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Remain in country after august 31st. you also heard secretary blinken say they will spare no resource, economic, diplomatic, working with allies, the u.s. working with its allies to try to grant safe passage to any afghan, any american who remains in country after august 31st. this explosion, presumed attack outside the kabul airport, you can certainly imagine how that complicates this effort and the immediate political calculus that president biden has to make here. >> geoff bennett, thank you. as we're watching aircraft still taking off from the hamid karzai international airport at kabul, w...

Some of them have been stationed at the abby gate that courtney was talking about, along the southern perimeter. we do not yet have any word from the british government of casualties either among afghan civilians gathering at that great or perhaps british troops in the area. we don't yet know what is going on, on that front. but the uk has been signaling that their evacuation is coming to an end. they cannot stay in the country without the support of u.s. troops. boris johnson tried, but did not succeed, earlier this week at that virtual g7 summit to convince president biden to extend his augu...

>> reporter: yeah, look. from those numbers you're reporting 13,000 in the last 24-hour period that's sort of the evidence you need of the difficulties that are now building. it is quite clear that they cannot go back to where they were before which is the gating being open, people being picked out of the crowd or essentially through their own ingenuity getting on to the airport. that caused a loss of life and seems now with the concerns about isis-k or possibly bombs in those crowds that is simply not going to happen. in fact, i understand from a source familiar with the situation the gates a...

U.s. military, and u.s. allies have been worried about at kabul airport. it is continuing. and there is -- the threat has even -- not just persisted but accelerated in the last 24 hours, the concerns about it. because of that, we saw the u.s. embassy warning americans not to go to the gate because they were worried about the potential threat and they were worried about americans being targeted. so, again, we don't know. we don't have good visibility at this point about what may be going on. but the reports are that something may have happened at the abby gate. for perspective, the abby gate is...

Meantime we'll try to stay on top of this with our reporters. courtney kube is at the pentagon. geoff bennett remains at the white house. and sanchez is in london. what do we know so far, courtney? >> reporter: we know very little details. so far, this appears to be an explosion that occurred outside the airport at the abby gate. for perspective, the abby gate is over on the far southeast side of the airport. it's voupded by an area that was frequented by westerners. there's a hotel, baron hotel that a lot of westerners stayed up until the taliban took over the city a week ago. it's a place wh...