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a dangerous storm now that is gaining strength at this hour. let's go "outfront". good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. tonight these powerful images we'll show you capturing the scene inside a c-17 packed mostly with afghan nationals fle fleeing their home country. clarissa ward and vince wells are on that plane now. roughly 400 people making their way to kutar. this comes as president biden takes questions for the first time since afghanistan collapsed to the taliban. biden admitting he does not know how many americans are still in afghanistan, but he promised to get every last one out. >> let me be clear, any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. >> will you sign off on sending u.s. troops into kabul to

evacuate americans who haven't been able to get to the airport safely? >> we have no indication they haven't been able to get in kabul through the airport. >> yet, this afternoon, biden's defense secretary appeared to contradict the president on that. during a briefing with lawmakers, sources telling cnn secretary lloyd austin said americans attempting to love afghanistan have been beaten by taliban fighters. and just moments ago, the white house now admits that americans are facing quote challenge and chaos at the airport. the initial disconnect between the president and his secretary of defense comes as the president is also changing hess t -- his tone about the startling images the world is seeing coming out of kabul. the president today sounding more compassion ate and speakin to the heart wrenching images playing out across the globe. >> the past week has been

heartbreaking. we've seen gut wrenching emimag of panicked people acting out of sheer desperation. it completely understandable. they're frightened. they're sad. uncertain what happens next. i don't think anyone, i don't think any one of us can see these pictures and not feel that pain on a human level. >> pictures and images like afghans handing a baby to u.s. forces over an airport wall to get her help and graphic images of bodies falling from a plane days earlier as it is taking off. tonight, we are learning more about one of those who was killed after falling from a plane. he was a teenager, he played for afghanistan's young national football team. one afghan official saying he was in search of a better future in america. those who are able to get out of the country, they are the lucky ones. look at this evacuation flight

out of kabul. 823 people on board this plane. a plane that normally flies 100 to 350 people. thousands more are still outside the airport in kabul braving 90 degree heat during the day, sleeping on gravel during the day and night. their cries for help many times drowned out by gunfire from taliban fighters. [crying] [ gunshots ]. >> sam kylie is "outfront" live in qatar tonight. i'm, president biden spoke out but did he answer the mounting questions about this crisis? >> reporter: i think in short, probably not. one of the main issues emerging from what he said was a suggestion repeatedly from the

u.s. president that the collapse of the afghan government was somehow a forgone conclusion, whether it happened sooner rather than later. clearly, it happened an awful lot sooner than planned for and the issue was how much he planned for. he attempted to show more compassion but these pictures and reactions to them reveal, not so much. dec desperate for a child salvation a baby handed to u.s. marines over a razor wire att kabul's airport. >> security airport enabling flights to resume, not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries and the ngo is taking out civilians and vulnerable afghan -- vulnerable afghan knks. >> reporter: through the hours of daylight today, no evacuation

left the runway leaving runs pressing on the perimeter. some 13,000 people have been flown out since last saturday, august 14th. many times that number awaiting in heat, chaos and one fire threatened by taliban whips, worse awaits them if they stay. the german broadcaster says taliban fighters searching for one of their journalists killed a member of his family and artists are fleeing in fear, too. >> as a human being, you should have a value but under taliban's rules, you lead a miserable life. life is not just about this it's about creativity. >> reporter: the taliban is dismissing allegations of repiez -- reprice l attacks as fake news. 20 years of fighting resulted in taliban triumph and evacuation of local allies and foreigners

that looks more like a route. many european allies are rattled by the sudden withdrawal of american forces and the taliban victory. >> there are hard questions that we need to ask ourselves of our engagement in afghanistan. >> the president defiant. >> there is a greater danger of isis and al qaeda and all these affiliates and other countries by far than from afghanistan. we're going to retain over the rising capability if they come back to be able to take them out. surgically move. so this is -- this is where we should be. this is about america leading the world, and all our allies have agreed with that. >> reporter: the taliban meanwhile celebrating with broadcast parades of the special forces carrying what appear to be captured american weapons. they were all born in a time of war, like this baby who was treated in an airport clinic and returned to their family. if he or she makes it out of

