destruction from the gulf coast to the northeast we have fox team coverage on both of the major stories beginning with david spunt he s live in wilmington, delaware and president biden is spending the holiday weekend. good evening texas republican congressman michael mccaul says he was briefed by intelligence sources that some americans are sitting on six airplanes at the airport 265 miles north of kabul. they re not clearing airplanes to depart they said at the airport for the last couple of days, these planes are not allowed to leave we know why the taliban want something in exchange. this is a satellite image from two days ago of the airports are we cannot say with certainty that these are the six planes that congressman mentioned to chris wallace but there are six airplanes in that
your exactly right it does not make sense to me that we abandon a very secure based where we have two runways were we can conduct operation to evacuate americans, evacuate our afghan friends and instead rely upon an airport that we do not secure or was not secured in a big population around it that could endanger the airport, does not make sense to me that we abandon the place that we fully control to go where the risk is much greater in the proper decision would ve been to stay and bagram air base until we would ve got her americans and then we would ve had the threatened danger to americans or the loss of american lives as we saw at the mazar-i-sharif airport in kabul. jon: you think speed was more
to get the airport operational again. there are ongoing discussions to determine who exactly will run the airport and for how long. we do know according to qatari sources that it ll be on evacuation and humanitarian aid. this is our first light yesterday we went to iraq and spent the night on their then we took the passengers and then we traveled to kabul. this comes as a television works to get civil services up and running again under their new islamic system. video shows lines of a number of banks while others indicate other facilities have closed. the united nations is scheduled to hold a conference on september 13 to discuss issues afghanistan faces. the world food program s wording of shortages in the coming weeks. meanwhile fighting continues as a taliban tries to retake the final pocket of land held by resistance fighters. a spokesman said the taliban