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of other nations and capable of negotiating sufficient security to allow this evacuation. because whatever else this is, it is a failure of taliban securities. taliban security that was supposed to be having its ring of steel around the airport. the number of people trying to evacuate are way down because they have said afghans can t go to the airport. they re not allowing the afghans through but somehow, a suicide bomber or some kind of delivery device was able to get through, jim. sam, thanks so much. and stand by for a moment because we do have new information in to cnn. from a pentagon spokesperson john kirby. he said the follow, we can confirm the explosion near the abby gate of the kabul airport has rultsed in an unknown number of casualties. we ll continue to update. not specifying there whether the casualties were afghans or others. but confirming that there is an unknown number, plural, of
0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds around those gates. the u.s. believing that terror groups had both the capability and the planning to carry out such attacks. there is still no attribution for these attacks or as we said, any confirmation about casualties. we have our reporters covering the story. let s begin with nick paton walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who
probably 20 or 30 people. every single one of them, pretty much everybody, believed that both the election was stolen and also lies about the insurrection. i mean, it is quite sad when speaking to so many folks who have bought into this conspiracy theory about the election, which is now undermining their faith in american democracy. so many folks told us as well that they might not trust the results of the next year s mid term elections and one other thing, john, i think really sort of illustrates where i guess the republican party is right now is we were spent a lot of time both inside and outside the event. there is so many guys dressed up in sort of tactical gear. we saw guys wearing badges from the three percenters militia group allegedly involved in the insurrection and proud boys walking around the place as well. so this was a political conference in name but you had these guys dressed up like they were ready to go to war. john? donie, stand by for a moment
chiefs said to me they ve noticed and discovered fake go fund me sites people are trying to raise money, steal money and argue it s going to go to these families and others involved in the search and rels cscue opera. i know you ve been monitoring this. these are bad people. they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low and i can tell you it s happening. we ll find them and do everything we can to prosecute them and our team will start looking at that with the agencies you see out here. so don t give to them. go to the miami-dade website. go to surfside website. do not go to any of these other fake ones. it s really a significant i know you re working this very, very closely, chief. stand by for a moment. meanwhile, a federal safety agency is ex 13ekpected to anno tonight they will launch an investigation into the building collapse here in surfside, florida. this according to a senior administration official after an initial assessment, the national institute for st