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Refuge which provides he will jubl afghan nationals and their immediate families with support of the u.s. government the opportunity to relocate to the united states. the department of state subsequently activated the afghanistan coordination task force and requested the department of defense provide temporary support for up to 3,500 afghan special immigrant applicants. on august 15th, the department of state requested and the secretary of defense approved additional support for afghan special immigrant visa applicants and other vulnerable afghans. in response to this request, the u.s. norther...

0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we're actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. a...

Redskins. coming up former notre dame head football coach lou holtz will join to us react. i'm sure he will have a thing or two to say about that. brian: i'm sure they have a statement later on in the show. thank you so much, jillian. growing tensions outside kabul international airport as soldiers and marines race against time to evacuate americans in an impossible tuesday deadline. our next guest began working as interpreter for the u.s. coalition forces in 2012. just one year after she was kidnapped and tortured by the taliban. she escaped to afghanistan just hours before the country fell t...

But there are some alternatives ways that they are picking up, you know, u.s. citizens. >> and is it just you trying to get out or is your mom trying to get out as well? >> it's not only me that i have documents. i know a few people that they came from the u.s. to visit their families and they're stuck here. my flight was on august 15th, exactly on the day that the taliban entered kabul city. so my flight was canceled because of, you know, the rush inside the airport. you know, people were running

>> and so far this year the louisville metro police department reports 125 murders, 118 of those people were shot to death. now, the city is on pace to have more homicides than the past two years combined. nbc news reporter dion hampton taking a deep dive into these startling statistics and joins us with a breakdown. good to see you, man and you did a lot of research into all of this. what is happening louisville? >> louisville is a city that is under siege, quite frankly. they have a homicide problem. like you mentioned there were 125 homicides as of august 15th, and this is a city that didn'...