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any american, who wants to come home, we will get you home. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden is vowing to bring every american home from afghanistan if they want to leave. but nobody knows how many u.s. citizens are in the country. the state department says it s trying to track down as many as possible. meanwhile, the taliban are showing off the spoils of war. they published photos showing their fighters armed with u.s. weapons seized from the afghan national army. it s menacing images like these and the taliban s long history of brutality that makes many afghans scared to stay in the country. on friday, the pentagon confirmed it had flown 169 americans by helicopter from a hotel near the airport after large crowds blocked access to the gates. it s the first-known rescue of americans outside the ....
to answer them live. plus, a standoff with police. a suspect outside the u.s. capitol today claiming to have a bomb. what led him to it? what is his motivation in the breaking details ahead. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we re going to start with our world lead. the rush to evacuate americans and afghan allies out of kabul. this afternoon the u.s. state department announced 6,000 people are inside the kabul airport right now. all we re told, all of them are fully cleared and will soon fly out of the country. 20 flights are expected to leave cat bull airport tonight, but there are still massive issues for too many others. sources telling cnn the state department advised thousands of local employees to head to the airport yesterday but many simply could not get there, caught in the crowd of thousands waiting outside the gates, they were beat, stopped at checkpoints. president biden has pledged that u.s. forces will remain in afghanistan until all ameri ....
higher. we re getting video from the ground. look at this street filled with rubble and dust in the air. the man in the video you re seeing right now saying there are a lot of wounded people on the street. more images show destruction as a building was shaken off kilter. it must be all too familiar for so many haitians. they re still feeling the impact of a major earthquake in 2010 that killed at least 220,000 people. remember, this country is in the midst of another crisis. haiti s president was brutally assassinated in his bedroom last month in front of his wife. today s unfolding disaster could be compounded by this. tropical storm grace is expected to hit the area as soon as monday. it just doesn t stop for the people in haiti. cnn correspondent patrick oppmann joins me from havana, cuba. patrick, this is just another devastating blow to haiti. what are you learning about the extent of the damage right now? reporter: well, there are whole areas of this part of hai ....
they marched with torches chanting jews will not replace us as they paraded through the campus of the university of virginia. it was eerily reminiscent of the torch light rallies held at nuremberg during the third reich. the following day they carried confederate flags and symbols of nazi genocide as they vowed to protect the statue of a treasonous confederate general and openly embraced donald trump as one of their own. in fact just months earlier, an organizer of the unite the right shouted hail trump, hail our people, and was greeted with nazi salutes and applause add a pro trump campaign rally. another organizer was a member of the proud boys which would later lead the siege of the u.s. capitol on january 6th. in other words, charlottesville, four years ago tonight, was a tinder box just waiting to ignite. inevitably, it did. in fact we witnessed some of the violence live on this very network when one of our guests, reverend tracy blackman, was whisked away for he ....
mask mandate order. cnn s senior national correspondent is joining us right now. ed, florida governor ron desantis is taking the fight over masks in schools to a whole new level tonight. what is the latest? well, the governor there in florida is threatening to take away the salary of superintendents and school board members who insist on requiring students to wear masks now when schools go back to session. this is a dramatic move by the florida governor. they are just a week after the state is reporting its worst week ever in the number of new coronavirus cases. there are two counties in florida who are already defying the governor s orders, so we will have to wait and see how this plays out here in the coming days. and we re now starting to see the same thing here in texas, wolf, where governor greg abbott for weeks has been saying there will be no new mandates or shut down. and this as schools are set to launch here in texas. the first school district has come out t ....