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Confirmed by the white house. they say president biden has been updated on the situation. some us media and the reuters news agency is reporting at the moment that at least one of those rockets was intercepted by a missile defence system, although that has not been directly confirmed to us by the white house. in this white house statement it said that us evacuation operations, and of course the us is also packing up everything else ahead of the deadline tomorrow on tuesday, august 31, well, those operations will continue despite this heightened security threat. only a few days ago, presidentjo...

That embassy any time soon. the u.s. if there are any americans, left, they will have to work quickly and carefully with allied countries that do have relationships with the taliban. and number one on that list are the qataris and the turks. u.s. government is not giving up on any americans who want to get out, but it will become difficult after all 31. it is -- after august 31, and difficult for u.s. military to open the gates right now with incoming rocket fire. you are u.s. military is in a difficult situation, it is trying to retavase re-- retro grade and get maximum number of evacuees out...

Air field and their family members. that has been accomplished. we need the airport to be operational and quickly for civilian traffic. so we're going to do everything we can to help with that. let me give you an example. one of the things we did not demilitarize as we left are those pieces for airport operations. the fire trucks, front-end loaders. we left that equipment. it's there to get operating as soon as possible. >> general, today is all 30th. the deadline has repeatedly been said it would be august 31. do you think there may be some people that had false hope that they had at least on...

That threat -- there are ongoing threat streams. biden was warned there could be an attack on the airport in 24-36 hours. we have seen that attack at least the five rockets. but again i'm told from senior military officials that the threat stream continues and it will continue until the u.s. yous out on august 31. ashley: that will make it difficult for the around 300 americans left in afghanistan if they want to leave afghanistan. >> that number of americans is a tricky figure. as the 8 department reached out to some of those 300 or so americans that are left. some of them indicated they woul...

You can't snap your fingers on august 31. it's a process over a number of days. we heard from senior officials that they will take eligible afghans or citizens on the flights out up until the last moment on august 31. if there are american citizens out there who still want to leave, there is a number they can call at the state department and they will try to get them into the gate and on a plane home. ashley: is this the threat they warned about as far as the attacks on the airport? or is this going to be ongoing until the 48 hours is up tuesday. >> what i have been told is that it is a very c...