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That, wolf. the overnight numbers in the last 24 hours, 3:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m., 2600, down from peak of over 12,000, just on the u.s. side. numbers of civilians are going down rapidly, not surprisingly. not only the taliban have a ring of steel around the airport as public policy, not allowing afghans through it. on top of that, gates are all closed for security reasons. those getting into the airport, coming in by covert means with prearrangement with now predominantly almost entirely the unite...

Region, out of the airport. they evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. i met with my commander first thing in the morning about the attacks and the measures their taking to complete the mission. >> they say the u.s. military and coalition forces helped to evacuate more than 12,000 people yesterday. more than 100,000 in total had been evacuated since august 14th. lets go to courtney kube. mike, let me start start with you. the president got another ...

Their evacuation process because theyre having to bring their people out as part of the u.s. withdrawal. so this is now getting to the critical moment at a time when you already mentioned there there is still ongoing threats, and when security officials say that, they mean there are -- they are known and active plots theyre trying to disrupt to continue attack the people either people trying to get out through the airport or the airport itself. and as the aircrafts start taking off and the defen...

Outside the main airfield compound but a very important location for filtering people through that camp and into the main airfield. so essentially there is a magnet there of two potential access points for people. when they go north up the road or more or less north up the road, they are bounded on either side, as they get closer to the airport perimeter, by blast walls. theres also a sewage or a ditch, a concrete ditch off to the left as theyre walking up. now, there are tens of thousands of pe...

Obviously in the first instance because of this catastrophic terrorist attack. 13 americans dead. at least 90 killed according to the afghan health authorities. more than 100 afghans wounded. 15 -- 18 americans wounded. amidst of all this horror, this is an obviously disincentive to go to the airport. on top of that the taliban put on a harder perimeter. they are already -- already had a policy of trying to stop afghans from getting to the airport. its actually almost bemusing to anybodys managi...

Are, and do they see them as a threat. another part is it all about how that continues after the 31st, it all hinges on the airport. there is an effort to get the airport under way and they would like the turks to take over that airport. turkey is having some reservations about it. so there is ongoing negotiations to get that airport open. then you have to get them visas and safe passage. the taliban spokesman said if they have visas, they can have passports and they can go. some of that evacuat...

>> well, remarkably, people are still getting into the airport. mostly by relatively covert means it would appear. because theres still about 4,000 people there waiting for flights out. 12,500 people were moved out around the terrorist attack that killed 13 americans and at least 170 other people according to the afghan ministry of health. among those dead now confirmed by british authorities, two british citizens and the child of a british national, too. the number of dead is now including fore...

Significant focus on afghanistan. you heard at the end there the preparation thats are underway for a potentially major hurricane bearing down on louisiana here. and then the on going fight against covid-19. this is a white house that is battling many battles on many fronts. >> yeah. absolutely. colonel christopher, i want to bring new on a point that mike memoli is making. what does this evacuation process look like after the end of the month? can the taliban be counted on to help facilitate th...

This means for the evacuation process as this operation winds down right now? >> jeff, you hear the swhous preparing for the end of one phase here, the military drawdown ahead of that august 31st deadline. and then eventual transition to much more uncertainty on many levels what happens without the u.s. military presence when trying to get out any americans and afghan partners that remain. in terms of the former, the drawdown of the military presence, this is a very sensitive period. you heard t...

0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and ...