as well as our senior correspondent, mariah garcia, who is in the afghan capital of couple l. a 1st to you. it's a solemn day for all americans and new york in particular. what's the atmosphere like in the city right now? while it's just gotten dark here and the lights commemorating the events that the world trade center have gone on, there have been people gathering the sites all day, leaving flowers, firemen, rescue workers. survivors have been gathering. we heard interesting remarks from comma la harris, who spoke in pennsylvania. we also heard from the president the states former us president, spoke elected officials, survivors quite an interesting ceremony all coming amid the decision by the united states to pull out of afghanistan, jo biden's, chaotic pull out of afghan, a stand seems to be the shadow that is hanging over today's commemorations now, when the vice president connelly harris and the president joe biden spoke, they called for unity among the american people. the message we've often heard from us elected officials, here's what they said, i hope and prayer tha

i was talking to ortiz, mariah garcia, who is one of the early reporters on the ground in capital. and he told me that it's still not clear who's dogs these why and why they were left behind the crate, such as the last one kind of an official apparent, he told me that they'll retrain and we deploy the dog to work for them. instead, they're still running around the perimeter of the airport and the taliban. ah, the taliban has contacted animal control dog control to catch them. i know they say they haven't sentenced them to death. just like with the war itself. america just call when online right now. earlier in august when actual footage of us service dogs being evacuated from capital did emerge, it led to a comment that american dogs lives were more precious than those of afghan human. u. k. government came on defy a couple of weeks ago as well for being too slow to help with the evacuation of 150 cats and dogs from a campbell animal shelter run by an expert marine called penn bobbing. when one conservative politician, you will so happens to be an afghan war that trent was question

as our senior correspondent, mariah garcia proposed next from cobbled. it was largely a partisan spectacle, but the republicans attempting to shift the blame for this catastrophe, as they described it onto the biden administration. the democrats, on the other hand, as well as the administration, attempted to absolve themselves of all responsibility for what happened in cobble as american troops pulled that more importantly, the bite minister administration says that this is squarely on the shoulders of trump, the former president, because it was him who agreed to they pull out without leaving them a detailed plan as to what to do. now, the republicans saying that this is an agree just defense, because barton had the better half of well half a year to make sure that americans were evacuated, that everything was done and orderly in an orderly fashion, especially considering that the intelligence was that. but the state department and that intelligence agencies had warned that there was a serious risk that the taliban overrun the country very quickly. the b

i'll see the correspond mariah garcia is at the airport and sent this exclusive report. it has been barely a day that the american troops of have left and the taliban has assumed control of capital airport. we have been able to walk around the various hagney, the various sections of the airport and it is a mess. it is a method is all but destroyed, including the civilian part of the airport. the taliban and the authorities are now clearing away. will the barbed wire will the will, the tracks will be exploded. munitions which we saw plenty of mortar rounds grenades, munitions. aside from that, we also saw the military vehicles, the helicopters, the jets left behind by the united states. one of the black hawk helicopter were left behind the house with the evacuation. the united states have said that all the girls have been sabotaged. they can see suddenly sign that the y, as for example, of have been caught. there are various electric blocks missing. and a lot of electronic equipment lying around near the, the hanger and obviously a sledgehammer with something of the sort