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Screened over 104,000 people. i'd like to offer my profound condolences to the families of e our servicemen and women and afghan civilians who lost their lives today.ia we have put more than 5,000 u.s. service members at risk to save as many civilians as we can.ern. it's a noble mission. and today, we have seen, firsthand, how dangerous that w mission is. isis will not deter us from accomplishing the mission. i can assure you of that. >> says this is close-up war. the breath of the person you are searching is upon you. we touch the clothes of the person that is coming in. cent-com commander, g...

Severe threat and an increasingly likely one. >> look, isis has demonstrated over and again that it is masterfully opportunistic especially when it comes to of vacuums of power, in fact some of the chatter that i've been looking at just before the attack, talked about how isis was poised to launch attacks, specifically because two of its enemies are out of the picture. that is the afghan security forces, and of course, the u.s. troops. now that they are out of the picture, they only have one more enemy left, and that enemy is extremely busy right now trying to control afghanistan all over agai...

It comes to vacuums of power. in fact, some of the chatter that i had been looking at just before the attack talked about how isis was poised to launch attacks specifically because two of its enemies are out of the picture. that is the afghan security forces and, of course, the u.s. troops. now that they are out of the picture, they only have one more enemy left and this enemy is extremely busy right now trying to control afghanistan all over again. trying to put logistics in place. um -- but the other point is that, as isis is taking advantage of this power vacuum, it also realizes that it ca...

Afghans were killed. more than 150 others wounded. at least 13 u.s. service members also died in the attack. an isis affiliate has claimed responsibility for the carnage and the pentagon is warning another attack could happen. >> we have reached out to the taliban. we've told them you -- you need to continue to push out the security perimeter. we've identified some roads that we would like for them to close. they have identified that they will be willing to close those roads because we assessed the threat of a vehicle-born threat is high right now. so we want to reduce the possibility of one o...

Try to disrupt the evacuations again. >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you. just hours before today's explosions, there were warnings about security threats at the kabul airport, and that threat continues tonight. courtney kube is at the pentagon what are you hearing from there >> reporter: lester, there were more u.s. troops killed in afghanistan today than all of last year combined, with specific intelligence that isis-k was planning to strike, inside the pentagon, u.s. military leaders were bracing for this very attack. and they expect more attacks to come. despite that, the t...