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Why? first, we begin at the southern border. cnn's ed lavandera in downtown el paso. i wonder, ed, what kind of preparations you're seeing there. >> reporter: well, you know, once again, dozens of migrants sleeping on the streets because the shelters here in this city simply overwhelmed. you can see many of the migrants just buried under blankets because the temperatures here have been so painfully frigid at night, into the lower 30s over the course of the last week. a bunch of different reasons for why this is happening. shelter space is very limited but there are also a number of migrants ...

Worshippers stay socially distanced have now been removed, allowing visitors to pray as they used to — shoulder—to—shoulder. the bbc�*s alanjohnston told us more about the changes brought in from today. that black cube structure in the centre of the mosque courtyard, known as the kaaba, is the point at which muslims all over the world pray each day. and this is one of the really great gathering points of the world, we're used to seeing worshipers in large numbers pressing up towards that central point and moving around the mosque compound en masse. but of course, under the conditions o...

Allowing visitors to pray as they used to — shoulder—to—shoulder. the bbc�*s alanjohnston told us more about the changes brought in from today. that black cube structure in the centre of the mosque courtyard, known as the kaaba, is the point at which muslims all over the world pray each day. and this is one of the really great gathering points of the world, we're used to seeing worshipers in large numbers pressing up towards that central point and moving around the mosque compound en masse. but of course, under the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic, that had to stop — social dis...

Afghan allies. the reality right now on the ground is everything is subject to a former adversary of the united states, jake. >> phil mattingly at the white house. i want to go to cnn's oren liebermann. pentagon officials are telling us now about a previously secret deal that the u.s. government made with the taliban to help get american citizens to safety before u.s. troops left afghanistan. how did this work? how does forces work with the taliban? >> jake, the taliban has been a part of this process since long before the evacuation, pretty much ever since the negotiations began that led to t...

We have to open up another air field, whether we have to have other gathering points where we can go pick people up from helicopters that we arranged with the taliban to do that or even if we have to open up corridors ourselves with our troops. are we going to accomplish the mission and we need more resources and get the resources in. the other thing i would have liked to have heard and i'm suspecting that the president hasn't given them a green light yet. he's holding that decision and maybe he already made that decision. the decision is we stay here as long as it takes to accomplish the miss...