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Hours. the original forecasts was it was going to be a four and weaken to a one. almost as immediate land fall. that was a way different situation than what we are dealing with right now. so people weren't expecting it. >> well, thank you for all you and your teams are doing. thank you for taking the time to share with us about your efforts and what you're seeing. you're our eyes own ears on the ground. best of luck to you. stay safe. >> thank you. now, to a different kind of challenge. rockets fired at the kabul airport. an isis-k target destroyed. tropical storm ida in a quest of unvacci...

Are just theft there because we have done this before. it's just going to look different because we have to get our military out. >> what is the real national security threat to the u.s. in all of this? i mean, especially with the loss of intel. >> it's real. and it's a real challenge. so clearly the terror threat has increased, not just with isis, and we have a common -- the u.s. and taliban have a common enemy in isis and then, of course, given history, we worry about al qaeda and the taliban's relationship with them. so that -- the threat has increased. meanwhile, our capabilities have decr...

>> one of them, for example, is the uighur extremist group that has been active in syria. a lot of them have moved back to eastern afghanistan and that little part of afghanistan up in the northeastern corner shares a border with china. and the chinese are very concerned. >> reporter: but isis-k remains a prominent threat, officials say. a top u.s. military official saying there are imminent threats from isis ranging from rocket strikes to vehicle-borne suicide attacks. with the latest attack in kabul killing scores of civilians and u.s. service members, experts say isis-k ramps up its profile...

How do you even work with an entity you can't trust? >> it's not as if we haven't done that in the past with other nations. >> sure. >> you have to be very realistic here. you don't trust them. that's the bottom line. you have to be realistic about who you're dealing and where we are. we are withdrawing. the previous administration put the idea of withdrawal on the table and opened this up. and president biden said i'm perfectly on board, i agree we should be getting out. that now sets the table for going forward. and so we have very limited options, right? one of the things that we have to be...

I mean, in other words, when we started in 2001 we had a focused counterterrorism in the war in afghanistan. we strayed from that and the irony and tragedy 20 years later is we are returning to that. i think it's a just mission to the counterterrorism mission in afghanistan. it's just a lot of damage in the 20 years. and so i would anticipate that the taliban using it, but on the other hand just remember also they have an interest, like we do, in stopping the isis threat for the short term because they have to assert control over their country and the attacks that we are seeing around the airp...