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To blackhawk helicopters. That equipment is in the hands of the taliban now. The concern that it could end up with isis, al qaeda, other factions operating in the region. So it would not at all be a surprise if given the high concentration of troops and material at kabul airport, the u. S. Is looking around saying what is it that we cannot take with us? that we do not want to fall into the hands of the enemy. So we ll destroy it ourselves. We know at the u. S. Embassy in kabul diplomats burning sensitive files. They did not want them to obtain for propaganda purposes. We heard the british defense secretary saying, listen, we left humvees and various bits of equipment left behind in al qaeda to make the maximum amount of room on our transport planes to get people out. We haven t been told that anything was scheduled for destruction at kabul airport. It is a possibility as we wait to learn more about this explosion in kabul. Okay. Thank you so much for that. And for all of you just joini
Right now. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, august 26th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. 36 hours left. That is the breaking news. Sources tell cnn the evacuation effort in afghanistan will end in the next 36 hours. Remember, the deadline for u. S. Withdrawal is actually august 31st. This news means the end of direct efforts to get people out days before that deadline. We know there are american citizens still trying to get out. For thousands of green card holders, legal permanent residents, that hope is faint or all but gone. U. S. Efforts are under way to help 2,000 local embassy staff get out. We did just learn that 13,000 people were evacuated from afghanistan in the last 24 hours. That is still a very large number but you can see that number getting smaller and smaller less than the 20,000 we had seen the previous two days. Huge security risks complicating this evacuation over the next 36 hours. Overnight, the u. S. Embassy
Patients 16 and up. To borrow a phrase from the development effort, that happened at warp speed, the process taking only 40% of the usual time. Well, this and other vaccines have met the fda s rigorous scientific standards for emergency use authorization as the first fda approved covid vaccine, the public can be confident that this meets the fda gold standards for safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality that we require for an approved product. Words that could not come a day too soon. That is because as of this weekend the country is back to averaging 1,000 plus deaths a day from covid. That grim figure hasn t been this high since march. In florida over the weekend, hospitalizations set a new record for the entire pandemic with more than 17,000 men, women and children in covid units, icus and ers across the state. Nationally new cases are averaging close to 150,000 a day. That s nearly ten times what they were in june. Experts on this program have predicted they ll hit 200,000
The usual time. Well, this and other vaccines have met the fda s rigorous scientific standards for emergencyuse authorization. As the first fdaapproved covid19 vaccine, the public can be confident that this vaccine meets the fda s gold standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality that we require for an approved product. Words that could not come a day too soon. That is because, as of this weekend, the country s back to averaging a thousandplus deaths a day from covid. That grim figure hasn t been this high since march. In florida, over the weekend, hospitalizations set a new record for the entire pandemic with more than 17,000 men, women, and children in covid units, icus, and ers across the state. Nationally, new cases are, once again, averaging close to 150,000 a day. That s nearly tentimes what they were in june and experts on this program have predicted they ll hit 200,000 a day before this latest surge is over. Even as cases soar, vaccine hesitancy or even outrig