evacuation of the u.s. military, u.s. citizens, military and afghan citizens able to get onboard. we are waiting to see what happens in these next 48 hours or so. wh the completion of the evacuation happens on tuesday, august 31st. this is very concerning. i m joined right now by democratic congressman madeline dean of pennsylvania. so you are probably just getting word about this explosion. and again, we don t have context to offer to you. but it is precisely, i m presuming, the exact kind of thing you feared would happen between now and when that last c-17 takes off from kabul. we suffered a heartbreaking loss of life. 13 service members lost, 18 more wounded. scores of afghans dead and
afghans, who have been evacuated. however, there still remains about an estimated 350 americans who we need to get out. now the pentagon has said that our timetable for getting out by tuesday august 31st, is unchanged. however there are many questions at this hour how we re going to accomplish that given this imminent threat that does last for about 24 to 36 hours beginning yesterday, lindsey. heidi priz bela, a busy day as the president will be monitoring both of these imminent threats, bracing for impact. thanks for your reporting. the national hurricane center is expected to give an update at the top of the hour issuing warnings of, quote, catastrophic wind damage and flooding. joining us now is nhc director ken graham. thank you for joining us. it s busy right now. what can we expect to hear in the next hour? what s the most important message for you to get out there
likely. and the u.s. is racing to evacuate americans ahead of that tuesday august 31st from the country. cnn s arlette saenz with the white house. nick paton walsh in afghanistan. we want to begin with arlette. we do know about the air strike, but what do we know about how it happened about the warning in kabul is likely? do they anticipate this other attack could also be from isis-k? reporter: well, this air strike ordered by president biden is just the latest sign that he is intent on finding and tracking down those perpetrators of that terrorist attack that killed 13 u.s. service members and dozens more afghans. now, the details regarding the strike are very limited. it was ordered by president
it s going to be a busy day. thank you very much. now, the u.s. is racing to get american citizens and allies out of the country by that tuesday, august 31st deadline even as officials warn another terror attack is likely. nick paton walsh is live for us from doha right now. nick tell us what we need to know about the evacuations, and is there a strong sense of the likelihood of this terror threat? reporter: yeah, obviously, the terror threat is clearly deeply troubling u.s. officials at the moment. and it appears some of the crowd, certainly as you saw from satellite numbers yes have d diminished around that airport. as far as we know, the evacuation operation is continuing today.
kabul airport. now, the biden administration has still been warning that more attacks are likely to come, are actually imminent, and that s why the u.s. is still trying so hard to get as many afghan evacuees out of the country as possible, ahead of that deadline on tuesday, august 31st, when all u.s. forces are expected to finally be out of afghanistan after 20 years of war. alicia. that was nbc s matt bradley reporting. as the taliban and isis-k struggle for power in kabul, one says that the country is on a path to becoming the las vegas of terrorists. i want to bring in clint watts, distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. clint, what do we need to understand about isis-k? i think the most important part is that they are one of the remnants after the islamic state, as we knew in syria and iraq, actually stuck around, and if anything, maybe grew a little bit. this is going back to about