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Left, qatar to the u.s.? >> yes. >> so you're saying right now you're at a pace where the incoming and the outgoing in qatar is more -- there's some equilibrium? >> getting there. >> okay. are you going -- are they flying to other countries yet? >> i don't have that report. that's very -- an extremely dynamic piece. i don't have those flight schedules as of right now. >> follow up. we've seen videos of babies being hefted over the barbed wire and walls and u.s. service members taking them on. what is going on? are these families of babies that have see is as of u.s. passports? are they afghans...

Pause, a six to 7 1/2 hour pause in evacuation flights from the airfield there because of a backlog, an overflow of people landing in qatar to be sort of -- as sort of a stopover before they could move on to other locations. i want to bring back our journalists and our nbc correspondent. but i'll ask you first, tia. your reaction from what you heard in the briefing here from the pentagon and how it squares with what you've been hearing from afghanistan. >> well, i got a lot of honest answers from what i saw. and the sense of sometimes they didn't have the answer. it does seem that the pentagon...

>> we appreciate you helping us to understand that a little bit and helping to illuminate what's happening in afghanistan today. thank you so much. >> thank you very much for having me. joining me now is nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube. she was in the briefing that just wrapped up a few minutes ago. courtney, it seemed today the flights out of kabul were a big point of conversation. obviously we know the flights were halted for several hours today while officials were trying to figure out what to do with people who were landing in qatar, for example. what do you make of that re...

Welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didn't have the capacity to take any more people. this has its situation outside the airport gets more desperate. thousands of afghans hoping for a chance t...

So it's still been a significant period of time. now we're talking 10 to 12 total hours since the stoppage and only one or maybe two flights have gone out. if you look back to where these flights were just 24 hours ago on thursday, they had something like 16 flights but in a 24-hour period. now we're talking about one, maybe two, so far all day today. so it is a significant slowdown. and the reason is a capacity problem at qatar. the majority of these flights have been going out, flying do doha. think about it, they've got upwards of 3,000 people out yesterday. they take them to qatar, many of...