Dont have one. Your child will wait for another child to die. A message like that coming at the same time as the republican governors in texas, florida and other states try to force schools not to mandate masks for their students. Well have more on that ahead. We start with that Breaking News in the caribbean where officials say at least 29 people have died in haiti after a magnitude 7. 2 earthquake. New video shows homes and churches reduced to rubble. It happened in the Western Peninsula just before 8 30 eastern this morning. Multiple aftershocks have also rocked the region. The quake, which was felt in the capital of portauprince some 100 miles to the east, triggered a Tsunami Threat in the caribbean that was eventually called off. Joining us is nbcs ed ogostin. Ed, i want to start with you. What reporting are you getting right now from Inside Haiti as the government and global organizations begin to search for those missing or impacted . Reporter well, the 2010 earthquake was massi
Our coverage. good afternoon, i m joe fryer in for yas man vossoughian. today three majors stories we are following. massive earthquake hits haiti, which never fully recovered from a quake a decade ago. the united states scrambles to get our personnel and allies out of harm s way in a race against time in afghanistan. we are following new developments in the dangerous ride in covid cases across the country. hospitals are overwhelmed in the hardest hit states leading to a chilling warning from texas. if your child has a heart, congenital heart defect or something, needs an icu bed, more than likely if they have covid and need an icu bed, we
Global scramble, so to say, the u.s. sending in some 3,000 troops to try to secure the safe departure of embassy personnel. we are seeing great britain doing the same. we are seeing countries like germany, norway, switzerland, canada, all closing their embassies or at least significantly reducing the amount of people inside as the taliban threatens that capital city. thousands of people are now fleeing to kabul, which relatively speaking is the safest place to be. today we re hearing from the president of afghanistan who says that he is trying to secure trying to prevent, rather, future blood shed and saying that he is remobilizing afghan forces to try to secure kabul, but this is a vastly evolving situation that is really changing by the hour. but at this point, joe, afghanistan is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. the taliban s movement seems to be happening faster than anyone anticipated, pauline.
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The hour. president biden is holding meetings with his security team in an effort to help those still in the country. let s get caught up on the rapidly changing scene in afghanistan. we have meagan fitzgerald in london. meagan, i want to start with you. we know the taliban is getting closer to taking control of the capital city of kabul. what is the latest there? reporter: you know, i can tell you it is a really significant development that the taliban has seized control of mazir-i-sharif. it is the fourth largest city in the country, a commercial hub and it is the last northern stronghold to fall to the taliban as they inch closer to the capital city of kabul. now, just to show you how quickly the taliban is progressing here, just yesterday they took control of the second and third largest cities. right now at this hour they are in control of more than two-thirds of the entire country. this is why we are seeing a