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Kabul for various intermediate staging bases. 66 flights left out of kabul yesterday in that 24-hour period with 6,800 evacuees. today i can report an updated total of evaluation, thats more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. of this total number approximately 5,400 are american citizens. this is an incredible number of people who are now safer thanks to the heroism of the young men and women who are putting their lives on the line each day to evacuate american and vulnerable ...

20,000 have come in. some 5,000 have left to safer climbs. >> i actually got to talk to the marines that are here. theyre doing well, and the good news is that they were stabilized, and theres a good chunk of them that get to go home, and as far as our operations here, they have remained steady through the night. >> through the night and through the day, some 100 planes full of afghan refugees have arrived in ramstein. some direct from kabul. others via other bases. all the people at that base v...

People you have, evacuees you have on domestic bases here, plus those kind of in -- on to come back all different hubs plus the bases? do you have a total number there? >> i dont have it with me, gordon. i think you heard the general yesterday, just under 7,000siv applicants at u.s. military installations across the country and hes opened up additional installations to try to get to us capacity of maybe as much as 50,000 if we need it. i think, but he gave that number yesterday and i would -- i ...

And must be precise enough to cue the strike. and then on the second count we have just demonstrated the over the horizon strike capability from bases outside of afghanistan. these are the two key ingredients. neil: got it ambassador, thank you very much. are waiting to hear from the pentagon very, very shortly what will happen now after this. se o. (woman) wow, thats something. (burke) you get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. [echoing] get a quote today. ♪ we are farmers. b...

On this as were learning more about the service members who gave their lives in the service of their country in that attack. i wanted to get your reflections on the sacrifices of these brave americans who has been said were in the act of helping others gain their freedom. >> it was a noble mission. it was a dangerous mission. they knew it was dangerous. they probably didnt know exactly how dangerous it was. the ones who were left behind still working, they now know. so its even tougher on them. ...

Attack is -- this count of terror we -- counterterror operation is going to be the norm and it will be this easy all the. time we have lost four bases. there that means that we lost staging platforms for electronic eavesdropping locally, drone strikes. this drone strike today likely came from -- oh gosh, united arab emirates perhaps? an eight-hour drone flight to get that done? that is not impossible. cia was staging at our bases a deep penetration into the communities with help from the locals ...

The isis targets? i157. and burning to the preparations for folks coming back, _ the preparations for folks coming back, is— the preparations for folks coming back, is there a total number of people. — back, is there a total number of people, evacuees you have on domestic— people, evacuees you have on domestic bases here, plus those kind of on _ domestic bases here, plus those kind of on the _ domestic bases here, plus those kind of on the stuff to come back? different— of on the stuff t...

That the us could decide to undertake an orderly handoff to the taliban of security at the airport in an attempt to try and not have the types of chaotic scenes that we saw early on in this evacuation. when the us vacated some of its other military bases earlier on this year, it wasjust personnel and they left a lot of the machinery and equipment behind. do we know whether will be the case in kabul as well, whether it is just getting the people out or they are taking kit with them? at this point...

Concern to you? >> i have, griff. ive talked to folks across the district, many military families deeply concerned not only about their loved ones that are down range, but also, the state of mind of our veterans now who feel betrayed whats happened in afghanistan for the effort that they put into it and also we have a very large population of afghans in the district. were hearing on a daily bases working on hundreds of cases to get them out of afghanistan. griff: keep us posted as you get inform...

>> its not very real, chris. the problem is that the islamic state as you said is mixed in with the taliban. even the taliban dont know who they are. these suicide bombers can manufacture the stuff at home. they dont have bases. they dont have a command structure like we know. sometimes, they are not up on cell phones. so to strike back at them is gonna be nearly impossible. i know wed like to, but you just cant. >> colonel, were you able to hear the interview with the woman we had in the last s...