CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/19
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- as the Taliban take charge in Afghanistan, Norah O'Donnell asks National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan about possible threats to Americans. Also -- COVID's return -- a town in Georgia where patients are dying in an outbreak that's even worse than last year.
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| 0:09.9 | From how the season is built to why the players make the moves they do, |
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| 0:30.9 | Tonight, President Biden under pressure to speed up the evacuation of American citizens stranded in Afghanistan as desperation sets in for those trying to get out. |
| 0:41.5 | Chaos outside the Kabul airport, a baby passed over the wall as U.S. troops fired tear gas to control the crowd. |
| 0:49.2 | And the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Doha, where many of the Afghan evacuees are going. |
| 0:55.7 | Plus our interview with the president's national security advisor. |
| 0:59.6 | How can you make sure every American is out if you don't know how many Americans are in |
| 1:04.7 | Afghanistan? |
| 1:06.1 | The U.S. Capitol on edge. |
| 1:08.8 | Snipers and bomb sniffing dogs deployed after a man claims to have an explosive in his truck. |
| 1:14.2 | What we're learning about the standoff, was it domestic terror? |
| 1:19.0 | Hospitals on the brink, a shortage of nurses and doctors, and in southern states, a lack of ICU beds as the COVID summer surge gets worse. |
| 1:29.0 | Flood emergency, up to 20 people unaccounted for in North Carolina. |
| 1:34.6 | And could tropical storm Henri hit New England this weekend? |
| 1:39.0 | Haiti's suffering. |
| 1:40.6 | Doctors struggle to treat 12,000 earthquake victims. |
| 1:44.5 | No food, no water for thousands living in tents. |
| 1:48.5 | Brittany Spears under investigation, the incident at the pop star's home. |
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