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Going as for many of them their screening process is continuing before they proceed to the united states. >> reporter: can you respond to allegations from groups assisting evacuations that it's very difficult to get deserving afghans out because procedures that were given to the marines on the ground and officers on the ground change constantly sometimes even daily. >> i would first say that it's an incredibly difficult and challenging security situation on the ground as evidence by the fact that 13 men and women gave their lives on thursday and we dealt with rocket attacks overnight. of cours...

0 helicopter with the state police to get him on the island and as long as there is communication, we will communicate with him to see what is going on there, the but it is hard to have no word from the island and the people on it. in lafitte, the water is very high, and from the louisiana national guard and others are there doing the search and rescue. they are having to get the boats in and out, and we are sheltering the people at the park playground, and then the state is going to coordinate the pickup and move them out to alexandria is the plan. and our systems are down and we have no comm...

Begin processing. we've been at this for a few days. so at each location we will spin up quickly here and begin the application and the process for a special immigrant status. >> the siv application process is a long process. what happens if at some point while somebody is on the military base they feel the screen something are they going back to afghanistan? what is the plan there? are you also taking questions? >> later. >> i defer you to the department of state for that. that's their area of expertise. we're prepared to continue this support until we get through this process in support of t...

>> they'll stay on base until they complete the special immigrant visa process which is owned by the state department with the support we provide medical support. we provide contract medical support as part of that. so each of the applicants will go through a screening process such as screening for diseases, vaccinations. st if they need vaccinated. we'll have the international mi graduation organization come in towards the end of the process. and work with them on where they need to be relocated. many of them have family already here in the united states. or they'll be relocated to places whe...

You estimate are still at the kabul airport awaiting a flight out? >> i'll defer to general mck mckenzie. i don't know that answer. the state department or cent-com may have that answer for you, laura. >> today, it was about between 3 and 5,000 earlier today. but as we have talked about before, this is a snapshot in time. and it literally changes by the hour. but the last thing that i saw was somewhere between 3 and 5,000 but, again, changes hour to hour. courtney? >> hey, general vanherck. it's courtney kube from nbc news. i just have a couple clarifications. so when you talk about how they -...