People from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when it began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. There is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. It s just a fact. New polling from nbc news today finds that only one in four americans approve of the president s handling of the afghanistan crisis. With three in five americans of the mind that our nation s longest war was ultimately not worth it. And political insiders are questioning just how much of a hit the president has taken on capitol hill over afghanistan, even as as even some democratic allies have condemned his response at a time when his party needs all his capital to move forward on voter protections. As the civil rights community prepares this week for the national voting rights march that martin luther king iii and i as president of national action network will lead to capitol hill this comin
Sources, victims were either new overnight the white house tells cnn that 1800 people were flown out of kabul, the airport the last 24 hours on military transports. That s almost twice the number from the day before, but it s nowhere close to where they need to be or where the president himself suggested the u. S. Should be. There are at least 10,000 americans still in afghanistan and tens of thousands who worked with the u. S. The u. S. Embassy in kabul warns it cannot ensure safe passage to the airport. And in a new interview, president biden says u. S. Troops will remain in afghanistan until all americans are out, even if that means staying beyond the august 31st deadline for withdrawal. However, he did not make the same commitment to afghan allies to afghans who helped americans in the war. These scenes of desperation and chaos are unfolding across afghanistan. The taliban imposing a curfew over the entire eastern city of khost today after protests broke out there. Violent clashes
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin in helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that one single town
Afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. And, of course, for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war against the taliban in afghanistan. A lot of our allies joined in the war effort too. For years, for example, the british army had been engaged here in the town of sangin, sangin in the helmand province. And that area helmand province prominently but that area and sangin was a key center for the opium trade. It was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. So on the earlier side of the war, the first decade of the war, the british were deployed there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there, and that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. By june of 2010 the british had lost around 300 soldiers total in all of afghanistan, but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that o
I want to live. As far as how his family is doing, he gave this update in a facebook post last week quote that regret, that plea, did not follow in his footsteps, that s a common narrative emerging in the pockets of the country dealing with the worst outbreaks right now. The ten states with the highest new case counts in the country are also now the states with the highest increase in first shots administered. That has been the trend for the past three weeks now. Overall, the average pace of vaccinations across the country is steadily rising. Look at the bottom right of your screen. People are scared. Without full protection from the vaccine, they have good reason to be. According to data kept by john help skins university, we just crossed the threshold of 200 million coronavirus cases across the globe. With the delta variant dominating, that number just keeps rising. The cdc now reports that the delta variant accounts for more than 93% of covid cases in the u. S. That number is as hig