00:00What if you had only hours to escape a war zone?
00:02That's the reality thousands of Americans are facing right now.
00:06A new U.S. government charter flight is on the way.
00:09It's bringing Americans home from the Middle East,
00:11and more emergency flights are already being arranged across the region.
00:15The State Department isn't sharing how many people are on board,
00:19or where they took off from, but the numbers tell the story.
00:22Since February 28th, over 1,7500 Americans have made it back to the United States,
00:28and on Tuesday alone, 8,500 flew home in a single day.
00:32Many others have fled to Europe and Asia,
00:35trying to escape the chaos caused by the widening conflict.
00:38But the warnings came fast this week.
00:41Americans across 14 Middle Eastern countries were told to leave immediately,
00:45use any commercial flight available.
00:47Yet global travel disruptions are making that nearly impossible for many.
00:51Lawmakers are now criticizing the State Department,
00:54saying the alerts came too late.
00:56But the agency insists it is responding.
00:58By setting up charter flights from the UAE,
01:01from Saudi Arabia, and from Jordan,
01:04for every American still trying to get out,
01:06this story is still unfolding.
01:08And for thousands, every hour matters.
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01:12For all the millennia,
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