david begnaud, thank you. and turning now to afghanistan and more chaotic scenes at the kabul airport. evacuations are proceeding slowly, with thousands of americans still wanting and waiting to get out. and there are reports that taliban fighters are preventing afghan civilians from getting anywhere near that airport gate. cbs' david martin is monitoring the situation from the pentagon. >> reporter: u.s. combat troops lined up shoulder to shoulder behind concertina wire at the airport to keep back desperate afghans clamoring for a way out. a few times, warning shots had to be fired to keep the mob back. for now, the runways are clear and transport planes have flown out a total of 5,000 people, mostly american citizens and afghans who once worked for the u.s. it could be the largest evacuation since the fall of saigon 46 years ago, and defense secretary austin acknowledged it's not moving fast enough. >> it's obvious we're not close to where we want to be in terms of getting the numbers through. >> reporter: t

david begnaud has more from lafayette, louisiana. >> reporter: 99.9% of people who have been vaccinateden seriously ill and died from covid. it's extremely rare. but listen, it's happened, and it continues to happen. and if it happens to your family, it's devastating, even if you're the only one. so this morning we're going tell one of those rare stories and give you all the necessary context to understand how many people are being affected like this. >> i'm not feeling well. >> reporter: tara moseley read to us what would be some of her daughter's final words. >> and my legs are turning black. >> reporter: over the course of the next few days, angel would describe her pain in detail through text messages as chevrolet alone at home and later in the hospital. >> my lungs are clogged up with mucus and blood. >> reporter: angel battled covid and pneumonia in a new orleans hospital. her mother was only allowed to see her very briefly, i went in and i prayed with her and i had to show her that we love her. i love you. and at that moment, she shared a tear. >> reporter: who shed a tear? >> an

norah. >> o'donnell: david begnaud with that warning tonight. thank you, david. tonight, pressure is building on the biden administration to speed up the evacuation from afghanistan. about 1,500 people have been flown out since saturday, but there are 11,000 americans that are still stranded inside the country, which is now under taliban control. many more afghans are also desperate to leave. cbs' roxana saberi reports tonight from the kabul airport. >> reporter: flights are taking off again from kabul's airport. the u.s. had shut down the airport after some afghans, desperate to flee the taliban, clung to a u.s. military plane yesterday as it took off. at least four fell to their deaths. crammed inside, one afghan man filmed this video telling us he pushed his way in without a visa or passport. and there are still many americans trapped with no word of when they might be able to leave. >> reporter: now, hundreds of afghans are lining up to leave. these are all afghans who have come to the airport to get processed by u.s. troops. and from here, they'll be getting

>> absolutely heartbreaking, david begnaud. absolutely heartbreaking.id begnaud and dr. kakli really painted a picture. it's another part of the covid story that you don't often think about. the people that we're losing because they don't have the space, they don't have the personnel to treat them. that's outrageous. >> it's why it's so important when people say you should wear a mask, you should social distance or -- >> or get the vaccine -- >> because it affects all of us. >> also why the death toll from covid is not the number of people who die from the virus, it's all the people beyond it they need. >> you survive a war only to die in your own country because of a gallstone. >> for something you didn't have to die from. >> all right. thank you so much again. >>> up next, we've got some of the stories you'll be talking about today. we'll be right back. it's an f-150 because it's built ford tough. built to haul more. built to tow more. for the people who count on it. because they know that brawn can get the job done, but it takes brains and brawn to g

. >> that's david begnaud in louisiana. >>> there has been a surge in covid cases at nursing homes. it's not the residents, but the caregivers. and now there is growing pressure to have them all vaccinated. the cdc r 27 fe among reside i august, bu among tt nu was nearly 5,000. manuel bojorquez has the story. >> early 2020 just started and we were in and out of the hospital. >> reporter: when jennifer moore saw her husband's parkinson's disease take a turn for the worse, the couple knew it was time for him to live in a long-term care facility. tom moore moved into the west broward rehabilitation center. just days before the pandemic forced the home to close to visitors. >> he would tell me that he thought he was being kidnapped to mexico because nothing was familiar. >> reporter: what was that like for you to hear? >> oh, my heart was breaking. i mean, this is a man who i spent the better part of 20 some years with. and then all of the sudden i wasn't able to see him for months on end. >> reporter: when the vaccines started to roll out, i'm imagining he was probably among the first

