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everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield and we begin with a dramatic evacuation of u. s. government personnel and their families from sudan president biden confirming the operation overnight more than 100. special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the decision to evacuate came after a week of heavy fighting between rival military factions that left more than 400 dead and thousands injured. we've got full coverage with kylie atwood at the state department, kevin liptak at the white house. kylie let's begin with you. this was a big operat...

than an hour on the ground they were able to plug some 17 plus embassy staff and their families , plus a small number of foreign nationals, the state department said out of the country and then flying them back, at least to eat the opiate now there were no contacts with any kind of violence in that operation. there have been some unconfirmed reports that it almost simultaneously. almost simultaneously. a french evacuation effort may have come under fire, but that has been unconfirmed at this stage of british special forces and the french special forces evacuated some 100 plus people ...

Courtroom thursday formally charged with aiding and abetting murder. Prosecutors upgraded third degree murder to Second Degree felony murder. Praise god oh, praise god praise god not far from the courtroom an emotional Memorial Service for george floyd. At one point they stood in silence, 8 minutes 46 seconds. In the days since floyd died protests have been held around the world and now a curfew in washington, d. C. , has been lifted. Theyre keeping protestors, reporters and everyone else blocks away from the peoples house. George floiyd the man was honored. The service had wellknown public fi...

Operations at the us embassy in sudan. but our commitment to the sudanese people and the future they want for themselves is unending now. the president also said that he was receiving regular updates on these efforts to assist american citizens who may remain behind in khartoum. of course, there won't be that large scale military evacuation , but the president does want to keep updated on what steps are being taken to potentially get those citizens out. going forward. fredricka alright, because that is a big number. i didn't realize until sam carly mentioned 19,000 americans who are there? not...

I mean, the state department has evacuation plans for its embassies around the world, but what we saw over the course of the last few days, fred was the u. s military in the state department working together to actually put the pieces into place to carry out this evacuation. earlier in the week , one of the top state department officials told congress that the situation on the ground was just too violent for them to carry out this evacuation. but of course, with the approval of the secretary of state and president biden on saturday night, they went ahead. and with this operation, it was quick....