but don t forget, you know, most of the taliban fighters are iliterate. it s just mayhem here. some people get lucky. i heard from one u.s. translator for the u.s. army who showed me a picture of him in the airport who managed to get in this morning. he s one of the lucky ones. i ve heard plenty of other reports of people getting this close and then getting beaten with a truncheon or a whip. there is no certain way, there is no path to follow. there is no safe passage. and the situation is becoming more desperate with every day. the reports of the drastic measures that afghan people are willing to go to become more and more disturbing every day. and also, john, the very real possibility of some dramatic escalation or conflagration becomes more realistic every day.
and when kenya smith left the navy after 14 years, show thought that two she thought that two masters degrees and military experience would help her get a job. two years later she s still looking. and a special welcome to the service men and women watching on the armed forces network. thanks for joining us. we re glad you re with us. and we begin with a major storm battering the northeast. right now around two million people are without power. four states have declared emergencies. new york, new jersey, connecticut, and massachusetts. want to take a live look now at new york city, columbus circle. a very dark columbus circle. new york, by the way, did not get the worst of it. here s what it looks like in massachusetts. officials predicted that downed trees were going to be a major problem. and take a look at that they were right. the storm is being blamed for three deaths so far, one of them in massachusetts. a man in pennsylvania was killed when a snow-covered tree f