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To grow. they are trying to get those things off there. it is a process, you have to have trucks and drivers that can get goods where they need to go. we have a truck driver joining us next hour, we will talk about that. >> john: even just ports up to 24/7 operation as the president called for, we understand will take weeks, if not months, we have a backlog to get the backlog cleared. crazy. 16 american missionariess and canadian counterpart kidnapped near haiti capitol. the missionaries kidnapp...

Behind. civilians outside of kabul grab for food as a car with aide workers drives by. in the center part of kabul there are thousands of internally displaced afghans. see the children here. >> bill: now those are just some of the highlights from our reporting in kabul. trey yingst on the ground in the african capital for three weeks. now back in new york and joins us live on u.s. soil. nice to sigh, good morning to you. we spoke yesterday. had a great chat with you. what do you want the america...

Spokesman told fox news anyone with a foreign passport could leave the country, the reality, it remains extremely difficult. are a number of people who work at the u.s. embassy and are left behind. >> civilians outside of kabul grab for food as car with aide workers drive by. >> in the center part of kabul this are internally displaced afghans. you see the little children. >> we want to be safe and we want our children to be educated and go. >> with the taliban in control, religion will play int...

Electricity in and around new orleans and in the five hardest hit parish, power is not likely to be restored until tend of this month despite fema strategy to flood the zone with aide workers. >> we still have well over 1,000 responders that are on the ground in louisiana and several hundred more that have been supporting the events that happened in the northeast. hurricane ida left a devastating path. not only was it the fifth most powerful hurricane but impacted southern louisiana as a categor...

More than her son. >> our u.s. hostage crisis is a silent epidemic which very few are aware of. there are currently 55 public cases of u.s. nationals held hostage abroad. many more unknown cases and real threats of hostage taking amid the current afghanistan crisis. >> sandra: the four americans killed were her son journalist james foley and another journalist and two aide workers. >> bill: dark times. some might call it the great disappearing act. many democrats are doing just about anything to...

Who represent the people. so i certainly agree that it was more than right to get out of afghanistan at this time. the only thing i disagree with is boots on the ground. i personally cant stand that phrase. because there is more to the people who serve in our country and we ought to quit equating that to just a piece of a uniform and understand that when the nation sends its human beings to war, that we have a responsibility for it. >> daniel, what do you want to hear from president biden next h...

As the presidents meeting begins here in washington, the clock is sticking in kabul, and the president is sticking with the time for the forces to leave the country in six days from now, but with the contingency plans in place should they be needed. the pentagon says some 86,000 people have been evacuated, including 19,000 in the last 24 hours, and 10,000 more remaining at the airport waiting and hoping that the next flight out is going to be theirs. outside of the airport perimeter, military of...

Are trying to help fill the gap. people crowd around as the team drops off a few hundred sandwiches now they know where to go aide workers say thousands more meals will likely follow soon. its a great thing they were able to identify that town in need but actually getting the resources, the substantive resources needed into that area, thats another challenge entirety. i spoke to the u.n. development manager here he said aid will increase in the next few days, something thats needed across the re...

>> harris: the "new york post" broke it and the pentagon is dealing now reporting one of the taliban masterminds behind the groups swift takeover of afghanistan, the whole country in 10 days is one of the gitmo five. the former guantanamo bay prisoners swapped for the army deserter bowe bergdahl in 2014. that was president obamas disaster. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. nouf what do we know about these five? >> pentagon officials told us they are in talks ...

Individuals diplomats, journalists and western aide workers. their point of contact is taliban leaders in qatar, one of the very top taliban leaders, five in total released from guantanamo bay in 2014 as part of the sergeant bowe bergdahl prisoner swap carried out under president obama. known as the taliban five they quickly set up an embassy in qatar and were among the leaders the trump administration began exit talks with and now under president biden who was in the white house at the time of ...