thanks very much. thanks for your incredible service to this country. we re still trying to find out more about isis-k. you hear a lot about it. seems to be the group that is fingered for this attack. they re sort of a disenchanted taliban from five or six years ago not very happy with the taliban in control of afghanistan now there were earlier reports that hundreds were circling the kabul airport. we know that a lot more of them than earlier thought are in the kabul area right now. trey yingst is following all of this out of doha, qatar. what do we know, trey? neil, good afternoon, this is the nightmare scenario for british and u.s. officials that warned of an isis attack against the city of kabul and the airport. it does appear to be a very coordinated incident.
there remain? garrett, one way to think about this, time is the enemy and i do agree with the comment speed is security. the u.s. has been there basically for ten days. in ten days, all of the american adversaries that want to cause them harm start to make plans and hurt americans in the country and its allies. what do they do? they start moving people into place and building plans for ieds. they start looking at ways to hit soft targets, the choke points around the airport. that s what we re seeing here today, a soft target, impossible for the taliban and the u.s., which were enemies, by the way, to actually work together to try to secure this area. so, doing those helicopter missions out in the city of kabul and surrounding area gets more and more dangerous with each day. your adversaries in the country start to watch what your patterns are. i m sure the military and the pentagon know that, which is why they re somewhat sticking to this timeline that they have to
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
it s a capability question. i m not suggesting that would be well-outside of kabul. i m not suggesting it would not be throughout the countryside. i ve spoken to a few families on the bases. they want to know what they can do to assist. i m not sure what advice is being given and what advice can be given to help those coming to stay on bases is. there any briefing for those families, what they can do to help out as well? i d be more we re not surprised that people want to be generous and help that is terrific. we saw reports that the commanding general at fort bliss, they were being inundated from the local community about trying to help. there s various organizations and ngos that are helping these afghans relocate. i would recommend reaching out to those aid organizations and seeing what is most needed for
any additional air evacuations in the city of kabul, as the u.s. military done any evacuations out side of the city of kabul because there are still lots of americans that are not even in kabul? i ll let the general take that. when you talk about evacuations, are you talking about going out? we continue to closely coordinate to ensure the safe arrival of americans and others, so we have not gone further with any air operations at this time but i will say we continue to ensure the capabilities that we have and as required that we are able to do so. is there a plan in place to help extract americans who are outside of kabul at this point? we are always planning and assessing what needs to be done to help americans get to kabul airport. i have not gone to the phones