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news the silvery image of the fallen soldiers returning home over the weekend as communities around the usa begin to honor their memories and plan for final ceremony. this is, families are planning for funerals and sharing stories about their loved ones with the world. lawmakers on capitol hill are demanding accountability and answers from the white house, as well as the pentagon, as to why this mission was so wrong. we're bringing the 360 view as the debate over how this administration has handled the situation is drawing political fire from both sides of the aisle. we're bringing the latest on as soon as the pentagon is standing by their drone strike on an explosive laden vehicle saying it actually
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posed an imminent threat of terrorism. back here in the u. s. hurricane ida has made landfall as a category for we'll give you the details on the massive flooding, tremendous damage and death told and louisiana mississippi. now there is no more heated debate amongst americans these days been mandatory vaccine. i listen companies with mandates is going. but what a parental rights was based on your vaccination status. sounds crazy. right. well not going to one eleanor, a judge who just made an unprecedented ruling against a mother wanting to bring the details of the case. a fingerprint. right? does the state always have a child's best interest at heart when they are looking for permanent homes? one foster parent has some concerns. our legal analyst joined us, but the story, i'm sorry, i know huge and you're watching news. you fuse right here on our to america. let's get started. ah,
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we start with the latest events from afghanistan. the pentagon has announced the completion of military vaccination from the country ending the 20 your mission there. last c, 17 lifted off from hammered cars. international airport on august 30th this afternoon at 3 29 pm east coast time. and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the air space above afghanistan. this process has left even more questions and concerns regarding the u. s. strategy and plans for the region. now, couple survivors of the airport blast claim. they actually saw american troops shooting as civilians. in the aftermath of the explosion are to senior course. you're a gas has more from the ground. this is the 2nd violent escalation within the past 24 hours. they start around, we've heard that up to 5 rockets have been launched at the airport of cobble where
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the united states and some of its allies. its remaining allies are still conducting their evacuation for, according to reports. from what we've heard a truck, a pickup truck with a good healed launcher 5. these missiles some distance away from capital airport. the rockets then was shot down by poor defense system. so, but i g ad to fed systems stationed at the airport of cobbled we haven't had any claims of responsibility nor, nor casualties that may potentially have been caused. nevertheless, that has been footage pictures showing showing fuzz budding in the ground in an area just outside the airport. perhaps they debrief from rockets as they was shot down previously, we saw i us drone strike conducted just west of the airport in the residential
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district. just a few kilobit his west of the airport. a drone struck a vehicle that the united states says was a vehicle born id device packed with explosives and that allegedly i was planning on using the targets the airport as they did just a few days ago. they started, there were multiple casualties, according to locals to journalists who are at the scene. 9 civilians may have been, may have been killed among them. several children, all related, all part of one family. the united states central command has reacted the saying that it's saddened to hear these reports. we are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in campbell. we're still assessing the results of the strike, which we know disrupted an imminent ice escape threat to the airport will be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life hedges here in capitol,
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which was already incredibly high given the, the hectic pace of the evacuation that time limited the countdown, while the tension exploded after the terror attacks 3 days ago at the north gates of travel, airports where nicest suicide bomber blew his best in the packs crowds. right next to us. a checkpoint man by us troops and ad tyler barton fighters. we heard that after the explosion, us troops began flowering into the crowds, which were panicking themselves and allegedly, according to doctors and witnesses. most of the casualties were caused by the interviewing. gotten 5, the, the evacuation these he's still continuing. we heard throughout the night jets, dr. buzzing overhead and the 3 cargo planes carrying us troops, as well as those last lucky evacuees that have managed to secure passage, be approved from evacuation. thousands,
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tens of thousands of people are still waiting around the airport in capital for that elusive evacuation. although at the stage from what we've heard, nobody from outside the airport is, is being allowed into the airport for evacuation anymore. from what we've heard, the united states is now evacuating vill civilians that have already made it that it is approved and less into the airport. the situation still tense with, with more threats, more attacks expected against the airport. meanwhile, the pentagon has more reaction to reports of civilians killed in the aftermath of the attacks. last week. our john had a, has this part of the story? the pentagon said, a drone strike destroyed in isis car bomb that posed a quote, imminent threat to cobbles airport. this is allegation surface about civilian deaths after another us drone strike. also an afghan, a stan pentagon,
