Terror Threat Forces US to Evacuate Staff from Yemen
US military forces have evacuated non-essential US embassy personnel and their families from Yemen. And the State Department is urging all Americans to leave Yemen because of an elevated risk of a terrorist attack there. Anchor Aaron Schachter gets the latest from McClatchy reporter Adam Baron, who is in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.
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