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newsroom. i'm paula reed in washington in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a machete attack on three police officers in times square. the attack unfolded outside a security screening zone set up for last night's festivities. police say the man wielding the machete was just 19 years old. fortunately, all three officers injured are in stable condition. cnn's correspondent is following this story from new york city. gloria, what else do we know about this violent attack? >> reporter: certainly a trosh f -- terrifying attack for these three officers. one of the officers just grad...

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Certainly in control of the city of kabul. >> they are fighting their reality of the taliban. >> encouraging the president to stay on, but he has a way of the equities of the danger versus the advantage and i trust his judgment. >> what are you telling the americans, may be they are not in kabul but they are somewhere in afghanistan, how will they get out? >> i'm in contact with my friends and family and everyone says that we do not know where -- >> we are on the constant precipice of having the most massive hostage situation in american history. it's going to make tehran look like a sleepover...

Failure by taliban operating with various degrees of confidence. some are scrupulous. some are good. some are not. i don't know the answer. you can be assured we'll look at it and make all of our practices better as we go forward. >> general, we're going to let him close out. general, any closing thoughts you might have. >> thanks, john. again, i'd like to say today is a hard day. the thing i come back to is the remarkable professionalism that the force on the ground is showing. as i noted before, ultimately at these screening points in particular, you have to get up close and personal to the ...

>> they are fighting their reality of the taliban. >> encouraging the president to stay on, but he has a way of the equities of the danger versus the advantage and i trust his judgment. >> what are you telling the americans, may be they are not in kabul but they are somewhere in afghanistan, how will they get out? >> i'm in contact with my friends and family n and everyoe says that we do not know where -- >> we are on the constant precipice of having the most massive hostage situation in american history. it's going to make tehran look like a sleepover. >> how many are on the watch list that h...