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american citizens from the war zone. why are other nations right now successfully evacuating their own citizens by the hundreds. >> sandra: one of the major questions as the pentagon readies for a briefing. picture is up, podium is there, we are waiting for the briefing, and take the news off the top. navy seals pulling off an evacuation of the embassy workers and families but hundreds of americans are still there at this hour as the deadly fighting gets closer and closer. >> john: we ...

Dealing with the former Vice President. There there are biden allies saying they may turn the tables and talk about his own family and whether hes profiting on the presidency. Mike memoli, appreciate that. Chris jansing in new york, it looks like you, my friend, are going to be able to have that taped playback of the president s remarks on the white house south lawn. I imagine those will be coming in the next few minutes, although it depends on how long the president speaks. As fast as humanly p...

Morgan chesky right outside, very close to where this rocket will be taking off. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: jose, these final preparations are now underway. that crew safely inside that capsule. and we just have a few minutes now before were going to see what is a one of a kind sight, no matter where you are. and that is a rocket lifting off from the west texas desert floor, and rising more than 60 miles above the earths surface. we were not this close last time, at least i was not....

He was in "star trek"s had naefr r never really been to space. how safe is it? >> first of all, im jealous. i would love to do that. i think it is amazing all that is happening. i mean, i think that there is obviously risks involved. but this isnt the days of the right stuff, john. there is people who john glenn, in fact, went up in 1998, he was 77 years old. wally funk recently, she went up, 82 years old, went up on the first blue origin space flight. so there is about 3 gs you pull when youre ...

They were, of course, utterly distraught, and also furious at the accusation they had anything to do with isis. in fact, a number of the family members who were killed had worked with american aid organisations, american troops, even, in afghanistan. the family had in fact been hoping to be relocated as part of the evacuation scheme to the us. now we know, and its confirmed that the intelligence was wrong, of course. this is an incredibly grim end to a — largely bringing an end to american mil...

Of family members who were killed had worked with american aid organisations, american forces, even, in afghanistan. the family had been hoping to be evacuated out to america. this is an incredibly grim way to bring an end to this chapter in american involvement in afghanistan. meanwhile, here, there is a deepening economic crisis also increasing concern about whether the taliban will respect womens rights or not. they seem to have today replaced the women affairs ministry with a ministry for th...

Lifting off, the talibans new air force. on board, their fighters. in the cockpit, theirformer enemies — pilots from the previous government. the fleet now under the talibans control includes fighter planes originally donated by america. dozens of pilots fled abroad as the telephone took over, fearing for their lives, taking their aircraft with them. these helicopters launched a lot of attacks against the taliban, thats right, isnt it? but as the group announced an amnesty, others decided to s...

Incredibly grim way to bring an end to this chapter of american involvement in afghanistan. meanwhile here, there is a deepening economic crisis, also increasing concern about whether the taliban will respect womens rights or not, they seem to have today replaced the womens affairs ministry for the ministry of affairs and vice. and at the same time the taliban is reaching out to a number of former government employees trying to encourage them to come back to work. here is our report filmed by my...

Lifting off, the talibans new air force. on board, their fighters. in the cockpit, their former enemies — pilots from the previous government. the fleet now under the talibans control includes fighter planes originally donated by america. dozens of pilots fled abroad as the telephone took over, fearing for their lives, taking their aircraft with them. these helicopters launched a lot of attacks against the taliban, thats right, isnt it? but as the group announced an amnesty, others decided to ...