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Anything but fake. we are now on high alert outside the kabul airport as senior u.s. official confirming to our colleague jackie heinrich the threat of a vehicle bomb or suicide bomb from isis k or another affiliate is being measured at more likely than unlikely over the last 24 hours. and british defense officials warning it could possibly happen within hours. this after the state department alert issued last night telling americans heading to the airport to turn back adding because of security threats outside the gates of kabul airport, u.s. citizens who are at the abby gate, east gate or no...

Were updating us on the status of continued evacuations despite americans being told now not to travel to the airport, please stop doing that. we still have a lot on the tarmac we are trying to get home. >> that's right, moving as quickly as they can, harris, i'm told from u.s. officials that the american casualty figure could rise in the coming hours. we can report that three u.s. marines were seriously wounded in the attack outside of abbey gate. we have seen the images outside of abby gate and a dozen by my count of women, children, civilian, afghan men who were killed instantly when that s...

Of other nations and capable of negotiating sufficient security to allow this evacuation. because whatever else this is, it is a failure of taliban securities. taliban security that was supposed to be having its ring of steel around the airport. the number of people trying to evacuate are way down because they have said afghans can't go to the airport. they're not allowing the afghans through but somehow, a suicide bomber or some kind of delivery device was able to get through, jim. >> sam, thanks so much. and stand by for a moment because we do have new information in to cnn. from a pentagon ...

Worked in kabul. but it's also one of the locations where there have been a large crowd growing. the crowd actually had been so big that just a week ago today, last thursday, there was a group of 159 americans who were planning to go from that hotel through the abby gate to get into the airport for evacuation. and the crowd got so big that the u.s. military commander made the decision to actually take several chinook helicopters, land them at the hotel and get americans safely over the crowd so that they wouldn't face the poe tepgs threats of that crowd in there. again, chris, this is all deve...

0 works. if the hope is for them to be a reasonable partner for afghan allies, other members of former of the afghan government or the u.s., that one indication there. i'm jim sciutto. thank you for being with us. that is flick robertson with me there. "at this hour" will start now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, i'm kate bolduan. we're continuing this follow the major breaking news in afghanistan. there has been an explosion outside of kabul airport. officials also say this appears to be a suicide attack. let's be clear. this is still unfolding and there are many questions and things...