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0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds aro...

0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. let's toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. i'm garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. you're looking at live pictures of the airport. it's 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddling as we speak. we hope to learn more from them soon. the airport has been under a terror thre...

Done at each stop along the way. and again i think that's a better question for the state department. >> you just said that any siv holders that come to the gate would be let onto a flight but we're getting realtime reports from abby gate that marines are turning away siv holders and turning them away. can you clarify are marines supposed to be turning away those are siv papers or with authorization to come onto the airport? have they closed down abby gate? >> i will let the general take that question. the question that was posed to me by i think it was steven was if you are -- if you have siv...

>> i'm going to leave that question to the state department. there is covid screening being done at each stop along the way. again, i think that's a better question for the state department. >> you just said any siv holders that come to the gate would be let onto a flight. we're getting realtime reports that marines are turning away siv holders. can you clarify, are marines supposed to be turning away those with siv papers or with authorization to come onto the airport? have they closed down abby gate? >> i'm going to let the general take that question. the question that was posed to me by, i ...

The guidance still remains those that have the proper paperwork and are safely at the gates is to bring them in and process them. i can't speak to that specific report there. but what i do know is that whether it's our marines or soldiers that are at those gates working with the consular officers that are there is as people are there and present the proper siv paperwork we're to get them as quickly as possible in, process them for evacuation flights. >> can you make sure that message gets down to the marines at abby gate? this is a legitimate report that just came in. >> we appreciate those re...