0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we re working to evacuate remaining staff and we ve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world quite simply could not function without locally-employed staff. we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. so before you came out here, your colleague at the white house punted an enormous number of questions to you. you can thank her for that later. some of which involved some of the numbers you just went through and she gave some as well.
0 i can confirm that the vast majority of our employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or currently on the grounds of the international airport. we are actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. some of which involved, some of the numbers that you just went through. do you have numbers or do those include lprs? also do you have numbers for remaining sivs, for p1p2 applicants and in terms of the broader universe of at-risk afghans, do you have numbers for those? secondly, she punted on the idea of a diplomatic presence post-tuesday. i presume she did that because there s a decision. can you bring us up to date? i ve got one more after this. the airport and the negotiations on who would run if anyone would run the airport after tuesday? great. let me take those in order. on numbers, i know there s inten
0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we re actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. and we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. with that, matt? . so before you came out here, your colleague had a number of questions to you. you can thank her that for later, some of which involved the some of the numbers you just went through. she gave some of those as well. but there are three things that i want to ask. can you be extremely brief in the answers. the
0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and center and vital to the mission. one more, president biden told reporters in oval office when meeting with the prime minister about booster shots, and can you tell us about the information of what is the information about that projection well, let me be clear, the president would rely on guidance of the cdc and the health and experts, and that guidance continues to be eight months. that has not changed, so i want to be clear on that. if they were to change their guidance based on the data