taliban checkpoints that are all around the airport right now, both the civilian and military side of the airport, and get to the gates, they may not be able to get in the gate because they may not have the proper paperwork. now, to deal with this issue, there s u.s. military, mainly largely u.s. marines and soldiers who are at some of these gates and there s no state department officers there trying to help, but it s not a perfect process. not everyone there is able to get through. and the other issue is there are so many people backed up at some of these gates, that even if you are eligible, you literally cannot physically get up to the gate to even get through. you can see just the magnitude. there are so many hurdles that these people have to get through. some of them very dangerous, like getting through a taliban checkpoint before they can even get onto the airport grounds and get manifested onto one of these flights. total reality check from you. thank you so, courtney kube, i
reported. isolated ens dense. possibly the initial weeks worth, we saw from the taliban, they re desire to look like they were calm and control and not vengeful may be fraying. obviously the focus at the airport. we have an extraordinary situation. there s a log jam outside of the airport from videos we ve seen from tonight. hundreds of people cramming these gates. a log jam inside the airport grounds itself. i ve spoken to afghans who were supposed to be going through but are being held on the outer ridges of the airport in secure areas but not being brought in because the inside of the airport was referred to as a dumpster full of trash. so obviously they have a problem with the number of people on the airport. and clarissa has been saying they can t get planes off the airport to reduce that backlog as they begin to have success. that isn t going to do anything to slow down the number of people trying to get on the airport. they are essentially in a lose/lose.
mercy of taliban fighters that control the roads, beating and whipping people trying to get in. some cases, people managed to access the airport by climbing walls. you can see american soldiers helping a woman over the top, onto the airport grounds. as for evacuations themselves, the u.s. says it is running about 20 flights a day, things are not moving as quickly as they would hope. that said wednesday, president biden said the u.s. is not leaving until we bring everyone home. we are supposed to be out august 31st, even if americans and allies are trying to get out, they re going to leave? we re going to do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies out. if there s american citizens left, we re going to stay until we get them all out. richard engle in kabul has the latest on how the evacuation is going at this point. richard? reporter: this is the military side of kabul
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the the runway, it s interesting, there are big devets left by a shipping container, did a tumble across the ground, through the airport grounds and over the runway and apron and the container is nowhere to be found. we don t know where the container went. the markings on the pavement are obvious it was a big steel container. you can tell one of the markings is really obvious. you just where it went, we don t know. is the runway usable? a skilled pilot might be able to if he knows there is some small divets in the runway that he might be able to maneuver around them like in a small twin engine islander, for example, we fly down in these islands. so obviously for relief efforts, a working runway is important. yeah. i think it it wouldn t take much to fix it if they came over with a bucket a boat with a hard pitch, they could have it up and going very quickly. the holes aren t very big. there s nothing there right now, you know? just incredible.