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despite the country seeing its highest case count of the pandemic. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. appreciate your company. i m michael holmes, and this is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden vowing to bring every american home from afghanistan if they want to leave. one problem, though. nobody knows how many u.s. citizens are in the country or their situation. the u.s. state department says it is actively trying to track down as many as possible. on friday, the pentagon confirming it had evacuated 169 americans by helicopter from a hotel near the airport after large crowds blocked the group s access. it s the first-known rescue operation of americans outside the airport perimeter. meanwhile, the taliban showing off the spoils of war. they published photographs showing their fighters armed with u.s. weapons seized from the afghan national army. now, after reporting from inside afghanistan since the beginning o ....
airport, the president said this. no the best of our knowledge, the taliban check points are letting through people showing american passports. now, that s a different question when they get into the rush and crowd of all the folks just outside the wall near the airport. that s why we had, yesterday or the day before, we went over the wall and brought in, how many? 169 americans. sgr right now at kabul s airport, we re told some flights have resumed after no planes took off for ten hours. thousands of people there still stranded. soldiers on the runway told cnn that 10,000 people had their paper work processed and ready to go but they were stuck in the blistering sun after the country they were being evacuated to said they reached capacity and k could handle no more. the united arab emirates will host 5,000 afghans on a temporary basis after a request from the united states government. they are scrambling to enlist over nations to accept evacuees. we are waiting for t ....
good evening. a lot happening tonight including a look ahead at president biden s planned announcement tomorrow on covid booster shots for most vaccinated americans. we begin, though, with afghanistan. we learned late today the president spoke with british prime minister boris johnson about the situation there including the safe evacuation of westerners and afghan nationals. to that end another 1,000 troops have landed in kabul since we left you last night with another 2,000 or so on the way. according to the white house 700 to 800 americans, afghans and other foreign nationals managed to leave the country today. that said, the goal is more like 5,000 today. however, just getting to the airport may be difficult or impossible for many. these next photos explain why, but we have to warn you first they re very tough to see. if you have children in the room you might want to have them turn away now. these photos were taken by a los los angeles times photographer and forei ....
health officials expect that a booster will also be needed for the one shot johnson & johnson vaccine. this is a major expansion, and it comes just a week after boosters were first recommended for people with weakened immune systems. an official announcement on the expansion could come this week, and it comes as the delta variant spreads new cases across the country leading to a crush of patients in hospitals, primarily among the unvaccinated. cnn s jeff zeleny is live at the white house this morning where this news emanated from, jeff. what s going on? reporter: john, good morning. the biden administration is coalescing around the argument and the idea that most americans will need booster shots. this is not going to come anytime soon in the coming days, so don t rush to your local pharmacy to get one, but they are reaching the idea that they believe that eight months after you received that first shot, most americans should receive a booster shot. once it is fully ....
gupta. good morning to you. that there is going to be a lot of people, myself included, fully vaccinated and questioning why do we need a third booster shot. you could explain it to everyone? well i think you re asking a very fair question. especially given that just a couple of weeks ago the message seemed to be you re not going to need booster shots this will probably just be for people with weakened immune systems that couldn t generate the proper immune response initially. it is a very fair question. and i will preface this by saying the mass majority of severe disease is still occurring among half of the country that is not vaccinated. so people that are vaccinated, they have really good protection. let me show you what is driving this data that we re seeing here. this was basically looking at vaccine effectiveness against any kind of infection. breakthrough infections and just getting surveillance screening, they did see waning of the vic effectiveness overall. ....