Dana can the u. S. Take the taliban at its word . Peter doocy pressing the White House about this issue. It went like this. Following up on the Charter Flights the taliban is holding up in afghanistan, the Secretary Of State said there are limits to what we can do without personnel on the ground. You said were not on the ground. Whose fault is that . I dont think this is about fault here. Bill it went like that. Team Fox Coverage begins. Mark meredith with the latest from the White House this morning. Trey yengst back live on these evacuations out of kabul. Trey is in doha, qatar again today. Good morning. Positive news to report today. Around 200 foreigners are expected to Debart Kabul on a flight today. Some american citizens given permission to leave afghanistan. They will depart to doha on a qatar airways plane. Kabul airport could be operational for commercial flights within three days amid intense negotiations behind the scenes between the taliban, qatar and turkey. The major iss
Depends upon the taliban continuing to let us sxrat No Disruptions to our operations. The longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a Terrorist Group known as Isis K, we know that Isis K is seeking to target the Airport And Attack both u. S. And allied forces and innocent civilians. Those remarks came nearly five hours after the original scheduled Air Time which was noon today. The president add, hes asked the State Department and the pentagon to draw up Contingency Plans as they do in case there was a Need Address the timetable here. Biden said he gave our European Allies and the g7 the very same message. Le wanted the president to extend the mission past 31 august. They have asked to step up evacuations. Today just today about 12,000 people were flown out. Since the 14th of august, over 70,000 have been evacuated. There is still some question about the number of americans still in the country. Biden has asked Secretary Of State Antony Blinken to have an
Disruptions to our operations. The longer we stay, starting with the growing risk of an attack by a Terrorist Group known as isisk a, we know that Isis Case seeking to target the airport. And attack both u. S. And allied forces, and innocent civilians. Those remarks came nearly five hours after the original scheduled air time, which was noon today, the president added he is asked the State Department and the pentagon to draw up contingency plans, as they do, in case there was a need to adjust the timetable here. Biden says he gave our European Allies and the g7 the very same message, many had wanted the president to extend the mission passed 31 august, the u. S. Has stepped up the pace of evacuations, out of the kabul airport, just today about 12,000 people were flown out. Since the 14th Of August Over 70,000 have been evacuated, there are still some questions about the number of americans still in the country, biden has asked the Secretary Of State to have an exact number for him by t
this storm heading straight for rhode island, parts of the eyewall already on shore and we re seeing the storm move to shore as we speak. more than 1500 people under tropical weather alerts right now concerned about storm surge in the harbors and the bays of rhode island, new york and massachusetts. concerns about flooding in the coming hours and widespread power outages because we re talking about a part of the united states not used to seeing tropical weather barrelling into shore. storm surge as well. we re going live in a moment to derek van dam who is in newport, rhode island who can give us a sense of what s happening on the coast. but first let s go to allison chinchar for the latest on the track. allison, any updates from the national hurricane center? we ve got several, in fact. we re learning it is moving very, very close to shore. landfall is expected imminently here. what we re also seeing is that little bit of downpush in wind. the winds are at 60 miles an hour
Town in the south where the state has the lowest Vaccination Rate in the country, but this small town is a remarkable Success Story thanks to one retired woman there who took it on herself to get the towns vaccinated. Its really an amazing sort, were gonna do that later in the hour. That is exactly the kind of story i need on a day like this, and on a night like this, im going to sit here and watch it. Thank you for finding that story, and thank you for telling me that is ahead. That is what i need. Thats whats coming up. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you. Well, what could become one of americas enduring lies to itself about afghanistan is being given birth on live tv these days. Last night on this network, and unnamed American Military source in afghanistan was quoted as saying that what we are seeing now in The American evacuation of afghanistans worse, much worse than what we saw in 1975, and The American evacuation from vietnam after we lost the war there. The probl