the latest on the situation there. today s remarks are expected to focus almost solely on evacuation efforts of americans and afghans. the remarks come as we just learned another troubling development. not a single flight has left the kabul airport in eight hours. let me repeat, no flights have left in eight hours. we know qatar said no to more plane loads of afghan. the u.s. has evacuated about 3,000 people from kabul yesterday. another 9,000 in total evacuated since kabul started to fall last weekend. keep in mind the pentagon said earlier this week it hoped to quickly ramp things up to a point where they could evacuate as many as 9,000 people per day. so we re basically doing what we hoped would be one day s worth of work in one week. complete being pressed repeatedly yesterday, officials have not been able to say how many americans are left. it s not just about getting people out of the airports, it s about getting people into the airport. the situation outside of the kab
and a scramble to find survivors after the earthquake in haiti. a live report ahead. we do begin with breaking news on two big stories, the pandemic and the response to the crisis in afghanistan. let s start with coronavirus. top health officials in the biden administration are expected to recommend that most americans get a coronavirus booster shot eight months after being fully vaccinated. for those who got the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine experts are still gathering data but it is expected that you will also need a booster. an official announcement could come this week and boosters could be started next month. health care and elderly are first in line. this is coming as new cases and hospitalizations and deaths are surging in the united states because of the delta variant. especially among the unvaccinated. let s get to this news and get some context around it. joining me now cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. how should people be thinking about these bo
reminiscent of the retreat from saigon with would be refugees hanging to helicopter skids. and woke up this morning and realized it was much, much worse. as we saw images of the bodies of would be refugees falling from the wheel well of c-17s leaving kabul airport. let s just take a moment and realize that over the past year, we have talked about and debated how oppressive this great country is while we watched people literally cling to the opportunity to be american. but from president joe biden, silence. silence until today. in one breath in a speech before the nation, biden told us that he planned for every contingency and then in the next breath, he explained why he quickly and suddenly sending thousands of marines to secure the airport. we were clear-eyed about the risk. we planned for every contingency authorize and i did 6,000 u.s. troops to dally no afghanistan. for the purpose of assisting in the departure of u.s. and allied personnel from afghanistan and to evacua
very good and busy monday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. and i m poppy harlow. a tragic scene erupting at kabul s airport. look at this. those are people scrambling to leave their country as the afghan government collapses and the taliban take control. incredibly disturbing videos being posted all over social media this morning. afghans swarming the runway, trying to chase down u.s. air force pla planes, some clinging to the sides as they taxi down a runway. witnesses tell cnn they ve heard gunshots fired. it s hard to see how that s, at all, a safe situation. the u.s. embassy has been ev eva evacuated. officials are warning americas who are still in the capital not to travel to the airport. the u.s. has dispatched an additional 1,000 combat troops for a total of 6,000 to secure the perimeter at the airport and help get american diplomatic personnel and others out safely. about twice as many who were there for the counterterror mission. president biden has been monitori
saddened and angry as i many. a bleak message. 90 million people still unvaccinated who have virus. if you transparent about the nursing home scandal. i have a lot of priorities but i will absolutely make sure that my administration fully cooperates with requests for data. good morning, everybody. we re going to start fox & friends with a fox news alert. overnight, at least five people have reportedly been killed during the chaos at the kabul airport as thousands try to get out of afghanistan before they are killed. ainsley: yeah. in the meantime the white house is under fire for going silent. everyone is on vacation amid this collapse. brian: right. but they gave us a couple of still photos that should be enough. ryan joins us live from overseas with the latest. ryan? yeah, chaotic scenes at that the international airport in kabul as people scramble to try get out of afghanistan. keep in mind, thousands of people want to get out of kabul, not just u.s. pers