citizens who are at the gate now should leave immediately. just yesterday, president biden referred to the threat at the airport from this terror group known as isis-k. he detailed his decision to stick with the august 31st deadline, just six days away now. as the scramble to get out intensifies, one question is how many americans remain. this afternoon, the secretary of state put the number at about 1,500. he said officials have been in touch with about 500 and are still reaching out to others. for the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we re aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens to leave along with many afghans. that effort will continue every day past august 31st. the secretary said about 6,000 american citizens were in afghanistan when the taliban took control about two weeks ago now. over the past ten days, roughly 4,
biden referred to the threat at the airport from this terror group known as isis k and he details his decision to stick with that august 31st deadline to leave afghanistan. that deadline just six days away now as the scramble to get out intensifies, one critical question has been, how many americans remain? this afternoon, the secretary of state put the number at about 1500. officials are in touch with about 500 of. them but are still reaching out to others. for the remaining roughly 1000 context that we have who maybe americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to the multiple times today. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave, along with many afghans. that effort will continue every day past august 31st. now the secretary said about 6000 americans we are in afghanistan when the taliban took control about two weeks ago he said over the past ten days over 4500 of those americans were evacuat
dana: taliban calls it a non-starter. who is calling the shots? bill: dana, the president saying the u.s. has expanded the perimeter around the airport. more on that in a moment as the u.s. confirms that isis is taking full advantage of the chaos and plotting to kill americans who are trapped there. dana: team fox coverage. general jack keane, trey yingst the latest from the capital of doha and mark meredith is live at the white house for the update this morning. the white house insists it is making significant progress on the evacuation effort underway. evacuating another 10,000 people or so. but there is also mixed messages coming from the white house with the president insisting this is not going to be easy and he says it is possible that u.s. troops will have to stay on the ground in afghanistan longer than previously planned. president biden: there are discussions going on among us and the military extending. our hope is we won t have to extend. but there will
but we start with david spunt on the story on afghanistan. reporter: thousands want to get out of afghanistan not only from kabul but this comes as the mixed messages seem to thrive. one day it seems okay to go to the airport. then people are told not to go to the airport. the united kingdom defense forces reported seven people killed outside of a kabul airport. we hear those are afghan civilians. families are desperate to leave. the kabul airport officials are reporting that the american officials are not even to get to the airport. we know small number that we know of. we know of sporadic cases where they are not being allowed. harrassment is going on and some physical violence has occurred. reporter: add that to the new threat of isis branch in afghanistan. afghanistan known to house al qaeda. isis a rival terror organization has a footprint in the country. there are reports this morning that the biden administration is weighing airstrikes on some of our equipment that t
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