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Protect them because god forbid they dont make it out, somebody sees the video, they got trouble. why show the video? to keep you interested. to show you the reality. to show you the desperation. sara is exhausted but recorded a new video for us to tell us just how hard this has been and may still be. listen. >> i dont know where to start. there is so much pain. and its heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my ...

And its heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my passport, screaming to the people who were controlling the gate. i cannot leave this country since august 16. i tried everything to leave. i dont know what went wrong. and why i couldnt leave. but i just want to record this for my family and my friends so they know whats going on. i have young kids and i have women, i have guys who are been waiting for so long, s...

Face. im not showing the right name -- um -- because i care about your safety. and i appreciate what youre doing because i want you to tell people, one, tell us a little bit about the video that you sent us from a few days ago. just for how serious it is even before the bombings. just what the taliban has been doing to people that youve seen? >> actually, we start going to the airport with few families on august 16. and we spent two nights there but we didnt get lucky to get inside. so on the 19...

To get into the gate. so they have no control but to shoot because there is no way you control these crowds. so thats the only reason they have no -- no choice but to start shooting because they -- none of them are listening. everybodys there. the military -- the american military or the afghan special forces have no clue who are entering. the -- the right person or the wrong person. >> right. >> because everyone is at the gate. but some of them -- i -- i feel, witnessing myself -- i feel there ...

So were hopeful. >> tamara, what can you tell us about the family that was able to get out, and why the others havent been able to reach the airport? >> i dont know. i know that that family returned last evening. im told they spent the day resting. they were exhausted. but i do not know the circumstances around their return. im hopeful that however they were able to get out, that that same mechanism will help us get the rest of them out. >> when did you first realize or first know that you had s...

Office, we have 17 liaisons throughout our school district, and two of those liaisons have been in touch with those students. so weve had a great line of communication open. the students initially contacted their liaisons on or about august 16, and informed them, please hold our spots in our classrooms, we dont think were going to be back for the start of school but we dont want to lose our spaces. and so thankfully that communication has allowed us to reach out to congressman isas office who ha...

California Dixie Fire Monday, August 16, 2021 Updates

Blue Alerts are a relatively new thing we have recently been getting on our phones, the definition here is supplied by Google:

Battle Creek Transit has announced that regular bus routes, along that route, will be restored beginning Monday, August 16th.

It is an interesting one. case numbers— it is an interesting one. case numbers are falling. on the deal enail— numbers are falling. on the deal e—mail front page, cases are falling in england. — e—mail front page, cases are falling in england, scotland at the moment as well _ in england, scotland at the moment as well. that means there an opportunity to go at things further, in england, although freedom day came _ in england, although freedom day came much earlier than elsewhere in the...