deadliest day of the afghanistan war since that devastating loss of that chinook ten years ago with those 38 men onboard. today, for most of the day, the u.s. death toll associated with the suicide bombing in the crowd at the gates of kabul airport. for most of the day, that toll was 12 u.s. service members, ten u.s. marines and one u.s. navy corpsman. one additional u.s. service member, for whom we do not have a service affiliation. but tonight, just as we are going to air, the pentagon confirmed that it's not 12, it's 13. an additional u.s. service member has now died. now, the number of u.s. service members wounded is said to be 18. we do not know much about the severity of those injuries. getting a handle on the toll among the afghan civilians who bore even more of the brunt of this blast. that has been difficult to the point of impossible today. estimates at the toll among afghan civilians at the gates at the airport ranges from as low as 13 to as high as dozens, perhaps 60 or more. they definitely include not just
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