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Expect to be still be doing the large bulk of processing of applicants, of afghan evacuees by the weekend. so as the 36-hour window left for them to work in, less now, in fact, given the time currently in kabul. so this operation coming certainly to a close. doesn't mean, for example, if an american passport holder turns up saturday, sunday they'll be refused evacuation, but that the large numbers we've been seeing daily, remarkable that they are, in the tens of thousands now reduced, though, to 13,000 in the last 24-hour period. that that may get even less still, for the simple fact, jim, we'...

Gates at kabul airport. basically i can provide you a little bit of a scene setter of what's been going on at kabul airport. the first thing is this threat. this has been -- there's been a perfect sicht threat since late last week. and it is specific to isis, that isis had interest, was planning to, was trying to attack kabul airport and specifically attack westerners, americans and potentially afghan civilians who were trying to get to the airport to get on these evacuation flights. you have seen over the last week these crowds outside many of these gates, and the concern was that among those...

As evened out more with the flights that are landing. but in these last couple days before that final withdrawal from kabul, we'll start to see a lot more action here at ramstein air base. >> matt bradley, thank you. gabe, you are outside and expo center in virginia where some afghan refugees are already being housed. how are things looking there? >> reporter: just within the past few minutes actually, few moments, this bus that was parked right behind me rolled out of here. we've been seeing that throughout the day. and virginia governor says that they have at least 6,000 afghans that have al...

Absolutely. so, they were -- this is the military. they always have -- they have contingencies for everything. there has been a real concern. because of that, they have stepped up security around those gates. that's actually -- we heard about these bottlenecks and people having such a hard time getting through. part of that is due to the fact that they're trying to limit the crowds outside the gate and inside the airport. but a big part of that is because of the security concern. they have been very worried about an isis attack. and this is afghanistan. this is kabul. there are frequently thre...

Operation in the region. so very early word about all of this. the pentagon, the defense department, the intelligence community, the white house trying to put all of the pieces together, to try to determine what has happened and trying to move very quickly to take care of those who may be injured, kate. >> and just as you were reporting and just as you're reporting we have a new statement from the pentagon press secretary john kirby. we could confirm that the explosion at the abby gate was the result of a complex attack that results in a number of u.s. and civilian kcasualties and we could con...