reporter: you have any status report on that 17 internet landstuhl -- injured at landstuhl? press sec. kirby: the last count i had was 20 had gone to landstuhl, there were some additional wounded, but they were treated on site and returned to duty. i do not know what the status is. as you know, we don't usually get into the details of wounded, even anonymously. reporter: it will be useful to get an idea of whether they are stable. press sec. kirby: i'm not going to promise that. we don't talk about the status of wounded, i think you can understand. their privacy issues there we want to be mindful of. ok, thanks, i am planning to do this again tomorrow morning. i am shooting for 11:00 tomorrow for a regular update with general taylor. we will see what the rest of the weekend looks like. thank you. this is about 20 minutes. >> hello, i am esther george, president of the federal reserve bank kansas city. each year since 1982, the kansas city fed has been honored to welcome central bankers, policymakers and otherto

reporter: you have any status report on that 17 internet landstuhl -- injured at landstuhl? press sec. kirby: the last count i had was 20 had gone to landstuhl, there were some additional wounded, but they were treated on site and returned to duty. i do not know what the status is. as you know, we don't usually get into the details of wounded, even anonymously. reporter: it will be useful to get an idea of whether they are stable. press sec. kirby: i'm not going to promise that. we don't talk about the status of wounded, i think you can understand. their privacy issues there we want to be mindful of. ok, thanks, i am planning to do this again tomorrow morning. i am shooting for 11:00 tomorrow for a regular update with general taylor. we will see what the rest of the weekend looks like. thank you. ♪ c-span's washington journal. everyday we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and discussing policy issues that impact you. coming up, saturday morning, we will talk about president biden's immigration policy and the administration's attempt to end former

reporter: you have any status report on that 17 internet landstuhl -- injured at landstuhl? press sec. kirby: the last count i had was 20 had gone to landstuhl, there were some additional wounded, but they were treated on site and returned to duty. i do not know what the status is. as you know, we don't usually get into the details of wounded, even anonymously. reporter: it will be useful to get an idea of whether they are stable. press sec. kirby: i'm not going to promise that. we don't talk about the status of wounded, i think you can understand. their privacy issues there we want to be mindful of. ok, thanks, i am planning to do this again tomorrow morning. i am shooting for 11:00 tomorrow for a regular update with general taylor. we will see what the rest of the weekend looks like. thank you. >> this year marks the 20th anniversary of the september 11 acts. join us with five coverage from new york, the pentagon, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online on c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. >> ned price provided update following the suicide bombing tha

cbs' holly williams reports from landstuhl, germany. >> reporter: at this giant u.s. military airbase, they're doing their best to feed, care for, and entertain thousands of evacuees from afghanistan. >> their entire life possessions might be in a plastic shopping bag. it certainly helps to put things in perspective. >> reporter: this is just a way station for the afghan evacuees. they'll stay here a few days before flying elsewhere, very likely the u.s., to start a new life. rahmat safari worked as an interpreter for u.s. special forces. if you hadn't gotten out, you worked with u.s. special forces, what would the taliban have done to you? >> they would have killed me right away. >> reporter: he told us his family owe their lives to a former green beret who became a friend. >> his name is greg adams. he is back in the united states. he helped us a lot. >> reporter: major greg adams is now a civilian. from his home in seattle, he remotely guided rahmat, and other afghan interpreters, through the chaos at kabul's airport using text messages. is it too much of a stretch

two born at landstuhl shortly after the flight arrived into ramstein. if i can get you any more details, i will. >> there's an opportunity now for seek -- for keesler air force base. is that going to be one of the expansions? >> i don't have information on future possible installations that may be of this in a rolli fashion as -- if and when we decide we need additional installations, we'll let you guys know as soon as we possibly can. >> john, has the u.s. started preparations to leave in order to leave by august 31st? when does the u.s. military have to begin making those preps? when does that decision have to be made? >> so i'm not going to get into a specific tick tock here. just as when we were talking about the retrograde out of afghanistan writ large for the military, we were careful about the details we provided. the threat environment is very real around the airport so i'm going to be equally as judicious about the kind of information that we give out. but roughly speaking, you need at least several days to get the amount of forces and equipmen

the last count i had was 20 of them had gone to landstuhl. the remaining, there were some additional wounded but they were treated on site and returned to duty. as you know, we don't usually get into the details of wounded even anonymously. we don't talk about that. >> whether most are stable -- >> we just don't talk about the status of wounded, as i think you can understand. there's real privacy issues there we want to be mindful of. okay. thanks. i'm planning to do this again tomorrow morning. i'm shooting for around 11:00 tomorrow with general taylor and we'll see what the rest of the weekend looks like. thank you. >> and that wraps it up for us this hour and for me this week. i'll see you again monday on nbc news now starting at noon eastern. i'm aaron gilchrist. and "deadline white house" starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. it is 4:00 in the east. i'm alicia menendez in for nicolle wallace. there is new urgency in the mission to evacuate americans and allies from afghanistan. just a day after a devastating bombing by isis that killed 13

he joins me from landstuhl, germany. welcome. let's talk about the strike. what do we know about that? >> reporter: we saw earlier today, alex, a plume of smoked rising from a house. we all woke up this morning expecting to see the next adak. it was only as recently thatted biden administration was warning there would be another catastrophic attack right around kabul's airport. we were all expecting the worse. instead, that attack turned out to be, according to centcom, and the taliban itself, turned out to be a drone strike. a couple hours we got this from captain bill urban. u.s. military conducted aself defense unmanned over the horizon air strike today on a vehicle in kabul eliminating an i isis-k threat to the kabul airport. the taliban went and investigated the situation and determined that, yes, there had been a drone strike. you know, this is the second drone strike against isis-k, you can tall this a retaliation or prevention. that's really what looks like happened here. it was almost an-movie type of situation. this drone struck, according to centc

