Good morning and welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Friday, August 20th, and it's another busy newsday with President Biden set to speak today about his administration's troubled evacuation efforts in Afghanistan.

We've got new reporting on that and a look on board one of those flights bringing Afghans and

Americans to safety. Plus, another one million Americans received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

yesterday, what it means for the country's fight against the pandemic.

And you might think this is video from a police academy at like a boot camp or something.

But this is actually training that some flight attendants are undergoing with more and more airline

travelers acting out in dangerous ways.

We're going to have that report just ahead. Also in a moment, we'll get to yesterday's bomb scare

in Washington and the anti-government messages. The suspect was streaming in real time, another

attack in the nation's capital.

But first, the Biden administration is working to pick up the pace of evacuations in Afghanistan.

The White House released new numbers overnight, saying 3,000 people were evacuated from Kabul's

airport yesterday. That brings the total to 9,000 since last Saturday.

But many more are still waiting.

NBC News, Chief Foreign correspondent Richard Engel documented his own journey at the Kabul Airport and filed this report.

Thousands of Afghans were evacuated overnight from Kabul airport.

Push backwards.

They're thankful to be escaping Taliban rule, but it isn't pretty to flee a war zone.

We watched one group of hundreds of Afghans gathered in front of the departure hall leading to the runways.

They wait outside for hours until the planes arrive.

Surrounded by trash, always under guard.

Most arrive here already exhausted because to get here, they had to navigate through Taliban fighters

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