the kabul airport to try and get out? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, the situation is worse than it was when we talked yesterday, if you can imagine that. yesterday we were talking about 14,000 people on the airport. a source familiar with the situation now tells me there are 18,500 on that airport. my appalling maths would suggest that's about 40 planeloads, depending how tightly you pack them. at that rate, we're talking probably at the current rate of plane departures, a good day, two, three, four days of plane flights to get them out. on top of that, my source says there are 2,000 people at each of the two, three gates still trying to get on. we're probably talking in the region of 25,000 people who still are on or near the airport who need to get taken out. obviously there's capacity issue down the runway too, where they get off, where they land, where they go. another interesting element this
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