Connecticut principal helps American family with Afghanistan rescue

A Connecticut mom trapped in Kabul until just before the last U.S. plane flew out of Afghanistan emailed her daughter’s elementary school principal to say that her kids would miss the start of the school year, according to local reports.

Hours later, he received notice that the family had been successfully evacuated. "I was jumping up and down, because it had been a while because they had to go to a safe house because the airport was too dangerous, so I was just very nervous not hearing anything," he told the station.