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press secretary john kirby said last thing the u. s. wants to do is cause civilian casualties. make no mistake. no military on the face of the earth works harder to avoid civilian casualties than united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taken. we take it very, very seriously. if we have, you know, verifiable information that we did in fact take innocent life here, then, then we will, we'll be transparent about that to. nobody wants to see that happen. but you know, what else we didn't want to see happen. we didn't want to see happen, what we believe to be a very real, a very specific and a very imminent threat to the how many cars international airport and to our troops operating at that airport as well as civilians around it and in it. but kirby and other pentagon officials were tight lipped about security details related to the drug strikes and also the ongoing evacuation efforts. specifically,
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if there are any additional ices k targets that may be in the works. instead, a lot of us forces is ongoing evacuation effort to remove us citizens from the country by august 31st. and any afghans with what are called as i v special immigrant, v says, and or permanent residency status. today, 122000 people, including 5400 us citizens, have been evacuated from afghanistan since the effort began august 14th. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end. but as you talk about active piece will continue to work with department of state on that and continue evacuation and military operations. it remains unclear, though, how many americans may still remain in the country after that august 31st deadline . and also any strategic efforts between the united states and taliban to continue coordinating to get people out of the country for new z as hughes. john hardy.
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2461 american service members who were killed while filling orders and the longest for american history since that last race car bomb explosion at the abbey gate. we have begun to know the faces and the stories of the most recent 13. her stories are heroic and their last few days on earth. tragic one message, rena ryan, now so from knoxville, tennessee. we said this home to his mother all good here, mom. i love, you know, as a mom who often gets quick selfies for my own child saying pretty much to say, i flatter with emotion to give what that mother is having to go through. knowing her worst nightmare is happening. then you have this instagram from sergeant nicole key, holding a sleeping african baby saying, i love my job. the sergeant, diesel last post. just a week ago, escorting. evacuated onto the bird with
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a heart emoji next to it. then there is this mother of us marine riley mccall who died nichol bombings, who called into the wilco radio show, saying, instead of just grieving and crying, she was just getting mad. i woke up at 4 o'clock this morning to marine my doors telling me my son was something know mother, once her father, her grandfather, anyone, family member who's person, who's family member serving now president biden in the 1st lady did greet the fall and on sunday, at dover air force base and later went on to meet with family members. but as reports are emerging of detailed notes from classified calls with top pentagon officials confirming their knowledge of an imminent threat at abbey gate. but they still still decide to keep it open. questions and calls for accountability are growing even louder, especially from republicans. but democrats as well are concerned right now about losing support from their own base over the recent handling of the troop,
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pull out. and whether or not all should be out by the august 31st deadline. so to give us the $360.00 view, we began to crash rogers, an army veteran ranger veteran robin bureau and ed martin, president of phyllis as a shapely eagles. i'm sorry guys, i'm a little choked up right now. i. every time i've seen this, it's been hard to watch. we're all parents. we know that that is the absolute nightmare we can live through and rob it. i want to start off with you because i'm in the only reason why i think it's important that we talk about this because we need to avoid it in the future. 20 years, thousands of dying. we need to see these images over and over. remind is the next time that our elected officials, one has in our children, into a wars and that we realize how much, what it actually means. so robin, i'm going to start with you. are you satisfied with how this operation has gone? and i've can attend the last few weeks. i'm not satisfied with how it's gone the last few weeks and i'm not satisfied and how it's gone to the last 20 years. frankly, there been for presidential fiction to in this i could share criticism for each and
