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as we transition this afternoon, i want to welcome back those who joined us this morning. and i want to welcome those who are just joining us this afternoon including one of my fellow commissioners, irene riley. thank you so much for coming and joining us. i m karen clawson t chair of the san francisco human rights commission. this morning i made a few remarks but what we didn t do which i wanted to make sure we did right now is to thank everyone who has helped to make this summit possible including, of course, the asian art museum staff t san francisco public library staff, all of the people who have given us technical support, the human rights commission staff, including our commission secretary kathy mulkey meyer. amelia martinez bankhead and taquan harrison, sarah sang, and jessica compo. so thank you, all, very, very much. for all of your hard work in putting this sum in it together. because we do have some newcomer, i want to reiterate a few things and that is tha ....
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 ....
as we transition this afternoon, i want to welcome back those who joined us this morning. and i want to welcome those who are just joining us this afternoon including one of my fellow commissioners, irene riley. thank you so much for coming and joining us. i m karen clawson t chair of the san francisco human rights commission. this morning i made a few remarks but what we didn t do which i wanted to make sure we did right now is to thank everyone who has helped to make this summit possible including, of course, the asian art museum staff t san francisco public library staff, all of the people who have given us technical support, the human rights commission staff, including our commission secretary kathy mulkey meyer. amelia martinez bankhead and taquan harrison, sarah sang, and jessica compo. so thank you, all, very, very much. for all of your hard work in putting this sum in it together. because we do have some newcomer, i want to reiterate a few things and that is tha ....
as we transition this afternoon, i want to welcome back those who joined us this morning. and i want to welcome those who are just joining us this afternoon including one of my fellow commissioners, irene riley. thank you so much for coming and joining us. i m karen clawson t chair of the san francisco human rights commission. this morning i made a few remarks but what we didn t do which i wanted to make sure we did right now is to thank everyone who has helped to make this summit possible including, of course, the asian art museum staff t san francisco public library staff, all of the people who have given us technical support, the human rights commission staff, including our commission secretary kathy mulkey meyer. amelia martinez bankhead and taquan harrison, sarah sang, and jessica compo. so thank you, all, very, very much. for all of your hard work in putting this sum in it together. because we do have some newcomer, i want to reiterate a few things and that is tha ....
decision must be made today in order to provide enough time to withdraw the 5800 troops on the ground in kabul, as well as equipment and weapons. minutes from now, leaders of the group of seven nations are set to hold a virtual meeting where u.s. allies are expected to ramp up pressure on the president to extend that deadline. we are covering this story from all angles, like no one else can. let s begin this morning on the ground in kabul where that dramatic increase in evacuations is unfolding as we speak. and sam kiley is there live. sam, tell us what you re seeing there. this is an enormous number of flights in the past 24 hours. reporter: yeah, it s a gigantic number and they have been continuing all day today. of course as well, jim. so, as of about two hours ago, military officials here were telling us the u.s. alone had flown out some 9,000 evacuees. when i was on the main area where the refugees and the evacuees were gathering yesterday, jim, there were about ....