we will have the latest on the cities effort to curb the from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnston. welcome to the week. we begin tonight with evacuations from afghanistan. by all accounts, it is chaotic outside the airport in kabul. thousands of people are desperate to flee the country, as the taliban consolidate power. the british military said today that seven people were killed in a stampede of people who were trying to get into the airport. the biden administration has come under fire for how it has handled these evacuations. the situation could be hurting the presidents performance with voters too. a new nbc poll out today shows the president s approval rating has dipped low 50% for the first time in his presidency. today, he acknowledged the realities on the ground, but defended his administration s handling of the situation. let me be clear, evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it sta
saigon in 1975. how do you explain getting this so wrong? first, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. but you know it s not the helicopter. it s not the mechanism. no, no, it s the last-minute scramble. you know that. it s the last-minute scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. it is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. and part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan national security forces, we could not give them the will. the scenes at the city s airport today are staggering. thousands of afghans despera
i m sorry it happened. i m so sorry. o donnell: schools on alert: how unspecified threats of violence on tiktok force some to cancel classes. america s education system is under attack right now. o donnell: paid family leave: tonight, meet the small-business owner giving paid family leave to all her employees. but she s the exception, not the rule. why that s pushing american mothers out of the workforce. tiger woods tees it high and lets it fly. plus the incredible putt from his 12-year-old son, charlie. and on the road, with the story of a mother s grief that you won t soon forget. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. well, what is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year has become a season of worry for many americans, with the u.s. facing what might be the most severe wave yet of covid infections. in fact, that wave
i m so sorry. o donnell: schools on alert: how unspecified threats of violence on tiktok force some to cancel classes. america s education system is under attack right now. o donnell: paid family leave: tonight, meet the small-business owner giving paid family leave to all her employees. but she s the exception, not the rule. why that s pushing american mothers out of the workforce. tiger woods tees it high and lets it fly. plus the incredible putt from his 12-year-old son, charlie. and on the road, with story of a mother s grief that you won t soon forget. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. well, what is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year has become a season of worry for many americans with the u.s. facing what might be the most severe wave yet of covid infections. in fact, that wave is expected to be so big, a former head of the c.d.c. cal