we spend every day working to get him out and moving him. can t say much more now but hopefully good news soon. he is safe and very soon i hope i will be here with good news on an early morning with you, dana. dana: for any of the people that you ve helped get out, joy. what kind of reaction do they have? it is heartbreaking in some instances because the journey is so dynamic. and it is also very inspiring when they finally make it back to the states. we were able to follow one family and some unaccompanied minors from the hills of afghanistan all the way through to dulles and reunite with their mother and on to texas working to get them relocation and resettlement activities, jobs, housing, etc. every person we put through that system makes it worth it
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
mission that has flown. we ve done three and they re successful but a short duration and a short distance. i was glad for the chance to clarify that. why is that distance not far? we re brought in to protect the airport. can we get numbers about how many evacuees are in america now? how many evacuees are in in america. i ll get back to you on that i don t have that data. it changes every day. there s flights flying in to dulles. i ll see if we can get it for you. i ll take the question. all right. thanks. we ll see you tomorrow. i m planning on two briefings tomorrow. we ll start at 10:30 and another
movement, they again are evaluated for any medical issues and given a chance to get some more screening there. and then of course, when they get back to the united states, we go through that again. we definitely screen them for covid, at some of the staging bases, all of them are getting screened for covid when they get to the united states. right now, they re coming in to dulles, so there s constantly throughout the process medical personnel that are trying to look after them as best we can. is there going to be a sort of call to the american people, and civil society organizations in the united states, to help resettle people? to do community resettlement efforts, to donate things that these new families may leave, to find them housing, to get them in english as second language courses if they re resettling here? i know not everybody is going to be coming to the united states, but thousands are. is there a call now from the u.s. government, indeed from the defense department, for t
so, there s a initial medical screening at kabul before they get on to a flight. we want to make sure that they re okay, so there s some medical treatment there. there are, and the general said this, there s no medical personnel on these flights. we re saving every available space for passengers, for people that want to get out, who are, as you rightly said, rachel, are desperate to leave. so we re not putting medical personnel on these flights. then when they get to these semperary safe havens or staging bases, if you will, for onward movement, they again are evaluated for any medical issues and given a chance to get some more screening there. and then of course, when they get back to the united states, we go through that again. we definitely screen them for covid, at some of the staging bases, all of them are getting screened for covid when they get to the united states. right now, they re coming in to dulles. so there s constantly throughout the process medical personnel that are