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White house speechwriter, when he gets begins will get right t it, but the latest update we received approximately 19,000 people were evacuated from kabu in the last 24 hours. that is the result of 42 military flights carrying approximately 11,000 to hundred evacuees, 48 plates with carrie 7800 people, this is a massive operation. the question at this hour is will it be enough, the evacuation efforts to get every last american off the ground an out of that country by august 31st. >> god bless our military, they are working tirelessly with the conditions that they have been thrown into by their...

>> -- as efficiently and safely as possible. in the past 24 hours, we exceeded the previous 24-hour flight departures and evacuated number of passengers nearing the previous day's record. yesterday 42 u.s. military aircraft, of which were 37 c-17s and 5 c-130s departed with approximately 11,200 personnel. combined with our 48 coalition and allied partners, with those departures, an additional 7,800 personnel left kabul. that is 90 flights total yesterday that left the kabul airport. that accounted for 19,000 evacuees now safely out of afghanistan within a 24-hour period. since the u.s. and coa...

Rating has dipped below 50% for the first time in his presidency. today he acknowledged his realities on the ground but defended his administration's handling of the situation. >> let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul will be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. it would have been true if we started a month ago, or a month from now. there's no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. >> yesterday 7,800 people were evacuated, including american citizens, special immigrant visa applican...

The bottom line is this. look. at the end of the day if we didn't leave afghanistan now, when do we leave? another ten years, another five years, another year? i'm not about to send your son or your daughter to fight in afghanistan. >> biden continuing to defend the withdrawal from afghanistan this evening, but did he need to? nbc news polling out today shows 61% of americans say the war in afghanistan wasn't worth it and an under pressure president met with his national security team to discuss the crisis. the white house says more than 7,800 people were evacuated from the country yesterday, ...

>> that's where our kids have gone to school. it's our home. >> reporter: scholes saying her community is devastated. >> we have people who've lost loved ones. it's just devastating in so many ways, you can't wrap your head around it. >> elwyn lopez joins us now from the scene in tennessee. elwyn, search crews still looking for survivors at this hour? >> reporter: linsey, local officials still combing the area going door to door checking houses like this one looking for the missing. linsey. >> elwyn, thank you. now to the race to evacuate in afghanistan. just moments ago president biden tell...