Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for Covid-19

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tested positive for Covid-19, despite being fully vaccinated. The Republican has opposed mask mandates and issued an executive order banning school districts from requiring masks. Dr. Peter Hotez is the co-director at the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital. He tells Anderson Cooper school hasn’t started yet and kids are getting sick. Plus, CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward joins AC360 from Kabul Afghanistan to describe the fear women now have that the Taliban have taken over saying they seem to “have largely melted away.” Airdate: August 17, 2021 Guests: Dr. Peter Hotez Clarissa Ward To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, a lot happening tonight, including a look ahead of President Biden's planned
0:04.1	announcement tomorrow on COVID booster shots for most vaccinated Americans.
0:08.0	We begin, though, with Afghanistan.
0:10.0	We learn late today that the President spoke with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
0:13.3	about the situation there, including the safe evacuation of Westerners and Afghan nationals.
0:17.9	To that end, another thousand troops have landed in Kabul since we left you last night
0:22.0	with another 2,000 or so on the way.
0:24.6	According to the White House, 700 to 800 Americans, Afghans and other foreign nationals, managed
0:29.4	to leave the country today.
0:30.8	That said, the goal is more like 5,000 a day.
0:33.6	However, just getting to the airport may be difficult or impossible for many.
0:38.1	These next photos explain why, but we have to warn you first, they're very tough to see.
0:42.4	If you have children in the room, you might want to have them turn away now.
0:46.2	These photos were taken by Los Angeles Times photographer and foreign correspondent, named
0:49.8	Marcus Yam.
0:51.1	In a road near the airport packed with people trying to leave.
0:54.8	You can see an injured child there on the right.
0:58.4	His head bloody, apparently unconscious in a man's arms, lying on the pavement, a woman
1:02.3	also bloody, also with injuries to her head.
1:05.4	He says Taliban fighters use whips and sticks and sharp objects and gunfire on the crowd
1:09.8	and says at least half a dozen people were wounded while he was there.
1:14.3	We should point out that Mr. Yam does not know why the Taliban fired into the crowd and
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