kabul, they at least will have no memory of these dark days. kate, cnn correspondents and the pentagon we just learned that the rescue of 169 americans by u.s. forces that went outside the wire at the international airport was conducted using helicopters traveling over a very short distance. that is the first report we've had of americans using helicopters as part of this evacuation, kate? >> sam kylie, thank you very much. as so many people try desperately to find a way out of afghanistan tonight, the situation at the airport only got more chaotic, dangerous and heartbreaking today. as i mentioned, cnn's clarissa ward and her team boarded a plane out of the country. you're looking at pictures at her producer brent captured of the scene inside the c-17 taking

them to safety. it's mostly filled with afghan nationals desperate to flee the taliban and they are the lucky ones. here is what clarisa saw before she boarded that flight. >> reporter: after three weeks in afghanistan, we joined the crowds at kabul airport, now the only way out of the country. there is a huge block here. lots of cars. hundreds of people wait in the blistering heat hoping for a flight out. so we just managed to get into the airport compound and i have to say, it was pretty intense. it was just like this crush of desperate people and screaming children and women and babies and yeah, it's not often you see desperation like that. the few people that do make it are exhausted and scared but they're the lucky ones.

they've made it past the taliban check points. afghan security guards and finally, the airport gate. but they can't forget those who they left behind. >> we're getting out. we're happy for that but heart broken for country, those who can't get out and are stuck here. we're heart broken and our heart bleeds for them. >> reporter: what do you feel for the young mothers and young daughters growing up under taliban rule? the back of a pretty long line now. transportation is under strain they said and obviously, priority is getting children and babies out as soon as possible, but i think we'll probably be here for awhile. do you work for the u.s. military or? >> not naturally but working for --

>> defense in afghanistan. >> we are also work with the people, too. >> reporter: so you have visa? >> yeah, documents. >> reporter: as we interview this couple, suddenly shouts behind us, a vehicle speeds through. tha that's a newborn baby that just flew past in that vehicle a. newborn, did you see the baby? it was this big. the baby we find out had heat stroke and needs treatment. a reminder for these families that they're close to safety but not there yet. we stand in the blazing hot sun for hours. everyone seeking what shelter they can. patience wearing thin. it's an agonizingly slow process, but finally, we're

allowed inside. out on the tarmac, now safe but the chaos continues. >> i've been waiting for two days. yesterday since 3:00 a.m. >> reporter: yesterday since 3:00 a.m.? >> yes. >> reporter: tell me what the situation was like trying to get into the airport. >> it was really busy and a lot of people were fighting and trying to make way for themselves, but we pushed through. >> reporter: we are certainly some of the very lucky ones here. others, as you heard from that young man have been waiting for two days. others we saw getting turned around, sent back, told you don't have the appropriate paperwork and there is no question, everybody here is doing their best but it's not clear if it's fast enough, if enough people can get out and how much longer they have to finish this massive operation. clarissa ward, cnn, kabul.

>> clarissa, thank you. "outfront" with me now ben, briefed on the situation by the secretary of state and chairman of the joint chiefs. thank you for being here. did you gain from that briefing any understanding, any better understanding what went wrong here? >> well, kate, first of all, it's good to be with you. i think we're concentrating on the immediate mission of saving lives. this is a humanitarian crisis in afghanistan today. we want to get owl aall america whose want to leave out and those who helped us in our mission in afghanistan and those quite frankly vulnerable to the taliban, the leadership among women in afghanistan, the news organizations, et cetera. and this is a very challenging situation. so our first priority is to have the personnel at the airport necessary to keep it safe but also to process those that we are trying to get out of afghanistan and it's a real

challenge. we'll have plenty of time to try to understand the situation. there is a lot of mistakes made over the 20 years in afghanistan and we'll have plenty of time to analyze that. the immediate concern is to get people out of afghanistan as quickly as possible. >> plenty of time to look back but there are definitely immediate mistakes in this is now just the draw down policy but executed from a democrat senator. you talk about the immediate mission at hand. there is contradictions that we heard publicly today that i would love to see if you have clarity on. the white house said there are reports of americans facing challenge and chaos at the airport but the president said otherwise today, that americans have not been met with a challenge and the taliban getting to the airport. defense secretary austin told house members on a call this afternoon, americans have been beaten by the taliban in kabul.

