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Ourselves. we're there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens first but also the other categories of people that i mentioned, get them to a place where we can fly them out to a safer, better future. >> just to be clear, this suicide bomber was going through the gate, being searched, checked by u.s. service members when he detonated his vest? >> that would be my working assumption. he did not get onto the installation. it was at the interface point where this attack occurred. we're gathering information. we're investigating that. but right now our focus really, we have other act...

Nature of the casualties. we're trying to gather more information about it. so the last point, i would tell you, i don't know that -- i don't know the size of the bomb and the size of the bomb is directly related to how many people are affected by the blast radius. we're going to investigate that. as i noted before, you're at the interface point. somebody has to look somebody in the eyes and decide if they're ready to come in. we'll find out what happened. beyond that i would not want to speculate at this time, jennifer. thank you. >> any other american citizens from the state department that ...

Weren't watching. i had picked out the confirmation of the number of| the confirmation of the number of casualties, he said 12 servicemembers have been killed and more than 15 injured. he said that the mission continued, the evacuation mission continued, the evacuation mission continue and gave no indication that it was going to stop or be shortened because of the attack. he said that there were about 500 on the ramp, as he called it, ready to get onto a plane. that was still going forward. he also said that the threat was very real and that it continued. he said he believed that islamic state...

0 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but they're still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. let's start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what we're expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which oversees military operations in the gulf, the middle east, afghanistan. we expect to hear from him. i s...