facility also responding well to treatment but taking on some of the challenges that he has from pac parkinson s disease. wolf? we wish them a speedy recovery. suzanne, thank you very much. suzanne malveaux reporting. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. this is a special edition of the situation room. right now, we re moments away from an update, a very important update from the pentagon on the situation in afghanistan. this just hours after the u.s. conducted a drone strike against an isis-k planner and amid the ongoing evacuations of americans and afghan allies from kabul. we ll go live to the pentagon as soon as it begins. stand by for that. we we re also tracking hurricane ida.
dynamic. tell our viewers what you re hearing about these threats. i have to tell you, there are a lot of nervous officials here in washington right now. well, i think everyone is quite concerned, wolf. they talked in the briefing about monitoring the threats in real time. that means the u.s. intelligence community, the u.s. military, the white house, across the government, they are looking at this minute by minute, in an acknowledgment that isis-k, isis in afghanistan, is still operating inside kabul. this becomes a critical point. as nick paton walsh was saying, with the public acknowledgment from the pentagon that the withdrawal of u.s. forces and equipment has begun, we are now in the countdown, the most dangerous hours for u.s. forces in afghanistan the now upon us. it will be here until that last u.s. military plane rolls down
operations as needed. we continue the evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. in fact, there are approximately 1,400 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military air lift out of afghanistan until the very end. this is a massive military , diplomatic, security and human operation for us and our allies. yesterday, 32 u.s. military aircraft, 27 c-17s, and five c-130s departed with approximately 4,000 personnel. combined with 34 coalition aircraft, departures, an additional 2 rk,800 personnel l
another dire warning saying don t approach the gates. did this air strike have anything to do with that potential for future attacks? can you talk about what capabilities isis might have lost in this drone strike? well, couple of things. i ll let the state department speak for the advisory they sent out. that is not uncommon for them to do that, particularly in a country like afghanistan. they re constantly watching the threat environment, as are we, and they re doing the prudent, responsible thing, to inform americans there in kabul about what s best for their own safety. again, i think we ll let the state department speak to the rational there. obviously, they re doing what they believer they need to do keep people safe. i m not going to talk about specific capabilities isis may have lost in this strike. they lost a planner, and they lost a facilitator. they have one wounded. the fact two of these individuals are no longer
pentagon press secretary sent over the horizon from outside of afgha afghanistan. we did hear kirby also say that it is very, very good that these two facilitators, planners, these isis-k terrorists, are no longer, in kirby s words, on the face of the earth. suggesting that if the u.s. can, they will try to kill others, as well. arlette saenz, you re at the white house. the president, i take it, has been briefed by his national security team today. is that right? reporter: wolf, the president is currently in a meeting with his national security team to receive all of the latest updates on afghanistan. we saw the defense secretary, lloyd austin, as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general milley, and jake sullivan arriving a little before 11:00. that s when the meeting in the situation room with the president and vice president was set to start. and it was just yesterday that the president s national security advisers warned that another terror attack in af