fairly consistent story, that there was a complex attack in the area between the baron hotel which is right up against the air base where the evacuation is taking place and built practically against the outer perimeter, and in the area exiting that hotel leading to the abby gate and there is a corridor 2 hun yards long and in that corridor flanked on either side by very tall, concrete blast barriers, afghans have been gathering and they ve been gathering there since the fall of kabul, since the evacuation began, and that in this corridor is where we understand this attack took place and the videos we ve seen show bodies that have been thrown into a sewage drainage canal that runs right along right in this corridor between the blast barriers and between the baron hotel and the
some of those, you have got the blast barriers which are one single row white and huge people that match huge amount of people pressing through. a small amount of soldiers holding the line, trying to manage the crowd as best they can in the heat and looking for people who are clear to come through. from a soldier perspective it is really difficult and they are doing a fantasticjob. keeping the fantastic job. keeping the security. fantasticjob. keeping the security. your mind on the security. your mind on the security situation and humanely treat the crowd as best as possible. from the way the gates are organised, you can see potentially large target for islamic state if thatis large target for islamic state if that is what they want to do, a suicide bomb or small arms fire. such a mass of people. it did not have to be like this. we did not
0 wants to leave, but you want to get every american citizen who wants to leave out of that country before the military departs. my thanks to john brennan and congressman gallego, a big thanks to all of the other correspondents and guests who joined me this hour. we will take a quick break. we will continue our coverage there in afghanistan. again, 60 people hurt, at least 13 dead according to the taliban. we are not going to take a break, but andrea mitchell reports does start right now. and thank you to craig melvin. good day. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington with breaking reports out of afghanistan. two separate bombings one near the southeastern abbey gate where thousands of people have been waiting to gain entry and escape taliban rule and the second at the nearby baron hotel. taliban news saying 13 people were killed some of them children by the suicide attack. two u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news while they have no attribution for today s suspected
yeah, a moat. the philadelphia architect says that they were able to use the landscape as a security device which is meant to protect the embassy from potential bombers and remove the need for blast barriers. just put some crocodiles in the moat. construction is set to start in 2013 and should be finished in 2017. this new london embassy being built is one of the greenest and most eco-friendly in the world with solar panels on the roof and energy-absorbing materials lining the exterior and they will be able to collect and store london s rainfall, so when it comes to water the building is self-sufficient, which is all good and fine, and well, $1 billion price tag makes it one of the costliest u.s. em bas sis ever built which leads us to the question of tone deaf. these are announced at a time of record deficits and 10% unemployment and millions of americans struggling to make ends meet to pay for food and