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appears to be an banded presidential palace. -- an abandoned presidential palace. at this afternoon's briefing a question on deteriorating conditions gave a white house spokesman pause. >> we continue to be concerned about the violence and chaos that we see in yemen right now. the -- we continue -- u.s. military continues to support the efforts of saudi arabia and some of their partners in the region to try to address the security situation along their border. >> reporter: separately with several hundred americans, dual citizens with yemeni passports stranded in the country. a new website you see here called stuckinyemen.com is offering to help them. it says the u.s. government has a responsibility to protect americans in foreign countries but abandoned them in february when the u.s. embassy was shut down. today the state department said that they had issued ample warnings to americans to leave and in many respects the blame was on them. stuart? >> catherine, thank you. chaos in yemen.