0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. let s toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? chris jansing, thank you. i m garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. you re looking at live pictures of the airport. it s 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddling as we speak. we hope to learn more from them soon. the airport has been under a terror threat all morning. this was going to our top story even before this attack. so, americans have been told to leave the airport gates and to stay away. all of this is happening as the pentagon is set to give an update in the next 30 minutes. we ll see if that remains on schedule and we ll bring it to you live when it happens. meantime we ll try to stay on top of this with our reporters. courtney kube is
numbers because the gates at the most part are still shut. now we have the 31st of august, very clear deadline, and we have the fact the military operation has to begin to pack itself up. it is big. remember, you don t want to be the last american troops in afghanistan after 20 years and not have a very good and cautious plan about how you pack up and leave given how hostile the taliban can be and also of the other possible elements as well. the window for continuing evacuation is certainly small. so we re going to be having to listen out to exactly how many they think they ve got off the airport today. extraordinary numbers over the past few i mean you have to i m staggered, frankly, and it is possible to observe the volume of aircraft going through there and imagine how efficient it has been. but 30,000 people taken off an airport in 48 hours is a remarkable fete, so valiant work behind those processing the people but it is more complicated because there are local embassy employe
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