good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for sharing your morning with us the back half of the weekend. easy start to the sunday smile is so big this morning. i m feeling good. i m feeling good. here s what we re watching for you this morning. special operation forces evacuated american personnel from the u. s embassy during heavy fighting and clashes in sudan. now u. s officials are trying to figure out ways to help private american citizens as the crisis intensifies. a team of cnn reporters will have the latest showdown takes shape and washington house speaker mccarthy scrambles to unite his party on a debt ceiling plan. can you get the votes to avoid a financial crisis and will president biden and mccarthy be able to see i to ii before time runs out, plus a wake up call. a new study reveals an alarming number of teams admit to abusing 80 hd medications. what s behind the rise and what you can do to protect yo
i m jim acosta in washington will be in this hour of americans caught up in the escalating crisis in sudan. just minutes ago, the u. s state department announced it will carry out a military assisted evacuation of government personnel if the crisis worsens . in the past week, more than 400 people have died since two rival generals first lead their forces into a battle for control of the country. that death toll includes at least one american. both sudan s army and its paramilitary rival. the rsf say they will help evacuate for nationals. the u. s is making preparations to get diplomatic personnel right out right now. but the white house says private citizens should not expect and evacuation. we have correspondents in the military expert here to help us tackle all of the angles of the story. let s begin with cnn s larry meadow, a live in nairobi, kenya. larry. i know things are very fluid at the moment. but what s the latest on these evacuations? jim right now there s evacuati
reelection campaign and just days plus the supreme court on the clock with a ruling do on abortion pills before midnight tonight, and alec baldwin off the hook as prosecutors dropped the charges in his movie set shooting, but that doesn t mean the case is over. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday. we did it, everybody we are here. i m omar jimenez in for christine romans. just because it s friday, though, doesn t mean the news has taken the day off. so let s get to it. we begin with president biden said to make a 2024 election bid official he s been hinting at it for a while. but now four sources are telling cnn that he will formally announced his bid for a second term with a campaign style video as soon as next tuesday. the timing could still change pending on foreseen events, which is typical in that job. but one senior democratic official telling cnn, it is no longer helpful or necessary to avoid stating the obvious that he s runn
he may have tipped his hand here. 60% of the european union is under a drought warning. we are in the heart of it but you can see it s far from extinguished. it s monday, august 15th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, and 12:30 p.m. in kabul where one year ago today the taliban seized control of the afghan capital. human rights have warned that millions are living under dire conditions. now cnn has obtained a copy of the scathing report on the withdrawal from the republicans. it said that president biden did not portray the events on the ground and failed to put a plan in place. republicans have relied on information from whistle-blowers, people living in kabul since the recall, and fact finding reports since the biden administration did not take part. it described inadequate numbers of u.s. personnel to handle the crowds and part of the planning got started in june and only a quarter of those evacuated were women and girls. over the past year, the
perspective, the intelligence since preparation of the battle spaces we call it in. the military is very, very extensive for something like this. and as larry was pointing out all the different factions that are involved in the sudanese war for the sudanese conflict right now , those factions have to be dealt with in sometimes you need to bring foreign third country actors into the like countries like saudi arabia and get the oh, pia to help with those kinds of things, so it becomes a very intricate dance. it requires great deal of planning that sometimes takes months. yeah history often remembers the extractions that do not go well or end with death as we saw, most recently in afghanistan with those 13 service members who were killed, but this one was, as they said, fast and clean, so we should highlight that as well as it relates to the american civilians who are still there. do you believe that? this is a tenable position for the us to say? there is no plan to create some mission or