Sources tell cnn that President Ashraf gone any has fled his country, and in desperation, long lines of afghan citizens are trying to withdraw cash from atms and, if they can, trying to seek flights out of the country. As all of this unfolds, the u. S. Is sending more u. S. Troops into afghanistan, 5,000 total, to ensure that President Biden calls an orderly and safe drawdown. When the president came to office, he had a decision to make. The previous administration negotiated an agreement with the taliban that said that our forces, our remaining forces, only about 2,500, would be out of the country on may 1st. The idea that the Status Quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there i think is simply wrong. We have Team Coverage on the ground in afghanistan and across the globe to bring you all the breaking developments. Cnns nick Paton Walsh is in kabul. Describe what youre seeing as the taliban enters that capital city. Reporter well, again, after hearing the noise of helic
Takeover is permanent or semi permanent. But it is proceeding with lightning speed. And because of that, that has led multiple countries to activate contingency plans. Multiple countries that had longstanding deployments along their, are now acting on an Emergency Basis to salvage what they can and to rescue their can. Canada, great britain, germany, norway, denmark. All countries taking emergency steps right now to evacuate their citizens and personnel. To evacuate and then close or at least temporarily shut their embassies. Its not just us. Its essentially all of our allies who served alongside u. S. Troops and afghanistan over the long war. The first contingent of u. S. Marines returning to afghanistan to evacuate u. S. Embassy personnel, that first contingent of marines is already on the ground right now. There should be something of the order of 3000 u. S. Marines back in kabul before this weekend is up. Jake listen Machine And Foot foot tree commander. Hes now congressman for mas
Um, after what were watching is, i think, what can only be described as a snapTaliban Takeover of almost all of afghanistan, except the Capital Region, as yet. And we dont know if that Snap Takeover is permanent or semipermanent. But it is proceeding with lightning speed. And because of that, that has led multiple countries to activate contingency plans. Multiple countries that had longstanding deployments in the Long War there are now acting on an Emergency Basis to salvage what they can and to rescue who they can. Canada, great britain, germany, norway, denmark, all countries taking emergency steps right now to evacuate their citizens and personnel. To evacuate, and then close or at least temporarily shut their embassies. Its not just us. Its essentially all of our allies, who served alongside u. S. Troops in afghanistan over the Long War. The first contingent of u. S. Marines returning to afghanistan to evacuate u. S. Embassy personnel. That first contingent of marines is already on
From people there in Little Haiti . Reporter yeah, there is a population that immigrated here and stayed here in the United States following the 2010 earthquake. Theres a Population Gain of about 100,000 haitian immigrants here over the last ten years. We are in the Little Haiti district of miami, and i want to let you hear from regine batiste, one of the individuals that was in the heart of portauprince back in 2010 in the earthquake that took the lives of anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000. As we see this new Video Today Roll in, it is individuals like her that are now just watching from afar. What i saw left me jaw drop. I said, What In The World can happen again to haiti. Then i just found out that haiti was hit again by a mega earthquake, and it melts my heart because im a survivor from the 2010 earthquake. I know how it feels. I know how it is. Reporter now, joe, we are distinctly talking about a different part of the island thats been impacted here today from this earthquake. You
That, because it is astonishing how bad i am, i never make fun of anyone elses singing no matter what. God bless america my Home Sweet home that was the rendition of God Bless America that greeted conferencegoers at the Cyber Symposium that has been underway all week in South Dakota, hosted by the ceo of a Pillow Company named Mike Lindell. Hes been in the week this week, you might have seen, because of a very conservative trump appointed judge in d. C. Just allowed a massive multibillion Dollar Lawsuit to go forward against him and Rudy Giuliani and Trump Lawyer Sydney powell. That lawsuits was filed by Dominion Voting systems. The Voting Machine Company that has been vilified by former President Trump and his supporters with all sorts of wild conspiracies about how that company is somehow to blame for the conspiracy that led trump to appear to lose the election when secretly he won. Dominions massive lawsuit against Giuliani And Powell and mr. Lindell, this week that was allowed to g