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and tell them to do whatever it takes to pass the for the people act. the for the people act was defeated in the senate and is effectively doa. so the best action is to pass legislation championed by late georgia congresswoman john lewis who spoke at the original march on washington nearly six decades ago. if they can t do the right thing, they should at least do something for self-preservation. clearly, the people want to vote. and the way they want to do it is without impediments. these restrictions are for that. that s why martin and andrea king and i are calling and the lewis family are calling for people to pass the john lewis act federal. the backdrop of all of this is the filibuster. if democrats can t find a way to kill it or to modify it, passing any kind of voting rights legislation will remain nothing more than a dream. joining me now to discuss, judith brown dianis and dean obeidallah, msnbc daily columnist and host of sirius xm s the dean obeidallah s ....
in our back-to-school series, the search for three million students nationwide who haven t been to school in a year. in depth: the eviction wave. we will meet a landlord who is homeless, after her tenants stopped paying rent. heat and humidity. the 95 million americans who face extreme temperature. plus, why lake tahoe now has the worst air pollution in the country. williams sisters drop out. why two of tennis top players are skipping the u.s. open. and, the power of determination. how a wounded warrior became a paralympic medalist. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. there is a lot of news tonight out of afghanistan, where the u.s. withdrawal has reached a critical phase. as the evacuation of americans and our afghan allies reaches the final days, we have just learned tonight that the u.s. military is secretly rescuing americans st ....
getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them? i will talk to you about just bottlenecks. i talked a little bit about that earlier. as we those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or centcom, that s the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased through-put, increased that number that they are able to hold there centcom and u com are continuing to coordinate together and what the joint staff and trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to continue to leave kabul. so as we look at those on kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. we still expect the through-put that we saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck at others. we continue to manage that on an hourly/minute basis so we know where to fly people to. do y ....
reliant on the taliban to allow safe passage for people trying to flee. we are learning that the peer group has more of a waiting outside the airport and is controlling who gets in. new video shows fighters haulin somebody away and kicking him i the face. they have checkpoints all aroun the city and are beating people were trying to flee the airport. the white house is refusing to commit to keeping troops on the ground while all americans are being evacuated. can you offer any guaranteed to the americans and afghan allies that if they remain ther past the end of the month, us troops will help them evacuate? our focus right now is i m doing the work at hand and the task at hand. that is day by day getting as many americans and applicants and members of the population who are eligible to be evacuate to the airport and out on planes . and president biden s pass, it s about america being back are coming back to haunt him after his blame shifting yesterday. the one t ....
in afghanistan to try to evacuate the u.s. embassy in kabul. some 3,000 american forces arriving by tomorrow. their mission, to help american civilians and u.s. allies get to the kabul airport to be air lifted out of the country. the military says this is a temporary mission. the speed with which the taliban is taking control appears to have caught the u.s. by surprise. the deteriorating conditions are a factor, a big factor, in why the president has approved this mission. clearly, from their actions, it appears as if they are trying to get kabul isolated. the taliban has quickly retaken control of nearly every major city, and have just taken control of a province, just miles from kabul, with the capital now in its sights, nearly 20 years after u.s. forces invaded and just a short time ago afghan president gani addressing the nation for the first time in days. he did not resign as many expect he do, as the taliban demanded he do so as well. instead saying his focus ....