As many as 10,000 Americans remain in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday. “We think there are certainly thousands of Americans. We don’t have an exact count. I would say somewhere, best guess, between five and 10,000 that are near Kabul,” John Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary, said on CNN’s “New Day.” State Department officials advised those Americans to get to the Hamid Karzai International Airport to evacuate, he added. The United States is in touch with the Taliban to ensure the safe travel of Americans to the airport, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in Washington. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday that Americans should shelter in place in Afghanistan and not try to get to the airport due to the chaotic situation in the country. That’s no longer the case, according to Kirby. “Now that security is better, they don’t need to necessarily shelter in …