i m john berman with sara sidner. we re in new york. kate bolduan is in milwaukee and this is cnn new central cnn breaking news we of course begin with the breaking news. there were very good chance that your life is going to be touched by this at some point, a massive global tech outage impacting businesses and governments around the world and stranding millions of passengers at airports. that one is boston logan international, just stuffed with people with nowhere to go because the flights aren t going out but minutes ago, delta announced it has paused. it s global flight scheduled because of the issues giving you a live look there again, at frustrated passengers. this is happening all over the world. the white house now looking into this global issue microsoft says the underlying cause of the adage has been fixed, but the backlog i mean, you could see it with your own eyes so cnn s tom foreman is in washington, isabel rosellas at the world s busiest airport which is atla
checkpoints that have already gone up. this afternoon, national security adviser jake sullivan suggested american officials were trying to get the taliban to cooperate with the evacuation. we have been working engaging, coordinating with taliban elements on the ground to ensure safe passage we will continue to work that issue day by day until we have completed our mission. pentagon says 4000 troops would be at the airport in kabul by the end of today, state department said over 1000 people, including u.s. nationals who were evacuated today, that tempo is going to pick up. once again tonight, our nbc news chief forest correspondent richard angle is on the ground for us in kabul. today we made it onto the military side of kabul airport. this is where the u.s. is carrying out its final withdrawal from afghanistan. the american flag still flies here, this side of the airport has long been an american and nato base, and it is full. full with extra troops. this has become t
and right now, it shows no signs of slowing down. to really get a sense of how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. the average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july. the deadly delta variant fuelling the rapid rise in those cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. hospitalizations are currently the highest we ve seen since february. even more troubling, just how this new variant is affecting children. child and teen covid cases have jumped 84% in just the last week. now despite those numbers, only half of the country is fully vaccinated. some health officials say it may soon be time to mandate vaccinations for healthcare workers. it s inexplicable to me. you re a healthcare worker. your profession. the thing you ve devoted your life to is to protect people. to make them well. to protect them from disease. i m very much in favor of mandating, if you want to see patients and you want to participate in healthcare, you need to get va