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The evacuation, unless you're an american citizen, and again i just heard from someone that even american citizens can't get through the gates anymore, but the evacuation is essentially over. >> all right, gentlemen, we will leave it there. colonel jack jacobs, david rhode, thank you both. tomorrow marks 16 years to the day since hurricane katrina made landfall. that devastation is sered into the memories of many people who lived there. i traveled there in the days after katrina. i remember how devastating it was and how devastated people looked. how is the state now preparing for a possible...

Room and get briefed there from pentagon officials. the fact that the pentagon briefing is moving from 10:30, as it was previously scheduled, to much later in the day, gives us some sense that, yes, they are gathering information in real time and making decisions accordingly, garrett. >> i'm joined now by david rhode, executive editor for the new yorker.com and msnbc contributor. he was kidnapped by the taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in pakistan. he has rare expertise on all of these issues here. david, i wonder what your take is as you're watching the coverage here. you are familia...

But this shows how complicated a challenge we face. >> yeah. i think even if the president walked out of this meeting and decided he wanted to be out an hour ago, i don't know how they could possibly get the thousands of american troops, equipment, civilians that they're still trying to move out of there in a hurry. can you speak to, david, the challenges that you have the 82nd airborne, the turks, the taliban all trying to work together to secure an international airport with multiple gates in a city where multiple different groups may want to do harm to any of the above? >> it's very difficu...

0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. let's toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. i'm garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. you're looking at live pictures of the airport. it's 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddling as we speak. we hope to learn more from them soon. the airport has been under a terror thre...

Salute the soldiers that are there. but we should welcome these -- we will vet them, they're going to military bases, but there are thousands and thousands of families like tahir's that are dying to come to the united states. we have to keep the gates open, we have to keep u.s. troops at the airport, and we have to bring them to u.s. bases and then vet them, and i hope eventually bring them here. >> david, i want to thank you for talking about all of this. i'm so gratified to hear the good news. for anybody, your article was posted in the new yorker.com on the 18th of this week. it was extraor...