did austin tell you the same? >> no, we did not hear that at our briefing. let me tell you, i agree with you that we should have been able to predict the chaos that is occurring today. we had information how the taliban could likely control the country. we should have been prepared to take necessary steps faster, but as far as americans are concerned, our information is that we're getting americans to the airport and out and that they're not being harmed. i have not heard of americans being harmed. >> why weren't we prepared? >> well, that's a good question. i think we should have had contingency plans to be able to deal with the ex traction. we have a lot of time to understand that and make sure this doesn't happen again, but the immediate problem is not to analyze what went wrong but get

people out as quickly as possible. that's why we were told today that more diplomatic personnel are on the ground at the airport in order to process this, that we are allowing people to get out of harm's way without all the necessary documents produced. we'll work for that later on in a third country. so there is a lot of things being done to expedite the process. we were assured we're working not just for americans but those in harm's way, we're increasing the numbers that we can get out by a significant number each day but there is a tremendous backlog. we asked questions what happens to someone not in kabul that we're trying to get to? how will they get that information? how will they safely get to the airport? there is a lot of questions that went unanswered but i can tell you that we'll do everything we can to help the biden administration get people out of

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and aspiring doctor. she is "outfront" and they have not seen each other in a decade. i want to talk about this beautiful reunion and living with the dent family but first, you still have family in afghanistan. when you see the desperate images out of your home country, how fearful are you for their safety? >> very, very scared and just heart broken at everything that is coming out of there right now. >> i mean, when you see the fear on their faces, the crush of the people trying to get to the airport, the stories, the desperate stories that we're hearing, what do you think that means for your country? >> a lot of unstability, i think. also, a lot of broken homes, broken families and just chaos. >> yeah. i want to show again some of the

pictures that you shared with us, pictures of you as a child in afghanistan, your mother, as i mentioned, disguised you as a boy to go to school under taliban rule. the taliban now is saying that it is changed and reformed and will allow girls to go to school and respect the rights of women. do you believe that at all? >> no. not at all. not at all. there is nothing else to add to that but no. >> yeah. congressman dent, he told me last night that the way that he put it is that you gave them far more than anything they gave you in the time you lived together. what did that time with the dents mean for you when you were a senior in high school? >> it was a very, very special time, and i call them my bonus family for a reason. they were just the kindest, the

most welcoming people and i think it was just such a beautiful lesson to learn from them, as well, that when you have more than you need, you can build a longer table instead of a taller wall. >> that's beautiful. congressman, we're not all physically together, which of course, i wish we were but i love seeing you even through those magical boxes of television able to reconnect with her for the first time in so long. i mean, what do you think hearing that? >> we've always said the reason why this worked so well is because of the woman sitting next the me, my wife. she put it all together. you know, i was in washington three to four days awee week bu she took the bull by the horn to straighten the situation out. it was great to have her as part of the family. the dog adored her, the kids adored her and she brought a lot of happiness into our life.

it was a difficult time for her, i'll be honest and we hope we made her experience a little better at that moment in her life but she was popular in high school. i remember graduation and the prom, you know, our daughters, my daughter and sami who is like a daughter all went to the prom together. a wonderful, wonderful experience. >> i'll call you pamela, i know the congressman calls you pam and he deservingly gives you all the credit for this just beautiful show of humanity and love. what do you hope that people can learn from it as we are looking at, look, tens of thousands of what are now and will be new afghan refugees? >> well, sami, wonderful to see you, even if from a far and it was definitely a family effort. charlie was in d.c. all week and

home on the weekends but definitely a family effort with my daughter, our oldest daughter kate, our son will and our youngest son jack. family effort by all of us with sami and, you know, we just wanted to make a difference. i had my whole goal and purpose was for sami to graduate from high school. when i had heard that her family was moving, they were renting. they did not own a property and they were moving out of the district, i knew that it would be much more difficult to graduate senior year, just think about it. senior year you want to be with all your friends, your close m classmates so we opened our home to her and the biggest reward was her graduatgraduating. you know, just to see her graduate. i knew that if she did not graduate, her -- it would be

more limiting and if she were to graduate, it would lead to a much more successful future. >> yeah, and you've graduated and then some, my friend. what a beautiful life and what an amazing, amazing american story, as well, that comes from afghan roots and i think there is so much to be learned. there is just people who are trying to exploit this crisis now to instill fear about refugees, right wing commentators and others. what do you want people to know about the images that they're seeing on tv from a woman who was once a little girl just like them? >> i think once we're kind of looking through things at a screen, it becomes a little harder to connect with them on a human level and my only wish is that everybody would kind of do that just like as the dents for me and opened up their home and installing those values into their kids, too, that they can

