right before a holiday. we spoke with atlanta airport security spokesperson asking him about the security measures. he says listen, every quarter we step it up. back in january they brought in another 335 cameras, those cameras now making it 3,500 all across the airport grounds monitored 24/7 by tsa and airport emergency operations, but again, that manhunt continues for 4 2-year-old kenn wells. nadia romero, thank you. with the holiday season approaching smash-and-grab robberies. in san francisco bay three people arrested after dozens of looters ransacked a nordstrom store saturday night. outside of chicago last week, 14 people forced their way into a louis vuitton store, made off with more than $100,000 worth of merchandise. you see the security camera
we had watched those members of the marines and navy as they took care of children, pulled women over the walls, helped to get people free and over into the airport grounds in order the allow them safe passage. they did heroic work and they were attacked by isis-k terrorists outside of that perimeter, which was very tight and controlled on the outside mostly by the taliban. we watch these somber images, trey yingst joins us. he s reporting from the ground in kabul where he just sat face-to-face with one of the taliban s leaders. good evening, trey. martha, good afternoon. the taliban says the united states is not living up to the doha agreement. we spoke with haqqani of the haqqani network. this man is personally responsible for hundreds of suicide bombings in afghanistan. he used to be held as a prisoner at the bagram air base.
you will, rally points and the arrangement called for the taliban to go there as well, pick them up and get them passed the crowds at the airport and guide them towards the gates that were manned by american forces who would be watching for them and could get them through the gates and on to the airport grounds. officials that described this to us say they really do believe that it has a success in getting hundreds of americans out while they acknowledged many americans had problems with the taliban. there was also another chain of events we have learned about. u.s. special operations forces established their own secret gate, if you will, at the airport and they worked phone call centers talking to americans, guiding them, vectoring them into this arrangement saying where are you? walk here. walk there. literally guiding them step by step to get into the airport. at the end of the day, the u.s.
at this point we do not anticipate additional u.s. military flowing into the airport, but as you said, chris, the evacuation mission continues. so that means that u.s. military and marines are still screening people as they come on the airport grounds. we heard from general mackenzie they screened more than 104,000 people throughout the course of the mission that began august 14th. that s a tremendous amount of people that have come through. he made the point one of the reasons this is so dangerous is because bringing these people onto the airport, they have to get up close with them and check them, they have to make sure they don t have weapons or explosives on them, and of course in the case of yesterday, there was one individual, at least one individual that had explosives. we know the attack occurred at the abbey gate. it is a place we have seen large crowds gathering over the last week or so. that has been the real security concern. you mention isis-k claimed
candidly, stronger than we usually hear in it these situations. the so what they re looking for here, jeff, is the potential for another suicide attack. and that could be in the form of someone with a suicide vest, attempting to get access to one of the gates like we saw in the devastating attack yesterday. they re also very worried about the potential for a vehicle born explosive device. someone packing a vehicle with some kind of explosive and then worst case scenario, actually being able to drive it on to kabul airport. the third thing is the potential for rocket attacks. in this case, it s someone launching a rocket attack on to the airport grounds whether it s packing up the runway or in a worst case scenario, being able to attack and take out one of these aircraft, these c-17 aircraft carrying hundreds of evacuees. so this threat is continuing. what more have you learned about yesterday s attack? we know now that 13 u.s. service