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The pentagon has called up 18 civilian aircraft to carry people from temporary locations, after they have landed on flights from afghanistan. these flights will bring people from "staging locations" like qatar, kuwait, germany to the united states and the first of those flights landed today at washingtons dulles international airport. but most planes flying into afghanistan to evacuate personnel have been arriving empty, at a time when humanitarian aid is badly needed. more than 500 tonnes of who supplies, scheduled to be transported to afghanistan this week and next week, remain in their logi...

But then we're going to get the civil reserve fleet. it's a program designed -- was designed in the wake of the berlin airlift after world war ii to use commercial aircraft to augment our airlift capacity. it's a voluntary program for our commercial airlines and we're greatful for those airlines and u.s. carriers who are supporting us. this effort will only use three or four planes from each of the major carriers. vast fleets of aircraft so there should be no effect or minimal effect on commercial air travel. and will stay in close coordination with our partners to mitigate any impact. these c...

To need to get assets into place very quickly. i say you, i talk about fema, but i know this is the coast guard, this is the national guard, this is everybody. how do you think about staging for a storm like this? >> well, ali, one of the first things we do is we get personnel into the emergency operation centers of the states and they have been there for several days already. so in coordination with the states based on what the impacts could be, based on what the needs are, that's where we really identify where those staging locations should be. we obviously can't have a lot of assets right i...

>> president obama's re-election campaign is in full throttle in the battleground states where they opened up more than 5,000 get out the vote staging locations. >> in the all-important battleground state of ohio, the obama re-election campaign has 137 field offices, compared with 40 for mitt romney. politico's maggie haverman says --