live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me this hour. a week after the fall of kabul, u.s. president joe biden says changes are being made to help americans and their allies flee afghanistan, and a white house official tells cnn around 5,000 people were evacuated in a 12-hour period on sunday and some 20,000 others remain at kabul s airport. the u.s. is ramping up the pace of evacuations, more and more people are trying to get out. the u.s. is extending a safe zone around the airport and calling on civilian airlines to help evacuees once they are out of afghanistan. and it s not clear if the taliban will play ball. we re working diligently to make sure we have increased the ability to get them out. we changed the gate operations and a whole range of things and that s why we have been able to significantly increase the number of people to get out. reporter: will the taliban we discussed a lot with the taliban and t
afghanistan late this afternoon. actually just a few members ago, wrapping up. utah republican congressman chris stewart was in that classified hearing, he will join us momentarily. but, first, correspondent trey yingst starts us off tonight with a wrap-up live from dough doha,qatar. are good evening, today civilians do everything they can to flee the country now under taliban rule. we know there will be continuous flights out of afghanistan on military planes. here s a look at what those efforts are like. a c-17 fires flares as it departs from the airport in kabul. the purpose to counter any possible anti-aircraft missile targeting the plane with just 8 days until american troops are scheduled to withdrawal from afghanistan, evacuations are of vulnerable people are are are security threats against u.s. and its allies. outside the walls of the airport a shootout erupted early this morning, american, nato and afghan troops all firing back at gunman who killed one afghan so
the storm, most of the rain is off towards the west side of the storm where there s more population as well. tropical storm warnings in effect now, the hurricane warning has been eliminated, the storm weakened a little bit, moved over colder water. the hurricane needs 80-degree water temperature in order to sustain itself. it s off the coast and water temps are in the lower 70s and upper 60s, so rapid weakening of the storm. we re talking about a slow process for the next 24 hours. not very common in the northeast to have a slow-moving storm. this will be moving slow so there is a bigger flood threat. we ll see a lot of heavy rain. the ground is pretty t saturated, the interior sections, because of the remnants of tropical storm fred, because of the rain and the wind, it s going to probably knock over of trees and branches, that will cause power outages. you get the idea, areas of eastern pennsylvania, up across parts of vermont and new hampshire in some sort of flood warning
what s that one guy doing with the leg cellular machines. using his arms. is that contra? what you are watching here is a colossal embarrassment. a rout over which we can and should continue to kick the biden administration over woke military leadership in their gender fluid groin. but we also have to move on and ask questions that are important to america s future. wait. just one more necessary gut punch of incompetence before we move on. one more bit of incompetence to indulge. did you know that state departments sent a note to the more than 5,000 americans currently stranded in afghanistan and desperate to leave that reads as follows: and undefined number of u.s. government provided will begin soon please make yourself to harmid karzai airport. the united states government cannot guarantee your safety as you make this trip. basically the message is leave at your own risk. there you go. the biden strategy all summed up perfectly in a net shell. we can dwell on all the thing
question today is how exactly do you get out? just because something is necessary doesn t mean you get to ignore the details of it. an emergency appendectomy, would it matter to you who performed the operation? yes, it would matter to you. but it didn t matter to joe biden, he barely mention the withdrawal today, bite into the necessary thing in the ugliest possible way. you ve been watching television, you ve probably seen this footage that terrified men and sandals clinging to the sides of a c17 as it attempts to leave afghanistan. this is the iconic photo of the moment. the final scene of the american occupation of afghanistan. that means after 20 years and trillions of dollars, readers couldn t manage to pull off an orderly retreat. they couldn t even secure a single runway. and that s the main lesson of the fall, we are led by buffoons. we know that now, they are imposters. everything they touch turns to chaos not just they are but here. these are people who run the amtr