CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown August 15, 2021 22:03:00
>> reporter: pretty much, yeah. i mean, obviously it's dark. we have a limited perspective from where we are. but there are intermittent crackle of gunfire we've occasionally heard, lots of reports of taliban checkpoints around the city. there could be pockets of resistance elsewhere, but they have since the morning slowly moved their way in. there has been a power vacuum by the unannounced secret departure of the afghan president, who 24 hours ago gave a speech saying he needed diplomacy, he was going to stay. and then, quote, one of his former officials ran away with a c coterie of close aid...