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every one of them to include. i'm a democrat, i could give fair criticism on president obama could give fair criticism our president biden, this is not really political. this is about keeping our men and women in uniform safe, and they, we had people die. we have, we had a number of them die, and it's tragic. it's heartbreaking. it's gotten very choked up the stories that we just listen to. i was fighting back tears honestly, when we pledged the oath we all wouldn't. we all know very well that it could ultimately lead to our death and it's, it's sad that it did for these people. and it's important that we remember them and honor their sacrifice and service to our country. and, you know, and i had to look at, you know, yes, and i think we should tell the stories of the last 13 as much as we could. but guess what? there's thousands that aren't getting the option that, you know, unfortunately, people died in afghanistan over the last 20 years, whose names were maybe mentioned local paper and obviously local honors. but nowhere near to the extent, maybe if we put more of attention on them over the last 20 years,
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it would not have lasted 20 years. but that being said, we're now finding out more and more because the pressure being put there, the possibly the pentagon knew this attack was going to take place on thursday, even a rough time. so why did we not do everything we could to remove or de escalate? the situation and take those young men and young women out of harm's way. well, look i, i agree with your instinct on this. i mean, you know, the reporting on. it sounds terrible. and as you say they had, i had an alert that it was actually going to be right at the abbe gate and they seem to have decided to keep it open. but i may make a couple of observations. one is, i don't think we'll ever have a war again where we don't have this kind of spotlight on the situation, you know, and i think it's worth saluting joe biden. and donald trump both for getting us out . most politicians actually don't do the hard thing. i think trump put biden in a position where he had to, but at least we're getting out. now having said that, i think what we've seen is joe biden,
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his administration has been so incompetent on this. and i have to say the question i want answered. now is who's making the decisions because it doesn't seem like it's biden. i mean, i usually when you say that, you know, you say like who's making decisions and you're sort of trying to cause a political 5 doesn't seem like biden's in charge. doesn't seem like you're making smart decisions, i don't know who's doing it. we got to get to the bottom of it. and at this point, the incompetence is causing more damage, right? just to the world view of us america. but also to these individuals are still more americans there, there's still more military there. i just think at this point we've got to get a little more clarity on what's happening. here's one last observation. in any action you would expect when it goes wrong, accountability, other than one guy who spoke out the marine, who resigned or was fired or whatever we, she known accountability. no one's been told you mess this up, which again sends a message to the american people that were not dealing straight with you. because right now it feels like the 10 people killed by the drone. and 7 of the more children, it sounds like somebody messed up now in war there are mess ups,
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but it feels like it's building one after another. and the american people are getting nervous about what's happening in this white house or an ad with orders like, i do want to remind you though, i live here in washington dc. i walk over often to the vietnam wall. and i look at those james. so again, guess what we do forget we do put ourselves back in those situations by parent generation did it guess what? my generation just it is. well, i am praying that maybe our children might be smarter, but the one way to do that it's actually expose. so robin, do you think democrats will join in republicans and look into whether or not this operation, the actual withdrawal of truthfully and could have been handled differently and both and how we, who are dealing with, as well as how we were efficiently able 2 or more importantly, not able to get everyone out without violence. yes, scott, to answer your question the most definitely. yes, they will. we will, in a bipartisan manner. look into this also, of course, militarily, we always do an after action review. there will be many of those on this because we
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need to look exactly and see exactly what worked and where things might wrong and things did absolutely go wrong and i appreciate your intellectual honesty specifically saying that look, there were things that president trump did right there. were things that president by did, right, and at least they're out. i'm grateful for that. i think as americans we all are. i also want to see this. i have 2 friends who've been wanting as veterans as special operations better and they've been running these chartered flights. getting people evacuated, i am so grateful scott: a to know that they are back safely now and these flights are done. these people are home safe. we need to see exactly what worked and what we need to do better because something definitely did not go to plan. and that doesn't mean that we need to do it again. it's just so that we can have knowledge just down the road so that we don't repeat it in other situations. gentlemen, thank you so much. try me, robin. like always thank you for your service when we return. and eleanor
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is that the mark mark your function you would like to get some idea of who definition to do y'all done got. i've got that limit and i wanted them off. you're gonna be skills that you don't know what the less about me ah, steve emergency is still under way as a trouble from ida passing over the gulf coast. the monster storm made land on the
