dana: it was not at a time and a place of our choosing. bill: p pentagon admitting it did not meet its goal of evacuating every last american or ally despite president biden s promise to leave no one behind. president biden: we won t conduct a hasty rush to the exit. we ll do it responsibly, deliberately and safely. there is a home for you in the united states if you so choose and we ll stand with you just as you stood with us. president biden: if there are american citizens left we ll stay until we get them all out. any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. our first priority in kabul is getting american citizens out of the country as quickly and safely as possible. dana: yet the taliban are now in full control of that airport. the group marching triumphantly across the tarmac hours after the last plane took off. republicans calling it a shameful display of american weakness. he promised the taliban would be out august 31st. promised the american
this is cnn breaking news. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we re standing by for president biden. he ll address the nation at any moment now on his administration s urgent evacuation efforts in afghanistan. cnn learned the department of defense is mobilizing several commercial airlines, including delta, united and american to assist in the evacuation. we re also learning that about 8,000 people were flown out from kabul, afghanistan, in the last 24 hours, but a source tells cnn that roughly 20,000 people still remain at the airport all desperately seeking a way out from the taliban-held country. a source tells cnn conditions at the airport got worse today. the entry gates were for the most part closed and families were being split up and sent to different countries in the chaos. that s according to the latest reporting we re getting on the ground. i m joined by sam kiley. he s live at the airport in kabul. arlette saenz also. also with us, kylie atwood. sam,
three white men who murdered ahmaud arbery in the us state of georgia are given life sentences his family say they never lost faith in justice. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. lawyers acting for tennis star novak djokovic have released documents that say he had a vaccine exemption to enter australia, due to a recent covid infection. in the early hours of thursday morning djokovic was denied entry to australia after landing in melbourne this week to play in the australian open. he is currently in an immigration detention with a court challenge due on monday. but documents released by his legal team today claim that his first positive pcr test was recorded on 16th december. djokovic, who has said he is opposed to vaccination, had been granted a medical exemption to play in the tournament in a decision that infuriated many australians. our correspondent, shaimaa khalil, has the latest from melbourne, outside the hotel where djokovic is being
from positive cases from ten to five is in part due to america s lock down fatigue. if you re asymptomatic and you re infected, we want to get people back to the job. it had a lot to do with what the we thought people would tolerate. the decision on the part of the cdc is really a true and good decision and based on science. we may well not be able to or willing to comply with ten days worth of isolation. okay. is it science or what people will tolerate? joining me now, former acting director of the cdc, dr. richard besser. great to have you with us, doctor. thanks for being here. i d like to start, if i may, on this issue of the five-day period and whether or not you need to test negative at the end of those five days. here s dr. fauci this weekend. there s been some concern about why we don t ask people at that five-day period to get tested. looking at it again, there may be an option in that that testing could be a part of that. we ll hear more about that in th
covid spread and test requirements and staff shortages as well. and some parents just opting to keep their kids home. thousands of travelers still trying to get back home after a week of staff shortages from new covid cases leaves airlines, tsa, and support personnel shorthanded. planes grounded complicated by a new winter storm already hitting the mid-atlantic and moving up the coast towards the northeast. one flight not grounded today, air force one, president biden arriving at joint base andrews. it is hard to see him. mid-morning that was about an hour and a half ago amid swirling winds, accumulating snow from a holiday break that he had in delaware. the president s holiday was interrupted by a call to reassure ukraine s president zelensky after an hour-long call with vladimir putin who still has 100,000 troops along ukraine s border. washington is preparing for the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. the commemoration at the capitol will include a speech f