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welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken's efforts to meet with china's top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn's kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? >> reporter: that's right, it's here ...

>> reporter: a major point of this trip was to resume face-to-face meetings and to establish military to military channels and secretary antony blinken said that something chinese leadership has not agreed to but speaking to reporters secretary antony blinken said meeting has helped with a moment of instability in relations. they wrapped up with that meeting. something that was not confirmed until 45 minutes before it started lasted half an hour and followed many hours of discussions with the chinese counterparts this comes after weeks of rising tensions last month in a chinese fight...

facing in finding the vessel? >> reporter: jake, we just had an update from the u.s. coast guard. they confirmed how difficult this is. remember, you said about 12,000 feet. they confirmed it could be that far down in terms of the deep ocean search they have to conduct here. almost two and a half miles. they have three to four assets in the air and sea searching. the problem is that the coast guard admits, this is what they call a remote area. they're going to muster as many resources as they can and it includes commercial vessels. he was clear, as of right now while they're putting ...

short time ago, tropical storm brett forming in the atlantic. gin ginger zee tracking it all. new reports of letters, targeting lawmakers in kansas, now more than 100 letters found. federal law enforcement sources tell abc news postal inspectors intercepted letters addressed to former president trump and supreme court justice clarence thomas. the high stakes meeting in beijing, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken face to face with chinese president xi. the meeting was confirmed only one hour before it began. matt rivers in beijing. the war in ukraine, new images of grueling tr...

trailing donald trump here at home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday. i'm christine romans this morning. the u. s. has no embassy operating in sudan, a country on the brink of civil war president biden announcing the u. s diplomatic personnel and their families have been evacuated from sudan secretary of state antony blinken, adding that operations that the u. s embassy in khartoum have been temporarily suspended. cnn's sam kiley is reporting on the situation from djibouti for us and sam. how was the extraction of us personnel carried out...