outside land locked afghanistan. it never happened. now we re beginning to understand why it was such an important issue. could that have been a sign of the angst the administration had ahead of this pull-out from afghanistan and the collapse that has followed? welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. we re still keeping on top of the exodus that is now picking up some steam in kabul. that is the good news. the bad news is that we re not quite sure who is picking and choosing when gets through that perimeter, if anyone, for the time being. let s go to jennifer griffin with the very latest on what is happening. jennifer? neil, the u.s. provided weapons to the fighters in the 80s that is now the taliban. now billions of dollars of hardware in the hands of the taliban. now the clock to evacuate winds down. all eyes on an august 31 withdrawal deadline. isis and al-quaida is a planning factor. you wouldn t expect it to be otherwise. i m not going to talk about specific
there s chaos, reports say, at kabul airport at this moment as people try to flee and the world waits for the next step. hello, everyone, ask and welcome to fox news live, i m eric shawn. hi, arthel. arkansas hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. the situation is getting worse by the hour. president ashraf ghaani has fled the country, and the american flag has been lowered from the u.s. embassy. the biden administration continues to defend the withdrawal of u.s. troops. we re going to get the latest reaction from the if white house in just a minute. but first, we ll go to trey yingst live in jerusalem with more on the situation of on ground in afghanistan. on the ground in afghanistan. trey. reporter: arthel, good afternoon. we ve got a number of updates for you. according to afp, a defense official says a couple hundred american embassy staffers have been evacuated safely from afghanistan. one piece of good news. on the flipside, a lot of bad news. we know taliban has tak
indicates how quickly the story keeps changing. for example, when i was first looking at this just a few hours ago, there were some estimates here that as soon as we d see the taliban being able to take control of things, if they even got to that point it would be early next week. some today talking in terms of hours. and at this point, there s a great deal of confusion as to what our response is. the 3,000 additional troops, many more to come to back them up and still no word yet about a strategy that will still maintain all u.s. personnel being out of afghanistan in less than 2 weeks. let s get the read right now from lucas tomlinson who has been following this closely from the start. he joins us out of washington. lucas. lucas: the reports u.s. jets are hitting the taliban outside of kabul over fear it is capital with fall anyday. the first u.s. marines arrived to start evacuating americans. marine corps chc helicopter, preparing for full evacuation and closure of embassy
we have fox team coverage. alex hogan is standing by with reaction from a haitian community in new york city. fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is live, but we first go to ryan chilcote live with what we know so far about that earthquake. ryan. reporter: hi, arthel. well, haiti just a country that can t catch a break, can it? this earthquake, as you said, had a mag magnitude of 7.2. that s a big quake. it occurred about 5 miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from the capital of haiti. and at a depth of about 10,000 meters, that s 6 miles beneath the surface. that is actually a relatively hallow depth for an earthquake like this. and when you have an earthquake like this, two immediate concerns. the first, that you could have a tsunami at a depth like that. now, the u.s. did issue a tsunami warning but then lifted that, and anecdotal local reports we have is that there was some coastal flooding in at least one town, but then the water appears to have retreated,
and shallower seven.zero that devastated haiti 11 years ago it is stronger but 6 miles down. not as many predicted to be killed that there is death and devastation on an island and now fox news coverage on reaction from the haitian community and then on the tropical storms that are threatening the region but first let s go to the latest with the disaster in haiti. that struck off the haitian coast 6 miles beneath the surface we were talking about that debt very important. what you need to look out for is especially in what is relatively shallow water believe it or not at 10000 meters is the possibility of a tsunami the united states did issue a tsunami warning almost immediately but then lifted it. the reports on the ground suggest that while some coastal area was flooded it did appear to retreat so good news on that front but the second danger is that what it can do on the island itself a stranger and there things are not quite as good it was felt in the capital in fact ma