It is great to be with you. Im geoff bennett, and we are following multiple breaking stories as we come on the air. At any Moment Pentagon officials are to speak after we woke up to a surprise, all of the u. S. Troops have left bagram, the last active Military Base to be used in afghanistan, and few hundred troops in kabul, and we will bring you the headlines of the Pentagon Briefing as we get them. Meantime, incredible heartache of the scene where i was standing 24 hours ago. Overnight, the officials say that searchers in surfside, florida, made a heart wrenching discovery. Last night we did discover two additional victims. Tragically, one of the victims was the 7yearold daughter of a city of Miami Firefighter. And it goes without saying that every night since this last wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody, and in particular the families that have been impacted, but Last Night was uniquely different, it was truly different and more difficult for our first responders. S
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Florida. meanwhile, we are monitoring the pentagon briefing which is coming after the u.s. military quietly left the largest base in afghanistan last night, and the withdrawal from the bagram military base is going to leave the military operations, and it is coming weeks before the withdrawal deadline set by president biden and a deadline that president biden defended earlier today. look, we were in that war for 20 years. 20 years. and i think that i met with the afghan government here in the white house in the oval, and they have the capacity to sustain the government. our pentagon correspondent richard engel has the latest. reporter: with the troops clearing out of bagram without celebrations or fanfare, and the u.s. is shutting down the longest war extremely quietly and not announcing how or when the troops are leaving for their
Afghan president. take a look at those two pictures over there. on one picture there was a clock that was removed by the afghan they didn t want to show the people of afghanistan that the meeting didn t take place at kabul. it took place at bagram military base. what does that say that they have to meet at a bomb shelter rather than at the afghan president s offices in the capital? it certainly speaks to a much more tense security situation in kabul. no doubt about it. we know the taliban is continuing to gain ground and to cause attacks there in kabul. it certainly speaks to a more dangerous security situation and it s embarrassing from a pr perspective because you have the u.s. state department picture being accurately depicted and president ghani and the presidential office sort of
but it s been a very violent day. much more violent, much more furious than the protests yesterday. we have a final death toll we believe of six dead and 30 wounded. perhaps six different protests across the country. so it seems to have escalated significantly today. and president karzai actually put out a statement, right? what did he say? reporter: yeah, he put out a statement this afternoon. a lot of people are waiting to see what he ll say. he said he condemned the burning and he ordered an investigation into what had happened and he appointed committee of senior clerics to find out what was going on. i think the key thing was that he condemned the burning. that s actually our ben farmer in kabul there. we apologize. it s not always easy to link up technically, but we will stay with ben on this story. ben, i apologize. we lost your audio. an american woman who reported on the violence in syria has now become a victim of it. marie colvin worked for the sunday times o