. >> reporter: and it turns out an afternoon with david begnaud convinced her to get vaccinated. here she is getting her first dose of the pfizer vaccine. >>> in haiti now, there is fear that last weekend's earthquake could turn into a super spreader event. the first batches of vaccines arrived in haiti just three weeks ago and only 1% of the population has been vaccinated. the quake killed at least 2,000 people and left tens of thousands homeless. in some places, roads are destroyed and bridges washed out. vladimir duthiers took a helicopter into the disaster zone. >> reporter: our flight into the quake zone could not prepare us for the destruction down below. once we arrived in lakay, the devastation surrounded us. homes and businesses unrecognizable to those who call this city home. i'm standing atop what used to be a four-story hotel. on saturday when the earthquake struck, multiple people were crushed and killed, including a former haitian senator. and that's the thing about earthquakes. they don't discriminate. >>> about ten miles from lakay sits a small village of manish w

cbs' david begnaud will lead us off from louisiana one of the states hardest hit by the surge. good evening, david. >> reporter: good evening, tonight inside the main covid i.c.u. here at our lady of lords in lafayette and the wife of a man on a ventilator with covid walked out of his room and said "david, when i heard the news that pfizer's vaccine had been approved by the fda, she said i thought to myself, what is their excuse now?" today's f.d.a. decision is being seen as a shot of confidence for the pfizer vaccine. >> this vaccine has gone through the gauntlet and it is highly effective. >> reporter: with covid cases at their highest level since january, and first dose vaccination rates down 14 percent in the past week alone, president biden today quickly seized on the chance to get more shots into arms. >> the moment you have been waiting for is here. it is time for you to go get your vaccination. >> reporter: already today the department of defense promised mandatory vaccination guidelines for its 1.4 million active duty service members. while in new york, the nation's lar

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good to see you from the field, david begnaud at the table. good to see you.ting with a new reason why we love dolly parton. >> there's another one? >> there's another one. i know. as soon as i saw this story i'm like, i got to talk about this on "what to watch." the country music superstar made a fortune in songwriting royalties from her song "i will always love you" after whitney houston, you heard it in the intro, she sang it in the movie "the bodyguard." well, parton revealed that she used the money to invest in a black neighborhood in nashville on "watch what happens live" last week. take a look. >> i bought a property down in what was the black area of town, and it was mostly just black families and people that lived there. this was great. i'm going to be down here with her people who are my people, as well. so i just love the fact that i spent that money on a complex, and i think there is the house that whitney built. >> this is the house that whitney built. these are my people. so "forbes" estimates that houston's huge hit made $10 million in royalties

cbs' david begnaud has more hit from hard-hit louisiana. >> reporter: louisiana is drowning in the fourth covid wave, overflowing i.c.u.s at oschner hospital in new orleans have forced normal doctors to pivot from normal jobs including cancer surgeon brian moore. >> a number of us have worked as nurses aides on day and night shifts in the i.c.u. to help them do basic stuff. >> reporter: in the last month, average daily cases in louisiana have grown nearly eight fold. since the start of the weekend, nearly 13,200 covid cases have been reported with nearly 3,000 people currently hospitalized. that is the highest since the pandemic started. the vast majority are tied to covid that is spreading in communities, rather than settings like nursing homes. dr. chuck burnell is a chief medical officer for acadian ambulance. how close are we from medics refusing to transport patients because there are no hospital beds left? >> we're days away from that happening right now. less than a week. >> reporter: starting today, everyone in new orleans, 12 and older, has to show proof of at least one dose of a

our lead national correspondent david begnaud is in hammond, louisiana, northwest of new orleans. david, good morning. >> good morning, the damage is just widespread across southeastern louisiana. two storm deaths already reported, and getting word a louisiana man is missing after being attacked in flood water by an alligator that ripped the man's arm off. the man slifd in slidell in a raised home inside a wildlife refuge in and around the marsh area. water had come in, storm surge from hurricane, knee deep flood water. he went down to the shed, wife heard commotion, looked down, saw the alligator attacking her husband. and the man's body is missing. we start with an aerial view, thanks to the coast guard at the area known as grand isle. this is what hurricane ida did to the coastal community of grand isle, louisiana. shredding rooftops and scattering debris everywhere. on monday coast guard aircraft circled the island looking for survivors as first responders across louisiana did the same thing, reaching those still trapped in the hurricane's aftermath. >> we're still in a search

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that's david begnaud. tony is still on baby leave. let's go. doctors fighting the delta variant say these are the darkest days of the pandemic as many americans still refuse to get vaccinated. how some medical workers face what she accomplished on the balance beam this morning plus five-time tokyo olympic medalist caleb dressel joins us at th table with his new hardware. >> can't wait for that. here's today's eye opener. it's your world in 90 seconds. >>> a come back from simone biles. what she accomplished on the balance beam. five time tokyo gold medallist caeleb dressel joins us at the table with his new hardware. >> looking forward to that. here is today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> 70% of american adults have at least one shot of the vaccine but the number of new covid cases is higher now than during last summer's peak. >> we desperately want to be done with this pandemic, covid-19 is clearly not done with us. >>> south carolina senator lindsey graham has tested positive for covid despite being vaccinated. >>> two more law en

