People climbing onto planes, flooding the tarmac. The u. S. Military has managed to secure its half of the airport and flights are taking off, both military and commercial. According to the pentagon, this is happening but the situation is still tense and very, very desperate. Chief foreign correspondent Richard Engle has the latest from kabul. Richard, what are you seeing . Reporter the Evacuation Flights are coming in frequently now. You can sense Theres Urgency about them. They land, theyre only on the ground a few minutes before they take off again. It is clear the u. S. Wants to wrap it up as quickly as possible. Kabul airport this morning is back up and running, Evacuation Flights for u. S. Embassy personnel and contractors in full swing. Flights were stopped yesterday and Tens Of Thousands of afghans stormed onto the runways desperate To Leave, clinging onto aircraft, trying not to be left behind as The Americans pull out. U. S. Troops found themselves overwhelmed, as they tried
Of people out every hour in the next 24 hours, and a maximum of 5,000 to 9,000 people each day, and the other goal clearly is to find order in what has been turmoil. This shocking photo taken on sunday has gone viral and it shows a military plane jampacked with 640 afghans fleeing their country. According to defense 1, some of those folks pulled themselves up on the Cargos Plane open ramp as it was preparing to take off. New photos from the airport showing more order, but no less urgency, and the taliban is holding a news conference. We will keep you posted on that. And an answer to a question people have asked for months, do i need a Booster Shot and when . The White House is now onboard with Booster Shots, so when will you need one . We start in afghanistan with the Crisis And Evacuation efforts. Brittany cuby, and mike memoli, and we are joined by the president of the Council On Foreign Relations and the author of the world a brief introduction. Courtney, you just got out of the Pen
closed captioning will resume shortly closed captioning it looks like a bit our work week. sam is here with his first look at weather. we made it up to 90 degrees today, above the average high of 84 degrees for this time of year. skies stayed clear today, but we are watching some clouds moving into the area tonight. overnight lows bottom out in the 60s around the valley. coming up we ll break down the wind speeds for tomorrow, plus have the latest on some warm october temperatures, that s coming up in your fox 5 weather, 7 day the run-up to tonight s night s debate was ugly. at times. the debate got even uglier. the leaked audio clip of donald trump from 20-05 took center stage. as trump tried to turn the focus to hillary clinton and her family. c-n-n s karin caifa joins us live from st louis now with more. karin quite a few insults thrown back and forth tonight. ?? did you hear anything that would change the race going forward? in the spin room - how have the campaigns r
for a second coronavirus task force briefing led by the president. like the one yesterday, this, too, will be held in the 5:00 hour. this one set to begin at 5:30, a reminder before reviving those briefings, the administration had gone nearly a week without a presidential event even focused on the virus. on capitol hill, negotiatation continue to be focused on the coronavirus, and even a deadline for the package dominated discussions between the president and republicans. it s interesting, we did learn in the last hour mitch mcconnell is thinking of a temporary extension of unemployment benefits while they negotiate everything else. on friday, a federal moratorium on evictions will expire. when and if it does, 12 million americans across the country unable to pay their rent will be at risk for homelessness. let me bring in my coanchor for the hour, katy tur. congress is not going to meet these deadlines, they re just not. i m curious of how we re going to handle this sort
1,000 covid related deaths in a single day. now president trump in his first coronavirus briefing since april is doing an about-face about where we are in this crisis. he is now admitting things will get worse before they get better, and that s not the only eyebrow raising comment he s making. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but right now california is on the verge of surpassing new york. once our country s pandemic epicenter, as the state with the most reported coronavirus cases. this deepening crisis and speaking cases there has pushed california s governor to consider rolling back its reopening efforts, and the mayor in los angeles is weighing a full shutdown. nbc s steve patterson is in los angeles for us today. steve, california s ability to at one point flatten the curve was called the california miracle. now the state is adding thousands of cases a day. what s happening there? reporter: we remember a time in which california was held up as this gleaming exa