good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday. april 22nd. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your day with us. we re creeping towards may i just realized i didn t just realize that hopefully my husband s not up yet. it s our 11 year anniversary second. i mean, it was our anniversary six am not six p.m. so you re good. you re good. not too late. what we re watching for you today a major victory for abortion rights supporters after the supreme court, hands down a decision to protect a widely used abortion pill, but the battle is not over. so where does the legal fight go now? fierce fighting in sudan despite a 72 hour ceasefire now, u. s officials say preparations are being made in case diplomatic personnel need to be evacuated. we will have a live report next. and a cnn exclusive. lawyers for hunter biden set to meet with the department of justice next week as scrutiny around a longstanding investigation intensif
reelection campaign and just days plus the supreme court on the clock with a ruling do on abortion pills before midnight tonight, and alec baldwin off the hook as prosecutors dropped the charges in his movie set shooting, but that doesn t mean the case is over. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday. we did it, everybody we are here. i m omar jimenez in for christine romans. just because it s friday, though, doesn t mean the news has taken the day off. so let s get to it. we begin with president biden said to make a 2024 election bid official he s been hinting at it for a while. but now four sources are telling cnn that he will formally announced his bid for a second term with a campaign style video as soon as next tuesday. the timing could still change pending on foreseen events, which is typical in that job. but one senior democratic official telling cnn, it is no longer helpful or necessary to avoid stating the obvious that he s runn
their own city overnight. a russian warplane targets the wrong side of the border, damaging buildings and leaving a 130 ft crater in its wake what the russian defense ministry is now saying and in court today, three men charged in connection with a white nationalist rally in charlottesville will appear before a judge and cnn is live outside the court. new this morning, deeply disturbing details about the kentucky bank shooter from notes he himself wrote police now piecing together his motive for the massacre were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. new overnight. a large blast rocked a russian city near the ukrainian border, and they did it to themselves. you can see it right here as one of russia s own planes targets its own city firing into that city, russia state news agency says a russian jet dropped the bomb during a mid air emergency over the city of belgorod. you can see that city is over the border from
right here to cnn. new central. happening soon in charlottesville, two of these three men who carried tiki torches and march nearly six years ago at a white nationalist rally are scheduled to appear in court today. each has been indicted on a single felony charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. 2017 rally ultimately led to violent clashes with counter protesters in 32 year old heather higher, lost her life. cnn s brian todd is in charlottesville. brian i understand there are some new developments, what s going on there? well john. the hearing is slightly delayed because there s another unrelated hearing going on in this court behind me, but in a few minutes we do expect this hearing to take place where two of the three defendants in this case are expected to appear to set the scene for our viewers. we have to kind of differentiate this. these defendants are charged in the case that s related to that