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We're limited on time. limit your follow ups. >> general, thanks. can you give us a sense of there were any americans or civilians taken out on any of the last couple of c-17s that flew out this afternoon and can you give us a picture of what you saw with equipment and other things getting destroyed or removed at the airport before they left? >> no american citizens came out on what we call the joint tactical plane flights. we maintained the ability to bring them in up until immediately before departure. we were not able to bring any americans out. that ended 12 hours before our exit. we conti...

0 tonight before dumping rain in tennessee and ohio river valleys tomorrow. there's flash flooding and mudslides along the way. we wish those people well and a quick recovery in a very difficult situation. thanks nor being with us today for "the story," august 30, 2021. the "the story" continues tomorrow. see you back here. >> neil: thank you, martha, very much. we're on top of two storms gripping the world right now. certainly our part with the flooding and damage and winds and still more flooding and damage and winds to come from hurricane ida, now tropical storm ida. also following what's g...

>> my foreign relation good. i'm so happy now. >> for many afghans, it took them days to flee the country. taliban checkpoints, road blocks and chaos outside the airport gates made the journey nearly impossible. a special immigrant visa holder heading to the united states. he arrived at the airport with his family days ago but couldn't make it inside it? >> was very hard to come over here. first eligible people they need to come. >> reports indicate key nato allies like france and britain are not happy with president biden and the u.s. over this push to withdrawal troops by august 31st. concer...

The kabul airport to try and get out? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, the situation is worse than it was when we talked yesterday, if you can imagine that. yesterday we were talking about 14,000 people on the airport. a source familiar with the situation now tells me there are 18,500 on that airport. my appalling maths would suggest that's about 40 planeloads, depending how tightly you pack them. at that rate, we're talking probably at the current rate of plane departures, a good day, two, three, four days of plane flights to get them out. on top of that, my source says there are 2,000 people at ea...

Why during one of their breaks yesterday, jerry nadler and doug collins, the republican and the democrat sat down and they agreed we're going to be done with all discussion at 5:00 and then we are going to have a vote. but then as we know, it dragged on until 11:00 and then jerry nadler pulled the plug. ainsley: here's the thing. they have been in these sessions all day until 10:34 at night on wednesday. last night they thought they would have a vote at the end of the day. stayed for 13 hours yesterday. all of our congress men and women thought they were going home to their families to celebra...