Dana it was not at a time and a place of our choosing. Bill P Pentagon admitting it did not meet its goal of evacuating every last american or ally despite President Bidens promise to leave No One behind. President biden we wont conduct a Hasty Rush to the exit. Well do it responsibly, deliberately and safely. There is a home for you in the united states if you so choose and well stand with you just as you stood with us. President biden if there are american citizens left well stay until we get them all out. Any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. Our first priority in kabul is getting american citizens out of the country as quickly and safely as possible. Dana yet the taliban are now in full control of that airport. The group Marching Triumphantly across the tarmac hours after the last plane took off. Republicans calling it a shameful display of american weakness. He promised the taliban would be out August 31st. Promised The Americans in afghanistan to get them out
That attack and 20 others wounded. All that made it such a difficult day here all the way into friday. Thats when we began to learn, not only the names and ages, but the lives and the stories of these Service Members. That made it all that much harder. This is all part of that process in dover, delaware, at Dover Air force base, watching this final journey home, just part of it with the dignified transfers here. Its never easy to see this. Certainly, its even harder to see that many of them, one after another. I suspect even with the Secretary Of Defense there, there are many Service Members, officials, enlisted officers watching this happen around the country realizing what it means to have lost a brother, sister, colleague, service member, somebody who was part of the family here in the pentagon. Theyre so young. Some of them were just babies 20 years ago when 9 11 occurred. Now theyre being brought back to the united states in these Transfer Cases. It must be so difficult. Kaitlan,
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And good day. This is Andrea Mitchell reports in washington as the Covid Crisis reaches another grim toll, topping more than 200 Million cases globally. Here in the u. S. Cases of the Delta Variant are surging in every state especially among Unvaccinated Americans with sevenday average back up to more than 100,000 cases and hospitalizations on the rise. The sevenday average of Hospital Admissions is about 7,348 per day, an increase of about 41 from the prior sevenday period. A sevenday average daily deaths have also increased to 381 per day, an increase of more than 39 from the previous sevenday period. Record hospitalizations are reported in states like Louisiana And Florida with Health Officials in mississippi sounding the alarm as the state runs out of hospital beds. Weve seen a phenomenal increase in the number of daily reported cases of covid and this is entirely attributable to the Delta Variant which is sweeping over mississippi, you know, like a tsunami. Yesterday we reported 1