CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/13
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- as Taliban fighters inch even closer to Afghanistan's capital and largest city of Kabul, how did the country's military forces lose so much ground there so quickly? Also -- why a popular ride-sharing app is taking steps to protect drivers from violent attacks by passengers.
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| 0:29.2 | TNCs apply. |
| 0:30.9 | Tonight, the Taliban closes in on Afghanistan's capital. |
| 0:34.6 | Now just 50 miles from Kabul as U.S. troops arrive to evacuate some embassy personnel. |
| 0:41.1 | Supply lines to Kabul are blocked. Afghan troops surrender, some executed. |
| 0:45.6 | We are certainly concerned by the speed with which the Taliban has been moved. |
| 0:52.8 | The threat to the U.S. |
| 0:54.6 | We asked former senior CIA official Michael Morel, |
| 0:57.4 | what's the biggest risk Americans face as the Taliban grip on Afghanistan tightens. |
| 1:03.4 | Additional COVID shots, they've just been authorized, but who will get them and when? |
| 1:07.6 | What you need to know. |
| 1:09.8 | Delta's summer spread, vaccinations are up, but so is COVID transmission in nearly every state. |
| 1:15.5 | More fights over mask mandates and why hundreds of students were sent to quarantine just days |
| 1:20.6 | into the school year. |
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