later today, the head of america s federal reserve will address fellow bankers at the gathering known as jackson hole after the town in which it normally takes place. this year, as last, the meeting will be held online any hopes of people attending in person were swiftly dashed by the recent surge in covid infections in america. the continuing pandemic makes an inauspicious backdrop tojerome powell s speech. investors will be looking for any guidance on policy going forward, at a time when the signals are very mixed: the us economy has bounced back robustly, but the recovery may be hampered by the spread of the delta variant. so what is he likely to say? joining me now is matt orton, vice president and portfolio specialist at carillon tower advisers. what kind of thing that you expecting to hear from jerome powell today? expecting to hear from jerome powell today? great to be here, and i m honestly powell today? great to be here, and i m honestly not powell today? grea
carrying u.s. personnel. biden promises no forgiveness for the perpetrators of the attack. we will hunt you down and make you pay, he said. the pentagon insisting the american mission will end on august 31st. the big concern, another attack could derail the effort to get out. 5,400 or so people are said to be waiting for their turn at the airport tarmac or on the tarmac as of this morning. 89 total flights loaded with 12,500 evacuees managing to escape since thursday. cnn is covering the developments from all angles both in the united states and around the world. sam kylie is in qatar. he spent much of the week reporting in and around the airport. sam, what is the situation as far as we know at the airport right now? the numbers gathering around the airport are way down. way down for two reasons. obviously in the first instance because of this catastrophic terrorist attack. 13 americans dead. at least 90 killed according to the afghan health authorities. more than 100 afgha
in the center of the virtual seat today, joey jones, retired marine bomb technician who served in afghanistan. he is also a fox news host. the president just wrapped up a briefing. they say they believe it was one, not two explosions that killed ten marines, two soldiers and one navy medic. it was the deadliest day for american forces in a decade. isis k is claiming responsibility for the attack. the pentagon warned there are still specific and credible threats against the airport, as a race is under way to evacuate americans in afghanistan before that august 31st deadline that president biden set hits. now, biden administration is teetering amid calls for the president to resign and potential investigations into the horrific attacks. the president is also being criticized for his comments last week. no one is being killed right now. we all know terrorists attacked, took the lives of american service members standing guard at the airport, wounded several other seriously.
biden referred to the threat at the airport from this terror group known as isis k and he details his decision to stick with that august 31st deadline to leave afghanistan. that deadline just six days away now as the scramble to get out intensifies, one critical question has been, how many americans remain? this afternoon, the secretary of state put the number at about 1500. officials are in touch with about 500 of. them but are still reaching out to others. for the remaining roughly 1000 context that we have who maybe americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to the multiple times today. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave, along with many afghans. that effort will continue every day past august 31st. now the secretary said about 6000 americans we are in afghanistan when the taliban took control about two weeks ago he said over the past ten days over 4500 of those americans were evacuat
taliban to maybe find some negotiation space for they ve said no more afghans can leave. clearly there s 10,000 at the airport. so something is happening behind the scenes that s helping some people get through. can you talk about that to some extent? i ll turn it over to the general. i ll start with that last question first. it kind of comes off of some things that mr. kirby just said with that constant communication. i know the most senior commanders on the ground are out and discussing with the taliban leaders that are manning these checkpoints exactly what the documentation needs to look like, times and coordination, details of that. as we know, though, there are reports that some aren t able to get through there. i can tell you that the department of state, the consulor affairs are working with commanders there to ensure that documentation, names and those things, as often as required, are being communicated to the taliban that are at those checkpoints to allow tra