hugging it out. good morning, everyone! that was a hollywood ending for rexham and the team s owners. after years of struggling, the welsh soccer club has achieved its dream of a major promotion. look at that. tears. wow, wow, congratulations to them. we ll talk more about that. plus, president biden set to name a campaign manager as he prepares to run for re-election, but new polls are showing that many americans are not excited about a trump/biden rematch. also, the faa is investigating after engines caught fire on two different american airlines planes. but we re going to start in sudan this morning, where the u.s. has now launched a daring rescue operation to evacuate americans from the war zone. the pentagon says that special ops forces blew into flew into the war-torn sudanese capital and helicopters to pick up u.s. diplomats and their families. we re told the mission was fast, it was clean, and u.s. troops were on the ground for less than an hour. here s a ph
here s a photo of secretary of state anthony blinken, tensely monitoring evacuation as it was underway on saturday. the u.s. and several other nations have been scrambling to evacuate their citizens, as country and the fighting has raged between two rival military factions. blinken says that all u.s. personnel have been safely evacuated, but there are still an estimated 16,000 americans who live in sudan, most of them dual nationals. cnn s senior international correspondent, sam kiley is live where the rescue operation was launched. sam, obviously, there s a lot of questions about how this actually went down, what this looked like on saturday, but also what it means, that these countries including the u.s. are now making this decision to get people out. reporter: well, kaitlan, i think what it means is that the ongoing violence, and it is escalating very rapidly, not just in khartoum, but elsewhere in the country, has made life unlivable for members of the international community. th