now is evacuating american citizens, evacuating afghans who worked with us, and afghans who are at risk with the priority around women and children. and we have made significant progress in that regard. the race to evacuate both dangerous and urgent. these are live pictures from kabul near the airport where the american embassy advised u.s. citizens near three of the gates to leave immediately because of security threats. a defense official telling cnn the concerns are based on, quote, a very specific threat stream from isis-k about attacks against crowds gathered outside that airport. nick paton walsh is covering the story for us and he is live in doha. nick, 36 hours left. what more can you tell us about what appear appears to be the f stage of the evacuations. reporter: urgency for days but now clear according to a source familiar with the situation that this ends in 36 hours, friday essentially. and that will of course spark some elements of panic amongst those tryi
the jury is still out, but the likelihood that there will be a talibanover running everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. yeah, that was july 8, a sound bite that has come back to haunt this president. about you now in an enter slew with abc news, he is changing his tune.slew with abc news, he is changing his tune. you don t think this exit could have been handled in a better way, no mistakes? no, i don t think that it could have been handled in a way that we ll go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there was a way too have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that hap happens. with a major self inflicted blow on foreign policy, the president who has billed himself as the foreign policy expert now left with a credibility gap rattling u.s. allies with cold comfort for what the future holds. get more now from jeff zeleny at the white house. reporter: christine and laura, president biden defy nt and defensive wi
three hours. afterwards the two presidents held separate news conferences but hit some of the same tones and themes, mutual respect and optimism tempered by realism. i did what i came to do. the bottom line is i told president putin we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. i made it clear to him that i believe. consequences of that would be devastating for russia. i don t think he s looking for a cold war with the united states. president putin seemed to be looking for the right category for mr. biden, among the four u.s. presidents he has met with during his 20 years leading russia. translator: he is very balanced, professional man, it s obviously clear that he is very experienced and it seems to me that we did speak the same lan language. certainly doesn t imply that we must look into each other s eyes and find a soul or swear eternal friendship. our chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is live in geneva. good morning. you v
america s other epidemic shows no signs of slowing. this time a mass shooting at a rail yard in san jose, cam. there have been 17 mass shootings in the last week. 17 in the last week. deaths from gun violence in the u.s. up 23% so far this year. it s another case where the victims were front-line workers. last month it was a fedex facility in indianapolis, before that a supermarket in boulder, colorado. and now it s rail workers helping other essential workers get to work during this pandemic. these are the folks who are showing up every day throughout the pandemic to ensure that transit would operate every day to support members of our community to depended on transit for their livelihoods or for their lives and, you know, these are essential workers and they took risks to themselves, showing up every day for work, and now their friends and their family members are mourning their loss. the mayor says the gunman was a co-worker and the victims due them well. this is h
if you are vaccinated, you are safe, no masks, no social distancing. cvs and target joining the growing list of companies that no longer require vaccinated customers to wear face masks but others are keeping mask mandates in place including the new york yankees. massachusetts plans to lift all restrictions on businesses and rescind its mask mandate on may 28, the same day fenway park returns to full capacity. michigan s governor has lifted mask requirements for fully vaccinated residents. not everyone is on board yet. in california the mask mandate stays in place until the state fully reopens next month. chicago mayor lori lightfoot is advising residents keep wearing the masks despite the latest cdc guidance. here is new jersey s democratic governor phil murphy. i don t know how we can expect workers to be able to tell who is vaccinated from who isn t, and it is unfair to put the burden on business owners and front line employees to police every patron. of course, d