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Takeover. soon their numbers may swell. >> we have not seen large outflows of afghans at this point. the situation inside afghanistan was evolved more rapidly than anyone expected. in terms of numbers, we are preparing for around 500,000 new refugees in the region. this is a worst case scenario. >> reporter: so far, the u.s. and allies have evacuated more than 100,000 people from afghanistan since august 14th. but as they scramble to help those desperate to leave, an august 31 deadline fast approaches. in the months that follow, the u.n. h.e.r. believes refugees will flow into neighboring iran...

It was not necessarily an isis leader. we know this was in retaliation for the deadly suicide attack that killed 13 american service members just yesterday and wounded another 20. in fact, the dignified transfer to dover air force because we're expecting that tomorrow and expecting president biden to attend that ceremony when the 13 americans return with honor to dover air force base. i'm told that president biden approved this strike. he claimed that he would be carrying out revenge, he would kill those responsible. the big question was, peter, that with 5,000 u.s. troops on the ground there ...

This is amazing. they are just talking and we cannot accept whatever is coming out of the white house administration. let's be very clear. the afghan and al qaeda have every motivation to hurt our country. to hurt us so to make an assumption for kirby or the white house or jen psaki to make any reference to the cooperation is a lie. >> i want to go to another soundbite white house press secretary talking about the u.s. allies, she's essentially saying she can't guarantee i can get out of afghanistan. >> u.s. guarantee you will be able to get out? >> i don't think we can guarantee that we can d...

Words you like instead of stranded. these veterans, these are people that have served their country they are heroes, joey is right and i know you may never know your names out there but thank you for your service, a second time around, we are all very, very grateful. >> jackie, let me ask you this, there's no doubt given what these veterans are doing, there's no doubt they're going to be stranded individuals, afghans who helped us august 31. anyone from our perspective, will anyone from the white house on a accept there departure strategy? >> as a flight now, no. they've got all the writing on...

The august 31 time i. all systems are go to try to get as many people out before the official window closes the end of the day august 31. i checked a few minutes ago, there's a marine sentry outside the west wing indicating that president biden is in the oval office with members of his national security team, the vice president national security advisor jake sullivan talking about a host of issues, what could be happening that's imminent according to the president is visors in the next 24 -- 36 hours. you have to think about the attack that happened thursday august 26 and retaliation attack on...