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way the n as a category for hurricane with winds up to 150 miles an hour, leaving a devastating trail of destruction. the hospitals are struggling to keep up amid surgeon covered patients and power outages. tree chavez has the story items raf, wreaking havoc on much of the us, leaving behind the trail of destruction as a storm barrels up north from the gold coast. mm. video from baton rouge, louisiana showing debris near a building on the wheezy state university campus. transformers even seen exploding from a distance trees collapsing, telephone poles, leaning over roadways in southern louisiana video record in la force parish. west of new orleans shows down trees snapped utility poles and homes with roofs flown off. the dangerous storm surge trapping people in their homes. either making
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landfall noon on sunday. exactly 16 years to the day hurricane katrina made landfall. ida. already taking one life with relentless wind gusts up to 150 miles per hour. the storm wreaking havoc, leaving more than a 1000000 customers without power in louisiana. and mississippi at the peak of hurricane ida on sunday, a hospital under the typical regional health system experienced the scare as the power went out to the hospitals. 5 generators that served its critical care areas, stopped working. as a teams began to troubleshoot the hospital staff resorted to drastic measures to be able to provide critical care to the patients which also included cobra. 1900 patients hospitals in new orleans. now dealing with 2 public health emergencies as hurricane ida strikes at the same time cove cases in louisiana, our surgeon officials now and at least 16 states on high alert for life threatening
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flooding. as ita continues to torture land. the deadly storm expected to go all the way through hard hit central tennessee and the south west until saturday. now the storm is expected to go through washington d. c on thursday and a visit to fema headquarters. president biden did say his administration has prepared resources, including equipment and response teams that will be needed after the hurricane passes. meantime, new york and new jersey will also see the impacts of ida and the order of up to a half a foot of rain or 40 for news use use trinity job s r t s. chicago mother is outraged, after being stripped of her parental rights for her 11 year old son. now the mother claims the judge made the ruling after learning she was unvaccinated or correspond tyesha sweet has more on this pending case. in chicago, mother who lost custody of her son is appealing a judge's decision. mother says, judge james shapiro abruptly asked if she received the kind of iris vaccine after she said no. as a result of bad reactions to other vaccinations. the judge then took away her
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parental rights during a virtual child support. hearing rebecca full, it is one of some 100000000 americans who decided against getting one of the 3 krona virus vaccines. but now she claims her status had been vaccinated cost, her custody rights of her 11 year old son during a virtual custody hearing it for let's is out of nowhere. chicago judge james shapiro asked about her vaccinated status. she said she was not vaccinated due to a previous bad reaction. and then the judge stripped furling of her parental rights . she said it had nothing to do with what we were talking about. he was placing his views on me and taking my son away from me or ex husband or poorly did not bring up the issue, but says he supports the judges. motion has come to the state of illinois is up in their math mandate, asking for all teachers and health care workers to get back needed or show a weekly negative test. illinois will join several other states that have re instituted statewide indoor mask requirements regardless of vaccination. status
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effective on monday, more than 52 percent of the country is fully vaccinated. walk one of our risk cases have risen. only 1.4 percent of those infected have had a fatal outcome. some 600000 people have denied in the us from covered 19 reporting for new views. hughes and tosh weeks r t. a recent questions submitted to a slight news advice column raises concerns about the process of option of children of incarcerated parents. as a potential parent is worried at the child welfare agency handling, the adoption process is basically stealing someone else's children, and it turns out incarcerated parents are more likely to lose their kids and parents actually facing abuse charges. they will and i small borrows contributor and american american lawyer has more. molly, thanks for joining me. i was, i knew i had to ask you about because what exactly is this issue that had this adoptive parent concerned about the process? it's interesting, isn't it? yes. so this guy wrote in anonymously display news to their advice column that he
