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But i want to put on the screen for our viewers some of the first images that are coming out from after these explosions and a warning, these images are graphic. and what we could see in the images are people taken away bloodied and bandaged and taken away in wheelbarrows and walking through a mass of people and some trying to get away as quickly as possible. tragic to see. you could only imagine what they ve been going through as they are trying to stand at that abbey gate to get into that airport and now this. yeah, sources that i m in contact with on the the ground talk about picking having to step over a number of large a large number of dead bodies. i won t speculate on numbers but they re talking about many ....
On the the same stretch of road. that road bound at other side by concrete blast walls which do concentrate the blast between themselves and as peter was saying, there have been videos now circulating among of afghan casualties. there is fno visibility of american casuals although the prnts has confirmed there have been in u.s. casualties. sources in the britishmill that i ve been in communication with have not indicated any kind of british military casualties nor any direct comment on this whole process. because this was until very recently the british camp. when i was in the airfield, at kabul international airport only yesterday, it was beginning to fill pretty rapidly with british troops and so clearly they were involved in what is called collapsing down. moving their troops out of that ....
Course what the result of this is and of main concern for the president is what and how this effected the u.s. service members who were still there on the ground by the thousands. how this changes the evacuation now on the ground at that airport, kaitlan will bring us the updates. i want to get back to do ha and sam you just left kabul airport yesterday and we have learned that there are u.s. and civilian casualties as the pentagon has confirmed and announced. what type of medical capabilities are there at the airport? reporter: well, there are the expedition capabilities and the u.s. has a thousand troops an the brits have come in with a thousand. they all travel with their airborne medical facilities and also there is the norwegian military hospital structured on the the base that has four icu ....
There were between 500 and 1500, presumably some got out overnight. but what does this marine for the americans on ground and we are looking to learn more information about these casualties that john kirby said include both americans and civilians on the ground there. but a tremendously sad, really awful situation for these afghans who have been putting their lives on the line to try and get through these gates, to try and get on these evacuation flights and we know that the u.s. government had been monitoring these terrorist threats in the region specifically against those who were in those crowds outside of the airport. we re seeing this now come to fruition. but this is a quick developing story and a lot more details to figure out, specifically about who was among those casualties and americans and afghans. kylie, thank you so much. i want to go to kaitlan at white ....
Kind of armament in its arsenal. it is not clear. this sort of devices that not has not been used seen or reported in afghanistan and the taliban have had a lot of time to go after afghan helicopters and u.s. military aircraft and this type of surface-to-air missile has not been used. but going forward, that will become it has to be part of the evaluation and i will stress again that there is no evidence to support that they exist. but the concern by security experts, western security experts about the situation in afghanistan, that has been expressed to me over recent months, kate. nick, thank you for your reporting. let me bring in now cnn s tim lister. you have done extensive reporting on the intelligence and the threat stream that is existed that you ve been hearing from officials. the threat stream from isis-k targeting people outside of the airport. talk to us through your ....