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Cnn's nick payton walsh in doha. nick, those evacuation flights, they continued. we saw one take off virtually moments after the attack. tell us the situation at the airport now. what is the pace? how many people are still getting out? >> reporter: yeah, the focus as i understand it from a source directly familiar with the situation on the airport, the focus now is getting the last-minute special access requests onto the airport. but, quote, unsure how many they can get in because so much taliban coordination is required. now, on the airport as of this morning, evacuees waiting to leave, wha...

>> i can't answer that. but what i can tell you is that anybody that believes that the taliban are a monolithic block, they aren't. individual field commanders make their own choices so this could have been a couple of taliban taking orders from a different group than say the negotiators who we've worked with in doha or the head of the haqqani network. >> either way. they failed. lieutenant colonel, you've been trying to get colleagues and friends of those with sivs, special immigrant visas out of afghanistan. these are afghans and i've been doing my best as well as many are who served with th...

Peter, thank you very much. i want to go to sam kiley in doha right now. talking to nick paton walsh and he's talking about where this is all taking place, laying out very clearly kind of the map of the abbey gate and the corridor and the baron hotel and i'm reminded that the baron hotel which the pentagon is saying that the explosion, the second explosion was near or outside of, the baron hotel is also the site of one of those helicopter evacs of i believe it was american citizens being taken from that hotel. >> reporter: yeah, that was there the early days of the evacuation. 169 americans we...

0 works. if the hope is for them to be a reasonable partner for afghan allies, other members of former of the afghan government or the u.s., that one indication there. i'm jim sciutto. thank you for being with us. that is flick robertson with me there. "at this hour" will start now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, i'm kate bolduan. we're continuing this follow the major breaking news in afghanistan. there has been an explosion outside of kabul airport. officials also say this appears to be a suicide attack. let's be clear. this is still unfolding and there are many questions and things...

The would extension of the deadline? maybe they would like _ extension of the deadline? maybe they would like additional- extension of the deadline? maybe| they would like additional financial support, some form of recognition — it's hard to know what they would like in return, or maybe they really are saying that this is it, no more negotiation? it's hard for me to know because i'm not involved in these conversations. it's hard to know if they are doing this to try to push the americans to offer more, or if this is just their last stand. the original deadline in the agreement signed by mike...