You want to Take A Look At That. Bill i think the way you say a legend. Dana he was a legend. Bill is the most appropriate way to look at it. Dana a terrific dog. He will be very much missed. Thank you. Here is where we stand. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin traveling overseas. Doha is the central hub. Bill he says the u. S. Is working closely with the taliban and the Terror Group not stopping americans from getting out as long as those evacuees have the correct paperwork. He said this a moment ago. Were conducting a great deal of diplomacy on this as we speak. Weve also engaged with the taliban on this topic including in recent hours. They said thAt They will let people with Travel Documents freely depart. Well hold them to that. So will dozens of other countries. The international community is watching to see if the taliban will live up to their commitments. Bill Trey Yengst reports from doha, qatar. Hello, trey. Good morning. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and
Sequoias sustain climate change, drought, and wildfires . Welcome to a Special Edition of the lead. Im Erica Hill in for Jake Tapper. We start today with our health lead. New concerns on this Labor Day that the long Holiday Weekend could worsen the Coronavirus Surge in the u. S. Despite Travel Warnings from the cdc, millions hit the roads, rails, and skies for a getaway. College football is back with Tens Of Thousands of mostly maskless fans packed into stadiums and some of the last districts to return to school are back tomorrow for Inperson Learning, including many in the northeast. Top health officials worry this can put even more strain on hospitals which are already running out of Icu Beds in parts of the country. Reporter summer is over. This week in the northeast, many schools start back, but ominous signs from the south. Kentucky schools opened already, and already one in five districts have closed at some Point Due to case counts, quarantines, or just lack of staff. We have a
Back. This past fridays lackluster Jobs Report showed Job Growth slowed dramatically in august. Now the Delta Variant is causing cases to surge again in many parts of the country. More than 1500 people are dying every day on average. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said the Delta Variant challenged the game in terms of economic recovery. We were able to do a lot with our economy at 4. 5 million jobs, and august changed the perspective of where we are with the pandemic. Well have to take this week by week. Talking to people losing federal Unemployment Benefits. Also with us, a Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation that wrote that the data supports continuing these benefits. Good to see All Of You on this holiday. Kelly, millions losing their lifelines today. It is politically fraught. What are they saying where you are . Theyre pushing some of the pressure to governors saying that governors can use some of the other federal money that has been pumped into states around the country with re
Us thAt The war has ended. And they can put out the picture of the last soldier. They say. But we all know it isnt over. Okay. Two reasons. Now, what we do know that is true is that america has lost the last clear chance to cut a different deal. Or to maintain a force in afghanistan until everyone is out or to reclaim the Bagram Air Base to secure exits and to keep an eye on one of the most if not the most fertile Terror Spots in the world. So you can say this has ended, but it certainly is not over. Two reasons. First, the immediate. As many as 200 americans are still there, and look, i have never trusted the numbers, not because im cynical. Im just being skeptical from a practical perspective. I dont know how they know how many people there are on the ground. And they have said themselves, even At The White House level, thAt They cant be sure. So they say 200. 100, 200. Americans are still on the ground who want today get out and couldnt. An unknown number of families who believed am
In charge. So in 1839, the brits Invaded Afghanistan. They tried to install their own guy who they had handpicked to run afghanistan which would make afghanistan closer aligned with them. The british stayed to fight that war, but ultimately it did not work out. The brits left in 1842. But then 35, 40 years later, the British Army tried again. The brits were freaked out all over again that happen a place they thought ought to be allied with them was actually more inclined toward russia, the same thing that had driven them 35, 40 years before. So in 1848, the british Invaded Afghanistan again. And again they installed their own handpicked guy, this time for a hot minute they actually thought they had won and that afghanistan would have a longterm alliance with britain, which is what they were seeking in that first and second war. But the guy they installed in the government, he abdicated, and afghanistan went their own way and british left again. It was 35 years between the first war and