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Battlefield. >> reporter: this comes as the race against the clock winds down, just 48 hours left before we expect the last u.s. flight to depart, turning the airport over to the taliban. the last british flight departing yesterday with british prime minister boris johnson praising the efforts. >> u.k. troops have worked round the clock in harrowing conditions. they've seen firsthand barbaric terrorist attacks on people they were trying to comfort as well as on our american friends. >> reporter: it's a stark realization, guys, that very soon undeniably some is americans and thousands of afghan...

110,600 people since august 14th. >> don't know when that happened but if it was after yesterday's bombing you turn the metric that matters, and innocent civilians we were in charge of protecting, or situational awareness, don't know what it is, it is a different scenario. the talent ban, look over here. new york post article today, these are talent ban fighters that decided -- how baghdadi is now dead, and get down, more

Yesterday's bombing that killed 13 service members, biden referred to the on-going efforts. >> the mission they are performing is dangerous. now, come with significant loss of american personnel. it is a worthy mission. they continue to evacuate folks out of that region. out of the airport. evacuate more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. >> tonight, the white house said that since august 14th, the u.s. evacuated more than 109,000 people from afghanistan. peter alexander asked press secretary about the deadline to have all troops out of afghanistan. >> so it...

Additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. >> tonight the white house says that since august 14th, the u.s. has evacuated more than 109,000 people from afghanistan. earlier today, our own peter alexander as press secretary jen psaki about tuesday's deadline to have all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. >> in terms of -- four plus days are way from the august 31st deadline, is the white house commitment at this point that all americans who want to leave afghanistan will be able to leave before that date? >> that is what we are focused on, committed, to and working. on >> our chief...

Of the country, another in the east, both of them working as journalists, both fearing the taliban, both of them having received threats to the taliban, and neither of them able to travel to kabul, much less get on an evacuation flight. there have been promises from the united states and other coalition partners that in the future when the airport or borders are open properly, they'll hold the taliban to their promises to allow people to trafl freely. that's a promise the taliban just reiterated. they're hoping with help of the turks, they asked the turks to keep the airport open, turkish pres...