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Jobs and did it well to serve others. not in a mission of war but in a mission of mercy. 20 service members were wounded in the service of this mission. 13 heros gave their lives. i was just at dover air force base for the dignified transfer. we owe them and their families a debt of gratitude that we can never repay. but we should never ever forget. in april i made a decision to end this war. as part of that decision, we set the date of august 31 for american troops to withdraw. the assumption was that more than 300,000 afghan national security forces that we had trained over the past two deca...

We're following two major breaking stories tonight. first, all u.s. service members are out of afghanistan, officially ending our country's longest war. but up to 200 americans and countless afghans who helped u.s. troops have been left behind. plus a desperate search under way tonight after hurricane ida ripped through louisiana. homes are demolished. entire neighborhoods now covered in water. and more than a million people are without power. two people have died from the storm and the governor is warning that he expects the number to rise considerably. this is as louisiana hospitals are alre...

With all what is going on, no one heard us, that we are in danger and we need to be safe. just heartbreaking. i just don't even know what to say to you. >> taliban have warned that an american presence after today is a red line. but secretary of state antony blinken says that the u.s. and its allies are working to reopen the kabul airport as quickly as possible to help americans and afghans who still want to leave. d cnn's oren liebermann reports. >> reporter: and one minute before midnight, one minute before august 31, the u.s. military presence came to an end marking the end of nearly 20 yea...

Response to our offer. we're obviously aware of the reports we've seen the last 24 hours and closely coordinating whether or not allies or partners on developments and assessing closely. >> the president said in his remarks a short time ago that in april a deadline was set for august 31. in fact, in his april remarks, he set a deadline of september 11th. what changed with the august 31 deadline and the september 11 deadline? was that a deadline agreed to in a new time frame by the taliban or suggested by them or this administration or what is the discrepancy there? >> the military gave their a...

Does the administration believe al-quaida is no longer a threat to american and given the path that we've seen in the last week, how confident is the administration that afghanistan isn't already a safe haven for terrorists? >> first, there's a very big difference between terrorist ability to attack u.s. troops in kabul and to attack to the homeland. we do not assess that any terrorist group on the ground has the ability to attack the homeland in the united states. it's incumbent upon the president, the national security team to prevent that from ever being the case. there's a very big differe...