American father hears missiles overhead while stranded in Dubai with kids and pregnant wife

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Christian Walker of Prairieville, Louisiana, has been in Dubai for two weeks while on a family vacation with his two young children and pregnant wife.

�s been trying to find aflight for his family to evacuate.

The officials “urge you to get out, but there’s no way out.And then you call the number, and they say that they’re not evacuating U.S.citizens at the time … [and] to contact your airline,” said Walker.

He said nearly every morning, he’s called and spent “about two hours on the phone with[the] airline”trying to rebook his flight, and then “flights [get] canceled later that day.”

Walker said he’s gone through the “proper channels.” He has registered through the embassy and has called the State Department, he said.

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Christian Walker, a father of two young children with another child on the way, has reported hearing drones and missiles nightly while trying to book flights home with his family. (Christian Walker)

There were approximately 8,500 arrivals Wednesday, with thousands more that have transitioned to safe havens in Europe and Asia or who remain in active transit, according to the spokesperson.

Walker said many Americans have been evacuating through Oman, which is about a five-hour drive from Dubai.

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“There are a lot of unknown variables, and I’m not very confident with taking a 1- and 3-year-old [child] across the border [without a guaranteed flight] or how that could all go with getting there to the borderwith the hotel,” said Walker.

“We find it’s better to be safer [and] stay put than just be at the mercy of the airline opening and getting the flight out,” he said a few days ago.

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Walker said he has a flight booked for Saturday, adding he “will believe it when [he] sees it.”(Christian Walker;

The U.S.has urged Americans to leave 14 countries in the Middle East as Iran’s counterattacks intensify.

AnIranian drone strikelanded near the U.S.Consulate in Dubai but was not a direct hit on the site itself Tuesday.Walker’s hotel is about a mile away.

hotel was connected to a mall, so he didn’t need to go outside the hotel.

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“It’s connected to a mall, and [there’s] a store similar to a Walmart.So, we were able to get baby diapers and wipes and kind of stroller around the mall,” he said.