department colleagues in the processing of individuals to prepare for evacuation flights out of afghanistan. critical to getting americans and afghans at risk out of the dire situation requires additional space at intermediate spaces and safe havens at other locations. this impacts our throughput, as i discussed yesterday. two days ago, if you recall, the us military lifted nearly 6000 evacuees in a single day. in the last 2a hours, six us military planes and 32 charters departed kabul and through this combined effort, the total passenger count was 3800. also in the past 2a hours, a number of c17s are moving, providing critical relief that will increase our input to those intermediate staging venues and finally,
this is about verify. and we ll see what the taliban end up doing in the days and weeks ahead. well, we also got another grim reminder today of the desperation to leave the country. not only were people clinging to the transporting jets, human remains were found in the wheel well of one of c17s on a flight out of kabul. we want to keep the focus on what matters most right now on the situation on the ground in afghanistan. clarissa ward is in kabul for us tonight. so just how quickly have things been changing now kabul is under taliban control? yeah, it s surreal, anderson. within a couple of days normal life is sort of starting to creep back in. the taliban announced yesterday that government workers can return to their positions. we saw traffic policemen for the first time in days guiding
at about roughly 2,500 and by the end of the day approximately 4,000 troops on the ground in kabul. forces will continue to flow in and reinforce the state department and dod effort there. the operation is ongoing and i d like to give you a few more details on that operation. hkaya is open for military flight operations and limited commercial flight operations. throughout the nine nine c17s arrived delivering equipment and approximately 1,000 troops. additionally, seven c17s departed. these flights lifted approximately 700 to 800 passengers and we can confirm 165 of these passengers are american citizens. the rest are a mix of siv
0 ? -perfect! because we re building a better network every single day. in less than a minute from now, we expect to see top pentagon officials at that microphone on the left side of your screen for the latest on those emergency evacuations out of afghanistan, where the taliban is now firmly in control. we re going to bring that to you live the second it starts. here s where things stand as we ve come on the air. flights out of the kabul airport are back up and running after they were shut down for hours. u.s. troops could clear the runways of thousands of afghans desperate to get away from the taliban. that desperation crystallized in this photo, gone viral, you ve probably seen it. one flight so full, it may have set a record for the number of people who can fit on to an american c17. the taliban telling afghans they have noing to fear, declaring amnesty and encouraging women to join the government, despite their disastrous record on that very issue. we have a lot to get to. i m
that going to continue? the timeline here, how long will they do this? he said they re working under the assumption that they will be going until august 31st, the official date for the total draw dawn. what will the taliban allow, they re right there by the airport. we re going to bring in retired general james spider marks. general, i want to try to get to some of the questions that brianna just raised there because i think they re the key questions for this minute, what s happening right now. so there are thousands of u.s. troops now at the airport in kabul, up to 6,000 going to be there. what will they do? john, the key mission for the soldiers and the marines on the ground are the airmen flying those c17s and the images that we have seen to try to get american personnel out of the city will be to maintain a core don from pockets of where american citizens might exist in