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CARL AZUZ: "CNN 10" is wrapping up
its first full week of coverage in the 2021 fall season.
And, of course, we're thankful to have you watching.
My name is Carl Azuz.
And we're returning to the capital of Afghanistan
today where a terrorist attack was carried out on Thursday.
Two bombers targeted people near a gate
at Hamid Karzai International Airport in the city of Kabul.
When we put this show together, Afghan officials
were saying that more than 60 people were killed.
And US officials said that 12 American service
members were among them.
In April, US President Joe Biden announced that American combat
forces would leave Afghanistan by September 11
after serving more than 19 years in the Asian country.
The US withdrawal date was later moved up to August 31.
And President Biden said threats to US forces
were a big reason why the pullout
should be completed by then.
But his administration has been criticized
over the way the withdrawal has been carried out
and the president's suggestion that hundreds of thousands
of Afghan troops were prepared to defend their country when
Afghanistan's military and government collapsed
in a matter of weeks in early August.
One big challenge for the US and other countries involved
in the Afghan conflict has been getting tens of thousands
of their citizens and allies out of Afghanistan.
These include interpreters and people who worked with the US
and allied governments.
They now fear they'll be targeted
by the Taliban, the group that swiftly took
control back in Afghanistan.
For weeks, scores of people have been trying
to get into Kabul's International Airport
and out of Afghanistan from there.
It's become a symbol of the chaos
amid the US-led military withdrawal from the country.
At this point, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers
are not suspected in Thursday's airport bombing.
US officials believe that a terrorist group
called ISIS-K, an enemy of the Taliban, is responsible.
Following the attacks, several countries
announced they'd continue their efforts
to get their allies out.
10-second Trivia.
In what nation would you find the fastest train
in the world--
France, Japan, China or South Korea?
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A Chinese bullet train can travel
as fast as 373 miles per hour.
But it only has one line in use right now measuring 19 miles.
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Meals at $250 per person.
That's what Chef Q. Ibraheem was serving
at her supper club in Evanston, Illinois before COVID hit.
But a crash in her business opened her eyes
to another opportunity-- the chance to help people in need
get a good meal at a time when their incomes had been hurt
by COVID shutdowns and in places where fresh quality
food was in short supply.
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Q. IBRAHEEM: When I'm in the kitchen,
I'm absolutely in my element.
It is definitely a way for me to express myself.
Cooking is a love language.
You want to make someone happy.
It's my ultimate expression of love.
My career has been like, start it from the bottom,
and I'm here.
I decided to open my own business--
a underground supper club.
When COVID hit, I lost everything.
Catering and the supper club was gone
because no one was coming out.
I didn't know where my next penny was coming from.
I didn't know if I would be able to pay any bills.
In normal times before the pandemic,
I was volunteering with a lot of community organizations.
So I see some early peas.
Oh, this is a good one.
Check those out.
Those were really good.
I teach kids urban agriculture.
And I educate in the Urban Gardens.
So we've got a bunch of mustard greens.
We've got a bunch of collard greens.
Many of them are in food deserts.
When the pandemic hit within the first week of schools
closing down, when I would talk to parents and grandparents,
the average person would say, hey, I'm fine.
But you will hear the sound linger in their voice
that say they were not fine.
They did need help.
And I was getting calls like, are you doing any chef camps?
And it hit me that maybe parents were looking for a place
during the day for their kids to come and get a meal.
So it was really easy for me to say, let me cook.
Initially, I was feeding nine families.
And within a week, we were at like, 75 people.
At this time, it was just me.
The word got out so rapidly.
And then within a couple of weeks,
we were able to get funding.
And we got donations.
Oh, yeah, look at that color.
We're providing meals for people that
have been financially impacted by COVID three to five times
a week.
Woo.
We've served over 60,000 meals in the past 14 months.
The families that I serve, a lot of them are single parents.
A lot are seniors.
It was really important for me to make sure
that the meals were healthy and nutritious.
We always make sure that there is
something fresh on the plate.
We're very veggie-centric.
I'm excited.
It's the best part of the day.
We source a lot of food from the community gardens.
Oh, look how beautiful they are.
I'm working with local farms and local producers.
Oh, this is delicious.
- I know.
Q. IBRAHEEM: Right?
That's really good.
It was important to me to treat the people
that we serve with complete dignity.
Let's go.
So a typical day in a kitchen is in the morning,
we start prepping the menu.
We go over notes.
We go over the dietary restrictions.
We know how many kiddos we have.
And then we start preparing the meals.
A lot of prep.
It takes a lot of time.
Everything is from scratch.
These are home-cooked meals.
These are violets.
So they're edible.
We just go really creative with the food.
We try to do the most beautiful plating that we can do.
I'm inspired to keep going because the knee has not
stopped.
It's a great feeling to know that I'm
able to ease the burden if just a little bit.
- OK, thank you.
- Thank you so much.
Take care.
Q. IBRAHEEM: I'm giving them a sense of understanding
that we are in it together.
A sense of knowing that people in your community do care.
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CARL AZUZ: There's an old Irving Berlin song that
asks how deep is the ocean?
The answer is more than 36,000 feet.
But the world's deepest swimming pool for diving
can also make eyes water.
Located in Dubai United Arab Emirates, it's almost 197 feet
deep.
And it takes more than 3 and 1/2 million gallons of fresh water
to fill it up.
It has an underwater city and film studio.
And while we don't know how much it cost to build this thing,
the world's second deepest pool in Poland
cost more than 10 million.
So probably more than that.
So if you want to build one of your own,
you might have to dig deep, have deep pockets,
have a deep-seeded need for diving that knows no depth.
You might have to dry off any bathophobia
and pool your resources because this could take
more coins than a wishing well.
Friday's are awesome.
Want to give a shout out to Tri-Valley High School.
It is located in Colton, South Dakota.
Thank you for your request on our YouTube channel.
I'm Carl Azuz wishing all of you a wonderful weekend.
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