airport for whatever reason. what we do know is that 6,000 people are now at the airport. 6,000 people have been able to make it, have made it through the processing and as of a couple of hours ago we received only a small handful of reports otherwise from american citizens. >> reporter: so just to follow up on that, and you say you are doing everything you can, but also yesterday defense secretary austin --. >> you have been listening to ned price there, the spokesperson for the state department, talk about where we are and the status of all of the people, the tens of thousands of people who are still trying to make it to that airport and get out of afghanistan. let's bring back nick paton walsh and phil mudd. we also want to bring in former cnn and nbc kabul bureau chief atia abawi. great to have you here. phil, i want to start with you because it worries me, but i don't know if it worries you that ned price and no one can really give specific numbers. if they don't know the specific demographics of who they're