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Large number of civilians. this includes suicide bombings. they have had for some time an attack network thats -- that operates within kabul. >> reporter: analysts say isis-k has had no qualms about murdering innocents in their pursuit of a caliphate in afghanistan. in may they attacked a school for girls in kabul, killing at least 85 people according to afghan officials, most girls. in june an isis-k attack on a british american de-mining charity killed at least ten people. even then they weren...

That will try to run the country, the extent to which this is taliban 2.0 or something different and we dont know the extent much our capabilities or ally capabilities in the future. >> so -- >> the threat is real -- >> if im hearing you correctly, you are take the taliban will be focused on what they can build in terms of a state right now as opposed to another 9/11 attack to us. and so what is so striking about this is that were two weeks away from 9/11. i heard an analyst yesterday predicting...

Officials and military officials as well are also trying to find those terrorists responsible for that attack at the kabul airport on thursday as well as preventing future attacks. we saw an airstrike that killed two isis-k operatives on friday, and president biden is vowing that that will not be the last. there is also the evacuation mission that is still underway. yesterday during a 12-hour period about 2,000 individuals were evacuated from the kabul airport. that is significantly lower than s...

Pilot and hes watching the situation there as are all his colleagues and its not a pretty picture. >> colonel, the state department says about 350 americans are still looking to leave afghanistan. how can we safely evacuate the rest of the citizens with this threat still looming from isis-k? >> the best way probably is i think were doing right now, is to depend at least partly, if not largely on that force that we came to afghanistan under my administration to eliminate virtual actually the tali...

As we hear president biden saying he believes an isis-k attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours and that the u.s. will act accordingly, what does that mean to you and what is the value of a warning that the u.s. will react? we have reacted already. does it really slow or change the plans of isis? >> it could. and i think that you are seeing the white house sort of use both a short-term and long-term strategy. the short term is to let the terrorists know we have is some transparency on...

Pressing issues theyre -- urgent, pressing issues theyre dealing with the tuesday deadline fast approaching? >> theres almost nothing you can do to prevent a terrorist attack like the kind weve seen by the islamic state khorasan. you have pakistan sponsoring in cashmere against the indians. pakistan right now, i must say islamabad needs to be careful how it lasts beaten the super power driving us out of afghanistan because this is going to haunt them as well as the other regional powers as china...

Claimed the attack last week. >> more attacks could be imminent. you might be wondering, who is isis-k? here is cnns brian todd. >> we have new information now on isis-k. its origins, background, where the fighters came from, ideology. its considered to be an archenemy of the taliban, but more vicious. carnage and slaughter in kabul. the claim of responsibility coming from isis-k, a group claiming to be a branch of the main isis network which swept through syria and iraq in 2014. a terror force ...

Americans to remember that, that the loss that we see in the last couple of weeks does not describe the last 20 years. i have been in this for a long time, well before 9/11. if you told me there would be no major attack after 9/11, i would have said, yeah, yeah, you know, i would have doubted that, and its been -- and in that regard, its been a successful. >> millions of reasons so be so grateful for the men and women who serve this country. thank you so much. really appreciate you. >> thank you...

A live look at new orleans. there it is. empty streets, very wet streets, and its only just going to get worse as the day goes on. those are the outer bands already hitting the area there. looks like it might be bourbon street. i am not sure. we learned ida has strengthened again. it is a powerful category 4 hurricane. it is being described as having a storm surge that is unsurvivable in some places. we are keeping a close eye on the storms track. we will give you an update in a few minutes. >> ...

Hours, the last isis k attack at the kabul airport, that killed so many afghan civilians and 13 u.s. service members. but again, after that attack, after the warnings of that attack from u.s. officials, after the attack happened, after president biden said that we would find those responsible and make them pay and that he was telling u.s. military commanders to come up with a plan for doing so, after another very pointed warning of another potential attack, tonight, just a last few minutes u.s. ...