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you're somewhere just shy of a positivity rate of 19% how are things going there? who is most impacted? >> well, many people are being impacted. we've, unfortunately, had records over the last few days. we've had a couple of highs for florida. i'm actually in a to covid hospital right now visiting a 40-year-old who's in icu, so it's impacting people that are my age, it's impacting children because more children are hospitalized than before, significantly more. and so, you know, this is a difficult time where we're now have to make sure that we're doing everything that we can and getting vaccinated. you know, 99% of the people that are vaccinated are not experiencing serious complications, and 90% of the people that are hospitalized are not vaccinated. so it's clearly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. griff: and, mr. mayor, are you seeing the debate over whether to get vaccinated, those that are hesitant, and the mask
rise. sadly, it may. jacqui: griff -- police are turning their backs on mayor lori light foot as the city struggles with a continuing wave of violence. joining us now is former police officer anthony napolitano. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. jacqui: so i want to talk about officer ella french. he was shot and killed. -- she was shot and killed. the rank and file officers turned their back on the mayor when she showed up at the vigil. what has changed for you? >> well, that time when i stood with me brothers and sisters to support mayor lightfoot because the alternative was not even questionable who she was running against at the time. right now it's just my officers and city workers are looking around a saying we're not going to have a city that deals with crime and punishment the proper way, we back our police officers and make sure they're safe on the street, as a matter of mattl
in afghanistan, and to see it fall apart like this with the way that the president, president biden, has chosen to withdraw our forces, it's not about whether to withdraw or not, it's about how you withdraw. mike pompeo assured me that president trump was going to do a conditions-based withdrawal. this president has a basically just said everybody leave. and what happened at bagram, you know, we just left in the middle of the night, and it's created an abandonment feeling in the people in afghanistan. and the taliban now are basically routeing them. routing them. griff: congressman, earlier this week before we saw just how lightning fast the taliban would take control of the country, this is what pompeo said earlier on monday. listen. >> we spent 20 years building up the afghan national security forces, providing them training, weapons, all the skill sets that they need to defend their own country. it's their time. everyone knew this day would come, eventually the afghan security forces had to stand up to protect their own. griff: what is your to that now
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knowing what we've seen and what has not been standing up by the afghan national security forces? >> yeah, i think it goes back to the way the president, the current president, president biden, is withdrawing. you know, we didn't even tell the afghans we were leaving bagram air force base. they just walked in and said, oh, wait, the americans are gone. and that kind of disrespect clearly makes them think, oh, the americans don't have our back. and when you communicate that to them in this kind of fight with the taliban surprising us all which could potentially be an intelligence failure that we need to dig into, their capability to sin caronize attacks -- synchronize attacks across the country, their choice is lay down arms and blend in or, you know, fight to the death. and some, many of these guys, unfortunately, are choosing the former. grefe griff when you say intelligencing failures, are you talking about our assessment of the readiness of the afghan security forces?
much of a difference. and so i think there's a lot of skepticism now about whatever the next governmental effort is and a lot of people hoping we can understand there's no such thing as zero risk, it's time to get on with our lives. griff: kristin, i'm going to guess you're a little surprised that the number to protect americans' safety isn't higher. >> i'm actually not that surprised. i mean, i think that the difference between last year and this year is that we've got this inebb credible tool in the -- incredible tool in the vaccine. you know, i reject and have said this on this program before, any efforts to politicize the science behind this. so, you know, i mean, i think people want to get back to their lives, and we have to figure out how we do that. the economy depends on it, kids need to get back to school, and in some areas where the vaccine, people are not getting the vaccine and getting sicker, and we're seeing this in places like austin, texas, masks at schools might help out.
>> reporter: general jack keane speaking there. as you can well imagine, on the weekend things change pretty quickly around here at the white house. even with the president up at camp david, he will be there until wednesday, griff, and, of course, he'll be briefed every day on what's happening on the ground in afghanistan. griff: kevin corke on the north lawn, thank you. jacqui: a second group of u.s. marines has arrived in kabul to help evacuate americans from afghanistan. lucas tomlinson joins us now with the latest on what the u.s. military is doing and, lucas, what are you hearing now? >> reporter: that's right. a second wave of marines arrived under full combat load. u.s. gents are striking the taliban outside the capital city which could fall any day now. you're looking at live pictures of the c-46 helicopter, u.s. military preparing for a full evacuation and closure of the embassy in kabul. sensitive documents now being destroyed at the embassy that cost over $700 million to build.
but it actually doesn't surprise me all that much. griff: you mentioned schools, kristin, that's on a lot of parents' minds including mine. i've got two kids about to go back. the poll was interesting, what should schools do in the fall. 36% say in person as usual, 33% in person with masks. james, do you think we're going to to see perhaps the further politicization of the protocols as we get closer and closer to all the schools opening? >> well, i think you are going to see more and more parents asking why those masks have to be on there. we've known all along that kids are not at the risk that other people are. we also know that unless you're talking about an n95, a surgical mask that's perfectly fitted, there's actually not a lot of data suggesting that the normal masks that you see people wearing have much of an impact. we do know, as e we've seen with the lockdowns and distance
it's falling apart just north of of cuba. this is something we pay attention to in the united states. not a massive storm, likely running up the gulf coast here as you get into monday bringing at least moderately heavy rain. there's probably going to be some areas getting 6-8 inches. but i do want to show you what's next for haiti, probably on monday and tuesday. we've got tropical storm grace. it's out in the atlantic, it's working in that direction. so in a couple of days there's going to be a tropical storm over haiti, and that's something those folks are going to have to deal with. jacqui: adam klotz, thank you so much. griff? griff: it's a busy, busy news day with rapid developments in afghanistan. we've got team coverage as the taliban advance towards kabul, reports saying they've gained control of the northern city of ma czar i sharif. lucas tomlinson is tracking the military strategy and kevin corke is at the white house. >> reporter: we've learned
devastation is or will be, but the early reports are not good. and, obviously, people are extremely anxious here. griff: and as far as your haitian community goes there, are you going to have any sort of response to help them, perhaps to try and reach -- i know communication in situations like this becomes really very difficult. >> absolutely. i mean, we have, like you said, little haiti cultural center which was created in the city of miami, and it's probably one of the largest diaspora of haitian-americans are here in the united states. so we will be using that facility to connect with the haitian community and make sure that we're doing everything we can as a city to support them over there. griff: and lastly, mr. mayor, we're glad that a hurricane named fred is not hitting you, but you are going to get a lot of rain. what are you concerned about? >> we're usually prepared for hurricanes and for large hurricanes, so this, in a sense for us, being the first storm of