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nearly 6,000 u.s. troops on the ground helping in the evacuation. the president saying i cannot promise what the final outcome will be or that it will be without risk of loss. the president saying he had no indication americans haven t been able to get through to the airport. then what the defense secretary said today in a briefing with lawmakers. and what the pentagon acknowledged today. ian pannell tonight live from kabul. martha raddatz live in washington. and stephanie ramos with late word from the white house tonight. also this evening, that tropical storm set to become a hurricane in the coming hours. tonight the warnings and watches up right now in the northeast. alerts in six state as we come on the air tonight. henri gaining strength as it moves up to coast. winds topping 75 miles per hour. new jersey, new york, massachusetts tonight, connecticut already declaring a state of emergency. rob marciano standing by with the new track now shifting inward. news on ....
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fall-out from president biden s denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. cnn now learning that u.s. diplomats wrote an internal memo last night warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. this hour i will get reaction from the president, the deputy national security adviser. he s standing by live. our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. we begin with cnn national security respondent over at the state department for us. this is major. what are you learning about this memo? reporter: wolf, what we re learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified dissent memo to the saek tear of state tony blinken in july. they were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive evacuation effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different visas and refugee status in the united states out of the country. the context in which they were making this suggestion is the ....
seen in public other than their closest allies since the war began 20 years ago. many in the capital or the country including the taliban s founder who had flown into couple in the last 24 hours as the taliban seeks to shift to this new role of governing the country after two decades of fighting in the shadows. very disturbing reports of heavy-handed treatment being dealt by the new government including reports that people who are trying to make their way to the airport to flee are being beaten back despite the taliban s pledge of free and safe passage to anyone who wants to leave. the taliban and shot and killed a woman for going out in public without a burqa, another action not consistent with their pledge to respect women s rights. growing concern about weapons the united states left behind gave the afghan army, falling into the arms of the taliban yesterday national security adviser jake sullivan painted a disturbing picture. we don t have a complete picture of wh ....
i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on a very busy saturday evening. additional u.s. troops heading to afghanistan this weekend, at the same time taliban militants there appear on track to retake the entire country. president biden is sending 5,000 more forces to afghanistan. he says the added troops are to ensure, quote, an orderly and safe drawdown as they help americans get out. but millions of afghans are desperate to escape the escalation of violence in their country. as the taliban take over more ground at a speed that has jolted officials in the biden administration, five more capital cities fell to the taliban in the last 24 hours. now 22 of the country s 34 provincial capitals are under taliban control. only two major cities, kabul and jalalabad, remain under the afghan government. take a look. this time-lapse shows the speed the taliban gained territory. see the red spread starting in mid-april after the president announced the u.s. ....