kabul for various intermediate staging bases. 66 flights left out of kabul yesterday in that 24-hour period with 6,800 evacuees. today i can report an updated total of evaluation, that s more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. of this total number approximately 5,400 are american citizens. this is an incredible number of people who are now safer thanks to the heroism of the young men and women who are putting their lives on the line each day to evacuate american and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. threats to our forces and to this operation remain real and significant. i m sure you can appreciate that and now with the military mission begins to end in kabul, thousands of service members are working across the globe and within the united states to
griff: fox news alert as we report on two major breaking news stories today. the state department saying it s everied confirmation that at least 5400 americans have been safely evacuated from afghanistan since august 14th including 30 americans in the last $300 in the last 24 hours. and closer to home, hurricane ida strengthening, president biden is set to attend a briefing with fema ahead of the storm s expected landfall tomorrow which is 16 years to the day that hurricane katrina slammed the coast. welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. jacqui: i m jacqui heinrich. three days left before the deadline for the u.s. to be out of the country despite thousands of afghans and others still scrambling to leave. david spunt at the white house, doug luzader in washington and lucas tomlinson at the pentagon,
wounded. we also learned that the terror threats from the u.s. perspective that remain during these final three days of the u.s. military withdraw and evacuations, the terror threats remain in the words of these pentagon officials, very real, very active, and very dynamic. and we also got an update on the number of individuals who have been evacuated from afghanistan over these past several days since august 14th. a total now of 117,000 u.s. citizens, green card holders, afghan allies, other afghans, third-country individuals. 117,000 have been evacuated over these past couple weeks or so. 5,400 of them, 5,400 of them u.s. citizens. most obviously of the 117,000, afghans. we have a team of reporters and experts covering all of this. cnn s nick paton walsh is
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carrying u.s. personnel. biden promises no forgiveness for the perpetrators of the attack. we will hunt you down and make you pay, he said. the pentagon insisting the american mission will end on august 31st. the big concern, another attack could derail the effort to get out. 5,400 or so people are said to be waiting for their turn at the airport tarmac or on the tarmac as of this morning. 89 total flights loaded with 12,500 evacuees managing to escape since thursday. cnn is covering the developments from all angles both in the united states and around the world. sam kylie is in qatar. he spent much of the week reporting in and around the airport. sam, what is the situation as far as we know at the airport right now? the numbers gathering around the airport are way down. way down for two reasons.