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An increasingly dire situation in Kabul as thousands in, and around the airport are desperate to flee the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. U.S. officials say more than 17,000 people have been flown out of Kabul in the last week. But, the State Department is now warning Americans not to travel to the airport unless they have been told to after some were beaten by the Taliban.

Plus, the FDA is expected to give full approval to the Pfizer vaccine as soon as  Monday. Why that could lead to more shots and vaccine requirements.

And the Northeast braces for its first major Tropical Storm in decades as Henri barrels towards New England and New York.

On today's show: CNN's Jeff Zeleny, Julie Pace of the Associated Press, Politico's Heather Caygle, Vivian Salama of the Wall Street Journal, Associate Dean of Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Megan Ranney and CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar.

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One million Americans got vaccines on Thursday. But back to school for some quickly means back to Covid quarantine. Hospitalizations of children with Covid are at an all-time high, with 2,066 children under the age of 17 in the hospital with Covid today, a higher figure than the initial surge.

California voters will go to the polls to decide if they want to recall their Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. The leading Republican candidate hoping to replace Newsom is a conservative Talk Radio host Larry Elder, a Trump supporter known for his inflammatory rhetoric.

As Qatar almost reaches its Afghan evacuee capacity, The U.S. urgently examines alternative locations, including in Europe, for the flights to go. Flights have not taken off from Kabul airport in the last eight hours as the situation in central Kabul worsens, with reports of a Taliban crackdown against protesters carrying the Afghan National flag.

On today’s panel:

The Washington Post’s Olivier Knox, CNN Political Analyst Sabrina Siddiqui, The Wall Street Journal’s Vivian Salama, Former Deputy UN Envoy to Afghanistan Ambassador Peter Galbraith, and Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine Dr. Carlos Del Rio.

Hosted by John King.

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President Biden said there was "no consensus" in intelligence reports on Afghanistan when he claimed in June it was "highly unlikely" the Taliban would take over the country after U.S. forces departed, later saying that it had happened much quicker than he anticipated. The President maintains there is nothing he would change about the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Pentagon today admits the evacuation effort in Afghanistan is not going fast enough. They are to open up one gate at Hamid Karzai airport which the U.S. Military will oversee and also rush U.S. Consular Officers to the airport to process the Afghans’ paperwork to get them onto flights.

Along with 45 of her Senate Colleagues, Senator Hirono has signed onto a bipartisan letter urging the Biden Administration to protect Afghan women leaders in the wake of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

As the Government rolls out the booster shot plan saying every American vaccinated eight months ago should get a booster shot, the CDC reports that people in states with low vaccination rates are four times more likely to be hospitalized and six times more likely to die from coronavirus.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says it is the parents’ choice to quarantine a "healthy kid" after possible coronavirus exposure in school. The statement is a continuation of weeks of tension between the White House and Governor DeSantis, as the state grapples with one of the worst outbreaks of Covid-19 in the Nation.

BREAKING NEWS IN WASHINGTON: The United States Capitol Police are investigating an active bomb threat after reports of an explosive device in a truck near the Library of Congress.

On today’s panel: CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr, Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace, The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin, The Wall Street Journal’s Vivian Salama, CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood, Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono, CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner, and Afghanistan Veteran Kristen Rouse.

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