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airport. we ll take stock of what is happening on the ground and we ll answer questions that you submitted online about why this happened and what could happen next. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. let us begin with a look back at the monumental events that took place in afghanistan today. taliban fighters marched into kabul, intent on taking full control of the capital city. they faced little resistance as they entered the presidential palace. their flag now flies in place of the afghanistan flag. meanwhile the american flag no longer flies over what was the u.s. embassy. diplomats removed it as they and embassy person wrestle removed by helicopter. the president of afghanistan fled the country saying that he did so to spare the city from additional violence. just in time, too. commercial flights out of afghanistan are suspended. that blocks a key escape route for finally citizens still inside the capitol. our mission is to make time for clarity is that cont ....
afghanistan is rapidly falling under the control of the very same people who sponsored those attacks again us 20 years ago. the taliban is retaking afghanistan, freeing our enemies from prison, putting our friends to death. confronted a challenging afghanistan he has failed to protect the american people from this challenge, biden administration has just failed in the execution of its own plan. it looks like now they are trying to get folks out. this reminds me of previous administrations. this is one of the worst foreign policy disasters in the history of the united states, we re getting nothing from president biden and a shoulder shrugging from his cabinet. soon we ll seen the taliban flag flying. trey: joe biden is not first or only president who wanted to leave afghanistan, just because something is bipartisan does not mean it is right. for 20 years, america invested most precious resource we have in afghanistan, the lives of american sons and daughters, you als ....
the news continues. michael is in for chris tonight. michael. about 80,000 are hospitalized and we have vaccines now. that s what makes it especially tragic to see our hospitals on the brink once again. five states have fewer than 10% of icu beds available now. alabama, texas, georgia, florida and mississippi. florida and texas, alone, account for 40% of new hospitalizations. more covid cases than 30 other states combined. they also have defiant governors who appear to be siding with some notion of freedom rather than the combination of masks and vavaccinations. we re about to talk to a county judge in dallas challenging texas governor abbot s order banning mask mandates and listen to this dire warning he gave to parents. . in dallas there s zero icu beds or more likely if they have covid, we don t have one. your child will wait for another child to die. the texas department of health pushing back saying the shortage of pediatricu icu beds is rae elated to a shor ....
we have to be able to repair the enamel on a daily basis. with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state. it s innovative. my go to toothpaste is going to be pronamel repair. the news continues. michael smerconish is in for chris tonight. michael. welcome to the prime time command center. february 2020 about about 80,000 are hospitalized and we have vaccines now. that s what makes it especially tragic to see our hospitals on the brink once again. five states have fewer than 10% of icu beds available now. alabama, texas, georgia, florida and mississippi. florida and texas, alone, account for 40% of new hospitalizations. more covid cases than 30 other states combined. they also have defiant governors who appear to be siding with some notion of freedom rather than the combination of masks and vaccinations. we re about to talk to a county judge in dallas challenging texas governor abbot s order banning mask mandates and lis ....
taliban. president biden now rushing some 3,000 troops to the capital to help evacuate u.s. embassy personnel, and all of this coming just weeks before the u.s. was set to complete its withdrawal from the country. targeted to coincide, of course, with the 20th anniversary of 9/11. we will have much more on that in a moment. we are following the developments on the ground. first, though, this other news breaking overnight. the fda authorizing a third covid-19 shot for people with compromised immune systems. the cdc s advisory committee will meet in just a few hours to discuss those additional shots. this as hospital systems across the country are being pushed to their limits again. more than 2,500 covid patients admitted every single day for the past week. in tennessee, one doctor saying simply, quote, no beds. there are no beds. we want to begin this morning with cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, as we re looking at this, let s start with the ....