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Closer, you re going to see us to make those muscle movements to pull out our troops and some of our improvement. we would like to talk about it but as the general eluded, the moving out evacwees. lyes are still the priority. and the lives of our troops and the evacuated people. as we continue to process through that, as duo retro grade, and i can t give you a specific number on any given day, but i think you will see us adjust as necessary to make sure we re achieving that proper balance. but we will be able to fly out ....
Once this fills up it will be hard to find more evacwees as they re on their way to thes and they said they will be reaching their capacity as of tonight. today is the busiest day in terms of bringing people here. i was speaking with some evacwees that said that the situation at the airport is terrifying, we have seen the images, the lines, the people wading through the canal outside of the airport trying to get in and showing their documents, waving them to u.s. forces, and it s a terrifying situation for them. they re glad they re here in germany and we got to watch a lot of them get on that final flight to the states headed towards dulles airport and they looked absolutely relieved to be finally out of danger. a lot of people will not be that lucky, craig. matt bradly in germany, thank ....
0 all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of the airport in kabul. expected to be an ied attack. word a few moments ago from pentagon spokesman. another explosion near by at a hotel. while they have no confirmation who is behind it, the assumption is that it was caused by isis-k. a splinter group of isis. that group considered to be an adversary of the taliban. the airport already on high alert because of a threat attributed to that group. just in the last few minutes john kirby saying the explosion near the abbey gate at the kabul airport ....
Throughput is very important. so as we look at airfield operations and the ability to get aircraft planned safely drives the time on the ground to maximize the amount of evacwees that we can get out. the numbers require, as you said, aircraft on average to be on the ground less than an hour. i do know that they are facilitating and want to continue to use every capability possible to get people out of kabul. so that s all i have. on the phone here, sam? ....
Passage for americans and some afghans to get through some check points and that s part of the agreement. so as one of the factors, does it include giving them assurances. it seems they want this to be considered as an evolving and flows conversation. think about it, grks arrett. there is about 5800 troops there now. there was 600 and 1,000 there when the taliban first when the into kabul. it took several days to get those roughly 5,000 troops in. is it going to take defrl days to get them back out. and if they re the last ones to leave the airport does that mean that the u.s. will have to stop taking evacwees in to get there. ....