To 11,000 per day. Today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. That s one big u. S. Military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. The wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirms what we had from the a. P. A few days ago. They re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. Picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. Now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. The pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hardtoget places, but this further reporting tonight from the wall street journal that in many instances it s actually cia officers who are doing those dangerous missions and not just u. S. Military pe
Of that country. In recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climb from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day to 11,000 per day. Today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. That s one big u. S. Military cargo plane full of people every 39 minutes. The wall street journal is also reporting tonight and this confirm as what we had from the a. P. A few days ago. They re confirming tonight that the cia is also conducting additional operations inside afghanistan, where they re actually going out and picking people up by helicopter. Picking people up in kabul outside the airport but also going beyond kabul into other parts of afghanistan. Now, the pentagon has been the main source of information for the public about these evacuation efforts in kabul. The pentagon has not wanted to talk about helicopters going out to extract people in hardtoget places, but this furt
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is monday, january 17th. i m john berman. brianna is working nights this week. here with me, kasie hunt. great to see you, john. great to be back. you have had kind of an adventure. it has been an adventure, yes. i had brain surgery back in october. this is my first day back, and i m thrilled to spend it with you. i m so glad you re here. i know you just want to know the news, so i won t bug you. great to have you back. thanks, john. r50 million people are facing weather alerts as a storm batters the east coast. freezing rain, ice and snow stretching as far as florida. governor kemp staying for people to stay off the roads. high winds and sleet across northern georgia. more of the same in north carolina, where conditions turned deadly. a tractor trailer slid off the highway killing two people. multiple tornados touched down in southwest florida. in south carolina, the national g
of the strictest covid countermeasures many of them have ever seen as the world confronts a second olympic games amid a pandemic. cnn s selena wang is live inside tokyo with more now. how many spectators will there be, and how will the government be choosing them? reporter: well, ana, it s hard to believe we re only 17 days away from the start of the games and we still don t know how many spectators are allowed or how they will be chosen. all we know from organizers is that anyone allowed to attend is going to have to follow strict covid rules before, during and after the games. international spectators have already been banned and with the latest change reflects just the growing restrictions and what is already an extraordinarily restricted olympic games, even for than what i experienced in the tokyo summer games. i ll be traveling in a couple of weeks but already i ve had to download an olympic health tracking app, put in my daily temperature and once i enter beijing i ll
hope you had a grand weekend. i m bill hemmer live in new york. hello to you. dana: good morning to you. we want to hear more about your weekend and america s best kept secret. i didn t give it away. i gave it a tease. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the u.s. navy was forced to react in what is being called as a blatant act of aggression. military activists say the combined flotilla is, perhaps, the largest to approach u.s. soil. they point out the maneuver was no mistake with moscow and beijing taking advantage of the biden administration s setbacks overseas. this is a very dangerous situation, and i ve said since the beginning of the war in eastern europe between ukraine and russia the real danger of what the biden administration is blundering us towards is a closer union between the two great powers of the urasian land mass which are russia and china. it s really the one thing that we can t allow to happen in terms of larger geopolitics. bill: sets us