the taliban in the past to help them work with the taliban to get any americans out. the second one is economic, and that s exactly what it sounds like here and if the u.s. were to go that route, remember the u.s. has frozen millions of dollars in taliban assets. is it possible there would be some sort of agreement to unfreeze them, it s unclear. what is very clear as the taliban have taken over the government in afghanistan, that is a country very reliant on foreign money, on foreign assistance and assuming all that money dries up, now that the taliban are in charge, they are going to be needing money, they re going to need revenue sources so it s possible that that could be another way that the u.s. would work to get americans out but again, as you mentioned, secretary blinken providing no specifics on it, we re not getting a lot of specifics here. those are the two according to defense officials i ve spoken with that they re considering or looking at exploring. courtney kube live
what happens next for those that are left behind? will there be military operation to get them out of the country? secretary blinken talked about this, for americans and other countries that want to be able to leave afghanistan after our adrawl is complete that the state department is going to continue to work across many different levels to facilitate that transportation. as i said earlier, right now we do not anticipate a military role in that effort. jen? general taylor, you just said that one rocket landed with no effect to the mission. you mean it landed inside the airport perimeter? it landed inside the perimeter and this no effect whatsoever. the isis-k fighters or planners you targeted with drone
2:00 in the morning. some families 6 to 12 feet of water in their home, had nowhere to call. it is those folks right now that are going in, trying to rescue. sam brock live in louisiana, thank you for your reporting today, throughout the night here for msnbc. we have a lot more ahead from the hurricane zone. we ll talk to the president of one parish that s already received 250 calls for rescues now, with parts of the area without power or cell services, plus we re just about 15 minutes away from a pentagon briefing on afghanistan with the deadline for u.s. withdrawal hours away. we ll take you live with who could get out of afghanistan and how after the deadline with the secretary of state alluding to just that as he gets ready to speak in a few hours.
including 5,400 americans, have been evacuated from afghanistan. u.s. military troops have shown tremendous bravery and compassion as they put themselves in harm s way to evacuate as many american citizens and afghans as possible during this operation. that work by u.s. servicemembers continues across the globe at a number of intermediate staging bases in dod installations centcom, more than 27,000 passengers await follow-on movement. in ucom 22,000 passengers and today 17 flights will transport about 3,700 passengers to dulles international airport with approximately 11 flights and philadelphia international airport with six flights. in north com, there are nearly
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