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0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we're working to evacuate remaining staff and we've been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before...

Deaths had been prevented through the use of that vaccine. some latest figures from washington, where the us government is saying that roughly 13,400 people were airlifted from afghanistan on wednesday, raising the total number of those evacuated about the us and its coalition partners since august 14 to around 95,700. those figures coming from the white house. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. we started off with a fair bit of cloud this morning across the uk, but some of it is already breaking out towards the west. here we will see some sunshine. cloud...

Attacks against crowds outside the airport. and those crowds have been growing. more than 10,000 people swarming the airport today. a u.s. defense official tells cnn there are real concerns isis-k, a sworn enemy of the taliban, wants to create mayhem. they want to do it amid fears that they're capable and planning multiple attacks. that as the white house says 19,000 people were evacuated over a 24-hour period. more than 82,000 evacuated on u.s. military and coalition flights since august 14th. did you hear that? more than 82,000. that's a lot of people. evacuated on u.s. military and coalitio...

>> it was pulled off of the kin of missions we were trying to d to accommodate that visit. it took time away from what we had been planning to do that they. to get they also took seats. these young soldiers and marine serving is air traffic controllers traffic controllers around the clock at the kabul, evacuation flights lunching every 45 minutes, a race agains that august 31st deadline with only a few days remaining, yesterday 19,000 people were evacuated according to the pentagon over 80,000 since august 14. >> who is guarding the u.s. embassy in who will guard after the was military pulls o...

On august 14 when our evacuation operations began, there was then a population of as many as 6,000 american citizens in afghanistan who wanted to leave. over the last ten days, roughly 4,500 of these americans have been safely evacuated, along with immediate family members. over the past 24 hours, we've been in direct contact with approximately 500 additional americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely. we'll update you regularly on getting these 500 american citizens out of afghanistan. for the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be americ...