though they have come down in recent days. the majority of people who plan to travel, 88% will travel by car. many traveling 50 miles or many. if you re trying to avod id comg to the airport, you ll see high congestion as well. none of those factors deterring anybody after two years of staying home. they are hitting the roads this summer. thank you so much. joining me to discuss is sarah nelson. she represents 50,000 flight a attendants at 20 airlines. so of geten we hear about this m the travelers. i can t imagine how trying this must be for the people working the flight and delaling with th delays. my niece flew in from newark and they sat on the tarmac waiting for somebody who can open the
the world. we have a lot to get to and we start with president biden facing a deadline from his own military on whether to extend evacuations in afghanistan beyond august 31. now, the military needs enough time to withdraw the roughly 5800 troops currently on the ground along with their equipment and their weapons, but complicating matters here is the taliban warning that staying past that august 31st deadline is a red line. and the number of evacuations is inching upward, about 16,000 people yesterday on u.s. and coalition aircraft. but the scramble to get people out still in high gear. and this different perspective, new satellite images of kabul s airport, huge crowds can be seen at multiple checkpoints and security gates. you can see groups of people on the tarmac waiting to be evacuated. and sam kiley is live at the kabul international airport this morning.
those numbers though not enormous. so the question is not about the allied afghans, the siv special immigrant visa applicants as well. the policy seems to have changed. they are allowed on if they can get there at the discretion of staff on that base. people with a clear and credible link to the united states government. so an opening of the aperture that allows people in, but the gates are still closed, taliban are still running the checkpoints to the airport. you saw on the images there, still huge crowds outside. and so unless you essentially have a way in that is not the gates and there does appear to be sort of flow running unofficially via afghan security forces securing that base, they may be responsible for the constant trickle that makes it hard to tally the numbers of who has flown out, who is known to be there, who is registered or just simply on the tarmac
on his new, current location. let s just show you these pictures. these are the latest scenes from the airport in kabul. you can see crowds outside a plane on the tarmac waiting to leave. those are the pictures, you can see them again, if you can make them out, people standing around outside the aircraft, trying to see if they can get on. we were told a little bit earlier by nato that all commercial flights were suspended about an hour ago. it is only military flights to allow the evacuation of foreign nationals that are now being allowed. in the us, the secretary of state anthony blinken was speaking to nbc s meet the press programme earlier today. he gave the latest on his government s position. we can do right by the people
this world a little better. tonight, the mod has this world a little better. tonight, the mod has released this world a little better. tonight, the mod has released these - this world a little better. tonight, i the mod has released these picture, hundreds of british troops arriving in kabul, with the evacuation of british nationals and eligible afghans under way, they won t be on the ground for long. at the board we are pakistan border with pakistan, afghans are leaving and there will be another wave of refugees. let s just show you these pictures. these are the latest scenes from the airport in kabul you can see crowds outside a plane on the tarmac waiting to leave. hoping to leave. we have also i should tell you had some information from a nato official, who says that all commercial flights have from a nato official, who says that all commercialflights have been all commercial flights have been suspended all commercialflights have been suspended from kabul airport and only