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go to delaware this afternoon. we re going to take you to the white house for a live report in just a moment. meanwhile, the breaking news from overseas as scenes of chaos and desperation are playing out in kabul. the u.s. embassy put out a new security alert, officials say a new threat has emerged outside the gates to the airport. so they re advising americans to stay away for now. large crowds inside and outside today, american citizens, residents, visa holders and afghans who are just anxious to leave, all as the taliban consolidates its control over the city. here s part of a report from nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. reporter: taliban fighters marching through the streets, dressed in all white, the color of the taliban s flag and a simple they re ready for martyrdom. outside the last remaining u.s. base at kabul airport, chaos continues. this is what crowds have to face to get inside. [ gunfire ] reporter: shooting, violence, taliban whips. amer ....
airport, the president said this. no the best of our knowledge, the taliban check points are letting through people showing american passports. now, that s a different question when they get into the rush and crowd of all the folks just outside the wall near the airport. that s why we had, yesterday or the day before, we went over the wall and brought in, how many? 169 americans. sgr right now at kabul s airport, we re told some flights have resumed after no planes took off for ten hours. thousands of people there still stranded. soldiers on the runway told cnn that 10,000 people had their paper work processed and ready to go but they were stuck in the blistering sun after the country they were being evacuated to said they reached capacity and k could handle no more. the united arab emirates will host 5,000 afghans on a temporary basis after a request from the united states government. they are scrambling to enlist over nations to accept evacuees. we are waiting for t ....
thousands are holding out home stuck outside of the walls of kabul airport waiting with no guarantee they ll be able to be safely evacuated, in a new interview, he is defending his call to pull off troops from afghanistan. you don t think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? no. i don t think it could have been handled in a way that we re going to go back in hindsight and look and to think that there is a way to get out without chaosen chaosenuing, you don t know how that happens. even if americans and our afghan allies are still trying to get out, they re going to leave. we re going to do everything in our power to get all americans and our allies out. does that means troops will stay beyond august 31st if necessary. if depends on where we are and whether we could ramp the numbers up to 5,000 to $7,000 a day coming out. if that is the case, they ll all be out. because we have like 10 to 15,000 americans in the country right now, ....
bill: terrified women have been begging u.s. soldiers for help there. dana: desperate parents are hoisting children over checkpoint barriers pleading with american and british troops to put them on the next flight out. bill: if you leave 2500, do you keep the peace there. do you need to increase it is what this administration is arguing? if we say we ll have to surge forces and we don t want to do that. more from the interview on abc now. top military advisors warned against it and wanted you to keep 2500 troops. , no they didn t. it was split. that is not true. we should keep 2500 troops. we can do and continue to do that. no one said that to me that i can recall. you don t think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? president biden: no, i don t think it could have been handled in a way back in hindsight and look. bill: listen to this carefully. a clip they released last night. much more this morning on abc. he is hell bent ....
tell us where we are in terms of both getting u.s. military personnel into the country and the evacuations getting folks out. . reporter: so the pace has really stepped up. look back to where evacuations ground to a halt. they could not get troops in, people out. operations have been flowing for several days and now getting up wards of 20 flights in and out every day, every 24 hours. so nearly one an hour. they re moving hundreds of people. the big problem continues to be getting these people to the airport safely. so, what we know and i ll set this up for our viewers. the airport has two sides, civilian side and the military side. right now, the taliban have checkpoints that are really surrounding both sides of the airport. the u.s. military has been in touch, in direct talks really, with the taliban there on the ground. these sort of technical talks where they discuss things like the situation under which they will allow americans through these checkpoints. but a ....