There is still a massive crutch of people who need to get out. Theyre waiting. Clarissa ward has been at the airfield and says not one flight has left kabul in the last eight hours. Lets get to kylie with the Breaking News. The u. S. Is pretty urgently examining other locations that they can fly out the Evacuation Flights. Because most of them have been going to qatar. They are now close to capacity there. So theyre looking at other locations. Including in europe, including potentially germany for the flights to go. What this tells us is that capacity is hampering these evacuations. You cant get these people out if these flights have nowhere to go. Of course, telling that on the ground Clarissa Ward hasnt seen any flight take off from the Kabul Airport in the last eight hours. One thing complicating this is the fact that the u. S. Was in discussions with multiple countries to relocate afghan sieves. Thats just one group of the afghans theyre going to be flying out of the country, becau
News agency. Taliban starting toting Machine Guns and a Sound Track of gunfire are fueling this Unease And Afghanistan among afghans. Look at the Cnn Photographer capturing these images. Rows and rows of men, women, and children clustered together, waiting on a way out that for some may never materialize. This is remarkable. American soldiers pulling a woman over the airport perimeter. And so is this. Some passing their children through the crowds. Passing their children through the crowds, willing to separate their families if it guarantees a way out. Were following the latest developments from the State Department and pentagon. Lets begin with Barbara Starr at the pentagon. A briefing not long ago, you had an important question for Admiral Kirby about a change in whats happening above afghanistan. John, lots of changes in the works. Important to tell people, the pentagon is basically now doing two briefings a day to the news media, putting their case forward. Today they said in the l
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Is it . House Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy changing his strategy when it comes to the January 6th select committee. Well dig into that. Lets begin in Surfside And Rosa flores is standing by where officials just gave their latest update. It was heart breaking. Emotions were high, rosa. Reporter emotions were very high. This day marks the biggest increase in the number of people that have been pulled from the rubble in one day. There was a 10 the number of people who died increased by 10, thats double digits. According to the fire chief, there were no signs that those people had survived the initial collapse. So emotions are very raw. Emotions are very high here. Officials becoming visibly emotional, including the mayor of Miamidade County. Take a listen. Our commitment to this mission is deeply personal. This is our community, our neighbors, our families. And our first responders have truly searched that pile every single day since the collapse as if theyre searching for their own lov