cbs' holly williams reports from landstuhl, germany. >> reporter: at this giant u.s. military airbase, they're doing their best to feed, care for, and entertain thousands of evacuees from afghanistan. >> their entire life possessions might be in a plastic shopping bag. it certainly helps to put things in perspective. >> reporter: this is just a way station for the afghan evacuees. they'll stay here a few days before flying elsewhere, very likely the u.s., to start a new life. rahmat safari worked as an interpreter for u.s. special forces. if you hadn't gotten out, you worked with u.s. special forces, what would the taliban have done to you? >> they would have killed me right away. >> reporter: he told us his family owed their lives to a former green beret who became a friend. >> his name is greg adams. he is back in the united states. he helped us a lot. >> reporter: major greg adams is now a civilian. from his home in seattle, he remotely guided rahmat, and other afghan interpreters, through the chaos at kabul's airport using text messages. is it too much of a stretc

back to you. >> jon: greg palkot, live from landstuhl, germany. thank you. for more on afghanistan, let's bring in retired navy seal commander and seal team six member who was deployed twice to afghanistan, also the author of the book "smarter not harder". dave sears. dave, you served. your fellow teammates served. so many thousands of men and women from the united states military have served in afghanistan. is the time and the sacrifice spent there worth it? >> that's a tough question, jon. i think for each individual servicemember, yes, it is. your service is never in [inaudible]. you are not ever going to stop crime. but you are going to do your duty and serve alongside your brother honorably. i don't think any service anywhere in the world, whatever you do, is in vain. >> jon: there's been the suggestion that the united states has lost the trust of maybe some of its allies around the world in the hasty way this evacuation was conducted. you say there was another point, loss of trust in the u.s. government and military leadership by our armed forces perso

you have to remember, these 13 people as well as those wounded that are still at landstuhl, these folks contributed with the rest of their teammates to 120,000 afghans evacuating and perhaps starting a new life in a new country. that will be their memory that will live on. >> certainly will. vivian, i may have to interrupt you if the president starts the fema briefing on hurricane ida. so many of these service members, the ten men, two women, were just barely 20 years old, they were babies when the 20-year-old war began. >> reporter: that's right, wolf, and that underscores how long this war has been going on. and why president biden has been so intent on ending it right now is because you have an entire generation that does not remember, was not old enough, not even born, to remember the 9/11 attacks. a lot of these guys and girls are fighting in this war now without sort of that context that drove us to go to afghanistan to begin with 20 years ago. it is a really startling thing to see the list from department of defense with so many people 20 years old, born in the year of the 9/11 a

these personnel have been transferred to landstuhl regional medical center and receiving care. in kabul, commanders on the ground continue to assess the risk in the dynamic situation there as they have since the beginning. forced protection remains paramount with the continued threat. we've continued the evacuation mission yesterday as you reported last night, and i'll give you an update of how things have gone in the last 24 hours. yesterday 35 u.s. military aircraft, 29 c-17s and 6 c-130s departed with approximately 8,500 personnel. combined with 54 coalition aircraft departures, an additional 4,000 personnel left kabul for various intermediate staging bases. 89 flights total yesterday out of kabul totalling approximately 12,500 evacuees, now safely out of afghanistan in a 24-hour period. in the past 24 hours, more than 300 american citizens were evacuated from afghanistan bringing the updated total to approximately 5,100. we continue to maximize our efficiency and since u.s. and coalition forces began the evacuation, approximately 111,000 evacuees have departed safely. the s

nbc's raph sanchez is in doha, qatar, and matt bradley is in landstuhl, germany. raph, what are you hearing this morning from where you are >> reporter: the taliban held a press conference this morning, this wasn't just any press conference. this was a press conference on the tarmac at hamid karzai international airport, amid the abandoned military hardware left behind by u.s. forces, just 12 hours before and there was no escaping the symbolism here. the taliban are the indisputable rulers of afghanistan as they were in october 2001. the taliban leaders were flanked by special forces carrying american weapons that they had captured from the collapsed afghan national army. there was a member of the haqqani family there, the haqqani network is an al qaeda-linked insurgent group that fights alongside the taliban. at this press conference, though, they struck this interesting pragmatic almost conciliatory note. they are insisting there is a general amnesty for those who served alongside u.s. and allied forces, there will not be retribution against those people. there

casualies from that appalling suicide bombing on thursday, 15 servicemen and they were broad here to the landstuhl regional medical center. this is the largest military hospital outside of u.s. borders and it's long been a destination for wounded american warriors ever since the beginning of the u.s. war on terror 20 years ago. guys. >> we're wishing all of them a quick recovery. matt, thank you very much for that. >>> and another big story we're following this morning, hurricane ida barreling towards the louisiana coast. overnight ida passed over cuba, and now those warm waters of the gulf will actually make it worse, potentially packing winds of more than 140 miles per hour. we will get that forecast in just a moment. but first let's go over to nbc's morgan chesky who is on the ground right now for us in new orleans. morgan, how are things looking down there? >> reporter: yeah, morgan, a balmy morning here in new orleans, which is just an eerie sign of what's to come here. late last night the city of new orleans issued some mandatory evacuations for the communities outside of that levee protecti