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Within 30 days, the pentagon is sending 3,000 combat troops to kabul's international airport to start pulling out american diplomats. >> these are infantry battalions that are highly trained and will have the capabilities to support, in any manner, what the state department needs, to facilitate this reduction. >> reporter: they will fly in from the persian gulf and begin removing some of the more than 4,000 state department employees located at the embassy to the airport. whether by ground or helicopter will depend on conditions in kabul. from there, the military will airlift them out of the c...

Keep it on the timeline it's on right now by the end of august to have all of the combat troops out. that's why we are at right now. we know that they still have the password to the twitter account. we have seen tweets about healthcare and the gavin newsom recall but nothing about sending troops to afghanistan. they are on the way. some are already. there it's dangerous. >> sandra: yes. >> trace: peter, it's trace. john kirby gave us a timeline. the white house noted how fast the taliban moved but asked are you surprised? he indicated well we were not surprised. yet the president one month ago...

To the airport what is the international gateway into kabul and key entry and exit point for diplomats and embassy staff. these troops have a specific role and that is to secure and assist in the withdrawal of a partial drawdown of the embassy, only the core diplomatic staff will remain at the embassy in kabul as well as to assist in the acceleration of the withdrawal of [ inaudible ]. there is now critical time left as the taliban has made sweeping gains across the country as the u.s. faces what very much looks like very close to a worst case scenario with these taliban advances that are not ...

An additional 3,500 combat troops are being sent to the persian gulf in case even more fire power is needed to evacuate americans in the final days of this 20-year war. major. >> garrett: david martin, thanks. we turn now to the covid pandemic. the u.s. is seeing three times more daily cases than any other country. the c.d.c. just reported more than 132,000 infections in a single day, up nearly 25% in a week. and that's giving new urgency to the drive to vaccinate. here's cbs's manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: as the delta variant spreads, vaccine mandates are accelerating. today, the nation's l...

Herbert Mitschke flüchtet 1988 nach Köln. Sein halbes Leben hat er in der DDR gelebt.