstairs and at that point they realized i was fully dilated. My placenta or my bag was protruding and axel was coming no matter what. I cant imagine what you and your family have gone through, and im so sorry for your laoss. You got the Covid Vaccine finally and you wrote on facebook you said i didnt do it because it was the trend. I did it for every person i take care of, for my friends, my family. Yipe hopeful this vaccine will prevent another death of a grandfather, father, mother, son and daughter. Every person deserves not to lose someone to covid. This is for my axel, axel, the boy that died. What was that day like for you to get that vaccine . It was an emotion cay. I was working a 12hour Shift that day so i went upstairs in the bathroom and just cried because i thought, man, if this was last month i would not be in the situation i am. So very bittersweet to get that vaccine. But, you know, it was too late for my story. What is your hope in sharing what happened to axel, what your family has been through, what youve been through . My hope has always been that Someone Else doesnt have to be me. You know, these vaccines are here. And im not pushing like the mandate. Im pushing people to talk to their doctor, to talk to medical professionals. Do not do this hearsay or all this stuff that gets spreads so easily when its not really the medical facts because these lies are killing people. And, you know, were we are tired of seeing people die. You know, im just tired of covid happening again especially after what ive gone through. And, you know, i thought when we got this vaccine there was going to be, you know, fresh hope. We were going to get a rest, and we were going to get back to our lives. And now its just its come back worse than it was. And when you were pregnant if you had been able to get a vaccine, if the vaccine had been out there you would have you would have gotten it because its safe for pregnant people . Yes. We had been talking about it. You know my husband was not really thinking he would but i knew i was because i see covid and i did not want to risk at that point before i had my son i was worried about my fatherinlaw, everyone i loved and i was going to get that vaccine to save others. So its now the time for people to do their research and save themselves because you know theyre going to be asking to be helped and its too late. I appreciate talking to you, and again im so sorry for what you have gone through and so thankful that you are telling your story and also what you do every day, i mean working 12hour Shifts and more in the hospital, helping people who in many cases have not taken a vaccine that they could have. Vanessa, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Theres more ahead. What the ceo of the Travel Community said, airbnb is saying tonight about helping thousands of Afghan Refugees. Thats next. This is a really cool thing youre doing, why did you decide to, you know, personally step in to try to help reset all these Afghan Refugees . Well, weve been doing things like this for the last ten years with Airbnb And Air b. Org weve been providing housing for people in need whether people displaced by a disaster or starting four years ago we started housing refugees. When it came over the weekend, he housed about 200 refugees over the course of this past weekend and started realizing there is going to be a much greater need and maybe we can add a couple zeros and make a huge impact. This is one of the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetimes. We have thousands, millions of homes around the world. How does this work . You dont own the properties, obviously. I guess a host has to volunteer to host a refugee . Yes, so ill explain. So we were working with Resettlement Agencies. The international Rescue Committee and Church World Service so they work with the department of state and different governments to receive the refugees. They do all the screening, make sure the Refugee Families are ready to find housing and we match those roefugee families with the host. Thousands of hosts will open their homes. Last year during covid 225,000 hosts opened their homes to front line workers. Were confident well have more than enough homes and what were doing, airbnb, well pay for it. Well pay the host out of our pocket. Our technology, our cost so the host doesnt have to come outofpocket for this. How long can you do this for or will you do this for . As long as they need housing. This isnt permanent housing. Most host Families Cant Host refugees on a permanent basis and most of the Refugee Families want permanent settlement but well go where the need is. Were taking guidance from Resettlement Agencies which is why were not certain what the cost is going to be. So long as people need housing, we dont want to turn people away. We want to make sure theyre housed. These are people that have been cleared by or gone through irc or the other agency you mentioned and they have done processing and things like that . Yeah, thats their expertise. Were not the ones screening the Refugee Families. Those organizations that have been around for obviously a very long time are doing the screening. They matched us and we work on the host side. And are you doing this in countries around the world . All countries around the world that will receive refugees. So obviously, united states here but were in 220 countries and regions and so i expect us to be able to, our host to be able to receive refugees and families in countries all over the world. There are those who might be concerned that the Evacuation Process has been rushed and some of these Rougefugees May not ha been fully vetted and through the Siv Process for long periods of time. What do you say to any potential person who might be willing to open up their home . Well, Weve Housed Hundreds of thousands of people over the last ten years through a variety of disasters, variety of resettlement issues. Every one of them is a last minute scramble. I have total confidence in the Church World Service and were also here 24 7 to be able to help and were going to be there each step of the way with the host families. And i mean, can if somebody ends up having a Family Needs ends up for six months, i mean, hide up in red tape, can you house somebody for six months . A host family, i presume, can host them for as long as they want. We wont expect anyone to house people longer than they can. What somebody should do if they want to host, go to air b. Org and host as long as they can. If they Cant Host the guest anymore, well take it out of their hands and find another family suitable for them. Thanks for doing this. Thank you. Appreciate it. Just ahead, we remember a legend, the drummer for perhaps the most legendary Rock N Roll act ever. Hearing is important to living life to the fullest. Thats why inside every miracleear store, youll find better laughs at family barbecues. 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Here we are. Thanks for joining us. This is done lemon tonight. We have busy developments from everything from afghanistan to covid to a big win for the president on capitol hill. Were going to catch you up on all of it. I want to begin with afghanistan because thats where the pace of evacuations is at an alltime high on a date the president , president Joe Biden announces hes sticking to his August 31st deadline one week from now. For u. S. Troops to leave the country. We are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. The sooner we can finish, the better. Each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. But th