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they were tortured by the taliban, but since yesterday, the afghan people are more bullied. do you think it is another civil war, and everybody now, they show up one more time for their activity, do you think that is one? before i take that question, i want to take the opportunity to make sure that we express our con don lens for the afghan people who suffered in yesterday s attack. we know there was a number of people killed and wounded people at the airport. there are families dealing with the same devastating terrible news that gold star families are dealing with. on behalf of the secretary we offer our thoughts and brayers. we don t, we obviously don t want to see the country torn through civil war, but that is why whatever the future is from a governance perspective, we want to make sure that afghanistan leaders are held to proper account for the way they re governing and that afghanistan s neighbors also try to play a constructive productive role in whatever the ....
negotiation space, something is happening behind the scenes that is helping some people get through, can you talk about that too to some extend? i know the most senior commanders on the ground are out and discussing with the taliban leaders that are manning the check points, what they need to look like, the details of that. as we know there are reports that some that are not able to get through there. i can tell you that the department of state, the consoler affair officers there are working there to ensure that documentation, names, and those things, as often as required, are at the check points allowing transition in there to get into the gates. and on the contingency plans, i m not going to get ahead of the planning process, one of our main job social security to make sure that the president has options. he wants to see this mission complete by the end of the month. we re still working towards that goal, but question will be drafting up potential drafts and sequels ....
let s just talk about bottlenecks. i talked about that a little earlier. those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases, that s the coordination i was talking about earlier, to ensuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those bottlenecks, so the increased through put they are able to hold there, with the joint staff in that trance com, as we look as those at kabul, there s no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. we expect the through put that we saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck at others, and we continue to monitor that on an hourly and minute basis so we know where to fly people to. do you have enough people in the i don t have the exact number in kabul, but there are evacuees in kabul being processed there to be ready to fly. but you don t have the number? i don t have the exact number. we have folks ready to evacuate. we can get you the number that is on the airport now. as the general said, ....
first, we re tracking tropical storm henri. this is new satellite video from noaa capturing the moment when tropical storm henri made landfall. it packed high winds that knocked out power to more than 80,000 customers in rhode island. close to 4,000 people in massachusetts and 2,000 on long island without power. we ll have the latest on the path of the storm which, in fact, is slowing. one bit of good news, though. the storm surge warning has canceled for all areas. a lot of folks breathing a sigh of relief. we got kathy park, who is standing by for you in narragansett, and tracking this whole thing is bill karins. i want to start first with kathy. this storm making landfall just east of you, so talk us us through what you ve been experiencing and what you re experiencing now. our understanding is henri made landfall about 30 minutes west of es, but nothing like what we saw in the 12:00 hour when we were barely hanging on. you can still see the waves crashing behind m ....
chaotic scenes like this one playing out over and over again as taliban fighters clash with crowds desperate to escape right now, an estimated 14,000 people were at the airport in kabul waiting to board evacuation flights to whatever will take them. they re fighting time and space with this operation. cnn s clarissa ward and her crew captured these remarkable images aboard a c-17 cargo plane as they prepare to take off for d doha, qatar. 2500 americans have gotten out in the last week. some taken to this u.s. air base in germany. they are among the lucky ones. thousands still outside the airport in kabul are braving 90 degree heat, sleeping on gravel, their cries for help drowned out at times by the gunfire of taliban fighters. an update on the piece of video with the infant who passed through the crowd and hoisted above barbed wire to u.s. troops. reunited with the father and is safe. warren lieberman at the pentagon. president biden cancelled a trip to delaware to get ....