The u. S. Military and taliban tried to expert what authority they could. Militants with rifles kept crowds away from the Airport Gates Guarding checkpoints with trucks and at least one humvee by the roads. Many with bags at their sides numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands of previous days. The Security Situation turning the united states and the taliban into Strange Bed Fellows. Seth moulton went on a controversial and unauthorized trip to kabul this week described the scene before the bombing and how the marines are working with the taliban. Its an impossible Task Weve given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity, thousands and thousands of afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends and their families, their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, literally pull them to freedom. I expected to see a gate with marines on one side and afghans on the other. Thats not the way this could work. We have to go out in the crowd. So these marines were out th
I will moderate the questions as we have done before. I will call on you. Please you ask your question, identify yourselves and your your let so The General has an idea who hes talking to. We have a hard stop at 3 30. General mackenzie, over to you. John, thanks. This is a hard day today. As you know, two Suicide Bombers detonated in the vicinity of the Abbey Gate at hamed karzai airport. The attack on the gate was followed by a number of Isis Gunman that opened fire on civilian forces. We know 12 u. S. Service members have been killed in the attack and 15 more Service Members have been injured. A number of afghan civilians were killed and injured in the attack. Were treating some of them aboard hkia. Many others have been taken to hospitals in town. Were working to calculate the total losses. We dont know what that is right now. Their loss weighs heavily on us all. Ill talk about that as i go through my prepared remarks. We continue to focus on the protection of our forces and the eva
As the president s meeting begins here in washington, the clock is sticking in kabul, and the president is sticking with the time for the forces to leave the country in six days from now, but with the Contingency Plans in place should they be needed. The pentagon says some 86,000 people have been evacuated, including 19,000 in the last 24 hours, and 10,000 more remaining at the Airport Waiting and hoping that the next Flight Out is going to be theirs. Outside of the airport perimeter, military officials have acknowledged that u. S. Forces have made a limited number of missions to pick up americans and allies who cant get to the airport themselves. There are also private flights out being organized by veterans, Military Contractors and Aide Workers and former spies. Some of the contractors are charging the Passengers Thousands of dollars, but even as the herculean effort is happening with a plane taking off every 39 minutes according to the pentagon, Confusion And Concern remains. They
Flooding killed at least 20 people, leaving behind what one resident describes as a War Zone. Our reporters are live on the ground with the latest. In afghanistan, violence at the airport threatens an already precarious Evacuation Plan with thousands trying to escape taliban rule, 18 u. S. Commercial airplanes are called in to help. The white House Signaling it could extend the deadline to leave the country. We have to start with game changing developments in the battle against the coronavirus. New york times reporting the fda is set to give full organization for pfizers Covid Vaccine today. At the same time, across the south, Icu Beds are filling up fast, so bad in five states theyre within 10 of reaching capacity. Alabama is already maxed out. Grim numbers out of florida where the number of coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3 million. The cdc says nearly 42,000 have died from Covid19 Related Causes in that state. And just in the past week alone, florida reported more than 150,000 n
Every single day, like ive always done and always will. Meantime, the biden administration looking for ways to encourage more americans to get vaccinated, including pushing more companies to require employees to get the shot, this as a surge in cases linked to the Delta Variant continues to overwhelm hospitals, particularly in southern states. Were going to talk with a nurse on the Front Lines in arkansas later on in the program. And this Hour President biden meeting with state, local and tribal officials from across the country to talk about what the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill means for their communities hours after he made another pitch for his build back better agenda. All of this as congress begins the work of putting together a 3. 5 trillion bill seeking to turn his plans into reality with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer making this promise. One, we are going to all come together to get something done, and, two, it will have every part of the Biden Plan in big in a big, b