Translator: yes, they sent it to us, absolutely. Reporter: in fact, what followed was according to our sources a fountain of freely volunteered intel. Not just documents and photos but potentially incriminating videos like this one, after the downing of a ukrainian military aircraft in the eastern war zone. Offered up by the fighters themselves. All ukrainian intelligence had to do was pick the ones it wanted, offered the lucrative venezuela contracts and because of covid19 travel restrictions in russia assembled this belarus to fly out. Intelligence sources say the real plan was to land them in ukraine and make the arrests. These people would have ended up here in ukraine the details of their criminal acts would have been known around the world. Ukraine could have brought them to justice and shown our fight with russia is serious and that we won t raise our hands and surrender. Reporter: but the plan failed when the belorussians arrested the group just hours before they were meant to
At the white house and on capitol hill, folks are trying to navigate crises all of them coming to head in the next few days and weeks. There s covid, where president biden is planning to lay out a new plan tomorrow to get through the delta variant. There s afghanistan, where the secretary of state is preparing for a grilling on capitol hill in multiple hearings. There s the threat of a government shutdown at month s end unless congress acts and the potential for a debt default just a few weeks after that. All as democrats continue to spar over the size, scope, timing and political strategy surrounding the president s overall agenda and what s referred to as that massive reconciliation package which has been tied to biden trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill. The latest drama comes after joe manchin reiterated he will not support a $3. 5 trillion deal. Nowhere close to it. He s reportedly signaling he might only back a bill that s less than half that size or half at best. The
Continue there. More than three inches of rain fell, astonishing amount of water, breaking a record set a week ago. Severely limiting subway service through new york city. The fire department of new york city says it rescued hundreds from subways, buildings, roadways as a result of flash flooding. In new jersey, it wasn t just flooding but a tornado, rare sighting that caused widespread devastation. This is what it did to a neighborhood in new jersey. Entire homes were ripped apart, at least three killed in philadelphia where water rescues are also continuing today. Officials in montgomery county, pennsylvania, outside the city of philadelphia say they rescued about 500 people since yesterday. More than three times as many rescued as any previous single storm. Mind you, this storm came ashore in the gulf and had to work its way across land. Ida has moved out of the united states, but it cut a path of destruction from the southeast to the northeast, includes louisiana, 900,000 customers
The largest number so far of people evacuated from the airport in kabul in a 24hour period. It s a really big number. 10,400 people. 10,400 air lifted out of kabul on sunday by u. S. Military aircraft. Now that again is a big number. It will have to continue to meet the clear need that is there. And it has been complicated by a whole slue of other developments. The airport, the scene of a deadly firefight overnight, involving u. S. , german and afghan forces. Afghan guard helping secure the base was killed by some kind of fire. Unclear whether it was opponent fire or friendly fire. No americans were injured in that attack. After president biden said he is considering extending the afghan withdrawal deadline now, new this morning, a taliban spokesman tells cnn that all u. S. Forces must leave afghanistan by the end of the month. They don t want to see any extension. That s raising questions about whether afghan allyies, people who helped u. S. Troops over the course of the war, are goin
Killing one of them. At this point, we re told no americans were injured. This comes after president biden national security adviser told brianna about the threat of a terrorist attack, the threat by the islamic state. The threat is real. It is acute. It is persistent. It is something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. Closed to 20,000 people remain inside the perimeter of the airport still to be evacuated as outside afghans fleeing the taliban take over a growing increasingly desperate. Over the weekend, at least seven afghan civilians were killed in a crush of people stampeding outside the airport. And a source tells cnn that only american citizens, green card holders, their children and spouses and nato ally citizens will be permitted now through the gates. Afghan special immigrant visa applicants and their families are not being allowed in. Those, of course, are afghans whose lives are in danger because they helped american forces, many of them translators or c