The U.S. is drafting in commercial aircraft to help transport people once they have been evacuated from Afghanistan, the Pentagon says.
But thousands of people are still waiting to be evacuated from the city's airport as the security situation in and around the area continues to deteriorate, with reports of stampedes and gunfire. The U.K. government said Sunday that seven people had died after being crushed in the crowds around the airport.
Speaking with ABC's"This Week," Austin said the U.S. is"going to try our very best to get everybody, every American citizen, who wants to get out, out."There is also increasing concern about the security in the Afghan capital, where roughly"At the moment, we believe we have sufficient forces on the ground," Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told NBC's"Meet the Press" on Sunday.
But time is running out ahead of his Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw most remaining U.S. troops and he has not committed to extending it."So, we have been working for the past few days to get fidelity on as precise a count as possible," he said."We have reached out to thousands of Americans by phone, email, text. And we are working on plans to, as we get in touch with people, give them direction for the best and most safe and most effective way for them to get into the airport.
Speaking with CNN's"State of the Union" on Sunday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said the U.S. is"in a better place than we were a week ago" when it comes to Afghanistan.Courtney Kube reported from Washington, Yuliya Talmazan from London and Allan Smith from New York.Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
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