goal is to get embassy personnel out by tuesday if to not sooner. what you are looking at is cnn video of helicopters shuttling employees from the embassy for that evacuation. president biden has authorized sending in another 1,000 troops to carry out the operation which brings the total to 5,000. let s get more on the fast-moving developments in afghanistan and get straight to cnn s nick paton walsh, who joins us live from kabul. nick, there werer the. there was an intelligence assessment a few days ago that said this would take place in 30 to 90 days. u.s. intelligence didn t anticipate this would happen merely within hours. bring us up to speed with what you re seeing. reporter: yeah, it s important to have a sort of slight pause on where we feel we are in terms of kabul s security. from what we can see, we are not seeing the taliban entering the city from multiple points as some of the reports have suggested. in fact, a source in the presidential palace, who, obviousl
only 2500, would be out of the country on may 1st. the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there i think is simply wrong. we have team coverage on the ground in afghanistan and across the globe tracking the latest developments. we begin with cnn international security investigator nick peyton walsh. what is the situation right now? it s comparatively quiet. i have just heard a couple of crackles of gunfire over there. about an hour ago we saw a trace of fire with helicopters above. the skies are a little bit quiet but there have been consistent helicopters moving, we think american personnel around the airport where they re mostly headed. developments in the just last hour, we ve been seeing pictures broadcast by al-jazeera. from what it looks like possibly one of the key offices of former president i should say president afghani. one said he had been in guantanamo bay prison for eight years but essentially not feeling any reason to
here. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. breaking news. haitian officials say at least 29 people are dead after a major earthquake hit the island this morning. the epicenter was far enough from the capital city of port-au-prince that the country may avoid the kind of devastation that we saw from an earthquake that hit the area in 2010, but the nation still feeling aftershocks now and the damage is significant. this is new video. just into cnn that shows the extent of some of the damage. you can see part of the building there, reduced to rubble. haiti s prime minister declaring a month long state of emergency. this disaster coming as two named storms are baring down in the area. patrick oppmann is with us now from havana. are we learning anything more about the damage and lives impacted? reporter: absolutely. it will probably take hours if not days to really get a better idea of the scope, the magnitude of this disaster. area
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politic pressure by the free brittney movement and her plea removing her father s c conservator. no one knew mr. spears better. every step along the way, mr. spears offered his daughter love and support and encouragement both as conservator to and her father. britt knit spears argued otherwise. vindication for brittney and says they look forward for the vigorous investigation and others over the past 13 years. this pandemic is far from over. new york city has come certainly a long way in the fight, something uplifting for everyone, we love nyc, the homecoming con serpt is next saturday, august 21st in new york. music feature superstars, you will see it here only on cnn, next saturday, august 21st. the news continues right now. let s turn things over to don lemon tonight. good evening everyone, this is don lemon tonight. this is really important to me and for you and the country to see. every night for the past year and a half in this program, i sit here and i talk abo