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>> i cant give you personally that level of detail. what say positive is there is constant communication. it is being received. were seeing that things that were asking for passage and that is happening and getting better. >> so for the time being, have all u.s. flights from kabul airport gone to qatar? and a follow up. now with going, plans going to ramstein, have the other nations have offered to house afghan evacuees and of those, which are the most viable? lachtly, you are looking for foreig...

Approximately 13,000 total evacuees during the operation. in total, since the end of july, the number of people moved out of afghanistan is greater than 18,000. 18,000. there are siv applicants at risk afghan whos worked alongside us throughout our time in afghanistan. and other vulnerable afghans including women and childre many of the flights stopped in staging bases in qatar and other and military personnel are active will i processing passengers for their follow on flights to other destinati...

>> yeah, tom? >> me or general? >> paul. im sorry, paul. sorry. >> two questions. one, if you restarted from -- if you restarted the flights to -- from kabul, the people we hear from inside qatar say the wait is three to five days to get out of there. its so backed up. where are you flying the people to? are you already flying them to another country? >> yeah. >> so like we said earlier, that constraint of ensuring we have other flights scheduled and the timing of those, thats already being work...

>> did the u.s. troops have to go through any taliban checkpoints? >> no. >> and then can you, general, can you talk a little bit more about this flight pause? how long did it last? and can you -- can you say when it started? >> yeah. early this morning. lasted about six to seven hours. it was allowed to ensure that flights at or intermediate staging basis could receive more personnel. they are ready to fly in kabul to leave. >> this is qatar, sfligt. >> were there any other locations. >> do you...

And go from there. >> have any more forces been under deploy orders? >> no. >> and then how long was the airfield, six hours, three hours, two hours? >> roughly six to 7 1/2 hours. >> during that time, what was happening? were you trying to get other countries to accept the refugees -- the evacuees or what was happening. >> on aur field, processing continued. so when we say what is happening, flights were paused to allow for backlog, to ensure reception of folks leaving kabul. so we were schedul...

Something additional. i wont speculate right now. >> did the u.s. troops have to go through any taliban checkpoints to get the americans? >> no. >> can you, general, talk about the slight pause? how long did it last and can you say when it started, when it stopped? >> early this morning. lasted six to seven hours and it was allowed to ensure that flights in our immediate staging bases could receive more personnel. that has been cleaned up as flights have departed there, allowed us to continue wi...

>> we have airlifted 13,000 evacuees during the operation. in total since the end of july, the cumulative number is greater than 18,000. there are siv applicants, at-risk afghans that worked alongside us throughout our time in afghanistan and other vulnerable afghans including women and children. many of the flights leaving kabul have stopped in designated safe havens and staging bases in qatar and others where state department and military personnel are actively processing passengers for their ...

Youre at a pace where the incoming and outgoing from qatar is more -- there is some equilibrium. >> getting there. >> you are going -- are they flying to other countries yet? >> i dont have that report. the flight plans yet. i mean that is very, you know, an extremely dynamic piece. but i dont have those flute schedules as of right now. >> okay. follow up. weve seen videos of babies being taken over the barb wire and walls. can you tell us what is going on? are the babies of families that have v...