kind of carry on that tradition because like they said, kathryn shared her family and senior year with me, will shared his birthday for me and jack gave up his room for me. it was definitely an effort together they made my life so much easier at that point, and i hope if there is anybody that can take anything away from this, it's just knowing that it is a team effort and we are going to have to work more with our hearts than our minds. >> charlie? >> i was going to say we know there will be plenty more young women or girls like sammy who will be coming over to this country and will need help and so i hope that, you know, people in america and throughout the world, not just the united states but friends and allies do their part. we did our -- we didn't do anything heroic. we did our little part. we're encouraging people to do their part. do something. help these people who are going to be coming to our country and they will be like -- many of

them will be like sammy wonderful people, contributors and want them to be friends and neighbors. >> we all wish there were many samis in the world. charlie, i know you too well and pam, god bless you you got to deal with him and thank you for being so wonderful. >> thank you. [ laughter ] >> thanks, you guys. "outfront" next, breaking news, cnn learning full fda approval of pfizer's vaccine is imminent coming as early as monday. alex trebekest following host steps down.

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breaking news, full fda approval of the pfizer vaccine is quote unquote imminent. a senior federal official telling cnn as the biden administration official says full approval could be as soon -- as early as monday. let me bring in dr. jonathan ryaner. he's advised the white house medical team under president bush. dr. reiner, this is something so many people have been waiting for, now coming as soon as monday, how significant is it? >> i think it's a milestone, a big milestone. so today the united states passed another milestone vaccinating 200 millionth person in this country with at least one shot. but we have another almost 30% of the country to go. and we won't do that in our current state.

what approving the vaccine means is first of all, it will allow businesses, states to i think more easily mandate vaccines. hospitals, school districts. i think once the vaccine is approved for children over the age of 12, i think you'll see school districts mandate the vaccine for children going back to school. it will, i think, also give confidence to some of the folks who are still vaccine hesitant. a recent kaiser survey suggested one-third of the holdouts can be swayed or willing to get vaccinated once the vaccine receives full approval. so i expect we'll see a surge in vaccinations to follow. >> i was actually going to ask you about that kaiser poll because i was looking at that from may. it was 32% of unvaccinated adults would be more likely to get the shot if i was fully approved. you know, you see the hesitancy

in the polls. this will make a meaningful difference with the hesitancy that's gone on and become resistant in some regard, make a meaningful difference in the number of people getting the shot? >> i think it will. i think it will allow a variety of entities to mandate the vaccine, taking away the concern that they may not be able to mandate a vaccine approved with an eua. there is a false narrative circulating that how can you push an experimental vaccine. the vaccine is not experimental and once it's fully approved, it should extinguish but really slur on the reliability and safety of the vaccine. i think we'll see more people realize that this is our ticket, our collective ticket towards finally putting this pandemic down. so i expect that over the next several weeks, we'll see a significant increase in the number of people being vaccinated.

>> do you think that this approval impacts the process or timing now for the shot to be approved for kids under the age of 12? >> i hope so. you know, there is a process that the fda has to -- and we want and expect them to follow. you know, it's a little different for kids under the age of 12 because it's not simply the same dose of the same vaccine for smaller children, the dose has to be attenuated so we want to make sure that the dose that will finally be approved is both fully safe and very effective. so that process has to take some time. we do expect that the manufacturer, at least pfizer is apparently going to apply for an eua as early as the sort of the mid to last part of september for children under the age of 12. >> also, dr. reiner, sorry, something was in my ear.

