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Nowhere from the state department, no actionable, no useful information to get them out of there. they were basically being told like everybody else text message, go to the gate. if you get to the taliban checkpoint tell them you are an american citizen and let you through. they did this every single day they went to the gate. i got more and more dangerous everyday until eventually, like you said, she had a gun point to her head up your the uncle was beaten severely. the 15-year-old struck on the head. they were fearing for their lives and they were told if they come back, they would be killed...

Department and were getting nowhere. they were getting nothing from the state department, no useful information, being told like everybody else via text message go to the gate and if you get to the teller and checkpoint tell them you are an american citizen and they will let you through. they do this for two weeks and it got more dangerous every day until she had begun to her head, the uncle was beaten severely, the 15-year-old struck in the head, they were told they would be killed. once the americans left at one point there were 200 feet from the gate, we couldn't get the americans to go out...

Among the masses at Kabul Airport following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan are 26 Hungarians waiting for extraction, hvg.hu reports.

But that could change. this is a very quickly developing situation. and at the embassy right now, there are still a few security contractors, i'm told that they will be leaving soon. the u.s. has pulled down the american flag at the embassy and taken steps to destroy sensitive documents, to get rid of classified material, to burn them, to also get rid of anything such as american flags or things that had the seal of the u.s. embassy that could bes in used in propaganda efforts against the united states. this has and i will happened tremendously quickly, tremendously rapidly, and frankly, in a ...

White house and kylie atwood at the state department. we're learning the u.s. embassy is fully evacuated. is that the case? >> all the u.s. diplomats that were at the embassy have now left, they've evacuated. they've been taken to the airport in kabul. the only folks still at that embassy, there's a small number of security contractors i'm told, but they're going to leave soon. in addition to that, in the most recent hours, the u.s., the american flag was taken down at the embassy. that is something they do as a final step in evacuating an embassy. we've also seen in recent days that preparati...