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Hole up in various safe houses around the city, but the taliban has started going not necessarily from house to house, but they're checking in across neighborhoods, either places that they've been told former senior officials or prominent journalists lived. i know of one case where they even ransacked a former senior official's house and questioned all of his cleaning people to see if they could find out where he had gone. so while the taliban political wing is saying that there's an amnesty and people who worked for the americans or the former government are welcome to stay and forgiven for t...

Month. they don't want to see any extension. >> that's raising questions about whether afghan allyies, people who helped u.s. troops over the course of the war, are going to be left out in the cold here in the coming days as that potential deadline is nearing. also new this morning i obtained letters of a brother who worked within afghan interpreter, and the brother says he is sentenced to death in absentia and cannot appeal the verdict. meantime some 13,000 people are remaining at the kabul airport waiting to be evacuated. there are 33 u.s. military transport jets we're told expected to arriv...

♪ i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world, it is monday, august 23rd. overnight, a new round of chaos at the kabul airport. a deadly fire fight involving u.s., german and afghan forces. and afghan guard helping to secure the base killed by sniper fire. unknown sniper fire. at this point we're told no americans were injured in the gunfire and then this just in, a taliban spokesman telling cnn that all u.s. forces must leave afghanistan by the end of the month after president biden said he's considering extending the afghan withdrawal deadline. also new...

Forces, many of them translators or cultural advisers. president biden says the u.s. may extend the afghan withdrawal deadline past august 31st as evacuations continue. >> we're working hard and as fast as we can to get people out. we have made a number of changes, including extending access around the airport and the safe zone. >> now, senior administration official later clarified that it is the taliban that is going to be opening these new entry points. also new this morning, cnn has obtained letters that the taliban sent to the brother of an afghan translator who worked with u.s. troops. o...

When i see all these girls, i get really upset now. today a student at the american university told me her mother bought her a burqa, not because she wants her to cover up, but because they have to be prepared. lester >> all right kelly cobiella in kabul, thank you tonight a birthday marked in absentia, with just one desperate wish, the safe return of austin tice, an american journalist who disappeared in syria nine years ago i spoke exclusively with his parents >> with all my heart, austin, i hope you get this message >> reporter: a mother's plea on the 40th birthday of her son, austin tice...