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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 credibl...

We can see smiling eyes. >> that is absolutely true. good luck to you and all your students and teachers on the first day back. thank you for joining us. up next, u.s. intelligence warned that the afghan government could collapse in 30 to 90 days. well, took less than a week. how were they so wrong and what is the terror risk now? we ask the former cia director john brennan next. john brennan next. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. ...

>> already taking to their seats or standing at the hoemt. were waiting the president and prime minister mode. whats the hard evidence that foreigners or refugees who have a connection to the u.s. are less of a terror risk than those who do not have a connection. >> theres no evidence a at all. all somebody needs to do to get into the country under this paradigm as set forth is go up to the visa office and say ive got a familial tie and they have to provide some basic evidence. its going to be e...

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Travelers are on the move and expecting record volumes and the terror risk is as high as it was on september 11th, according to department of homeland security secretary john kelly. >> what i have learned in the last 120 days is this, you know, relentless attempt on the part of terrorists to -- to blow up airplanes in flight. ideally big airplanes with a lot of people. we are watching a number of very, very sophisticated advanced threats right now. >> reporter: travelers flying to the united sta...

Different countries, not necessarily from those seven muslim-majority countries that are being blocked due to terror risk in the presidents executive order? what do you say to critics who say, look, we just heard from the department of homeland security and this intelligence report that says otherwise? >> you know, i trust the people at the national security agencies, i trust the people at the state department who looked at the data, looked at the research and came up with this group of seven na...

Theres one step beyond that, critical. that means its imminent. thats when they have information pointing to a specific plot they think is about to be launched. during the debate here in which many people, many politicians did oppose the governments move to expand air strikes into syria, they argue one of the reasons why it wasnt a good idea, because it would raise the terror risk here to britain. both here in the uk and abroad as well. the government argued against that, saying the assessment o...

Even less hope. >> our thanks for that very moving report. here to talk about the brutality of isis is a terror expert and managing director of terror risk. looking at that, its heartbreaking. it is a reality, though. the yazidi people have been under attack for some time by isis that. report focusing on the women but they have killed over 6,000 men, women and children. how do allied forces combat that kind of terror? >> well, you know, that kind of terror is part of this isis strategy to lets s...

To jump in quickly, lone wolf attacks when you are seeing this online social media outreach from isis? >> im afraid it is. theres been a tremendous evolution in the nature of the terror risk to the homeland. that is from large-scale planned attacks that require years of planning and training to small ball attacks, where an individual can just use what he has around him, a hatchet, make a pressure cooker and coordinate very effective attacks. just in the recent past boston was shut down during th...

High temperature in new york, 48. 50s in raleigh and atlanta. lets head back inside. >> thank you. let me tell you whats coming up in the next 20 minutes of this hour. you heard the president say al-qaeda is on the run, right? now a shocking admission from both sides of the aisle. terror risk is higher than before 9-11. that story next. and it sounds like a scene from eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. what if you could erase all of the painful memories in real life? we got details on a ...