discussion with governors about the arrival of afghan refugees. it stands to reason that it will be in a different and the casu americans and others as well on the ground there. this is a significant setback from the white house that obviously in these early days was struggling to gain its footing as kabul fell much more quickly than anyone had anticipate, but in the last few days we ve seen a steady tempo of announcements of the accelerated pace of evacuations. we ve seen briefing after briefing at the pentagon from the state department from the white house with people trying to flood the zone with anticipation and it appeared the white house was on track to meet that deadline with the and the president asked for contingency planning. the question is now, when we hear from the president today does he indicate whether the
0 all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of the airport in kabul. expected to be an ied attack. word a few moments ago from pentagon spokesman. another explosion near by at a hotel. while they have no confirmation who is behind it, the assumption is that it was caused by isis-k. a splinter group of isis. that group considered to be an adversary of the taliban. the airport already on high alert because of a threat attributed to that group. just in the last few minutes john kirby saying the explosion near the abbey gate at the kabul airport