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Of that country will only increase. the last u.s. planes carrying u.s. troops and state department left personnel left kabul airport at 3:29 p.m. eastern time. they cleared afghanistan airspace and that's when we heard from the general. it marks the end of 20-year mission which began shortly, of course, after the september 11th attacks. roughly 6,000 americans have been evacuated since august 14th. about 250 roughly are believed still to be on the ground in afghanistan with the taliban now in control. meantime, the big story here back at home in the u.s. rescuers are trying to reach people tra...

0 helicopter with the state police to get him on the island and as long as there is communication, we will communicate with him to see what is going on there, the but it is hard to have no word from the island and the people on it. in lafitte, the water is very high, and from the louisiana national guard and others are there doing the search and rescue. they are having to get the boats in and out, and we are sheltering the people at the park playground, and then the state is going to coordinate the pickup and move them out to alexandria is the plan. and our systems are down and we have no comm...

0 get him to the island and as long as there's communication, we'll be able to communicate with him and see what's going on there. but it's very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they're having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understand...

As the tuesday deadline approaches president biden is claiming isis ksks is not the last. let's go to john harwood. how imminent? do you have a scent sense of how imminent more u.s. strikes could be? >> he couldn't have been more direct. he put out a statement saying his commanders have advised him it is highly likely that there will be another attack in the next 24 to 36 hours. you just heard from sam about the more specific credible threat tonight that's led to an immediate depart from the airport request from the u.s. embassy. now, while this is going on, evacuations have slowed but they ha...

Do want to get you up to speed on one of our top stories. the u.s. is among the countries warning its citizens to stay away from kabul airport in after d be afghanistan. citing a specific and credible threat. and that warning comes after thursday's devastating bombing and it could make it harder to evacuate ahead of tuesday's deadline to withdrawal all u.s. troops. now, a u.s. official says around 2,000 people were evacuated over 12 hours on saturday. the u.s. and its allies have evacuated more than 113,000 people since august 14th. but there are fears thousands and thousands of people could b...