now our david begnaud takes us inside one icu at a lafayette hospital to show us how health care workersre's the pandemic and also the spread of misinformation. >> reporter: 24 years old, this is kaighlie reaux. she is one of the sickest covid patients inside of the main icu here at our lady of lourdes regional medical center in lafayette, louisiana. her mother is amy. >> we let our guard down. we started venturing out. we booked a family vacation. we thought, like the rest of the world, this isn't that real of a virus. it didn't attack our family. >> reporter: but it did. when the family returned home from vacation, everyone in this photo tested positive for covid. all of them were unvaccinated, and all of them recovered from the virus except for keighlie who-months pregnant at the time. >> she was very, very sick and had two circles bigger than dollar bills on her cheeks. >> reporter: that was eight days after she was diagnosed with covid. her mother rushed her to the emergency room. doctors delivered her baby, crew, and five days later, keighlie was placed on a ventilator. >> she's do

that's david begnaud. tony is still on baby leave. let's go.nt say these are the darkest days of the pandemic as many americans still refuse to get vaccinated. how some medical workers face what she accomplished on the balance beam this morning plus five-time tokyo olympic medalist caleb dressel joins us at th table with his new hardware. >> can't wait for that. here's today's eye opener. it's your world in 90 seconds.

i first learned of daniel's tragic story from the fantastic reporting of david begnaud of cbs news.sations. i mean, you knew daniel needed more advanced level of care than your hospital offered. tell me about how you tried -- all you tried to do to find him a bed to get him the treatment he needed. >> thanks for having me on, kate. yeah. first, i would like to thank the cbs news team to do everything they could to get the story out there. and also michelle, daniel's mother who gave us consent to tell the story. as she puts it, this is what daniel would have wanted. he wouldn't want this to happen to anybody else. when daniel came in, he was complaining of vague abdominal pain. we see a lot of patients with t that. we do labs to figure out our thought process of where to go. the labs came back. it was very consistent with gallstone pancreatitis. we have to do an imaging test to confirm the diagnosis. we're able to do it and we got a ct scan which confirmed that. that was around 1:30, 1:15 that the diagnosis came back. and immediately right after this, myself and the nurses and everyo

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our lead national correspondent david begnaud has more. >> get this, pfizer submitted the application that was 360,000 pages. ed fda never received so much data and safety content to ensure the safety of a shot. it was the fda's full approval of the pfizer vaccine that convinced 19-year-old kayla mcgee to line up at the university of louisiana lafayette yesterday and get vaccinated. what did you think when you heard about the fda approval? >> i was just being ignorant at that point. like it was my own fault, so i just had to go do it. like there was no running away from it anymore. >> reporter: 19-year-old callie rozelle has been on the fence for months but that finally changed yesterday. full approval is what did it for you? >> yes, it is. that's what did it for me and also it's going to be required on campus. >> reporter: it was swiftly met by new mandates stand pentagon is moving ahead with a vaccination requirement for all active duty service members. new york city public schools mandated at least one shot for all teachers and staff by september 27th and united airlines says that

our lead national correspondent david begnaud visited baton rouge, louisiana.neral. beds like this are empty because there's not enough nurses. there are ten patients in the e.r. waiting for an icu bed and there are none available. before you say, open up another icu, they usually have three icus, they opened up nine. they still don't have enough. louisiana is still setting records. new hospitalizations. highest hospitalizations. highest case rate. doctors are exhausted. they're treating patients and ran to the hospital and said, please treat me. i'm struggling to breathe. chris thomas, we followed him for seven hours on sunday. take a look at what we saw. >> come on. >> reporter: inside one of the covid icus at baton rouge general hospital dr. chris thomas is arranging a get together. >> hey. we brought you a visitor. >> hoping that karri oklahakes give her husband the medicine he needs. >> they have been married 27 years and both are in the icu with covid-19. this is the second time catching the coronavirus. they were not hospitalized the first time. they wan

our lead national correspondent david begnaud joins us from lafayette, louisiana, with more.y, good morning. 99.9% of people who have been vaccinated do not and have not en siousll od . listen, it's happened, and it continues to happen. if it happens to your family, it's devastating enfou're th only e. thorl one of and ou nessary uany pere being affected like this. >> i'm not feeling well. >> reporter: tara mosely read to us what would be some of her daughter's final words. >> my legs are turning black. >> reporter: over the next few days, angelle described in detail through texts as she lay alone at home and in the hospital. >> my lungs are clogged up. >> reporter: she battled covid and pneumonia in the hospital. her mother could only see her briefly. >> i prayed with her and showed her that we love her. like, angelle, we love you. and that moment she shed a tear. >> reporter: when who shed a tear? >> angelle did. >> reporter: she did? >> she did. >> reporter: that day, july 25th, angelle died. she was 33 years old. >> i just tested positive for covid-19. while being vaccina