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help folks escape and the oklahoma mother of 11 helped the group of afghan girls did just that and what our allies are really thinking despite the president s best efforts to say no one is criticizing. we begin at the pentagon where we await that briefing. reporter: 30 minutes from that briefing to get the latest on afghanistan and what the us embassy in kabul was warning when it instructed americans not to go to the airport, quote, because of potential security threats outside the gates of the couple airports we advise citizens to avoid traveling to the afforded of what airport gates at this time as you are receiving individual instructions from us government representative to do so. yesterday president biden said the evacuation is going well and americans were having a problem. no indication that they haven t gotten through the airport. we need an agreement with them, allowed them to go through so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are caring ameri ....
the latest on the situation there. today s remarks are expected to focus almost solely on evacuation efforts of americans and afghans. the remarks come as we just learned another troubling development. not a single flight has left the kabul airport in eight hours. let me repeat, no flights have left in eight hours. we know qatar said no to more plane loads of afghan. the u.s. has evacuated about 3,000 people from kabul yesterday. another 9,000 in total evacuated since kabul started to fall last weekend. keep in mind the pentagon said earlier this week it hoped to quickly ramp things up to a point where they could evacuate as many as 9,000 people per day. so we re basically doing what we hoped would be one day s worth of work in one week. complete being pressed repeatedly yesterday, officials have not been able to say how many americans are left. it s not just about getting people out of the airports, it s about getting people into the airport. the situation outside of t ....
defend the kabul airport where we re seeing frantic scenes like these on your screen. this is civilians flooding the runways, desperate for a way out. some people even chasing and clinging to the side of a u.s. military plane amid reports of gunfire there. after suspending operations for several hours, the u.s. is resuming some flights, thousands of americans still need to be evacuated, and cnn is reporting that any afghans who helped the u.s. in the past 20 years, well, they will have to wait for the moment. we ve got a team of cnn reporters covering this story, some on the ground in kabul, and all following what has unfolded today, so let s start with nick paton walsh who is live for us in kabul. nick, let s start with what s happened at the airport. what is the status of those desperate crowds we saw there? reporter: i think it s fair to say they ve probably diminished to some degree. they were telling people to move back, difficult task, though, essentially, becau ....
it s just after the top of the hour. president biden will speak to the world this hour as afghanistan falls under taliban control. we ll bring you the president s remarks, live. this is video we re about stto show you from cnn s team in kabul of american fighters outside the embassy. the embassy has been evacuated. the u.s. sending back in thousands of troops to defend the airport now in kabul as civilians have been flooding the runways desperate for a flight out. some people, even shasing and clinging to the side of a moving u.s. military plane as you can see here. we have this very disturbing video to show you. it appears to show an object, it s possibly a person, falling from the aircraft just after take off. you can hear people gasp in horror. cnn has not been able to confirm that anyone was still clinging to the aircraft when it took off. let s start with nick payton wal walsh. he is live for us in kabul. we heard from pentagon officials say their plan is to evacua ....
of the biggest transfers in football history. good morning from the dorset coast, where conservationists have come up with an innovative idea to protect a tiny yet very precious creature. the spiny sea horse. a dry and bright start this morning, rain and brisk winds in the north and west, and through the day they will travel east leaving brighter skies behind them. all the details in 25 minutes. it s wednesday august the 11th. our top story. there are calls for reforms to the a level system after this year s results saw record numbers of students given top grades. the government is considering a range of options for the future grading of results in england. labour says the coronavirus pandemic has widened the gap between private and state schools. simonjones has this report. oh, my god! a bumper yearfor top grades, with traditional exams replaced by teacher assessment. i ve got three a s. oh, my god! hard work rewarded after the most challenging of years but concerns, too, ....