american citizens from the war zone. why are other nations right now successfully evacuating their own citizens by the hundreds. sandra: one of the major questions as the pentagon readies for a briefing. picture is up, podium is there, we are waiting for the briefing, and take the news off the top. navy seals pulling off an evacuation of the embassy workers and families but hundreds of americans are still there at this hour as the deadly fighting gets closer and closer. john: we will see if the pentagon has a message today for those folks. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. starting off a new week, sandra. sandra: right on into it, john. a lot of people think of war the moment they hear sudan but bloody battles in the past have never been like this. all right, so you are looking live in sudan, thousands of americans have been left behind and this makes the pentagon briefing that we are waiting any moment now key,
in. sorry the segment was moved up. we are all here. good news. what we should be doing. john: sandra. sandra: as we await to hear more from the pentagon good getting those americans out of sudan, a live pentagon briefing we are going to dip in at the top and the news, listen. potential land routes out of sudan and detect threats and positioning naval assets off the coast of sudan should they be needed. in addition, africa command has established a deconflict cell in germany, good communication among allies and partners. secretary austin continues meetings on the officials in sudan and the state department ongoing efforts. department continues to actively conduct the sent of defense directed comprehensive review of dod security programs, policies and procedures in the wake of recent unauthorized disclosure of documents. toward that end, the dod chief