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

Afghans do you estimate are still at the kabul airport awaiting a flight out? >> i'll defer to general mckenzie. i don't know that answer. the state department or centcom may have that answer for you, laura. >> it was about between 3,000 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. the last thing that i saw was somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000. but, again, it changes hour to hour. courtney? >> general, i have a couple of clarifications. so when you talk about how these individuals have already gone through the s...

>> they 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. each will go through a screening process such as screening for disease. if they need vaccinated, we'll have the international migration organization to come in toward 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 relocated to place where there's afghan populations, et cetera. what we saw at f...

Correct? as it should be and as americans want it to be. >> it is. and keep in mind, i mean, this country, the united states was in afghanistan for 20 years. we helped set up and funded a bio metric id system that has been rolled out in afghanistan in the last couple of years. that is a tremendous advantage for the screening process compared to, say, earlier refugee flows that came from syria when we had no idea, frankly, what many of those people were. so i think, you know, talking to officials, they feel a lot better about this system, but there is no doubt. i mean, look, there is always a d...

>> they have already gone the screening before putting their feet on u.s. soil. when they are through customed, they're paroled into the united states of america. if they have relatives, theoretically they can go with those relatives what we're doing is helping them get through the screening process. we provide all of the governmental organizations to support the medical process, et cetera. so we are not doing security screenings in support of state department. this is nor special immigrant status. i hope that clarifies it. >> tony with bloomberg news. do you have a break down by gender roughl...