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That, wolf. the overnight numbers in the last 24 hours, 3:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m., 2600, down from peak of over 12,000, just on the u.s. side. numbers of civilians are going down rapidly, not surprisingly. not only the taliban have a ring of steel around the airport as public policy, not allowing afghans through it. on top of that, gates are all closed for security reasons. those getting into the airport, coming in by covert means with prearrangement with now predominantly almost entirely the united states. united kingdom is in the process of drawing down entirely their operation after ending the...

Region, out of the airport. they evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. i met with my commander first thing in the morning about the attacks and the measures their taking to complete the mission. >> they say the u.s. military and coalition forces helped to evacuate more than 12,000 people yesterday. more than 100,000 in total had been evacuated since august 14th. let's go to courtney kube. mike, let me start start with you. the president got another washing today. do you get a sense that essentially that the goal is now to speed up the evacuation ...

Their evacuation process because they're having to bring their people out as part of the u.s. withdrawal. so this is now getting to the critical moment at a time when you already mentioned there there is still ongoing threats, and when security officials say that, they mean there are -- they are known and active plots they're trying to disrupt to continue attack the people either people trying to get out through the airport or the airport itself. and as the aircrafts start taking off and the defensive measures start to be drawn down and the numbers of troops to manage that become less, it beco...

Outside the main airfield compound but a very important location for filtering people through that camp and into the main airfield. so essentially there is a magnet there of two potential access points for people. when they go north up the road or more or less north up the road, they are bounded on either side, as they get closer to the airport perimeter, by blast walls. there's also a sewage or a ditch, a concrete ditch off to the left as they're walking up. now, there are tens of thousands of people sometimes, but many thousands at any time pressing up against that abbey gate, desperate to g...

Obviously in the first instance because of this catastrophic terrorist attack. 13 americans dead. at least 90 killed according to the afghan health authorities. more than 100 afghans wounded. 15 -- 18 americans wounded. amidst of all this horror, this is an obviously disincentive to go to the airport. on top of that the taliban put on a harder perimeter. they are already -- already had a policy of trying to stop afghans from getting to the airport. it's actually almost bemusing to anybody's managing to get through and get through the gates at all. but we do know from the pentagon that the evac...