a us citizen has been killed in sudan, hasn t given any more information about that, but it has intensified efforts to try and figure out how to get its people out, saying that it s been too dangerous so far to do so. but checking into all of the options, the airport in khartoum is closed. so if the americans were to try to attempt an air evacuation, they would have to find a secure land base somewhere in in or near khartoum. the other option would be over land so they could possibly drive their people to port sudan on the red sea. but that s a 12 hour trip and not secure, to say the least. they could possibly try to drive to the nearest country, which is which is eritrea. but the leader of eritrea is not friendly to the us. , not friendly to the west in general, actually. so in the meantime, the americans have been gathering their personnel from their homes and bringing them to a secure, centralised spot so that they could be prepared to evacuate
once and shoot it down. think of the cost of losing faith around the world. and now the president wants to have a huge task force that we re going to talk about all these balloons? what they can t do at the white house is explain the contradiction of allowing the chinese spy craft that they tracked from the island all the way across compared to these balloons. and i think that you re right. they got pushed into it because jesse: after afghanistan, which was the greatest air evacuation ever. dana: don t forget it. jesse: and then this assault on this hobby club, i think our enemies around the world and our allies are probably, probably on notice. dana: don t forget the biggest airlift of baby formula as well in order to help make sure that all of america s babies could eat. jesse: all right. listen, if you are planning any sort of gender reveal party and the balloons are going up, be careful. dana: $1.6 million. jesse: just money. dana: for the three that went down.
mikhail gorbachev, 91 years old. saying farewell to a former leader and a consequential chapter of history tonight. back here at home and the one-year anniversary of the end of the u.s. war in afghanistan, ending with the largest air evacuation of civilians in u.s. history. people flown out. defense secretary lloyd austin sending a message to u.s. forces, saying that, quote, although the afghanistan war has ended, our gratitude to those who served never will. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight. a six-year manhunt ends with the capture of one of the fbi s most wanted. a former marine and where they found him. and the dramatic rescue at this hour of two hikers in florida, you ll see the images.
Despite spending big on helicopters to facilitate injured Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel during operations in Naxal areas, a struggle persists for air evacuations.
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