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Was that a car bomb or also a suicide bomber? finally, there are state department employees side by side with u.s. military at that gate. were there any other killed in one strike? >> we think one suicide bomb at abbey gate. don't know if it's male or female. just don't have that information. don't know much about the second bomb except one went off in the vicinity of the baron hotel, which you are aware is a deeply bunkered structure. as far as i know, there were no u.k. military casualties as a result of that. there may have been afghan casualties and i'm sure there were afghan casualties. b...

There's another interesting thing that stood out to me there about how this attack unfolded we have this blast. it seems like it may have been the first blast. it occurred at the search gate. then a second blast occurred at the baron hotel complex. it's clear, according to general mckenzie, there were isis gunmen who then opened fire on civilians. that in itself suggests more possibly than just one attacker. it suggests maybe a coordinated team here. then how many of these individuals managed to get through the taliban security lines to that point and it goes back to the broader question of th...

Over watch that we have in place. we have our unmanned aircraft, our mq-9s and other unmanned drone systems that have very good optical and other means of looking down. we look at what's happening around the gate, we try to identify patterns. we have mhighly trained people looking at that. we also have aircraft we fly locally as well as other aircraft that come off the air y carrier we have off the coast, everything ranging from f 15s to ac-130 gunships. the gunship has a very capable targeting system. we know visible demonstration of these kinds of isr tends to dissuade the attack. they know ...

>> reporter: i have to say hearing how proceedings were going today, it seemed like most of the gates were pretty closed. the idea that an individual came through abbey gate is something we should talk about in a moment, but i don't really see how they can open the gates up and encourage more siv applicants onto the base. they're going to be dealing with u.s. citizens and priority afghans in buses. that may reduce the number of people to put on aircraft. he did talk about a possible timeline when they might reduce that evacuation effort but wouldn't say when it began. the gate though is quite ...

Could blast through a gate and pass through a vehicle afterwards with a complex attack, but you don't go after the suicide bomber. you go after the suicide bomb-making cell before it has the potential of sending out the bombers as nick was just talking about. i think that's the major threat. that's a threat from the isis-k network and they have put up a film claiming responsibility for this attack. all of those things are critically important, but they are -- it's the toughest thing to defend against, and i would suggest that that's the biggest threat he's going to face in the remaining days t...