on august 14 when our evacuation operations began, there was then a population of as many as 6,000 american citizens in afghanistan who wanted to leave. over the last ten days, roughly 4,500 of these americans have been safely evacuated, along with immediate family members. over the past 24 hours, we've been in direct contact with approximately 500 additional americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely. we'll update you regularly on getting these 500 american citizens out of afghanistan. for the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we're aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication. phone, email, text messaging, to determine whether they still want to leave and to get the most up-to-date information and