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E.o.d. tech from the publicly available photos of scene show a lack of soot on the the walls, relatively little amount of shrapnel, there is a tree that was knocked down that was -- with the foilage still in act. so after viewing these things, do you still stand by with a high degree of confidence there was a significant explosion and not something like a gas tank explosion or something like that that may misdirect the evidence of a big secondary explosion? >> we know that, as i said earlier there was a secondary explosion. that assessed that what was there was going to be used in a high profi...

But what you mentioned about the suicide attacker there is very interesting. it shows frankly how enormously complex investigating this is and fraught for the pentagon at this stage. of course, they have to be sure that nothing they say about this situation confer the compromised security particularly their relationship with the taliban. so gone from a place where we were talking about gunmen yesterday in the cent com and two blasts to the possibility of one gunman who was also the suicide bomber. hard to understand to be honest how the suicide bomber could have got as close as he seemed to ha...

The number of people that we'll see getting processed over the next several days. is that number going to gradually go down and do you have out the number of people that you think you're going to or what is your ballpark estimate? >> all right. on the the first question, on the capability and abilities to protect ourselves or to also to conduct the strikes as you said, as i've said all along, we have resources, with the cent com commander and with the commanders on the ground and the capabilities to allow us to execute any type of those operations as those are required to do. >> so leta, again...

0 much but if it is significantly pushed back and what are you seeing in terms of flow to abbey gate. is it less people being allowed in or still a rush of people? which could lead to some -- what are you seeing today? >> so, what i can report as my discussion with the commanders there on the the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban of how they are executing their check point operations and communication. so i would say there is multiple, i don't want to good into the details of the exact communicati...

That continue. >> two things. when general taylor, could you discuss the nonamerican flights going in and out of the airport, how many, and how many people have been evacuated and what countries are still seeking to take people out? and if you have a follow up on the taliban. >> okay. i'll let the general take this. >> so what i would will say is that when we talk about all flights going in and out of kabul airport, are being synchronized and work through cent com, so that coordination is being done. so when i talk, as the numbers, we are starting to include those numbers of everybody that is ...