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0 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 hudd...

Environment in a city and country controlled by the taliban with the very legal possibility of an isis-k attack. were taking every precaution, but this is very high risk. as the president said yesterday, were on track to complete our mission by august 31st provided the taliban continue to cooperate and there are no disruptions to this effort. the president has also asked for contingency plans in case he determines we must remain in the country past that date, but let me be crystal clear about th...

The complexity and the danger of this effort. we are operating in a hostile environment, in a city and country now controlled by the taliban, with the very real possibility of an isis—k attack. were taking every precaution, but this is very high risk. theyre no longer being called the enemy, but the taliban are waiting at the gates. some may look more professional, but there are still questions as to whether they have really changed. the us says the taliban have promised that foreign nationals...

May have left, some may not actually be u.s. citizens, and some may want to stay. >> we believe the number of americans actively seeking assistance to leave afghanistan is lower, likely significantly lower. >> reporter: president biden has promised to bring home every single american who wants to leave by next week. as secretary blinken offers this warning about threats on the ground. >> were operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very rea...

Our jim sciutto the concerns increase because of quote a very specific threat stream from isis-k. adding to those concerns, members of isis-k escaped two prisons in kabul with one saying as many as several hundred members of the group may have escaped and you only need to listen to the words of president biden and top advisors to see how serious they believe this isis threat is. >> these are credible threats. >> were operating in a hostile environment in a city and country controlled by the tali...

Said theyre speaking to about 500 of them. the other 1,000 theyre not quite sure. theyre trying to reach them. secretary of state blinken said hes concerned about the terrorist threat, neil. >> operating in a hostile environment controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis k attack. were taking every precaution but this is very high risk. >> isis k being the islamic state in afghanistan. at the airport, the air traffic controllers are around the clock. a race against the p...

Environment in city and country now krold by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis-k attack. were taking every precaution but this is very high risk. as the president said yesterday, were on track to complete our mission by august 31st provided the taliban continue to cooperate and there are no disruptions to this effort. the president has also asked for contingency plans in case he determines we must remain in the country past that date. let me be crystal clear about this. there...

Been. it includes people in the siv programme and also other afghans at risk. it is hard to overstate the complicity and the danger of this effort. we are operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the telephone with the very real possibility of an isis k attack. we are taking every precaution but this is very high risk —— now controlled by the taliban. as the president said yesterday, we are on track to complete our mission by august 31 provided the taliban c...