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Protect them because god forbid they don't make it out, somebody sees the video, they got trouble. why show the video? to keep you interested. to show you the reality. to show you the desperation. sara is exhausted but recorded a new video for us to tell us just how hard this has been and may still be. listen. >> i don't know where to start. there is so much pain. and it's heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my passport, screaming to the people who were controlling the gate. i cannot leave this country sinc...

And it's heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my passport, screaming to the people who were controlling the gate. i cannot leave this country since august 16. i tried everything to leave. i don't know what went wrong. and why i couldn't leave. but i just want to record this for my family and my friends so they know what's going on. i have young kids and i have women, i have guys who are been waiting for so long, since 2017, 2018. they have been waiting.

Face. i'm not showing the right name -- um -- because i care about your safety. and i appreciate what you're doing because i want you to tell people, one, tell us a little bit about the video that you sent us from a few days ago. just for how serious it is even before the bombings. just what the taliban has been doing to people that you've seen? >> actually, we start going to the airport with few families on august 16. and we spent two nights there but we didn't get lucky to get inside. so on the 19, we went back there early in the morning. and things was very bad. like, it was chaos. i mean, ...

To get into the gate. so they have no control but to shoot because there is no way you control these crowds. so that's the only reason they have no -- no choice but to start shooting because they -- none of them are listening. everybody's there. the military -- the american military or the afghan special forces have no clue who are entering. the -- the right person or the wrong person. >> right. >> because everyone is at the gate. but some of them -- i -- i feel, witnessing myself -- i feel there -- 60% of those people are without any documentation. they never even worked with americans. but t...

So we're hopeful. >> tamara, what can you tell us about the family that was able to get out, and why the others haven't been able to reach the airport? >> i don't know. i know that that family returned last evening. i'm told they spent the day resting. they were exhausted. but i do not know the circumstances around their return. i'm hopeful that however they were able to get out, that that same mechanism will help us get the rest of them out. >> when did you first realize or first know that you had students and families unable to get out? >> like i said, august 16. so our liaisons, we have two...