cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the escalating crisis in sudan and the emergency evacuation of u. s government personnel and their families about 100. us special operations forces carried out the overnight mission today. the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and a rival paramilitary group more than 400. people have been killed, including one american state department estimates estimates there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, our correspondents, our position here and around the world to bring you all the angles of this developing story. let s begin with cnn s am kylie live from djibouti. sam djibouti s international airport is struggling to keep up with the sudden increase in flight volume. do this mass exodus from sudan. what more can you tell us about that? well, jim, it s not only the pressure, they say local off
they re spying on us. they re doing this purposefully and the president should have been much stronger in his response to this. all right. a live at the nation s capitol where in just a few hours, the president will be delivering his state of the union address but will the china spy flight overshadow the big speech. we re all over it with jared burn steen on the president s economic message tonight. the senate minority whip john thune on what republicans want to hear. ben car den on if the china spy balloon is threatening to inflate that message. and cry sununu on what he thinks of the state of the union. i think it s going to be a big night. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon and the china thing with jennifer griffin. there may be a simply inflammation why trump administration officials say they were never told about previous spy balloons that crossed over u.s. airspace. they saw multiple conversations trying to get
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is being made when they aren t feeling or seeing it? one thing that could help, the billions set to be spent on fixing our nation s infrastructure. transportation secretary pete buttigieg will join me live later in the hour to explain when people might actually see those changes in their own communities. and the latest on the staggering scope of destruction after the earthquakes that flattened parts of turkey and syria. moments ago, the death toll was raised to 6,376. with temperatures dropping and search and rescue efforts stretched to the limit, i ll talk to one expert who thinks the death toll could grow significantly. but we start with arguably the biggest speech of joe biden s political life now just a few hours away. a huge opportunity to frame his vision and the agenda for the next two years even beyond in front of what is likely to be the biggest tv audience he ll see all year. the task is a big one, persuade a divided congress and country to embrace unity, and conv