U. S. Needs to do to get control to have some sort of normalcy by next spring. And new numbers just in tonight from the cdc for fully vaccinated americans, how quickly does the vaccine begin to wear off over time . Just as these boosters, these third shots, will soon be made available. Also tonight, Breaking News from Capitol Hill at this hour. The major milestone In The House on the president s sweeping infrastructure plans. The 3. 5 trillion Budget Blueprint narrowly passing the house. But a reality check tonight, karl is standing by. Ead and Jon The Scare forcing Vice President Harris Flight to vietnam to be delayed for several hours. At least one Staff Member at the u. S. Mission in hanoi stricken with what could be that socalled Havana Syndrome. Th in cuba. Authorities say it can cause headaches and potential brain injury. News on the missing tonight after those catastrophic floods in tennessee. Tonight, we hear the 911 calls, the terrifying moments the water came rushing in. Stories of the 7monthold twins swept away. Loretta lynns Ranch Foreman lost in the floods. The massive wildfires in California And Tonight the neighboring states now reporting some of the worst Air Quality in more than two decades. The emergency onboard. The Cell Phone sparking on a plane. And the evacuation that came next. And tonight here, we remember one of the best Rock N Roll drummers of all time. A force with The Rolling Stones. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. President biden before the american people just a short time ago on the Emergency Evacuations in afghanistan. Tonight, President Biden now saying the u. S. Is on pace to finish this by that August 31st deadline to get out of afghanistan. That is one week from today, to get americans out, to get all u. S. Troops out and it leads to Questions Tonight about all of Te Afghans who helped the u. S. Over the 20year war. Will they get out, too . Will that process continue after this deadline . The president saying he is concerned about the Terror Threat on the ground, with each day u. S. Troops remain there. Concerned about isis in afghanistan and about the taliban, saying theyre cooperating so far, but thats always a risk of it breaking down. Tonight, the evacuations moving more quickly. The administration saying more than 33,000 people have now been airlifted in the past 36 hours. The State Department now reporting that every american citizen in afghanistan that registered with the embassy has now been contacted and has been given instructions to get to the airport. The administration says some 5,10vacuat, t th thounds ofns si waiting to depart, the Taliban Today telling afghans not to go to the airport, that they should head back home, back to work, that there is no danger. But of course, the very real fears remain tonight. President biden coming before the cameras late today, saying we will learn more about the number of americans still there by tomorrow. Inside afghanistan tonight, our team making their way to the airport overnight in a tense caravan, past heavily armed taliban fighters, making it inside Airport Walls where they will report for us tonight. Groups of afghans also heading to the airport at night, Boarding Buses at a Taliban Checkpoint and then waiting, documents in hand, as the taliban stand guard, determining who gets through and who doesnt. The President Today on a virtual meeting with leaders of the g7, the eu and the u. N. , tonight saying they are all united in their approach to the taliban now moving forward. And we have learned that Cia Director William burns traveled to kabul for a secret meeting with Taliban Leader abdul ghani baradar. Tonight, with one week to go before this August 31st deadline, the situation there on the ground. And we begin here with abcs senior Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell leading us off from the kabul airport. Reporter with thousands of desperaTe Afghans trapped in kabul outside the airport, President Biden so far refusing to extend the August 31st deadline for u. S. Forces to leave afghanistan. We are currently on a pace to finish by August 31st. The sooner we can finish, the better. Each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. Reporter the president making the Decision Today to ensure the u. S. Military could complete the drawdown safely, with just one week to go before the deadline, citing a, quote, very high risk of an attack. The longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a Terrorist Group known as isisk, an Isis Affiliate in afghanistan. Reporter biden telling the american people meeting the deadline depends on continued taliban cooperation. Its a tenuous situation. Weve already had some gun fighting break out. We run a serious risk of it breaking down as time goes on. Reporter biden speaking to g7 Leaders Today who urged the president to extend the deadline. And tonight, were learning about an extraordinary secret meeting between Cia Director William burns and De Facto taliban Leader Mullah Baradar in kabul on monday. Its the highest Level Facetoface talks between the administration and the taliban since the militants seized control. But its unclear how productive the talks were. At a press conference today, the taliban announcing its now blocking afghans trying to leave the country from the airport, telling them to go home and claiming they want to protect people from Terrorist Threats at the airfield. The taliban also rejecting any plans to extend the u. S. Troop withdrawal. The announcement making the race to evacuate americans and afghan allies all the more urgent. More than 75,000 people evacuated from the country in the past ten days, including more than 5,100 americans. On average, one flight is leaving ever 45 minutes. U. S. Military helicopters conducting a second mission outside the airport, reportedly rescuing 16 americans monday, just days after crews airlifted 169 americans from a