Many miss. Vice president Kamala Harris is on a Dip Matic Offensive in Southeast Asia in an effort to deepen ties with allies and counter chinas influence. Good to have you with us. Amid scenes of cay chose at Kabuls Airport, Joe Biden said the deadline to pull all u. S. Troops from afghanistan may be postponed and it depends on Progress Evaluating Americans and afghans who helped the war effort. The airport remains the epicenter of a desperate attempt by thousands to flee the taliban. On sunday, mr. Biden said a number of changes have been made to ease evacuations. Theres little sign that the number of people waiting to get out is decreasing. Increase the ability to get them out. We have changed the gate operations and the whole range of things. Thats why weve been able to significantly increase the number of people were getting out. Has the taliban agreed to weve discussed a lot with the taliban. Theyve been cooperative in extending some of the perimeter. It remains to be seen whethe
About 20,000 people remain at the chaotic kabul airport. More people keep coming. The evacuations of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started, when we began. Theres no way to evacuate this many people without Pain And Loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. Its just a fact. U. S. Defense officials tell cnn the military is establishing alternative groups to kabul because of the threat posed by a selfproclaimed Isis Affiliate called isisk. The threat is real. Its acute. ItS Persistence. Its something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. Were working hard with our Intention Community to try to isolate and determine where an attack might come from. Were placing Pair Month Priority on stopping or disrupting and well do everything we can for as long as were on the ground to keep that from happening. But were taking it absolutely deadly seriously. Our international Security Editor Nick Paton Walsh joining us live
The largest number so far of people evacuated from the airport in kabul in a 24hour period. Its a really big number. 10,400 people. 10,400 air lifted out of kabul on sunday by u. S. Military aircraft. Now that again is a big number. It will have to continue to meet the clear need that is there. And it has been complicated by a whole slue of other developments. The airport, the scene of a deadly firefight overnight, involving u. S. , german and afghan forces. Afghan guard helping secure the base was killed by some kind of fire. Unclear whether it was Opponent Fire or friendly fire. No americans were injured in that attack. After president biden said he is considering extending the afghan Withdrawal Deadline now, new this morning, a taliban spokesman tells cnn that all u. S. Forces must leave afghanistan by The End of the month. They dont want to see any extension. Thats raising questions about whether afghan allyies, people who helped u. S. Troops over the course of the war, are going t
Killing one of them. At this point, were told no americans were injured. This comes after President Biden national Security Adviser told brianna about the threat of a terrorist attack, the threat by the Islamic State. The threat is real. It is acute. It is persistent. It is something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. Closed to 20,000 people remain inside the perimeter of the airport still to be evacuated as outside afghans fleeing the taliban take over a growing increasingly desperate. Over the weekend, at least seven afghan civilians were killed in a crush of people stampeding outside the airport. And a source tells cnn that only american citizens, green card holders, their children and spouses and Nato Ally citizens will be permitted now through the gates. Afghan special immigrant visa applicants and their families are not being allowed in. Those, of course, are afghans whose lives are in danger because they helped american forces, many of them translators or cu
Them. At this point, we believe about 13,000 people remain at the Kabul Airport. That, too, a Brand New update. Well get some information on that. Those 13,000 are waiting, hoping to be evacuated. 33 u. S. Military transport jets are expected to arrive at the airport in the next 24 Hours, each has the capacity, were told, to take 400 passengers out. A source tells cnn the United States, though, is changing its policy on who will be admitted into the airport from today on, only u. S. Citizens Green Card holders and citizens of nato countries will be allowed past the airport gates. This is a big change. Applicants and those who already have been approved in the special immigrant Visa Program gives afghans who worked with the u. S. A way out of the country. As of now, it seems like they will not be allowed into the airport. Cnns Sam Kylie is inside the Airport At Kabul and joins us now on the phone. Sam, a whole ton of new information there. But lets start with this Fire Fight overnight,