all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of the airport in kabul. expected to be an ied attack. word a few moments ago from pentagon spokesman.
mistaken, roughly 36 hours ago? less than that. i was at the airport this morning in kabul. and i know a little bit more about the attack that took place, so it took place near the abbey gate. it is also very near the baron ho tell. it is really a military base and has been for some time. the military base, the airport, is surrounded by blast walls. the baron hotel is tucked up right against those blast walls. it was flut in order to house visiting personnel, contractors with b it was built very securely. it almost looks like a military base, itself. i and other journalists have stayed there recently. leading from the baron hotel,
visas and figure out ways to get people out for the last couple of years or further than that? we aren t going to give up because we leave as a military presence and we ll still have an embassy there and we ll have to figure out ways to get these men and women out that have helped us. director brennan, what we are watching play out right now at the airport in kabul at this hotel, again, according to a hospital in kabul, 60 people hurt. according to the taliban, 13 people dead including children. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel indicating that both of those numbers expected to rise based on folks you talk to on the ground there. director brennan, are we getting a preview of what life is going to be like in and around kabul for at least the short term, pitched fighting by at least two terror groups.
threats are. they are providing security in kabul. this is a big blackeye. when the taliban has the best of the best. they have special ops guys providing security. this is carried out with them there and this is potentially a black eye. there is always the al qaeda presence, they could have motivation for this as well. so what this does is this slows down and right now is putting a complete wrench in any u.s. evacuation efforts. this is a goal for attacking the west. people like americans, the british, others who have been operating there. this putting a big wrench in any efforts to get americans out
0 all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of the airport in kabul. expected to be an ied attack. word a few moments ago from pentagon spokesman. another explosion near by at a hotel. while they have no confirmation who is behind it, the assumption is that it was caused by isis-k. a splinter group of isis. that group considered to be an adversary of the taliban. the airport already on high alert because of a threat attributed to that group. just in the last few minutes john kirby saying the explosion near the abbey gate at the kabul airport