nbc's molly hunter joins us now from london. molly, good morning. it took ten days for the taliban to take over what is the state of the country now? >> reporter: hey, frances, good morning. that's right, yesterday was the key day, the final day that we saw the country pass over into the hands of the taliban yesterday morning, and ouray started with the taliban basically waiting at the gates of kabul they were wait fing for a peacel transition of power. but we saw police and afghan security forces leave the city and the taliban going into the city now, all of this while panic and rumors were spreading, the city people were either fleeing to their houses, trying to go out into the streets, going to visa offices. absolute panic and evacuations started. so the other thing our team reported, there was a constant shuttle of helicopters, including from the u.s. embassy to the airport to get people out. by the late afternoon, president ashraf ghani had fled the country and by the end of last night, stunning images of taliban inside the presidential palace

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molly hunter reports from just outside athens. >> reporter: apocalyptic themes. terrifying overnight escape as more than a thousand people evacuated the island in greece. this is what they saw from the ferries and boats pulling away to safety. the bright-red flames lighting up the sky. a woman clutching her baby. another, wiping away a tear. three hours away in the suburbs of athens, firefighters water bombing flare-ups but they can't keep up. quick, this woman says, the houses are on fire. nearby, a new blaze threatening this hilltop village. on this side of the road, two priests are trying to save their monastery. and then, come with me right here. you have got a single house. apparently, there is one person inside. these are all volunteers. there are no firefighters here. and to the north, flames threatening ancient olympia. this farmer says, when you violently disrespect the earth, it punishes you. one firefighters has died and crews from at least ten other nations on the way to help, despite the scorching triple-digit temperatures. with more than 100 fires b

joining me live from beirut is nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter. hat's the feeling on the ground in lebanon right now? >> reporter: a lot of anger, ayman, in one word, and that hrw report that came out last night that you just mentioned has a lot of evidence for why people are so angry. the hrw report not only says that senior lebanese officials knew about the danger of the ammonium nitrate storage at the beirut port but they made decisions and failed to keep residents safe. in the words of the report, they were criminally negligent. we were outside of parliament. it was just cleared about an hour ago by lebanon security forces which is why we're up on a balcony. protests are still going on. what happened, ayman, they were extremely well-attend, and they broke off in the evening to actually go protest in front. houses of senior lebanese officials and politicians, and that's who the people here blame for that beirut blast. now, protests are being led, of course, by activists but also by a lot of unlikely activists, a lot of families of victims and pe

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for more how the uk is getting the american sized sugar rush, here is nbc's molly hunter. >> reporterasion, sugar rush taking london by storm american candy, the stuff we grew up with, is having a moment in less than one city square mile, there are nine mega candy stores, including the creatively named american candy world, american candy, american candy land, kingdom of sweets, which claims to be the first according to experts like this 8-year-old chelsea ann, the american offerings are bigger and brighter >> i like this candy more than british candy because it has more flavor and it boosts my energy more. >> that's code for more sugar. to be honest, british candy is starting to look a bit boring in comparison to this it is not just central london getting sugar coating, it is small stores like hollywood candy in the impossibly hip neighborhood >> welcome to hollywood candy. >> how do people react when they see mike and ike's, junior mints. >> just the way you reacted when you walk in. >> they just can't believe you have it all here >> of course >> i am confused, this country has a lo

shep >> molly hunter, thanks. >>> officials in surfside, florida, have now released body cam videos fromeople. a washing. this video may be disturbing to many of you. here are two of the cops arriving on scene. >> what's going on >> is anybody hurt is anybody in there? >> what happened >> you work here >> no. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> the body cameras also caught the moment witnesses, neighbors and family members ran to police for help. t touch. i'm -- i'm on the phone -- sorry, man i just need to catch >> what happened >> i -- i'm in penthouse 12 which is all the way at touch. i'm -- i'm on the phone -- sorry, mana sudden i hear like a [ bleep ] jet right through the front of my property. >> hold i just need to catch my breath i'm on my phone, and i hear -- i hear something like falling and i turn and something falls not a big deal and all of a sudden i hear like a [ bleep ] jet right through the front of my property. >> hold on, hold on. >> nobody can get in there. >> nobody can get near it now. >> listen. >> are you okay. >> we were called by rescue. not even we can help right now. >> i d

