servicemen in women have alread left for the pentagon confirmin today the u.s. after that augus no longer control the airport they re pretty cute the president says all americans an afghan allies will be evacuated if they want to leave. but the taliban is blocking man afghans and likely americans from reaching the airport. in just moments we will hear from on the and standing by to join us in moments for it. we look forward to all of that and kick off fox team coverage for you at this hour. retired four-star general jack keane is standing by, but first to jennifer griffin who is life at the pentagon for as. we have learned during the pentagon reaping last night the u.s. military launched another helicopter rescue mission in kabul to get roughly 1020 americans to the airport is the third time this type of rescue mission has been launched despite the pentagon insisting the taliban are granting safe passage to american spirit. last night during the darkness, there was an o
these videos shot from cnn. it is believed they are carrying u.s. personnel. embassy staff are being flown to the airport, there are plans to leave skeleton crew of embassy staff behind. l let s bring in our clarissa ward live in kabul. there are conflicting situations of how close the taliban are in the city. reporter: we know they are in the city. they want to enter peacefully. the group s spokesperson delineating the rules of conduct inside kabul saying they ll not come and search your homes or ex tort money. they ll not fire on you unless you fire on them, guaranteeing the protection, he said of businessman and also afghan soldiers and those working security services provided they do not try to stop the taliban from entering the city peacefully. of course this has been graded on the ground here with chaos. people desperately trying to get out of the city. we had a team at the passport office this morning, huge lines of hundreds and hundreds of people trying to organize
the area but the circumstances surrounding the death now, they re still raising some questions. the officer did not have his body camera turned on. it s not clear why. cnn s brian todd joins us now from virginia beach. brian, what are you learning about this shooting and the circumstances surrounding it? reporter: victor, and christi, we re learning there s an investigation ongoing. there are not many answers forthcoming from police, as you mentioned in your introduction. there s a lot of unanswered questions. we know that 25-year-old donovan lynch was shot and killed by a police officer friday night in the third shooting incident among three very chaotic incidents, and we re not clear whether those were related. they appear at this moment that they were not related to one another. police did confront donovan lynch a few blocks away from where the shooting incident occurred friday night, and that initial reports that donovan lynch was not armed. however the chief pushed bac
just ruled the federal $15 minimum wage hike cannot be included in the nearly to trillion dollar covert relief package. more on that in a minute. despite at least three rocket attacks in the last week agains american personnel and interest in iraq, the biden ministration has been trying to coax iran back into negotiations over the now discarded 2015 iran nuclear deal. white house was responded with legault at limited mission mean to de-escalate teijin s. the first military strike by th new president receiving scant attention in scart scant contrast to when president trum used force and also when he decided against using force in iran. some tweets by the white house press secretary in the current president making the rounds tonight. then cnn competitor tweeted in 2017, what is the legal authority for strikes, syria is a sovereign country. president biden getting criticism on his criticism from back then. back on the domestic front, progressives upfront upset amid growing crack
plus, if you haven t seen these pictures, you want to. and underwater volcano near tonga has ree resulted for the third time in four days, those pictures captured by satellite. a massive eruption over the weekend sparked tsunami advisories across the u.s. west coast. and in china, major changes now to the winter olympics, which are less than three weeks away. amid coronavirus concerns tickets will not be sold to the general public but distributed by authorities instead. the country s zero covid policy has meant stringent restrictions, new lockdowns, beijing reporting its first case according to its numbers of the highly transmissible omicron variant just this past saturday. we begin first with the winter storm wreaking havoc across the eastern united states this morning. cnn s dianne gallagher is in charlotte, north carolina. polo sandoval is live from pittsburgh. we begin with polo. it s a tough mix, right, because you have the snow, it melts, turns to ice. tell us what