they claim they have taken the last afghan province with troops actively fighting against their rule. resistance leaders deny cedeing any new ground. joining us now is raf sanchez, molly hunter in pakistan, ken delainian. and while thousands of afghans wait in doha and the ramstein air base to find out where their new homes will be there are millions, even a few hundred americans left, trying to navigate life around this new taliban rule. a senior state official telling our colleagues that four americans made it out of afghanistan today by land. those americans are in good condition and they are on their way out now. the state department is being very circumspect in terms of what they say about the land roots the americans are taking out of afghanistan and that is because those routes are complicated and dangerous. in the north of the country there is a number of flights ready to go, ready to leave. some of them preparing to carry out groups of teenage afghan girls. and in
ten days. overall the national picture is bleak. the wall street journal reports that, quote, since the school year kicked off in late july, at least 1,000 schools across 31 states have closed because of covid-19. a data service is monitoring school closures at 1,200 districts nationwide, and that includes the 200 largest districts. altogether these headlines paint an uncertain future for america s students. the majority of whom are still not eligible to get vaccinated against a virus that shows few signs of slowing down. so the question now is, how much worse could the fourth wave get and will we look back on this moment and regret sending our kids back to school? nbc s we have a pediatrician and an msnbc public health analyst, and president of the american federation of teachers. what a great panel. thanks to all of you for being here. guad, according to the american association of pediatrics, one in five new coronavirus cases in the last week of august were in children.
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