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There in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. lets toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. im garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. youre looking at live pictures of the airport. its 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddli...

>> sandra: calling this a complex attack and joey jones explained what that is and what the implications are going forward. >> a complex attack means that you use a distraction, whether it is a bomb or gunfight and it is a planned and strategy. if it is a complex attack, it means that it was designed to kill the most people at a specific place, at a specific time and it shows planning and strategy. >> sandra: is that what you took away from that description from the pentagon? >> yeah, he nailed ...

They are going to be holding a press conference at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. we will likely get an update then. a lot of this is being delayed. but peter, keep us posted. >> john: we are going to go back to jennifer griffin and she has more breaking news. i imagine it is along the same lines. >> yes, we can update the number of the death toll. 12 u.s. servicemembers have been killed in the attack this morning. there were 12 killed in action this morning. 11 marines and one navy medic. this is the ...

Marines, one navy medic killed in the attack. all he said the president had the moment about going after th. thats what he wanted to convey. you want to comment about his remarks. >> what sadness this is a manufactured crisis. this is the administrations own doing. we see what happens when you do things in the wrong order. you do not pull your troops out before you get your people out. before you get the embassy workers out in the americans out, the afghans who helped us out. then you pull the t...

Complex attack. and then, a second explosion rocked the area by the hotel. >> john: that hotel is part of an american rescue operation just days ago. at least, 13 people are dead as result of the attacks. the kabul hospital saying at least, 16 have been injured. listen here. >> word has been out for the last few days and understanding something of this nature. the first thing that came to mind and one of my first runs to the gate to take people across is this would be a perfect scene -- scenario...

We were going in there to secure the airport in order to get all of our people out. now, we did that in coordination with the taliban. that was the decision that was made of what would work best to get people out by the deadline. the nation has to deal with this shock and we pray those who are wounded can survive this attack. obviously, afghans have lost their lives in this horrific attack too that took place in two locations at the abbey gate and the baron hotel. so, he has to address that firs...

Four marines were killed in that explosion outside of abbey gate. three marines were wounded in that attack. so, seven service members killed and injured outside that gate. we have seen the images of the afghan women and children killed in that attack. no official information from us officials. there is another explosion that we reported on at the baron hotel about 200 yards away and as john reported, there were 169 americans air lifted just a few days ago into safety from the airport.

A lot of concern about a potential attack leading up to today. weve been hearing about it in the last several hours. this is a threat from isis. there was very specific intelligence that isis was look ing to target one of the gates at the airport, potentially to try to attack, kill americans, westerners, even afghan civilians. because of that, one of the real vulnerabilities that the u.s. saw was the large crowds that gathered outside the gates the last several days. they were worried some isis ...

Advisor sargent mcmaster said this morning. >> i would not be surprised if this isis-k attack is just a strawman to organize the attack against us after we have surrendered to a terrorist organization. >> john: if it is another group maybe operating independently or a approximate scioscia for the taliban, then you cant pin it directly on the taliban. but how, given the warnings that were out there from the uk and others to get away from the airport, how can the taliban not be responsible for thi...

When pressed about the threats, he said it is hard to overstate the complexity and danger of this effort. were operating in a hostile environment, in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with a very real possibility of an isis-k attack. were taking every precaution, but this is very high risk. so, thats sullivan on saturday started talking about it. zeroing in on the isis threat. in the last couple days this has continuously been the explanation for the presidents decision to go with...