what number they re at at the moment. of course, the evacuation operations are beginning to slow dramatically. the last 12-hour period, if my math is correct, had about 900 people flown out, despite the sheer number of aircraft that are going into the airport, it seems that they re more involved in the retrograde process, the packing up and bringing them out. in the next 48 hours, 72 hours, we ll see the last american soldier leaf afghanistan after america s longest war which will be, frankly, a monumental moment, so many american families impacted by this war, not just the last week, but the last 20 years. security will be something i imagine they ll have to negotiate still further with the taliban, the last moments of that withdrawal. the pentagon very clear that the gates around the airport are still under their control.
bases and safe haven to the united states in the coming days and weeks. on that topic, here is a quick update on the the military instillations in our safe havens in cent com and u-com that are helping transition all of these flights. cent com locations including an air base steadily receive and process and transfer passengers to follow on locations in europe and the united states. today u-com will receive about 19 flights and approximately or approximately 5,000 passengers in germany and italy and spain including the naval station roda. six flights will transport about 3,300 people from europe to the united states. i could not say enough how important that the contribution of our allies and our partners have been in this massive global
were not involved in the suicide bombing. i understand that you re reliant on them for protection around the airport. but are you ruling out them being involved because you re so dependent on the the taliban right now. i didn t hear general mckenzie put it that way. i think in one of the questions that he got, i think it was it was asked was there a failure and the general said of course there was a failure somewhere, obviously and alluding to the fact that it could have been a taliban checkpoint. so we ve not been certain about that at all. there will be an investigation. we ll try to learn as many as we can about what happened and i don t want to get ahead of that process. and in terms of isis-k, how many isis-k prisoners were left at bagram and are believed to have been released from the prison there. and why weren t they removed before the u.s. pulled out to someplace like gitmo. i don t know the exact number. clearly it is in the thousands.
welcome to the lead, everyone, i m jake tapper. we begin with our world lead. president biden bracing for the possibility of another terrorist attack after 13 u.s. service members and more than 170 afghans were killed by a suicide bomber outside kabul s airport yesterday. 11 marines, one sailor, and one soldier were among the service members killed. the military is beginning to pack up what s called the retrograde process where not just service members but their equipment are shipping out. still, the evacuation mission is continuing. in the past 24 hours, nearly 13,000 people were evacuated by the u.s. and allies. more than 300 of them, american citizens. in the past 13 days, the u.s. has evacuated a total of 105,000 people. today, the pentagon said nearly 7,000 afghan refugees have arrived in the u.s., and are undergoing processing. this afternoon, the white house reiterated its commitment to evacuating every american by
when you consider both prisons. because both of them were taken over by the taliban and emptied. but i couldn t give you a precise figure. and as for emptying out, remember, we were turning things over to afghan national security forces. that is part of the retrograde process, was to turn over the responsibilities and so they did have responsibility for those prisons and the bases at which those prisons were located and of course as the taliban advanced, we didn t see the level of resistance by the afghans to hold some territories, some bases and unfortunately those were bases that the afghans didn t hold. but all of those responsibilities were turned over in accordance with the retrograde plan back from april. i think it is more to the general. general mckenzie talked about wanting to talk to the taliban about pushing the perimeter back as one of the sort of ways to avoid another incident. has that happened and by how