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Nearly 200 people killed and an imminent terrorist threat remains. The lead starts right now.

Top US officials now fearing there could be more attacks at the Kabul airport with the clock ticking down to get

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Welcome to the lead everyone. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin today in our world lead president Biden is team bracing for the possibility of another terrorist attack.

After 13 US servicemembers and more than 170 Afghans were killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul's airport yesterday, 11 Marines, one sailor and one soldier were among the servicemembers killed.

The military is beginning to pack up what's called the retrograde process. We're not just servicemembers, but their equipment are shipping out.

Still, the evacuation mission is continuing. In the past 24 hours, nearly 13,000 people were evacuated by the US and allies. More than 300 of them, American citizens.

In the past 13 days, the US has evacuated a total of 105,000 people. Today, the Pentagon said nearly 7,000 Afghan refugees have arrived in the US and are undergoing processing.

This afternoon, the White House reiterated its commitment to evacuating every American by President Biden's deadline of August 31.

But sources involved with rescue and evacuations tell CNN that it's clear that some Americans, possibly some US citizens, certainly lawful permanent residents of the US, who want to get out, will almost certainly not be able to buy them.

The same nothing of the thousands of Afghan allies, the special immigrant visa or SIV applicants, who will be left behind.

Of that latter group, the Biden administration is not denying reports that US officials in Kabul gave the Taliban, whom they say are helping with evacuation efforts,

lists of those whom the US wanted to fly out, including the SIV applicants, who are terrified that the Taliban will kill them for having worked with Americans.

One defense official told Politico, quote, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list.

Let's get straight to CNN's Clarissa Moore live in Qatar. She was in Afghanistan just a few days ago.

Clarissa, the evacuation efforts were incredibly complicated before the terrorist attack. Now it's impossible to describe just how challenging this has become.

Hugely challenging, Jake, because the threat is still very real of other potential attacks from ISIS-K or ISIS-Karasan as the group is known.

We know that the evacuations have been continuing regardless of the threat, which is pretty extraordinary, but we're also seeing far smaller crowds, much fewer Afghans willing to come out into the streets today and risk life and limb to try to get into that airport.

And I want to warn our viewers now, Jake, that some of the images they're going to see in this report are very disturbing.

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