CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell August 24, 2021 19:02:00
>> and the taliban declared today, afghans cannot leave and ordered the crowds at kabul airport to just go home. a few moments ago, a taliban spokesman said the roads to the airport are only open to foreigners, not afghans. so the pressure to accelerate evacuations is growing now. the pentagon says a plane is departing kabul airport every 45 minutes. the u.s. military and coalition forces evacuated an unprecedented 21,600 people from the kabul airport in the last 24 hours. let's turn now to white house's cnn's kaitlan collins there. kaitlan, we expect the president to speak hours ago, then at ...
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