processing the total numbers when they are safely out of the country. we also verify our numbers to make we aren't inadvertently u.n. cutting or double counting so i wanted to lay all that out because i know it is a fundamental question that some you have and it truly merits going through the -- the information, the explanation so you see how we arrive at it. while evacuating americans is our top priority, we're also committed to getting out as many afghans at risk as we can before 391st. that starts with our locally employed staff. the folks who have about working side by side in our embassy with -- with our diplomatic team, and it includes special immigrant visa program participants and has other afghans at risk. it's hard tocomplexity and the this effort. we're operating in a hostile