hotel outside the airfield last week. The escape from kabul is perilous. Threats lie around each corner. Afghans trapped behind Taliban Checkpoints wait in limbo, desperate but unable to get out. Were waiting to get through, but theyre not letting us at the moment. Reporter under the cover of darkness, families move quietly with what remains of their lives stuffed into small bags, as they board buses bound for the airport. The threat from Taliban Checkpoints is everywhere. This is everyones greatest fear in kabul, being stopped and questioned by the militants. Whole families sleep on the side of the road. And at the airport gate, less than 50 yards separates the last Taliban Checkpoint and u. S. Forc me here, its a w all Difference Betwe Manytiet th i pressed general sullivan, who is in charge of civilian evacuations on the base, whether all afghans who helped the u. S. Mission will be evacuated from the country. How confident are you that all american citizens who want to leave, all afghans who risked their lives to help us in this mission, will get out in the next seven days . So what i can guarantee is we will get as many out as we possibly can with the time we have available. Reporter which implies some will be left behind. Or could be. I wont speculate on that. All i can say is we will get as many out as we possibly can. And so lets bring in Ian Pannell, reporting from the airport in kabul for us again tonight. And ian, i want to get back to what the president said just before we came On The Air tonight, he said this August 31st deadline to withdraw all u. S. Troops depends on the taliban continuing to cooperate. The president also saying hes mindful of the increasing risks on the ground there, not only from isis, but from the taliban itself. So far, cooperating with the u. S. , but the president said theres a serious risk of that breaking down at some point, as well. Give us a sense here, youre at the airport. How do you get all The Americans out, all of the afghans who helped us out and u. S. Troops out by one week from today . Reporter i mean, that is the key question, david. And i just dont see how that is possible. Perhaps perhaps you can get all american citizens out. Weve seen a massive uptick in the number of airlifts, people going through this site here, the marines are working around the clock to try and facilitate getting people onto the camp and out of the country. But this is a huge base. There are thousands of troops here and its going to take days just to get the troops out, to retrograde the base and that means theres a very narrow window to get the people into the camp and out of the country. And it seems to me its going to be almost impossible to guarantee that the afghans who risked their lives to help us to get them out of the country. David . Ian pannell reporting from the kabul airport. Ian, thank you. And President Biden indicating he will try to meet that August 31st deadline. As you heard ian report, to get u. S. Troops out, evacuations will have to end even sooner to give time to get the u. S. Military out. The State Department tonight saying they did make that contact with every american who checked with the u. S. Embassy, but that does leave open the question, what about getting out all of the afghans who helped the u. S. . Lets bring in our chief foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz tonight. Martha, i was struck by what the taliban told the afghan people at this News Conference today, they said, afghan nationals should head back to their homes, their jobs, their normal lives, there is no danger to them. They said, women should stay home for now for their own safety, they will not be prevented from working, the taliban claiming. And they called on afghans to, quote, lets live together, The War has finished. But this is a real Leap Of Faith and these concerns are very real tonight, martha. Reporter they sure are, david. They simply cant take the taliban at their word. Those afghans who worked for The Americans who have not completed paperwork and still want to get out will be in peril. And how they get out with the taliban fully in charge of the airport, with no american backup, is unknown. Even those informal heroic networks of veterans who have been trying to save their afghan friends will have a near impossible task getting them out. Were hearing harrowing stories from all over afghanistan about the very real threat, a threat that will be even greater come tuesday, because, david, it would have to be an extraordinary circumstance for President Biden to extend that deadline because officials tell me he does not want to. David . We know this threat remains for afghans and as you point out, martha, so many veterans here in the u. S. Now working in overtime to try to help the interpreters who helped them for so many years. Martha, i know youre going to stay on this. We move on tonight, though, to the pandemic in this country. The u. S. Now reporting more than 140,000 new cases of covid a day in this country. Tonight here, were inside hospitals at a breaking point. And dr. Fauci this evening saying the u. S. Could get back to some sort of normalcy by next spring, but what he said has to happen before then. And those new numbers just in from the cdc tonight. For fully vaccinated americans, how quickly does the vaccine begin to wear off over time . Abcs Victor Oquendo from miami tonight. Reporter tonight, hospitals in the south buckling under a crush of covid patients. From houston, where some e. R. S have closed their doors, to louisiana, which marked its deadliest day of the pandemic. Inside Willisknighton Hospital in shreveport, exhausted staff facing a seemingly endless loss of life. Imagine the pressure of knowing that i dont know if i can do this another day, another hour, but if i dont show up tomorrow, theres nobody here to take care of this patient, theres nobody here to hold this phone and let them