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i thank you for that. i was having a little bit of a technical difficulty hearing you at the end. i got the gist of it. i appreciate that. let s move to josh lederman, also in washington, d.c. let s talk about the turnout there, josh. what are you seeing? reporter: we don t have official numbers yet, but we were trying to give our best estimate and we saw about 10,000 or so folks from mcpherson square to the national mall. there s one person who is not here today, but who is still looming large over the day s events, the late john lewis. not only because that piece of legislation is named after him that so many here today are championing, but also because of the tradition that john lewis forged of attending rallies, of marching, of making what he called good trouble, and forcing people to confront these issues. i want to introduce you to someone who came up from north carolina for this rally. ....
But whether or not the security situation on the ground changes that dynamic, it remains to be seen because president biden is biggest fear was a threat like this, happening outside of the airport while there are still thousands of u.s. troops at that airport. and an attack like this, wounding u.s. service members which the pentagon is confirming to cnn that this attack has. gist into cnn, the first photographs of the scene following this bombing here. please take a moment here because i do want to warn you, they are disturbing. as you might expect. so take that moment and we re going to show some of them now. these are some of the casualties, civilian casualties it seems taken away in wheelbarrows from the site of this attack taken by eyewitnesses there. you could see the injuries. it also gives you a sense of where this attack took place. this is a corridor in leading into the airport. it is a very confined corridor ....
Extension of the august 31 deadline which is the deadline that biden set in the first praise. but they seem to believe that if they extend beyond that, they will risk a rupture with the taliban that could impact americans who are still going to be left behind because not everybody will probably choose to leave. and i think that that seems to be foremost in their mind, they seem to have convinced these two critics who went to visit the scene. peter, eugene, thank you both so much. coming up, the new reporting about the warning capitol police got gist one day before the january 6 attack. as the committee investigating the insurrection narrows in on former president trump and his allies. ....
0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds around those gates. the u.s. believing that terror groups had both the capability and the planning to carry out such attacks. there is still no attribution for these attacks or as we said, any confirmation about casualties. we have our reporters covering the story. let s begin with nick paton walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who ....