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before this. but actually, the decision by secretary clinton was to allow them to shutter the embassy and the rest of the staff got out we re told in a convoy over land to jordan. now, the reason the u.s. is doing this, they say, is that the government has refused the syrian government has refused to address its security concerns. and what were they? well, the embassy in damascus is located right off on a very busy street. and the u.s. says there was concern after some car bombs last month that perhaps there could be the embassy could be a target of al qaeda. that bombing, by the way, was linked to al qaeda. so they decided to do this. but obviously there was a lot of concern about whether they could get out. so that staff includes as i said the remaining staff, 17 people, plus the ambassador are now out. kyra? and sort of a bit of a coins d dense here? this is right after syria and russia blocked the resolution calling for president assad to be removed from offic ....
and i know that they are deceased and they know they are at the temporary morgue so we are in the process of identifying those people as quickly as possible so they know that they re not unaccounted for. they know where they are. the number of dead reached 139 today. 105 people remain missing. president obama is set to visit joplin tomorrow for a memorial service. the president of poland hosting the president of the united states today in warsaw. president obama said countries in turmoil today can learn from poland s example. we discussed the issue of how jointly we can promote democracy. the session that i had this morning with democracy promotion experts including many founders of solidarity who recently traveled to tunisia to share their advice and assistance is just a symbol of why poland is so important. it has gone through what many countries want to know go through and has done so successfully. and so the president is flying back to the united states ri ....