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newsroom. im paula reed in washington in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a machete attack on three police officers in times square. the attack unfolded outside a security screening zone set up for last nights festivities. police say the man wielding the machete was just 19 years old. fortunately, all three officers injured are in stable condition. cnns correspondent is following this story from new york city. gloria, what else do we know about this violent attack? >> reporter:...

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Certainly in control of the city of kabul. >> they are fighting their reality of the taliban. >> encouraging the president to stay on, but he has a way of the equities of the danger versus the advantage and i trust his judgment. >> what are you telling the americans, may be they are not in kabul but they are somewhere in afghanistan, how will they get out? >> im in contact with my friends and family and everyone says that we do not know where -- >> we are on the constant precipice of having the ...

Failure by taliban operating with various degrees of confidence. some are scrupulous. some are good. some are not. i dont know the answer. you can be assured well look at it and make all of our practices better as we go forward. >> general, were going to let him close out. general, any closing thoughts you might have. >> thanks, john. again, id like to say today is a hard day. the thing i come back to is the remarkable professionalism that the force on the ground is showing. as i noted before, u...

>> they are fighting their reality of the taliban. >> encouraging the president to stay on, but he has a way of the equities of the danger versus the advantage and i trust his judgment. >> what are you telling the americans, may be they are not in kabul but they are somewhere in afghanistan, how will they get out? >> im in contact with my friends and family n and everyoe says that we do not know where -- >> we are on the constant precipice of having the most massive hostage situation in american...

Base is a failure somewhere. a failure you about taliban with varying degrees of confidence. i dont know the answer to that question. you can be assured were going to continue to take a look at it and mach our practitions better as we go forward. >> general, sir, were going to let the general close out. >> john, thanks. i would just like to say, today is a hard day. i -- the thing i come back to is remarkable professionalism that the force on the ground is showing. as i noted before, ultimately ...

Confidence. some of those guys are scrupulously good, some are not. i just dont know the answer to that question. you can be assured were going to continue to take a look at it and try to make all our pr practices better as we go forward. >> were going to let the general close out. >> again, i would like to say todays a hard day. the thing i come back to is the remarkable professionalism that the force on the ground is showing. as i noted before, ultimately at these screening points in particula...

0 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but theyre still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. lets start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what were expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which overse...

Outof the airport. the turks are still on the ground at the airport assisting in this security mission that we have there. i wont speak for their intentions one way or another going forward. but there is not going to be a -- when the mission is over and when we are leaving the airport, the airport will not be the united states -- our responsibility anymore. so how it gets managed going forward will be something that the taliban, who are now in kabul, will have to manage that on their own. and i ...

Responsibility. >> just one more. how many individuals on terror watch lists have been screened or found at any screening points at qatar, ramstein or in the u.s.? >> i dont know. well have to take that question and get back to you. >> on behalf of the afghan people thank you very much for your hard job and good job actually. >> thank you. >> afghan people, they are happy, but some of them, they are not eligible for siv visa, p1, p2, but still have a serious problem. they are not in kabul. they ...