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Was it a drone, predator drone? any information about -- >> over the horizon. >> so no specific -- >> over the horizon. >> okay. and was there -- were there reports that the targets were in a vehicle? is that accurate? was there any other damage to isis infrastructure? >> as i think the general said right at the top, we're going to be loathe to release a lot of tactical level bda detail here. we want to preserve as much flegs flexibility as we can. i hope you can understand that we're just not going to be able to answer a lot of that detailed stuff right now. >> and just to follow up, how -- w...

Bombing outside of the kabul airport that killed 13 american service members and 169 afghan civilians. now, officials are saying no civilians were killed in the u.s. drone strike. we want to give time, give courtney kube time to get to her camera position. she was just there covering the briefing. let me recap where we were. the major general taylor said that they would be there until the very end. i think the question remains, what is the very end? we stick with the august 31st deadline. there were 66 flights that left out of kabul yesterday with 6,800 evacuees. of the total evacuees in the p...

Come forward. but right now we will continue to run the airfield to make sure that we can execute our operations. >> and are some of the gates to the airport welded shut, as has been reported? >> there are gates that are closed, absolutely, right now. but as we said earlier, we do have gates that continue to be open as we coordinate and still work with the department of state to get people in for evacuation. >> thank you. >> howard altman. >> first of all, i want to express my condolences to the families that lost loved ones in kabul. despite this massive effort to evacuate folks, there were a...

Staging bases. 66 flights left out of kabul yesterday in that 24-hour period, with 6,800 evacuees. today i can report an updated total evacuation that is more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. of this total number, approximately 5,400 are american citizens. this is an incredible number of people who are now safer, thanks to the heroism of the young men and women who are putting their lives on the line each day to evacuate american and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. threats to our forces and to this operation remain real and significant. i'm sure you can appreciate that. a...

Conduct counterterrorism operations as needed. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. in fact, there are approximately 1,400 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. this is a massive military diplomatic security and humanitarian undertaking for the united states and our allies. i'll give you a specific update over the last 24. yesterday 32 u.s. military aircraft, 27 c-17s and five c-130s...