or more us citizens, many of them dual nationals, sudanese americans. in sudan. what happens to them? as seven pointed out, there is no airlift or effort to get them out. but diodes considering a number of steps that would monitor their options out, which is overhead surveillance, maybe even setting up a deconfliction line with the factions there to try to get some sort of monitoring some sort of coverage in case the american citizens in sudan do decide to try to make their way out of the country. all right. cnn s oren liebermann over at the pentagon for us. thanks so much. let s go to the white house. cnn s kevin liptak. kevin president biden made this decision to evacuate us personnel. what s the white house saying about the operation? yeah well, president been monitoring this from up at camp david. that s where he s been spending the weekend and he has really over the last week or so have been trying to build the steps that we re leading up to this eventuality to this evacuation, in
exploit for any reason the russian said is very different. they re saying this mq-9 was operating and it lost power, lost altitude and it crashed and there was no actual collision. what we are hoping is we ll get some sort of vision confirmation that will give us an idea of which side s version of events is more related to the truth here, katy we don t know a couple of other things still number one, the pentagon is declining to say whether the mg 9 was armed at the time. they say it was on a routine surveillance mission it doesn t seem either side implied what s known as the deconfliction line that s intended to keep any kind of a conflict from occurring, to keep their airspace their aircraft from going in the same airspace and having a collision like this we don t yet know if that actually occurred. we do now know that the state department summoned russia s top
but it is really important that the diplomatic lines are still open at a low level. the mill-to-mill lines are extremely important because they serve as a deconfliction mechanism. if there s a miscommunication, without that immediate hotline, it only makes it more and more potentially dangerous when something is breaking. and even during the cold war, when we were covering the cold war, there were communications at the worst moments. right. on the hotline. think about over syria right now. the u.s. talks to russia on a deconfliction line so they can make sure their aircraft is not in the same area and there s no mistake or miscommunication. i wouldn t be surprised if the two membership do get together if that s something they discuss. courtney kube, thank you so much. it was courtney who first broke the story. we expect to hear from president biden as soon as today about the chinese spy balloon. the latest from our white house team next. we are live in munich at the security
bunkers in syria this morning, believed to house ammunition and hardware. u.s. officials said there are not believed to be any casualties and russia s military was warned minutes before the attack using a deconfliction line. the strike comes in the wake of rocket and drone attacks on american forces in the country earlier this month. a military official telling nbc news that the u.s. is certain iranian aligned groups were the source of those attacks. three months back to the shooting at robb elementary school and we could finally learn whether the uvalde school police chief will lose his job. we re going to look at what parents are demanding ahead of a critical meeting there tonight. we ll be right back. k. e other al y sprays take hours astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can. astepro and go.
maybe on the coastal regions far from that. let s get the reading now from the pentagon and jennifer griffin who is there. jennifer? vladimir putin s strategy is clear to those that have been watching it. he intends to take the entire country. his forces are coming in from three different axis and they re going to strangle these cities. we learned from a senior u.s. defense official that the department of defense established a deconfliction line with the russian ministry of defense march 1. he said for the purposes of preventing miscalculation and military incidents and escalation. we learned that 90% of russia s invading forces are in ukraine and the cities of kyiv, kharkiv are seeing the heaviest fighting. we re told there s no indication that the russians have had to tap into reinforcements. that 40-mile convoy that we talked so much about is still largely stalled across the north. russians have been trying to make progress on kyiv, but they