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Then two hours later, the north gate is closed. or the abby gate is open right now. but sorry there's shootings right now. tell people to go away. and it's been hourly non-stop changing. there's been so much violence on the streets. there's been so much just restrictiveness and and horror around these taliban check points. and it's just been absolutely crushing to see, you know, people who weren't able to get their passport in time before kabul fell. they've been working on their visa paper work for months, if not years. and they were unable to make it through the 14-step process for their siv...

Somewhere in the region of 100,000 people shipped out in a matter of four to five days. that is just remarkable. but also informs i think the rapidly closing window that we're seeing on the ground. i understand from a source familiar with the situation that things will end friday in terms of the evacuation operation itself. it is hampered by the skirt around the airport, taliban have checkpoints, but they only let people it seems who prearranged access. and of course they have at the gates this enduring issue with a bomb threat, an ied threat maybe linked to isis-k. that has leds gate for the ...

Things have been like at the abby gate where this explosion took place over the last couple of days? and a little bit about, if you would, the kind of security balance that's in place now with the u.s. and taliban trying to work together to secure this air lift and this evacuation. >> sure. the word has been chaotic and crowded. in the last couple of days, there definitely have been sort of a sea of humanity around the various gates. not just abby gate but gates of camp sullivan, the gates at baron, the north gate. multiple gates. it's crowded. there's squalor. people don't have food, water or...

Deadline, i believe, is because of what we're seeing right now. the longer the u.s. stays there, the longer there's a chaotic scenario. this battle space is not controlled in empty speak. we'll have these spoiler attacks that are trying to bring the united states into a quagmire and put the taliban in a tough position as well. >> all right. let's take a moment to reset here a little bit. shortly before we came on the air, we learned of an explosion outside the abby gate, a gate frequented by westerners. it's across the street from a popular hotel. outside the abby gate of the hamid karzai inte...

Stage of the evacuations. >> reporter: urgency for days but now clear according to a source familiar with the situation that this ends in 36 hours, friday essentially. and that will of course spark some elements of panic amongst those trying to get into the airport, but i have to say it is not a huge surprise in terms of a deadline. we've always known that the back end of the window before the 31st of august was going to have to be used by the military and their allies to get themselves out. i understand british forces may well be leaving tonight from that airport as well. we also here that ye...