try to get out, safe houses for a period of time and then were told that the evacuation had stopped and that separately, the university president apparently told these students and their parents that their information had been handed over to the taliban, obviously, to get them safe passage, which has not yet happened. but my question is, as this sort of draws down, don t we sort of owe a group like that, where we have given out their information, their passport numbers, their names, aren t we obligated to ensure they get on these last flights given the fact that the taliban soon after coming into kabul posed at the front of the university saying that this is where, you know, the americans trained people and they re obviously threatened and scared by that. absolutely. well, first, let me say that there have been reports that we provided or the u.s. provided lists of people who want to leave afghanistan to the
contacted to try to get out, and then were told that the evacuation had stopped. separately, the university president apparently told the students and their parents that the information had been handed over and obviously to get them safe passage, which has not yet happened. my question, this sort of draws down, don t we sort of owe a group like that, where he is given after information and a passport numbers and their names, to ensure that they make it onto this last flight given the fact that the taliban, soon after coming to kabul, said that this is where the americans train people? they are obviously threatened and scared by that. secretary psaki: absolutely. first let me say that there have been reports that we provided, or the u.s. provided, lists of
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do
past few months. finally, jake, i want to say when 13 service members lose their life in service of the worthy mission of saving tens of thousands, more than 100,000 people, all of us who work on these issues lie awake at night and wonder what could we have done differently? what could we have done better? those are questions we will ask. those are questions we will answer. for the next 48 hours, our overriding focus is on getting remaining citizens out of the country and making sure our troops get home safely. that s what we ll put our energy into. one last question, jake. there are names and passport numbers, and phone numbers of american citizens in kabul right now that, you know, members of congress and journalists and members of the administration, members of the military are sending you, sending abroad. what happens to these people? are they going to get out? i am personally fielding some of these calls. and all of us, every single
evacuated so far and are there any left to go? that s the update we are waiting to hear any moment now. we did here from the pentagon this morning so far 4400 american passport numbers have been evacuated from afghanistan since this effort began about 10 days ago. the big question they did not answer and is going to be up to secretary blinken to answer is how many are left. that has been a really big focus of this, is making sure every single american gets out. president biden and his national security advisor had both voiced confidence that, yes, they do think they can get every american out by the 31st. we ll be waiting to see what those numbers look like. i anticipate it will be fairly small. one reason the who i saite hous declined to offer those numbers is they said it was so fluid, it was changing by the hour. we didn t get a number on