in for erin burnett. diplomats warned in july they believed the country could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe after u.s. troops pull out at the end of august. and tonight, there is chaos and dysfunction in afghanistan, as the u.s. struggles to get tens of thousands of people out of the country. officials today saying over the past five days, just 7,000 people have been flown to safety. these are some we are showing you of the lucky ones. the afghans able to board a flight. but they represent just a fraction of the tens of thousands whose lives are now in limbo. and as it stands tonight, we still don t know how many americans have left afghanistan, and how many remain. this is the u.s., this is afghan. i do not have a breakdown. i suspect over time, as our manifesting process gets more refined, we may be able to be there. but we don t have that specific breakdown. how many american citizens remain in afghanistan? i don t know. well, the 7,000 figure
hi there. i m stephanie ruehl. it s wednesday, august 18th and we start this morning with a frantic round the clock push to get as many people out of afghanistan as fast as possible. this is video just in from dull less international airport, outside washington, d.c., and these are our first pictures of u.s. and afghan evacuees arriving safely in this country and there are plenty more on the way. we saw proof of that earlier this week, when more than 600 people packed on to a c17 military transport plane. so for more than 5,000 americans, families and afghan refugees have been evacuated or relocated. our new reporting finds as many as 15,000 americans are still in afghanistan as we speak and it s not clear how we re going to get them all out. on tuesday, the administration told senate staffers they do not have a plan to evacuate u.s. citizens outside kabul, because of taliban checkpoints. the taliban has said they would give safe passage to americans and afghans that want to
and in just a few minutes, the state lawmakers are set to discuss impeaching the governor. while behind closed doors, two top former justice department officials are answering lawmakers questions over the weekend about just how far former president trump went to overturn the election results. and those in the justice department that actively helped him. we re going to hear from grammy award-winning musician who is making major headlines after requiring vaccines at his concerts in austin, texas. a city with just six icu beds left open. the praise and the backlash he s now getting. we ve got to start, of course, this morning with covid. the good news right now is that half the country has officially been fully vaccinated. but at the very same time, the number of average cases are topping 100,000 a day for the first time since last february. the rate of hospitalizations and deaths nationwide have both jumped more than 90% over the last two weeks. of course, the biggest problem
super bowl win over the chiefs, claiming his seventh championship ring. fox & friends first starts right now. i want it, i got it. i want it, i got it. i want it, i got it. todd: i m not going to lie, i have no idea what the name of the song was. it s called seven rings. jillian: it is called seven rings. that s hilarious. todd: that s how many brady has. there is nobody that is at appropriate a tj as katie. jillian: you chose the chiefs. i didn t choose the bucs. and i said 31-27, so i got two-thirds of the equation right. todd: when we walked in, i didn t get the sense you would mock me on air. now she s like you were horrible. jillian: as a result, i think todd should treat for breakfast, right? todd: todd is barely here. i m sure the rest of you are weary eyed. if you re up, you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m todd piro. jillian: i m jillian mele. kids could get back to school in chicago and san francisco as the cities announce prelim
about testing as well. the fact that there s such a demand to test with these cases rising, and the administration is just now getting a plan underway to get tests in the hands of americans. and also, jose, you can expect fireworks between dr. fauci and senator rand paul. it happens every single hearing. and i expect it to happen again today. and dr. bhadelia, what are you looking to hear today from these federal health experts? yeah, jose. three specific things. one is, how do you manage this surge? i mean, this is a crisis. this is nowhere near what being endemic with a disease looks like. so in this crisis phase of omicron, how do we extend our resources, right? how do we sort of survive? and i know the administration has worked now on getting this rapid test ramped up. i think there s talk of sending good-quality masks to homes and tests to homes, rather, as well as greater investment in monoclonal antibodies, that works against omicron, but the other things that i wo