learn the identities of the americans killed, including navy medic max soviak of ohio and marines rylee mccollum of wyoming, kareem nikoui and hunter lopez of california, and david lee espinoza of texas. 18 americans also wounded in the attack, some med evaced to germany in special surgical units inside c-17 planes. but questions remain on just how this attack took place with the pentagon scrutinizing taliban check points. if they were able to get up to the marines at the screening, at the entry-point of the base, there was a failure somewhere. it was a failure by taliban operate with various degrees of competence. some of those guys are very scrupulously good, some of them are not. reporter: a photo from this week reveals just how dense the checkpoints can be. dozens of service members within arm s length of those trying to get in. this is close-up work. the breath of the person you are searching is upon you.
that serious that they need that sort of level one trauma care. they will have to get them med evaced out of there as fast as they can. they have some minimal capability on base and to try to assist if at all possible with the afghans. but again, the word is the words are very rapidly evolving here. these are very first reports. nonetheless three officials telling cnn there are some u.s. personnel wounded in this attack, jim. as you well know, med evac [ no audio ]
0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds around those gates. the u.s. believing that terror groups had both the capability and the planning to carry out such attacks. there is still no attribution for these attacks or as we said, any confirmation about casualties. we have our reporters covering the story. let s begin with nick paton walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who
concerns now about other facilities here in the state of florida. a industry group for long-term care facilities say 150 out of 700 in florida are not at full power at this point, ali. it s a scary situation for them. thanks very much. mya rodriguez. we re going to stay on top of that story and the condition in other nursing homes in residential facilities and assisted living facilities and retirement homes in florida. this is a serious matter we ll stay on top of for you here at msnbc. joining me now is jeff johnson, florida state director of the aarp. it is now calling the aarp is calling for a thorough review of procedures and laws in the wake of this tragedy. jeff, i mean, you knew about this we were talking about it last week. we knew that florida has a high proportion of retirees, nursing homes, things like that. and we wondered when some were going to be evaced because of this very matter. the thing you thought might
everybody that does business with us. you can see the rest of our interview. go to gretawire.com. this is a fox news alert that keeps happening. shark attacks off the coast of the carolinas. another one today. in three short weeks, nine victims, three locations. john joins us with the story. reporter: this has shark experts ready. this was just southwest of cape hatteras. a 68-year-old man visiting from massachusetts was waiting around and hit the water and got bit in the hip, lower leg, rib cage and hands. he was med evaced to the hospital. this is one, as you mentioned, nine incidents since the beginning of june along the outer banks of the north to the south carolina and georgia border. yesterday, a 12-year-old boy was