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signed it, stealing someone else's kids with a question mark. and essentially he said he and his partner has been in the foster care program for a couple of years now. they intended to dock and then the child welfare agency in their particular community. he didn't identify the state of the city, but that it was an urban area, reached out to them and said, hey, would you like to adopt the 2 siblings that you've been fostering. so they started going through the process, and in doing so, they realized that the child had to are these children. i should, they had 2 parents that were both in jail behind bars for drug related reasons. but that they did have biological family. that they felt where to position to take the kids, but the state welfare agencies that they were not. but he said that's what concerns him is that the kids, biological family had a home. they had basically raised to other kids before and there weren't any other issues. and they seem to have a stable income to their question was, why as the day try to give us these children, when they have family that are actually related to them, that can take care of them. they was writing in for advice,
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should i go through the process and, and by the way, the advice columnist said yes, you should go through the process because at least you care enough to ask these questions and they're going to get adopted out regardless. but like you said, it's an interesting, it's an interesting question all the way around, what is happening to these kids and incarcerated? well, there's lots of reason why kids are in the foster care system, but how come in the thing is this issue of children of incarcerated parents being taken away unfairly? we don't interesting. i started digging into that when, when your topic, it's fascinating. the marshal project actually did an investigative report on this a few years ago, and they examined some 3000000 cases and they found that children placed in foster care or their, when their parents are incarcerated. they're more likely to have their parental rights terminated than parents to physically or actually sexually assaulted their kid. so that was the result of analyzing some 3000000 cases as i said. and these were parents that weren't even accused of child glass abuse engagement. some of them didn't even have drug or alcohol youth, female prisoners of course, because they are mothers,
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5 times more likely than their male counterparts of inmates to end up have their kids end up in foster care and have their parental rights terminated again half the time they don't even have abuse charges to get them. that's just for the sole purpose that they were incarcerated. and then one, i wonder if they have the right to appeal that if they even know it's happening in the 1st place, that their rights are being take away. you know, molly, i wonder why turn terminate parental rights if they aren't facing charges related anything that was specifically endanger a child, or if they weren't to a lifelong sentence, real quick of an answer for i want to get this in. yeah, absolutely. well, basically it has to do with how long they're in jail. and there's a lot of debate over there. you have some people that advocate for the kids getting into a stable home as quickly as possible, even if that means that their parent could get out, potentially provide a stable hope for them. but at that month, years down the road, they did not wait. and then you have those that say kids need to be reunited with their biological parents regardless, especially parents, making it effort. so it's a lot of work to be done in this area, a lot of people to disagree, but it seems like most people agree, it's better for a child to be with their parents that state laws, even federal laws,
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sometimes put financial incentives on adoption. they keep parents separate from their kids into better than somebody who's incarcerated, and the systems already stacked against them. and the end is what is best for the child sometime is not what is actually happening. molly, thank you so much for bringing us the story. that's all the time we have for today show, like always we want to provide you the information and the 360 you said you can make your own opinion. let top issues of the day your conversation, my follow me on twitter at scottie and hughes, use, patrick team and vh. and thanks for watching you later. ah. ah. only one main thing is important for not as an internationally speaking, that is a nation's allowed to do anything. all the master races and then you have the mind,
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nations who are the slave the americans rock, obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as long as it serves the american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist. i turning those russians into this dangerous go. you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy. so some of it on your own. i english v i v, i not leashed it off in one, interpret lock nato to it's our we move eastern. the reason us head jimmy, it's dangerous, is the lag, the sovereignty of other countries. the exceptionalism that america uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large companies would lose
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millions and millions or is business and business is good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fascist. they have paper, well they have no bitcoin as a matter fact, they shut their bitcoin mining down. not sense. they burned their treasure of late 500 years ago under the main dynasty as a country made your bone headed and stupid mistake. the deserted airport and abandoned craft and military vehicles all symbolic because america's hasty departure from afghanistan leaving the country in the hands of the very taliban regime. the washington promised to overthrow 20 years before despite the chaos, the casualties and growing calls for the us defense secretary to quit.
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