the driver will take them for free to western ukraine, where maria hopes her sister can safely recover from her injuries. john, they are like many eva evacuees. they come to zaporizhzhia. it is safe. it is only 30 miles from russian tanks. many of them try to move on if they have the resources. and the talk of russia deescalating to focus on the donbas in the southeast, those are ominous words for this region. this is the southeast. this is a city that could potentially be drawn in and has so far been spared from the grinding deadly conflict. john. it means the situation there might only get worse. ivan, to hear maria say i have my arms, i have my legs, i m okay. so many ukrainians you meet when
of evacuees from afghanistan arriving at dulles international airport in virginia on saturday. you see a wave of thumbs up. likely a sense of relief for those escaping taliban rule. evacuees undergo thorough screening before and after arriving in the u.s., extreme vetting. joining me in ramstein air base in germany, atika, what s the latest as they still try to cope with the massive influx of refugees? reporter: absolutely. more than 20,000 evacuees have come through the ramstein airport yesterday. ational to speak with officials on the air base and see a number of departure flights taking off. those flights you saw taking eswa eva evacuees, most to dulles in virginia. they insisted the evacuation of
the u.s. atooka is live. what happens there and for how long. reporter: well for how long is the big question. and for me evac uees it is the only question. many still wearing the white wristbands that get them access into kabul airport. some have been here for two days and they tell us that they expect to be here for possibly up to seven days while they get processed and by processed i mean figure out who are u.s. citizens, green card holders or special visa holders. once they have that cleared up and that is the responsibility of the state department then they board a flight to the united states. we saw this morning one of the first commercial flights that have now been activated to bring eva evacuees to the u.s., a delta airlines flight and about 700
where with all to get them out. reporter: the taliban warning there will be consequences if it takes longer. one afghan security member left dead under scoring the situation as the u.s. tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. we re pushing the limits to do everything we can to get every single evacuee out of kabul. reporter: in order to speed up evacuations, the pentagon activating the civil reserve air fleet for only the third time using system aircraft from commercial carriers like united and american to move evacuees from the middle east on wards. for now, though, the u.s. prioritizing getting american citizens out, several thousand have left the country already the pentagon says, a senior state department official says there are still several thousand more. the pentagon acknowledging helicopters left the airport not once but twice to pick up eva evacuees. john kirby hinting at more. on occasion, where there is a need and there is a capability to meet that n
the politicizing of the intelligence cycle will be finished. as always, thank you. thank you. today s shooting coming one day ahead of a meeting between foreign ministers from turkey, russia and iran about the syrian war. more evacuations are taking place today in aleppo. as a fragile cease-fire holds. connor powell has the update tonight from our middle east newsroom. reporter: after a week of chaotic efforts to evacuate thousands of desperate people from aleppo, today dozens of buses left the war torn city. more than 7,000 people braved freezing temperatures and boarded convoys out of aleppo. we left this man said to escape the shelling. all the houses were damaged. among the ee va evacuees, orpha posted a video plead ing for hep