The Latest: Pause in evacuee flights to US extended 7 days

The Pentagon says all flights of Afghan evacuees into the United States have been halted for another seven days

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says all flights of Afghan evacuees into the United States have been halted for another seven days. That's at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, due to measles cases at three different U.S. bases. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday that three cases of measles were diagnosed among Afghans arriving at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, one at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and one at Fort Pickett in Virginia. The U.S. initially halted the U.S.-bound flights on Friday when the measles cases were first discovered. Kirby said the seven-day extension of the pause in flights begins Monday and that all efforts are being made to do contact tracing to determine who at any of the bases may have been exposed. He said patients are being housed separately and are getting medical care.