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obviously this is a very chaotic situation, and a lot of different sources of information coming at us a. so we want to be very clear about what we know and what we do not know. one suicide bomber from the latest reports, detonated on the perimeter of the airport. there was another explosion at the barren hotel which is a short distance from that same airport gate. we want to warn you, some of the pictures you re going to see are graphic. the chaos happened as we re showing you, bloodied afghans wheeling the wounded through the streets. the pentagon says there are an unknown number of casualties, both americans and after begans. as you may remember, officials had been warning for days about potential of an attack saying all americans at the airport yesterday should leave the area if they weren t already behind the dwaets. defense officials threatened more attacks may be coming. white house officials tell cnn the president has been monitoring the aftermath from the situa ....
afghanistan s effective government. u.s. military leaders say a decision to extend the withdraw dead line must be made by today. because that would provide enough time to make plans for pulling out the 5800 troops on ground in kabul when the mission ends as well as to remove equipment and weapons. more than 21,000 people were evacuated from afghanistan in just the last 24 hours. and an unprecedented operation. 4500 people are now waiting for evacuation flights inside of kabul airport this morning. a little more calm than in recent days. cnn s jeremy diamond is at the white house with more on the g-7 meeting underway. i suppose the question is will white house officials bracing themselves for a bit of shilacking from their allies on this. reporter: there is no question that they know that president biden is going to face tough questions and pressure from the allies. especially the united kingdom and france who have been vocal about the need to extend the withdrawal dea ....
getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them? i will talk to you about just bottlenecks. i talked a little bit about that earlier. as we those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or centcom, that s the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased through-put, increased that number that they are able to hold there centcom and u com are continuing to coordinate together and what the joint staff and trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to continue to leave kabul. so as we look at those on kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. we still expect the through-put that we saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck at others. we continue to manage that on an hourly/minute basis so we know where to fly people to. do y ....
afghanistan. as the pentagon chief and other top leaders head to capitol hill to brief house members. good morning. i m garrett haake in for hallie jackson. lots to get to this hour. we start with courtney kube, kelly o donnell and john hudson, national security reporter for the washington post. courtney, walk us through what we re hearing from your sources about that decision expected from the president today and why he has to make it now with the deadline not actually until next week? remember, even if the deadline is august 31st, it s still going to take several days, somewhere potentially in three to four days to get the nearly 6,000 u.s. troops out of kabul international airport. and then there s also the equipment that s there. the u.s. has artillery, mraps, aircraft, helicopters. if they were to get all those people and equipment out it will take several days. you have to back time from the deadline of august 31st until, you know, three or four days back. t ....
but i would like to reassure the public that we have a dedicated team of officers who are tasked with finding lee, and i would once again appeal to anybody that sees him to call 999. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: chaos and panic outside kabul airport as the us advises it citizens not to go there until they are asked, because of security threats outside the gates. senior taliban figures including the group s co founder, mullah baradar arrive in kabulfor talks about establishing a new government. greece has erected a aokm fence on its border with turkey, amid wanings of many afghan civillians fleeing their country. we are awaiting a press conference from the pentagon in the united states. this is the scene live at the moment. we are expecting to hear from the pentagon press secretary and also an army major general. we are getting the latest on the situation. they will have more information on what is going on in afghanistan, particularly at kabul airport. ....