the dart below razor wire, it would have been densely packed with individuals. but with individuals who by all accounts had a fairly slim chance of getting in. and there were still accounts people who went to that gate and tried and left later on in the day. it is unclear who the casualties are at this point. and one potentially saving grace for u.s. service men is that if that gate was not really functioning as much as i was led to believe it was, there may have been a minimal presence outside of the wire. i saw videos from yesterday which appears to show in a similar area some nato personnel outside of the wire. but things have been changing exceptionally quickly at this stage. so one point that your previous guest h.r. mcmaster was making to do with the insurgency. this is a complex series of extremists and while isis-k has been the terror group people pointing at for the last two or three days, they re also this sort after tac sort of attack
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