we continue to focus on the protection of our forces and the evacuees as the evacuation continues. let me be clear. while we re saddened by the loss of life, both u.s. and afghan, we re continuing to execute the mission. our mission is to evacuate u.s. citizens, third country nationals, special immigrant visa holders, u.s. embassy staff and afghans at risk. as of today we have 5,000 evacuees on the ramp awaiting air left. since august 14th we ve evacuated more than 104,000 civilians, over 6,000 by the united states and over 37,000 by our allies and partners. that includes bringing out about 5,000 americans. the secretary of state said yesterday we believe there are about a little more than a
140 injured. their loss weighs heavily on us all and able to talk about that as you go on. we continue to focus on the protection of our voices and the evacuees. as the evacuation continues. let me be clear. while we are saddened by the loss of life, both us and afghan, we will continue to execute the mission. 0ur both us and afghan, we will continue to execute the mission. our mission is to evacuate us citizens and special immigrant visa holders and the us embassy staff and afghans at risk. despite this attack, we are continuing the mission. the evacuation and as of today approximately 5000 evacuees a reading airlift. since august the 14th, we have a factory for more than 104,000 civilians. 0ver 14th, we have a factory for more than 104,000 civilians. over 66,005 united states and over 37,000 by our allies and partners. that includes bringing out about 5000 americans.
vetting happens there and should continue to happen. what can t happen is americans to start doing a bunch of grand standing politicians to start doing things to imply that these folks are folks that we should now decide if we re going to make a commitment to. i m talk about special immigrant visa holders, folks holding up papers that were given to them by americans and american troops saying if you fight with us against the taliban so we can take the fight against al qaeda and other al qaeda allies over there so they don t attack us again at ground zero in manhattan, we want you to know when we give you our word we keep our word. what we re talking about here is, are we going to be the kind of nation that keeps our word? we need to because of these particular people, because of the troops who gave them their word and because the rest of the world wonders if we re going to be a long-term stable ally in the coming decade plus fight against the chinese communist party in a technology and
i ll talk more about that as we go through my prepared remarks. we continue to focus on the protection of our forces in the evacuees as the evacuation continues. let me be clear, while we re saddened by the loss of life both u.s. and afghan, we re continuing to execute the mission. our mission is to evacuate u.s. citizens, third country nationals, special immigrant visa holders, u.s. embassy staff and afghans at risk. despite this attack, we re continuing the mission. the evacuation and as to have day we have approximately 5,000 evacuees on the ramp awaiting evacuation. we evacuated more than 104,000 civilians, 66,000 you about the united states and 37,000 by our allies and partners. and that includes bringing out about 5,000 americans. at the secretary of state said yesterday, we believe that there
refugees. mark, i know that you have a lot of contacts on the ground. what are you hearing about safety and security and the ability to get out right now? well, chuck, there is no safety and security, and there no ability to get out right now. even for the people who are u.s. citizens or the people who have special immigrant visa holders and let alone the vulnerable people, and the activists, and the religious minorities and the media and the ngos, they cannot get out right now. there is 250,000 afghans and some afghan-americans who can get out now, but they can t bring their a families with them, and explain that struggle. is this more having to do with the taliban or more having to do with our siv process? it has everything to do with our siv process. we had 20 years to prepare for this not unlikely outcome, and