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21 people including 7 month old twins swept away by catastrophic flash floods in tennessee. i ll talk to a mother who along with her 4 month old barely made it out of her flooded home alive. let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. we have breaking news. president biden being urged by several advisors against keeping troops in afghanistan past the august 31st deadline. the reason, the deteriorating security situation on the ground. meanwhile, the pentagon needs the president to decide by tomorrow whether to extend the deadline in order to honor his promise of evacuating all americans and afghan allies. also at this hour, top intel officials just wrapped up a briefing for the house intelligence committee on afghanistan and this briefing coming as warnings grow louder and louder over the terror threat from afghanistan. jake sullivan today addressed a possible isis attack on the kabul airport after calling the threat real, acute ....
to freedom is fast closing. jake, one of the striking things about all of this is the fact that the americans are having to use what they re calling alternative routes. these remain secret military secrets, but we have seen a large amount of helicopter activity, and without giving the game away, you can imagine what the other kind of routes are being used and the sorts of people that are going out and picking people up, trying to get around this log jam outside the airport. jake? sam, we know afghans who applied for the special immigrant visas, the sivs, to the u.s. were told to stay away from kabul s airport because the u.s. is prioritizing evacuations for american citizens and legal permanent residents. do we know how long that might be the policy for sivs to stay away? no, we don t know, jake. what we do know is that the process inside the airport is now much better than several days ago. there are very, very frequent takeoffs. that means they can be processed mo ....
afghanistan, but one woman telling clarissa ward she fears for her life. reporter: until last week she was working for the u.n. that s not her real name, and we ask she not show her face. she s petrified the taliban will link her to u.s. organizations and says she hasn t gone outside since they arrived in kabul. you look very frightened. exactly. it is not easy for a person to vote a lot with international organization having more than ten years experience of working with international, and now no one of them helped me. just sending emails to different organizations that i work with you, but now no response. reporter: are you angry? no, i am not angry, but as a person who worked with them, you no i need their supports. it is not fair. reporter: you look very emotional as well. yeah, because i m thinking about my future, my daughters. what will happen to them? if they kill me, two daughters will be without mother. joining me now, cnn correspondent john hard ....
because of the drawdown, in order to draw down by the end o august in we were nothing, but honest about the speed with which we had to do that because speed is safety. we wanted to make sure we did this quickly ended drawdown means a drawdown it s not just about boots on the ground it s about capabilities in resources in the region as we wrapped up our combat missions in afghanistan which meant we had fewer airplanes, fewer strike capabilities in the region as w continue to draw down. again, we were transparent abou the fact that we would conduct air strikes in support of the afghans where in when feasible cognizant of the fact that it wouldn t be feasible on every day in in every place. but, the afghan air force is indigenous in they are in a country. and they did maintain their presence. there were days where they flew easily twice as many strikes as we did they were able to often get on scene quicker because they were already there and because they had connections to ....
the press secretary said but he probably thinks about situation. [indiscernible] afghanistan is unraveling. the taliban has taken over. tray by the hour. the pentagon said that the grou is trying to isolate the capita of kabul. the city could fall as soon as tomorrow. this is the opposite of what th president said in july. there s going to be no circumstance you ll see people getting lifted off the roof of embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all common. the likelihood is there s going to be the taliban and overrunning everything and owning the home country. jessica, is this the proper time to go on vacation? there s so many crisis is. this is the right? i little research and advantage so i would come prepared before we went into it. this is something a problem tha happened to every president. president biden played golf 25 times. or unemployment soared. with the afghanistan situation of all of the things that he lift off at their is most de ....