molly hunter joins us live from london good morning the capital city descended into chaos after the president fled why did he have no choice but to leave his country? >> reporays he had ns saving his life and the news came late afternoon, evening local time that the president and his most senior aides had fled the country, had left the presidential palace. we saw pictures last night of taliban inside essentially, their equivalent of the oval office, frances. there was one guy in a western suit who apparently was a palace official, handing over the palace to the new taliban rulers, who are now absolutely in control of the country. last night in kabul, absolute chaos. no one was in control of the security take a listen to what a former afghan ambassador to the u.s. told our colleague mehdi hasan last night >> i feel betrayed i feel a loss. i feel hopeless. i feel very disappointed most importantly, it is just hard to pull it together and collect your thoughts again. >> reporter: really devastating, frances. president ashraf ghani had very little popular support, and trust is going to be in shor

molly hunter joins us from london it took ten days for the taliban to take over what's the state of the country right now? >> reporter: frances, good morning. the state of the country is chaotic. there's no one in charge of the security of kabul in the capitol and the taliban is in control. take a look at these pictures. these are the defining pictures of yesterday the taliban is inside the presidential palace. the equivalent of that country's oval office. it's empty aside from a guy in a western suit it is empty because the president, the u.s.-backed president who was very unpopular fled the country earlier that kay. working backwards, frances, the day started with the taliban fighters saying they will wait for a transition of power later that day after they went on rt richard engel reported that afghan security officials and police started fleeing the city as the taliban started going in all of that happened people heard rumors and started panicking and overhead, helicopters started shuttling back and forth between the diplomatic missions including the very large u.s. embassy and airp

molly hunter, nbc news, greece. >>> back home we're hearing from the ceo of spirit airlines after hundreds of flights were canceled for a sixth day. tom costello joins us. tom, there is a lot of frustration going here. >> reporter: yeah, lester, spirit has now canceled some 2,000 flights this week, bumping roughly 300,000 passengers. it all began on sunday with weather delays. add to that staffing shortages, computer problems, and the volume of passengers. now we're headed into another summer weekend with more families hoping their vacation plans won't be ruined. spirit's ceo says he hopes the company will regain its footing over the coming days. >> we expect to continue to improve here throughout the course of the weekend such that by the time we hit the earlier middle part of next week, we're running back to where we want to be. >> reporter: spirit says it's trying to buy seats on other airlines for its passengers, but all airlines are flying full right now. lester? >> tom costello tonight, thank you. >>> also new this evening, the biden administration is extending the freeze on student

the summer stores are filling up with sweets that will look very familiar to any american nbc's molly hunterg me that youtube and tiktok are driving this obsession for american candy we took one for the team we took to the streets take a look. there's a sweet american invasion a sugar rush taking london by storm. american candy, the stuff we all grew up with is having a moment. in less than one city square mile, there are nine mega candy stores including creatively named american candy world, american candy, american candyland and kingdom of sweets which claims to be the first. and on one of london's busiest shopping streets, there are so many candy shops like this popping up, this one is even pumping the scent of bubblegum out into the street to entice customers to get inside. according to the experts like 8-year-old chelsea anne, the american offerings are bigger and brighter >> i like this candy more than british candy because it has more flavor and it boosts my energy more. >> that's code for more sugar. and to be honest, british candy is starting to look a bit boring in comparison to th

sexual abuse by one of jeffrey epstein's several accusers she said she was 17 years old at the time molly hunterout this lawsuit directly against prince andrew molly, good morning. >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning. so virginia giuffre has been very outspoken about how ghislaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein allegedly forced her to have sexual contact with prince andrew this morning, new legal trouble for britain's prince andrew. virginia giuffre is now suing the son of queen elizabeth the federal lawsuit filed monday accuses prince andrew of sexually abusing giuffre on separate occasions when she was under the age of 18 knowing she was a sex trafficking victim this suit also says that the prince abused her at the invitation of jeffrey epstein and his society, ghislaine maxwell. one of the alleged incidents happening at maxwell's london home she described the incident to savannah in 2019 >> what happened >> the first time in london, i was so young ghislaine woke me up in the morning and said you're going to meet a prince today. i didn't know at that point that i was going to be trafficked to th

