approximately 13,000 total evacuees during the operation. in total, since the end of july, the number of people moved out of afghanistan is greater than 18,000. 18,000. there are siv applicants at risk afghan who s worked alongside us throughout our time in afghanistan. and other vulnerable afghans including women and childre many of the flights stopped in staging bases in qatar and other and military personnel are active will i processing passengers for their follow on flights to other destinations. we did pause flights earlier today leaving kabul. why we adjusted resources and personnel to ensure a temporary capacity issue at one of our stopover locations. although flight operations have resumed. and u.s. military flights to qatar and other locations departing and departing kabul as we speak right now.
0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didn t have the capacity to take any more people. this has its situation outside the airport gets more desperate. thousands of afghans hoping for a chance to get inside and get on a plane out of the country. the president defended his situation to get out of afghanistan in a report that nearly two dozen diplomats at the u.s. embassy in kabul sent a cable to tony blinken warning of a possible taliban takeover and urged an airlift operation. i made the decision, the buck stops with me. i took the consensus opinion. it would not occur if it occurred