appreciate your time. thank you so much. look at this now. people in florida lining up at a makeshift clinic offering a antibody treatment. it comes as texas' governor republican governor, who also is getting the same antibody treatment after testing positive this week is adding more treatment centers in the state. so, what is this antibody treatment? elizabeth is "outfront" with more. >> that is a tool in the tool box that really needs to be used. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis and texas governor greg abbott have been talking a lot lately about this medicine. >> the regeneron has been found to be effective against the delta variant. >> reporter: a monoclonal antibody drug made by regeneron is a treatment for covid-19. a treatment that is needed in large part because under these two republican governors,

covid-19 is spreading fast in their states. florida number one in kcovid-19 hospitalizations per capita in the country. texas, not far behind at number seven. >> the vaccination rates were too low to fend off the delta variant. we know we got there because there wasn't indoor masking. it is really mind blowing that these governors are not implementing these measures. >> reporter: resulting in desperation and despair. a woman lying on the floor of a florida clinic waiting for treatment with regeneron's antibody drug. another patient at the clinic took the photo. >> people had nowhere to sit. they are sitting down but they were so sick, the picture really doesn't do it justice because they were moaning in a lot of pain. it really drove the point home as to how serious these people are. i mean, for all i know, these people could have been dying right there and then. >> reporter: despite the high rates of covid-19 in his state,

desantis has threatened to withhold funds from school districts timplement mask mandates. abbott has prohibited state and local agencies from requiring vaccines. instead of encouraging all of the best prevention methods, they're toting treatment as former president trump did after taking regeneron's drug when he was hospitalized with covid-19. >> made me better. okay? i call that a cure. >> reporter: regeneron's drug isn't a guaranteed cure but it can help treat some people with moderate to mild covid-19 who are not in the hospital and if someone is exposed to covid, it could help keep them from getting sick. >> the monoclonal antibodies work. >> reporter: they are trying to get regeneron's drug get to parts of the country seeing the surges. the federal government spent billions on the drug, for patients it's free. the state of florida set up the clinic but would have been better if the patients haven't

gotten covid in the first place. perhaps nobody knows that better than the woman in the photo. she was not vaccinated, caught covid-19, received the antibody treatment and thankfully is recovering. this is her advice. >> get vaccinated. it may not be the first thing you want to do but it's better than the end result. >> reporter: governor abbott and former president trump appear to have had no trouble getting regeneron when they got covid-19 but many other patients say they've had a tough time. the federal government says that the drug is plentiful so it's unclear what the bottleneck is. kate? >> elizabeth, thank you for that. "outfront" next the cyber ninjas soon coming out with their report on arizona's sham audit. an official in the state has a message for the conspiracy theorists. hurricane warnings in effect for millions bracing for a storm gaining strength tonight.

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tonight, bracing for impact. a top republican in meracopa county speaking out and setting the record straight as the report on the arizona sham election audit is coming out any day now four months after the say so called audit began, it has no, absolutely no credibility. the report is drafted by the cyber ninjas, a dubious firm with no audit experience and whose executive pushed trump's big lie and just ahead of the report's release my next guest is laying out blisters criticism against it calling it a quote abomination that's so far eroded confidence and defamed good people. "out "outfront" now is maricopa county recorder steven.

38 pages, footnotes and all. the evidence as you write quote nobody stole meraricopa county' election. why was it important to get this out ahead of the report? >> absolutely. you're right. i like to write and it was important for me to spell out the whole story. this is my hug to the republican party this is not about republican versus democrat or it shouldn't be. this shouldn't be a test of partisanship. this should be a test of do you believe in professionalism? do you believe in facts? do you believe in logic? if the answer is yes, yes, and yes, you should know that the election in 2020 wasn't stolen and you should be very skeptical of whatever the cyber ninjas does produce because they have exhibited a shocking degree of unprofessionalism. >> as you layout exhaustively in your report, cyber ninjas have

no credibility but that does not mean their message isn't going to resonate when they release this. what do you expect the report will say and what will the impact be? >> well, i don't know what they'll say but i know what they've already said and one thing that has been constistent about the cyber ninjas, each leak they had to walk back a few days later, maybe a week later extreme allegations they have made. for instance, they recently made an allegation that 74,000 ballots were fraud leulently injected into the system before president trump came to arizona and he reshared that. that wasn't the case. that was debunked with anyone that had knowledge about arizona's elections and we built a website called just the facts.vote to really put out the facts so people can know in advance that a lot of this has been addressed.

things like sharpie gate we put to rest. there is no stolen election. >> you call this a hug to the republican party but a lot of folks aren't hugging back. you've gotten death threats. you've faced personal attacks and to remind everyone, you're a conservative republican that supported donald trump. have you been able to make any sense of why people in your party are not letting this go despite the overwhelming evidence that the election was not stolen? >> i don't want to call pfellow republicans flies but you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. that's my hope. we're hurt. we lost an election. we don't like what's going on in afghanistan. we don't like what is going on at the border. and we're looking for a reason because we didn't see president joe biden campaigning here in arizona. but the facts aren't there. it's been tried in court eight

