scares. right here on cnn news central. right now, desperation is growing as tens of thousands of people are trying to escape the violence that is unfolding and escalating in sudan. over the last 24 hours, a mass evacuation has been picking up speed and urgency. u.s. officials have confirmed all of the u.s. personnel have been evacuated on president biden s order, u.s. special ops flew into the capital city and the troops were on the ground less than ong nearly 100 u.s. diplomats and staff and family members out. now, at this hour, roughly 16,000 americans remain in sudan and most of them holding dual citizenship, and now at this hour, tony blinken is speaking about the crisis for first time since this u.s. evacuation. listen to this. on saturday, i directed the temporary suspension of operations at khartoum, and we conducted a successful operation to safely evacuate u.s. personnel and their dependents. i want to reiterate my appreciate for ambassador john godfrey and t
from their embassy in khartoum, the capital of the sudan, but very close on their heels the french forces and the british forces, and indeed, the british were taken in with the americans, and this aircraft has been used twice local officials are telling us as part of the shuttle operation of what the french are saying close to 500 people they have been able to evacuate and not just the diplomats, but it is the united kingdom and the united states who have been criticized for just evacuating the embassies and the french have been going longer with one more cycle, and just beyond the aircraft, the ethiopian airliner landed in the last half hour, and they say that there is only one airstrip here at this airport, and they are running the entire operation all of the air traffic control, and they are insisting it is a
form so far. if you don t, expect a visit from one of 600,000 official government headcounters. and the crew of the space shuttle discovery has started the pre-prelaunch shuttle operation. they are headed for the international space station to deliver some science equipment and make some replays. jay leno launched back into late night exactly a month ago today. programs you heard there was some kind of kerfuffle with conan o brien. joy behar was leno s guest on the tonight show and as she was getting backstage, he poped by for a chat. so miss behar got right down to business. do you feel bad? i got screwed. this is tv. the reason show business pays a lot of money, when you get screwed, you have something left over. if you re a nurls ornurls or a p and you are screwed out of your pension, you are screwed out of your pension.