News Wrap: U.S. evacuates more private citizens from Sudan clashes

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• John Yang:

  Good evening, I'm John Yang. The departure of private American citizens from Sudan move forward today. The State Department says a second bus convoy organized by the U.S. government has arrived safely in Port Sudan from Khartoum that brings the total number of evacuated U.S. citizens to nearly 1,000 fewer than 5,000 others remain and are asking for help to leave.

  There are reports that the U.S. Navy fast transport ship Brunswick is in Port Sudan, likely to ferry American citizens to Jeddah Saudi Arabia. That's been the destination for thousands foreign nationals from other countries.

  Cell phone video shows a crush of people at Port Sudan trying to get Saudi visas and to dance northern border Saturday, satellite imagery shows buses lined up waiting to enter Egypt for this Pakistani man at Port Sudan a sense of relief and sadness.

• Mohammed Ali, Evacuee:

  I left everything my house, my car, my everything. My all the same of 13 years I'm living here.

• Man:

  How do you feel?

• Mohammed Ali:

  Just to save my life, I'm happy

• John Yang:

  This afternoon amid a shaky ceasefire in Sudan. The United Nations said the humanitarian situation there is reaching a breaking point.

  General Mills is recalling some flour products nationwide after discovering salmonella in some samples. The company is recalling two, five and 10 pound bags of gold metal bleached and unbleached all-purpose flour with a Best Buy date of March 2020.

  The FDA and CDC having said whether this is connected to a multistate salmonella outbreak last month.

  The U.S. Army has identified the three soldiers killed in Thursday's Apache helicopter collided in Alaska. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Robert Aramco, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle McKenna, and Warrant Officer Stewart Dwayne Wayment, were returning from a training mission when the incident occurred. A fourth soldier injured in the crash is hospitalized and in stable condition.

  It was the latest in a string of recent accidents that led the army to ground all non-critical air operations for safety training.

  And President Biden used an annual Black Tie gathering of journalists last night to acknowledge their colleagues who have been unjustly imprisoned abroad. He cited Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter in a Russian prison since March, and Austin Tice who disappeared in Syria in 2012.

• Joe Biden, U.S. President:

  Our message is this journalism is not a crime. Evan and Austin should be released immediately, along with every other American held hostage are wrongfully detained abroad.

• John Yang:

  Mr. Biden also acknowledged Marine Corps veteran Paul Whelan who's been in a Russian prison since 2018.

  Still to come on "PBS News Weekend," the understudy and under treatment of menopause and elevating the worth of female and non-binary photographers.