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planes involved anymore, defense echo terry lloyd austin is actively -- activating the civil air fleet, see r.a.f. that lets the department used commercial aircrafts to evacuate u.s. citizens and personnel, signal -- and other at risk individuals from afghanistan. now, the current activation plans call for 18 commercial aircrafts from these companies to pick up passengers from interim staging bases. they are not flying into the airport in kabul. military aircrafts will still handle those flights. now, using civilian aircraft to assist the military, might sound like a wild idea but actually, it's been around for decades. according to a report by the ran corporation, an executive order from president truman created the craf back in 1951 during the korean war. it was first used during the gulf war in 1990. let's begin tonight with mark davidson. he served as the deputy senior civilian representative for
everyone working flat out trying to stem the tied of an unfolding disaster. the pentagon is activating the civil air fleet. commercial airlines will join evacuation efforts. but nbc news has learned they will not fly in or out of kabul. the u.s. has transported 3,900 passengers in the last 24 hours and learned the ramstein air base is near capacity with almost 5,000 evacuees. a baby was born at the base, a woman giving birth to a girl moments after landing. nbc polling shows 60% of americans disapprove of president biden's handling of afghanistan. 61% believe the war in afghanistan was not worth it. the president is expected to provide an update at 4:00 p.m. eastern today. from there to josh ledderman. how is the administration
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 they're out to qatar or ramstein in germany to their final destination. that will be the job now of u.s. commercial airliners under the new program. >> that totally makes sense. keep the u.s. military in charge of getting people out of afghanistan to those places and then let the commercial airlines pick it up from there. thank you, josh.