that the number of americans still in the country are only the ones that no longer want to leave or the ones who want to leave, are they largely out now and it is our understanding that the evacuation of afghans is largely complete also. so are you now solely concentrating on just getting u.s. troops out and equipment? so just go to go back, total, 122,000 were evacuated. approximately 5,400 americans. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end. but as you talk about active peace, we ll continue to work with department of state on that and continue evacuation in military operations. but are you i ll refer you to the state department on the the numbers of americans that are still in contact with. that is something for them to speak to. tara. you could both speak to the continuing rocket threat to the final planes that are leaving
including 5,400 americans have been evacuated from afghanistan. u.s. military troops have shown tremendous briefsh re and kam passion putting themselves in harm s way to evacuate as many american citizens and afghans as possible during this operation. that work by u.s. service members continues across the globe at a number of intermediate staging bases and d.o.d. installations. centcom more than 27,000 passengers await follow-on movement from six active locations. in u com three active locations currently have more than 22,000 passengers and today 17 flights will transport about 3,700 passengers to both dulles airport with 11 flights and philadelphia international airport with six flights.
the u.s. and the u.s. military assess that the number of americans still in the country are only the ones that no longer want to leave or the ones who want to leave are they largely out now and the evacuation of afghan largely complete also. are you now solely concentrating on just getting u.s. troops out and equipment? just going back. total 122,000 were evacuated. approximately 5,400 americans. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end but as you talk about active we ll continue to work with department of state on that and continue evacuation and military operations. refer you to the state department on the numbers of americans still in contact with. that s something for them to speak to. could you both speak to the
0 that is it for us at 5:00 and we will see you here at the clock for more news. the weekend news captioning sponsored by cbs duncan: tonight ida shows no mercy. the hurricane smashes into louisiana as a powerful category 4 stormt. the results, catastrophic. the wind and rain relentless. new orleans is paralyzed, with. i m omar villafranca in new orleans and hurricane ida is here and the city is bracing for impact. duncan: also tonight dig fliified transfer, president biden in dover, delaware paid respects to the latest u.s. troops killed in america s longest war. as it comes to a chaotic end.iny to as sage the grief. duncan: in kabul, u.s. forces strike again, a drone targets suspected car bombers in the final hours of a perilous aner, we remember ed asner, actor and tv icon. you got spunk. (laughter) well. i hate spunk! this is the cbs weekend news from new york, here s jericka duncan. duncan: good evening. and thanks for joining us. want to get straight to hurric
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do