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become a hurricane. it could be the first hurricane to make landfall on long island in 36 years. hurricane warnings in effect at this hour for eastern long island and southern new england. jennifer gray is "out front" in the weather center with more on this. what is the latest on when and where henri could makelandfall. >> the latest advisory just came out. it is still a strong tropical storm but expected to become a hurricane tonight or tomorrow morning. new york city is in the hurricane zone and warnings have been issued for new england as well as portions of long island. tropical storm henri, gusts of 85, this is moving to the north at 7-miles-per-hour. so, this storm is going to move pretty quickly over the next 24 hours but then slow drastically once it approaches landfall, most likely making landfall as a category 1 hurricane by sunday afternoon. we'll start feeling the impacts

from this storm as early as tomorrow afternoon. we will start to see windy conditions, tropical storm force winds coming sooner, and then we'll see the hurricane force winds come on shore. you can see a little bit of uncertainty still in this forecast track though. this storm could make landfall anywhere from new york city all the way over to southern massachusetts. so, some uncertainty there, kate, but this is going to slow significantly. so, that's going to produce a lot of rainfall for the northeast and new england. >> how far reaching are the effects of henri going to be? >> it's going to be pretty far reaching especially when you talk about the rain because this is a supersaturated area. and when you have a lot of rain on top of very wet soil, we're going to see trees come down a i lot of power outages. they could be very widespread across new england. you can see all the watches and warnings in place in that area, and we're talking about the winds too. you combine the wind with the rain, and that's going to help bring down those trees as well. i think that's going to be the biggest impact when you're

talking about this storm well inland, in fact, and then we're also going to see the storm surge impact where we could see three to five feet of storm surge across southeastern portions of massachusetts as well as long island and connecticut. the winds could be 74-miles-per-hour plus in those regions shaded in red, kate. >> jennifer, thank you so much. so, it appears to be a wrong answer for "jeopardy" tonight. just days after taking the job as the host of the iconic game show, mike richards quit. >> that's mike richards out from the host podium just one day after he started taping the new season. and now "jeopardy," a show synonymous with smarts is mired in scandal over richards' offensive comments over women. richards is a long time producer and host who became the jeopardy

executive producer last year. he briefly overlapped alex trebek who kept hosting during cancer. this lucrative franchise needed a new star. "jeopardy" genius filled in first and then richards. >> and now here is the executive producer of "jeopardy," mike richards. >> he implied that he was filling in because a listers like savannah guthrie and aaron rodgers couldn't get to l.a. because of covid. >> it was at the last minute the decision was made for me to step in and keep the show going. >> reporter: some viewers liked him a lot but some questions persisted about his daily double role. was he in the running while auditioning others. cnn's laura coates who trebek suggested as a possible successor. some fan favorites felt slighted or shelved until the end of the

season. >> who is me, lavar burton. >> the bosses at sony went with richards despite the picture that he picked himself or manipulated the race. >> wow, what are the odds. exactly the same as me being named steven colbert magazine's sexiest man alive. >> alleging he mistreated colleagues at the "price is right" and he apologized when the ringer podcast found his old podcast with a litany of offensive remarks. he said my attempts to be funny and provocative were not acceptable. and he pledged to be a role model. but the damage was done. the ringer story hit on wednesday and richards taped five episodes on thursday. but friday's episodes were cancelled. guest hosts take over against next week. richards will remain executive producer. the smartest game show on tv made a rookie mistake.

brian stelter, cnn new york. >> brian, thank you so much. tomorrow night, don't miss the we love nyc homecoming concert starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern exclusively on cnn. i'm kate bolduan. "ac 360" starts now. we begin tonight with new developments in the pullout from afghanistan. evacuation flights are back up and running after being on hold part of the day, the first airport transportlanding in germany. at the white house what some saw as effort to project resolve and competence after a chaotic week in kabul and punishing week in washington, president biden renewed his promise to get any american home who wants to leave. he made a similar promise to afghans who helped in the war effort. we have breaking news on exactly