repairing the supply backlog is out of his hands and called on the private sector to do more. the white house press secretary jen psaki was short on details. this administration that holiday packages will arrive on time? we are not the postal service, or ups or fed-ex. we can t guarantee. we can use every level of the federal government to reduce delays and ensure that we are addressing bottle necks in the system including ports ask the need for them to be open longer hours so goods can arrive. harris: critics like tom cotton are ripping the president for thinking another white house event will fix anything. he is acting surprised that the shortage is happening and acting like a photoop at the white house will solve it.
shipping times. right before the holiday shopping season. as far as what s causing this, there s a lot of factors. but first, there s this epic port congestion, shortage of truck drivers and trucks. and also, there s a short animal of raw materials and components. most notably, computer chips, which goes into everything from iphones and cars to pelotons. i want to go back to port congestion. that is a big one. we have this chart showing how the number of anchored ships at the ports of los angeles and long beach waiting to get off-loaded have skyrocketed from single digits last year to more than 70 last year. it s a traffic jam of container ships at sea. the white house has announced this 90-day sprint aimed at trying to alleviate some of these bottle necks. and they re going to try to move to 24/7 service at the port of los angeles, which is a very big deal. but the experts i m talking to are saying, it might take some pressure off the system, it s not going to solve everything. at a m
you know, they have paid thousands of dollars to try to get to this point. there was one man we just spoke to in line, who left haiti just a few weeks ago, after the earthquake, made it to the dominican republic and was able to come here by boat and then by bus to reach this spot. again, jose, as you know, this is one of the bottle necks along that journey to the u.s. and there is concern here from local officials that more people will keep coming. right now, it s hard to get an exact estimate, but one estimate is about 20,000 migrants are here just in this one town. some of them coming up from south america, after spending years in chile. others are now making the fresh trek from haiti. they are all gathered here, waiting in line, soon trying to get into the boats that will then take them across the panamanian border to try to cross the daring gap. many of them have been desperate here for weeks, trying to figure out whether to continue their journey or try to find out
strong self-interest in acting with responsibility going forward. but they will make their own determinations. thank you. the taliban right now focusing on the mission right now are not living up to their commitments. people are being stopped from trying to get to the airport, i m talking about women, sivs, others, afghans, people with papers and being stopped outside the airport now. total bottle necks, which rise to the level of what the president said were a contingencies if the taliban is not complying, if the flow can t continue. we re loading planes and some planes are leaving some people have private planes waiting for them with landing rights but can t get in to the airport as well as beyond the sivs, there s lawyers, judges, women, educators. we ve told them 20 years you can
matt, i know flights carrying afghan and u.s. evacuees have been landing there at ramstein for a couple of days here. set the scene for us. what is the latest that you ve been able to observe. this is one of several bottle necks in this entire process. it s a logistical nightmare. lots of people are staying here and they have to get processed in ways they re not normally processed like they are in qatar which is between kabul and here in germany. what we re hearing and give you a sense of that bottle neck, aaron, we re hearing about 36 to 39 flights so far the last couple of days have landed here at ramstein air base. that s only a couple miles from where i m standing right now. only four have taken off and gone on to the united states or other third country locations.