brought to you by skechers slip ins. everybody hates the taking off and putting on your shoes nightmare at the airport. but now there s an easier way without bending down or looking for a place to sit machine washable hands free sketcher slip ins. you re back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington. we begin with the crisis in sudan about 100. americans are safe this evening after being rescued from a war zone and a daring mission. thousands remain behind us. special operations forces personnel carried out the emergency evacuation of u. s. government employees and their families earlier this morning. today the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed, at least temporarily. the decision to evacuate us personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and rival paramilitary group. more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, and there a
Significant development this evening. We heard from the Israel Defence forces spokesperson making a significant announcement, twofold, first, that the Ground Forces are expanding their operations tonight. Secondly Erica Intensification Of Airstrikes from israel into gaza. We have a number of live feeds, live cameras, pictures coming into us here at the building, there are three of them, lets start with this one. The darkness of gaza, you will know that fuel is in such short suppty, know that fuel is in such short supply, electricity, power, the light effectively there coming from the explosions of the strikes. Over the explosions of the strikes. Over the last couple of hours we have seen a real intensification of these airstrikes. With that comes things like a lack of communications in gaza. Weve heard from the head of the World Health Organization saying he has lost touch with his team, communications are down there in gaza. Next, lets go to the United Nations in new york, a significa
And baking his way through the impressive repertoire of the new 28 my colleague. Ingenuity behind the hungary and potato project. On may 2nd 2900 marked 500 years since the death of Leonardo Da Vinci and the italian renaissance master who spent the last 3 years of his life in the french war valley as 1st painter engineer and architect to the french king well this is why the louvre holds almost a 3rd of the paintings attributed to him including of course the famous one elisa and its pulled out all the stops to get as many more on site as possible for this exhibition a task almost as more new mental as devon shes genius. The mona lisa is still the star of the louvre but on the 500th anniversary of The Old Masters death she is getting a lot of competition from a separate exhibition the curators have moved mountains together the most important
vincis for this. 2 is over the da vincis works are spread around the globe they only see them as absolute treasures and are reluctant to let them go
brain choose new areva plus, unlike some others, areva plus is a multitasker supporting six key indicators of brain health. keep me sharp, areva think bigger. most powerful rocket ever built, did not travel very far. spacex s starship blasted off its launch pad in south texas on thursday. soaring 24.2 miles over the gulf of mexico. but about four minutes into its first test flight, the rocket exploded, according to spacex. some of the rockets 33 engines failed and the rocket lost altitude and began to tumble, causing the flight termination system to trigger a mid air explosions. spacex says the teams will now review the data for the next test flight and retired astronaut with nasa and former international space station commander leroy chow joins me now, commander. thanks so much for being with us. we really appreciate it, i guess. what did you think of what took place there? musk and spacex.