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Pakistan is on a mission to get polio back under control following an increase in cases. Rotary International is playing a key role.

Preparation or lack of it just hours before kabul fell. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story. reporter: defense secretary lloyd austin and secretary of state anthony blinken were grilled during closed-door briefing on the afghanistan withdraw, the mat-- manistee aryan disaster that followed and a resurgence of al qaeda with the leaked notes of a meeting august 14, 1 day before kabul fell indicating the biden administration had not yet finalized where to evacuate thousands of americans and allied afghans, something the pentagon had complained privately for months was h...

Point. transit points need to be able to accommodate u.s. citizens, afghan nationals, third country nationals and other evacuees. >> is that true at that late stage preparations had not been made as to where -- where to evacuated americans and others? >> in the spring, the defense department was already trying, you know, gaming out what a noncombatant evacuation would look like. and the secretary preposition forces well before august. within 48 hours. we were able to get some 3,000 troops on the ground at the kabul airport. >> in afghanistan in the past week, scenes of near famine and a collap...

Four, five, six months ago, so they're very sensitive to the idea that americans would be going in to rescue americans. but these american forces. but these forces would go, i think, they're now getting ready to erect checkpoints and transit points to aid in the land withdrawal of americans should they start to get nervous and actually leave. >> mike memoli, erin mclaughlin and gordon lubold, thank you. coming up, william taylor with his perspective on the president's call with putin. plus congressman conor lamb on the real danger for american forces as well. we are also following breaki...

In the meantime, the u.s. is on high alert for cyberattacks in retaliation for these economic sanctions that have been leveled against russia. cnn reporters are covering it all. >> i'm jim sciutto in lviv, ukraine there are times when there is daylight between the urgency expressed by u.s. officials and ukrainian officials, that is gone. ukraine announced a state of emergency in this country. they will increase security at critical infrastructure, also at transit points. at the same time they are now warning ukrainians not to travel to russia anymore, and any of them living there should come h...