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Calls to families and others? i know there was talks of making sure everybody was notified. >> yeah. this is a pretty delicate situation. he hasn't called anyone yet. i think a lot has to do with the next of kin evacuation process that's going on and also what jen psaki said earlier today. when these people get this news from people as rylee's father did today, it is the worst day of their life, finding out this news. and, so, jen psaki is saying they're not always ready for a call from the president immediately. they do plan to facilitate those calls. it won't happen immediately. and then the...

Afghanistan, the u.s. is on the verge of withdrawing all of its forces from their country, bridging an end to this nation's longest war. for weeks the brave men and women of the u.s. military have been heroically evacuating their fellow americans and afghan allies by the tens of thousands. there were so many hopes that our troops would make it home without any more casualties. and then thursday happened. in an act of pure cowardice and evil, the terrorist group isis-k set off an explosion that killed 13 u.s. service members and as many as 170 afghans. the terrorists exploited what was an obvio...

Citizens who were already at the airport should leave immediately. us officials have been saying that this is, potentially, the most dangerous part of the ongoing evacuation process and, of course, that is unsurprising given the events on thursday. we've also heard that italy is also winding up its operations today in terms of those evacuation flights and last night france is well conducted its last air left in one of the reasons why they've said they stopped yesterday was because of the deteriorating security situation at the airport. now, we've been hearing that they are stricter taliban che...

Neil: all right. you have to the the terror threat and that is affecting how many can leave the country right now. pentagon briefing coming very shortly, this on word that we are now down to fewer than 4,000 u.s. troops at the kabul airport as we speak and so that's from close to 6,000 at our height as this evacuation process began. it seems to be trimming the size of the personnel there by about 500 a day, if my math and timing on this is right. we are also learning a little bit more about that drone strike on the afghan pakistan border that took out an isis k. operative. not believed to be a...

Devastating suicide bombing that took place in kabul. now, today u.s. troops remain vigilant as time runs out to complete one of the biggest air evacuations in history before tuesday's deadline. so far, more than 105,000 people have been flown out of afghanistan since august 14th. that is no small feat. so joining me now is courtney kube, nbc news pentagon correspondent. she is standing by awaiting that live briefing. i don't want to keep you long because i know when that briefing happens, you're going to have to get there and ask questions. the latest from the state department, is there are 5...