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Which the u.s. would leave. not an exact time but an understanding that the u.s. would no longer be able to man the gates as it got on those flights. the last u.s. flights out of afghanistan. we tracked three of those flights. the last one took out at 3:29 p.m. local time. that is 11.59 p.m. in kabul, afghanistan. one minute before midnight on august 21st, 2021. the question -- the u.s. left quite a bit of military equipment back at the airport. but general mckenzie says it was not in working order. >> we have also demilitarized equipment that we did not bring out of the airport. that included...

We're seeing, tactical vehicles and hum-vees also being used in rescue operations. stay up to date on extreme weather in your area by signing up for email alerts from cnn's meteorologists and our reporters in the field. just visit cnn.com/weatheralerts to subscribe. turning now to the crisis in afghanistan. seven afghan civilians have died today in the crush and crowds, desperately trying to get on flights leaving afghanistan. also today, u.s. defense officials tell cnn that isis may be plotting an attack on the kabul airport. the u.s. is now developing alternative routes for safe passage. a...

The airport compound, these are people who don't have a ticket on a civilian airline. yet alone the promise of a u.s. military seat out of here. it have utterly startling. it was sort of the crowd control between the front gates where they were and the large numbers of people moving up airport road and pushing them back. firing shots in the air, using u.s. hum vees and ranger trucks that have been given the afghan security forces. the notion of some sort of ten of thousands strong ability to take people from the center of the city and probably most vulnerable people, afterall because they assi...

>> what's the -- what's it going to say for a 20-year war in afghanistan if it ends with the taliban rolling into kabul in u.s.-made hum-vees and turning over weapons our allies gave them. >> i can't see the future. and what i can tell you is our troops who deployed to afghanistan after 9/11 did what they were sent there to do, which is to prevent afghanistan from being a safe haven for terrorist attacks upon the homeland. and to severely degrade the capabilities of groups like al qaeda. in the process of that effort, a lot of progress was made in afghanistan. progress which we obviously don't...

Ied. we responded to mitigate the damage. the high armored hum vees. and the pentagon said it's not enough. to hope fewer guys get blown up. move left of the boom. that is on the time chart. let's get the before they place them. let's involve before the terrorists are killing our guys. that's what we need to do. hardening the schools i understand i really do. i'm not against guards or cops. arming teachers is nuts. if we think hard about how to intervene in somebody's life. before he becomes a threat. how to keep guns out of the hand of troubled dangerous people. that's going to be a productiv...