. >> molly hunter is at buckingham palace for us this morning. >> princess diana's life has been under at her life with prince charles, his affair with camilla and that famous this morning, a new look at the people's princess. >> diana became a central figure in the consciousness of the people of the world. >> the pbs docuseries examining princess diana's life in public life and behind the palace walls with those close to her weighing in. >> she stepped into this role and she knew the enormity of it. but i think she felt in her heart of hearts that there was tragedy alongside it >> reporter: the hour-long documentary revealing more with her life with charles. >> i think it's very difficult on a honeymoon with your husband and he opens a diary and out flutters a photograph of his mistress he's thoughtfully brought with him i think she had a rude awakening. >> actor john travolta remembering his dance with the princess in 1985 >> it was a storybook moment >> first lady nancy reagan the key to making it all happened. >> nancy reagan tapped on my shoulder and said the princess, her fantasy

. >> the palace is not commenting but others are >> molly hunter joins us now from buckingham palacerning >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning. that's right very strong words from her lawyer overnight we still haven't heard any comment from prince andrew's legal team, but we have seen him for the first time since monday. take a look. this morning, prince andrew is on vacation with the queen arriving at her castle with his ex-wife, sara ferguson but his accuser, virginia giuffre, is not letting up .her high profile lawyer turning up the heat >> prince andrew is going to have to now speak. he can't ignore court process. he can ignore me, he can ignore victims and their lawyer webs but he can't ignore the court. >> the long time my client, he can ignore other victims and their lawyers,b but he can't ignore the court. >> reporter: the long time accuser of jeffrey epstein is now suing prince andrew in court. alleging monday she feared death or injury all while knowing she was a sex trafficking victim when she was 17 years old. and even though the allegations are decades old, her suit is s

hunter biden's laptop is russian information. why didn't they been one fraction of that time to assess the situation in afghanistan. >> laura: let's get mollieay in here. this is quite staggering and infuriating. we were lied to for about 18 years or so, at least. and no one is going to get fired here? no one is going to resign after the these scenes over the weekend? >> trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars, not 1 trillion by trillions and lives lost. >> president biden said today the buck stops with him. he gave a speech arguing it is a good thing to depart afghanistan after 20 years. nobody is criticizing -- very few people i should say are criticizing the departure. that is something the american people have wanted for a very long time. it is good president biden followed president trump's decision to exit afghanistan. the entire operation, the entire outrage and word that people have right now is over the manner at the departure and the incompetence of the departure but just as incompetently run, much of the war was incompetently run. and yet, nobody is held accountable. not the pentagon brass who lied about the success, the realis

. >> kayleigh: mollie, look, we've seen the liberal media be wrong about so much, and russia bounties under the trump administration, wrong about that, they had the hunteraside, this moment in particular where there is such a disastrous withdrawal that everyone has admitted on all sides of the aisle, this moment in particular, it's so irresponsible of abc not to have shown the american people who is leading the country. >> mollie: it's amazing, one of the systematic advantages the democrats have over republicans is that our media, are by and large propaganda in support of them, we've seen that for years. we've seen it for many years but this is no exception from that. at a time like this when we are dealing with national security issues and the entire world is concerned about president biden, to selectively edit and not release the full video of what happened there is not journalistic and we shouldn't expect him to be journalist because they haven't been for very long time. it's true that the biden administration is also playing games here, they believe if they pretend like nothing is wrong and afghanistan the entire country will move on. they deeply un