Launched in october of 2001. This was just a few hours ago at the president ial palace in kabul. The taliban militants sitting at the desk of the president , the former president , we should say. A clear sign the war for afghanistan is essentially over. Meantime, President Biden is sending an additional 1,000 troops to protect the airport. One of the last places in afghanistan that is not under ban control. Take a look right here. This is scene at the airport tonight. A mad scramble to get out of kabul before it is too late. But no one can say if there are days or just hours before the last plane departs, leaving afghan people to an unknown fate. Events are moving with lightning speed tonight. Time evacuate americans from afghanistan is running out and the pentagon is already making some tough choices. Im joined now by orrin lieberman. On sunday they said there were 500 staff evacuated but a number to go. The total number that need to be evacuated from the embassy is 4,000. At some poi
hello welcome to another episode my name is dr. calling joe, a senior vice president at the white house historical association and the director for white house history. the white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about the rich and diverse history of the white house, and the people who lived and worked their. our guest this evening is michael, a retired admiral from the navy s civil engineer court. he served in a variety of assignments around the world in his 29 year military career, including as commander of camp david. after military retirement in 2010, mike has worked in private industry and is now the chief executive officer of a building information systems technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. in october of 2017, he published out his first book, inside camp david, the private world of president retreat. mike travels often talking about the book and has bee
experts debating if all ebola patients should be sent to one of four specialty hospital since dallas is not one of them. that is something that should be seriously considered. personally, i think that is not a bad idea at all. on thatever we do issue, it is important that every hospital be prepared to diagnose someone with ebola. cdc detectives are looking at became infected because they want to know if it was while she was taking off her protective suit. a lot of possibilities there. patients arela health care workers who were trying to help. there is a dispute over whether to send the ashes from incinerated items belonging to ebola patient thomas duncan. a louisiana waste acceptl plant will not the ashes until state officials agree will not pose a hazard. died last week after becoming the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states. the stepss released health care worker should take if they suspect a patient has the ebola virus. the hospital should check fo
$130 million, that was promised to rebuild it and in afghanistan - how men and women turned to dance to defy the regime he is 32 years old, lives in queens new york and may hold the answer to why the amtrak train he was operating derailed on tuesday in philadelphia. the engineer says he can t remember what happened that night. others, of course, will never forget. lisa stark is in washington with the latest. we heard from the n.t.s.b. and they said they have new information on the train and what happened in the minute before the derailment. it turns out that minute the train was actually speeding up, accelerating as it was approaching the curve, instead of lowering its speed to the 50 miles per hour for that curve. the question is why. investigators hope to find answers to that when they interview the engineer. meantime amtrak insists that new safety measure for this part of the rail are on track. shortly after the last body was pulled from the mangled first car of th