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Walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. >> -- only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who may have been on the airport at the time and also for the many afghans waiting outside. we don't know the reason behind this at this stage. it is an explosion. we haven't clarified precisely there are many things moving in that area. could be crowded areas so other reasons why there could have been a blast but it will play directly into fears of a possible attack. let me just tell you a little bit about where we think this might have occurred. in the out skirts of hamid karzai airpor...

Extreme risk. >> clint, thank you. stick around. i want to bring back nbc's courtney kube at the pentagon. she's been working her source at the pentagon, trying to get more detail here. what do you know? >> reporter: unfortunately we don't know a whole lot more. we're still trying to figure out how many casualties there were and the extent of it, and who they were. we know that there were afghan civilians outside this gate at the time of this explosion. it's worth pointing out, too, this is an area where there had been americans and afghans going through this gate, the abby gate, in recent day...

The embassy further cautions against traveling to the airport, unless specifically instructed to by a u.s. government representative. now, this follows cnn reporting earlier of a, quote, very specific threat stream from isis k against crowds. cnn's oren liebermann joins us now with the latest on this. so what do we know about this warning? >> this is a specific warning to get away from three gates to karzai international airport. the north gate, east gate, and the abby gate. citing a security threat. we know, having spoken about the threat isis k poses to that area that the pentagon believes t...

Is isis-k. it is also a very easy area to do a large amount of damage. the blast walls mean if you're close to it, you could almost magnify and channel if you have blast walls on either side of routes which for example exist on the way to the abby gate. that is a canal and a road that have -- the road has blast walls on other side so you could direct the blast up and down the road. there is nothing going out to the side. you get ricochet effect. so very deliberate tarngeting here and clearly something was imminent and now it seems to have happened, jim. >> the sad facts on the ground. sam kile...

So the structures are there in terms of the u.s. military, but in terms of the coalition. i'm not sure which -- nobody would know which direction any kaz casualties will go and nor do we know if these are u.s. casuals. the abby gate is next door to camp barren which is the british base for the filtration of a huge number of evacuees. it is a little bit outside of the main area of the airfield. and if i could describe it slightly, the abby gate is on and is precise as i'm describing, there are blast walls either side of the main road leading to what is called abby gate. you turn to the right, e...