KNTV NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt August 20, 2021 01:37:00
Get their families out if you can >> reporter: the pentagon says it could airlift up to 9,000 a day, but far fewer were evacuated 2,000 over 24 hours. republican critics say more must be done. >> this is all on president biden. there is no plan to get u.s. citizens outside of kabul into kabul and once they get to kabul, there is no plan to make the taliban to let them through. >> reporter: to speed things up, the state department says by tomorrow, it will double the staff processing evacuation credentials. and urged americans across afghanistan to get to the kabul airport as soon as possible, ...