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Called task force pineapple, after pineapple was used. joining me to discuss it is retired lieutenant colonel scott man. an afghan war veteran and a member of task force pineapple. scott, this is one, look, there's so many of these groups i heard of digital dun kirk, allied air lift, you have folks with different organizations like no one left behind who are spearheading these efforts. you and so many others working the phones night and day, using your personal networks to guide afghans and americans trapped in the region, tell us about task force pineapple. >> yeah. it started as a small grou...

Them. at this point, we believe about 13,000 people remain at the kabul airport. that, too, a brand new update. we'll get some information on that. those 13,000 are waiting, hoping to be evacuated. 33 u.s. military transport jets are expected to arrive at the airport in the next 24 hours, each has the capacity, we're told, to take 400 passengers out. a source tells cnn the united states, though, is changing its policy on who will be admitted into the airport from today on, only u.s. citizens green card holders and citizens of nato countries will be allowed past the airport gates. this is a big...

Now on the phone. sam, a whole ton of new information there. but let's start with this fire fight overnight, first. what happened? >> reporter: >> so our understanding from the german authorities is that an unknown sniper opened fire killing one afghan national army soldier. these are predominantly afghan special forces still working alongside the coalition, if you like, as their face to face very often with the taliban no suggestion that this was a taliban sniper. in all probability the suspicion is it could be the so-called islamic state. following that the afghans opened fire back on his or...