talk to their family the last time before we put a tube in them. Reporter nursing teams locked in a grim cycle. Carefully moving the dead from the hospital to the care of funeral homes, only to go right back to the icu, where they will race to save more covid patients like this 36yearold. Its really hard to see your strong husband so weak. Reporter lauren, who is recovering from covid herself, has waited nearly a month for her husband to wake up. Lauren says he wasnt ready to get the vaccine and she just never found the time. I made the appointment three times and canceled it because i was too busy. If i could go back in time, that is the one thing i would change. Reporter still, dr. Anthony fauci says he sees a light at the end of the tunnel as long as millions more americans get vaccinated. If we can get through this winter and get really the majority, overwhelming majority of the 90 Million people who have not been vaccinated vaccinated, i hope we could start to get some good control in the spring of 2022. Reporter some say the new Fda Approval for the Pfizer Vaccine helped convince them to get the shot. Now that there are things that are fda approve and stuff like that, that makes it a little bit more comfortable. I did need to see a little bit more research, some Fda Approval at the very least. Reporter and for the millions of fully vaccinated, that third shot, a Booster Shot, just weeks away. Officials say it could be available by midseptember. Now more evidence americans will need it. An updated Cdc Study of 4,000 Front Line workers found that Vaccine Effectiveness at preventing any infection dropped from 91 to 66 from april to august, a drop that was likely fueled by the Delta Variant Surge and a waning of Vaccine Efficacy over time, especially for Health Care workers who were among the first in the nation to be vaccinated. And victor, i want to get right back to that study. And when you see the efficacy waning over time, we should also point out that these vaccines are still very effective against severe disease and hospitalizations, but the numbers are driving the argument for that third shot, a Booster Shot, which federal authorities say could be available by midseptember. Reporter david, experts stress that while we are seeing more of these mild breakthrough infections, the vaccine still dramatically reduce the risk of hospitalizations or dying of covid. Now, there is evidence that the vaccines wane over time and thats why Health Officials will recommend a Booster Shot eight months after your second dose. David . Victor oquendo from miami tonight. Thank you, victor. And tonight, the major headline out of washington at this hour. President biden moving forward on his twotrack infrastructure plan, hoping to pass a bipartisan bill to rebuild the nations roads and bridges and then Psh Tlu Push through an even larger part of his agenda, that 3. 5 trillion package for nontraditional infrastructure. Lets bring in our chief Washington Correspondent jon karl, because on the second part of that plan, the bigger part, with support from only democrats, it did take a major step forward In The House today, but you and i both know it still faces a tough road ahead here. Reporter david, President Biden was in need of a win and he did get a partial Victory Today as the house moved One Step Closer to passing the 3. 5 trillion social infrastructure bill. The details are still to be worked out, but the bill would include a big increase in Education Spending and expansion of medicare, tax increases on the wealthy and on corporations and funding to combat climate change. What Action Today means, david, is that in the senate, this can be passed with only democratic votes if democrats remain united, but david, that is a big if. You already have two democratic senators who say this bill is simply too expensive. All right, jon karl, a long road ahead here. Jon, thank you. Next tonight, we turn to that scare over the socalled s delaying Harr Harriss Asia trip for a time, delaying her arrival in vietnam by more than three hours, after the u. S. Embassy in hanoi reported a possible case. Tonight here, more on what this Havana Syndrome is, and heres abcs stephanie ramos. Reporter tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris has landed in vietnam after her flight was delayed over a, quote, possible anomalous Health Incident in hanoi. Madam Vice President , why did you continue your trip . Reporter the reported incident affected a staffer at the u. S. Mission in vietnam in recent days. Allegedly an incident of Havana Syndrome, the mysterious onset of symptoms like headache, earache, Nausea And Trouble seeing or balancing. Cases were first reported by american personnel in havana, cuba, in 2016 and 2017. Many of them diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Since then, dozens of u. S. Officials in multiple countries have reported symptoms. Can you share more about the possible incident of Havana Syndrome that delayed the Vice President s trip . While this is not a confirmed case at this point in time, we take any reported incident which was recent and was reported publicly, i will note quite seriously. As a result, there was an assessment done of the safety of the Vice President and there was a decision made that she could continue travel along with her staff. Reporter there are now more than 130 possible cases of Havana Syndrome, including in china and russia. The White House is investigating the cause. David . Stephanie ramos at the White House tonight. Steph, thank you. When we come back here, news on the missing, the 911 calls now, after those catastrophic floods in tennessee. And the phone sparking on a plane and the emergency evacuation. Oh my, with Chase Freedom unlimited, i earn all this cash back . Oh, i gotta tell everyone. Hey rita, you can earn 3 on dining, including takeout bon appetit. 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