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Many civilian airliners we can commandeer, the question is will the taliban let these people get there and if not what are we prepared to do? the bigger question isnt whether we extend the deadline, the question is whether it remains whats called a per miss sieve environment or an environment defined by friction. are you going to have u.s. soldiers go beyond the airport? what happens then? i dont think at the moment anyone can say because we had 37,000 people evacuated that the worst is behind u...

Pentagon briefing because it was about this time last week that the pentagon officials were hoping to evacuate some 5,000 to 9,000 individuals per day. so theyre beginning to pick up the pace as we see not just military craft but the white house pressing civilian airliners to get involved in this evacuation effort. now, the biggest question continues to be will these efforts continue beyond the august 31st deadline. the president yesterday saying that he was open to it, there are discussions abo...

Overcrowded and unable to take any more people. what the u.s. has been trying to do to speed up processing is, a, try to get countries to take a lot of these people temporarily until they can be processed and brought to the u.s. or sent to a third country and b, have these commercial airliners help ferry them back and forth because of the fact theres no way to get them around and they want to free up spaces in these places. lot of moving parts here. the airport is the focal point. just getting p...

Quickly able to get through the gates into the airport, and then onto those flights. one development is that the us department of defence has announced that it will activate what it calls the civil reserve air fleet, cumin during a set of commercial airliners to help with the evacuation. so 18 airliners from different us airlines will now be taken over by the military, will support the evacuation effort. they be flown directly into kabul airport but they will be used to collect people from the n...

Reported to be helping marshall the crowd and form people into os which is said to be a making the evacuation effort more efficient. meeting that people can be processed and get through to the airport. to illustrate just how stretched some of the armed forces have become here, the us department of defence hasjust here, the us department of defence has just announced that it is activating what it calls the civil reserve air fleet. this essentially means that the us military, the air force, will t...

While ago general milley and secretary of state antony blinken both departing from the white house. the president was receiving an update on where those evacuation efforts stand and the security situation at the kabul airport. the white house this morning gave some updated numbers for the amount of people who have been evacuated from afghanistan over the course of the past day. its been about 7,800 people. half of those came out on u.s. military flights, while the other half left the country on ...

Get americans from wherever they are in kabul to the airport. they also have just initiated this new program under the civil reserve air fleet. major airlines like delta, american, united, hawaiian and others, will be giving 18 of their aircraft to be able to fly flights of american evacuees as well as afghan nationals. and our sources tell us these airlines will not be flying to that hamid karzai airport. instead they will be carrying people from the transport hubs, once theyre out to qatar or ...

Strong responsibility isis will attempt an attack there. a pentagon spokesperson did not rule out the possibility that u.s. troops would leave the airport to rescue americans who could not get there safely. and president biden promised to evacuate any americans who wanted to leave as well as tens of thousands of afghan partners who helped the u.s. during the war. over a 24-hour period this weekend, the u.s. evacuated 3,800 people from afghanistan and the secretary of defense has moved to propel ...

White house has given these airlines assurances they can fly in this equipment and be okay and be safe getting these people out. >> jim, this is just one part element of the administrations plans to try to get as many people out of afghanistan as possible. and so what we learned today is that the pentagon is mobilizing commercial airliners to try to help with some of the transport of these evacuees. this is all being done under something called the civil reserve air fleet. thats a program that h...

Mobilizing 18 commercial airliners to help transport the evacuees. the flights will be taking evacuees from the third party sites and bases where they were transported to as they are moving on along their journey. this all comes as there are still questions about how many americans remain in afghanistan. so we will see if the president has any further update on that or further break down of who exactly has been evacuated from the country. and we will also see if the president will speak anymore ...