Saddened and angry as i many. A bleak message. 90 Million people still unvaccinated who have virus. If you transparent about the nursing home scandal. I have a lot of priorities but i will absolutely make sure that my administration fully cooperates with requests for data. Good morning, everybody. Were going to start Fox Friends with a Fox News Alert. Overnight, at least five people have reportedly been killed during the chaos at the Kabul Airport as thousands try to get out of afghanistan before they are killed. Ainsley yeah. In the meantime the White House is under fire for going silent. Everyone is on vacation amid this collapse. Brian right. But they gave us a couple of still photos that should be enough. Ryan joins us live from overseas with the latest. Ryan . Yeah, chaotic scenes at that the International Airport In Kabul as people scramble to try get out of afghanistan. Keep in mind, thousands of people want to get out of kabul, not just u. S. Personnel. And the best bet for alm
Momentum. Sources tell cnn the u. S. Is completely now pulling out of the embassy In Kabul over the next 72 hours. What youre looking at is video, Cnn Shot of some of the helicopters that are shuttling employees from the embassy to the airport to be evacuated. Remember it was just on Thursday President biden had said some would be evacuated. It has escalated to all. The president also sending another 1,000 troops to carry out the operation, which brings the total to 5,000. Cnn Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward is with us from kabul. When we talked to Nick Paton Walsh earlier, and i know he is near where you are, he describes the situation this morning as that he is stunned. What is your assessment . Reporter i think stunning is a pretty good assessment. I mean, this news that we are just receiving from a source inside the president ial palace that eight or nine of the taliban representatives who are a part of the Qatar Delegation are currently in the president ial palace
Why experts say that new threats are very similar to what they saw on the capitol. Do you believe trouble. States of Emergency Up in two dozen counties and were tracking another system right behind it. Welcome to your saturday, august 14th. Were so grateful to have you waking up with us. Good morning. Good morning. Christi, always great to see you. We have plenty of news to get to this morning. The biden White House facing two crises as the nation battles a fourth surge of covid19 and afghan anything stand now on the brink of collapse as more cities fall to the taliban leaving americans there in harms way. The pentagons deploying more than 3,000 troops into that country after the u. S. Issued a major warning to american citizens to get out. Officials say theres no imminent tret of them seizing kabul. The pentagon is pushing back on criticism that the u. S. Was caught off guard by the talibans rapid gains. What we couldnt predict was the lack of resistance they were going to get from Af
Russia is actively working to meddle in the 2022 elections. The new tactics despite the warning a few weeks ago. And pushed to the limit. Nurses are so overwhelmed by what theyre seeing in hospitals some are walking off the job just to protect their Mental Health. One nurse is with us live. Talking about why he decided it was time to step away. Take a nice deep breath. You made it to the weekend. Saturday, august 14th. Thank you so much for waking up with us. Hey, boris. Good morning, christi. Always great to be with you. We do start with some somber news, though. The united states now leading the world with the highest rate of new covid cases. Just in the month of august alone, the country reported more than 1. 5 million new cases of covid19. And were seeing more severe cases of covid19 in this latest wave. We have to point out its predominantly in the south. Eight states, you see them there, now account for more than half of the Covid Hospitalizations nationwide. States such as alaba
Including two that fell overnight. This rapid taliban gain comes just weeks before u. S. Troops are scheduled to finish a complete withdrawal from afghanistan. The State Department says Embassy Staff are also being drawn down to a core diplomatic presence. Let me be very clear about this, the embassy remains open and we plan to continue our diplomatic work in afghanistan. This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not the wholesale withdrawal. The pentagon insists that even with the surge of troops,off all Military Withdrawal is still on track to be completed by the end of august. But many observers say this decision reflects the reality that the taliban is advancing much faster than u. S. Officials expected. Things are right now dire, the afghan government is dysfunctional. The Afghan National Army even some of the better forces are finding themselves surrounded. It will be an extremely tough fight, much tougher than many people thought it would be. International Secu