everyone. it is tuesday, april 25th. welcome to cnn this morning. we re so glad you re with us. we do begin, though, with news about this show. as you may have heard yesterday, cnn parted ways with anchor don lemon. a statement, chris licht thanked don for his contributions over the 17 years. writing in part, don will forever be a part of the cnn family. we wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future ende endeavors. he was one of the first anchors to have me on his show. that s something i ll obviously never forget. we wish him the best. we certainly do. don was one of my first friends at cnn. i m so thankful to worked alongside him and for his support for nearly 15 years here and i wish him all good things ahead. we re really proud of this show. we re so proud of the dedicated team that works around the clock to bring you the news every morning and our priority is you, the viewer. we re grateful you welcome us into your home each morning. absolutely. of c
the window and goes! one of the all-time great lebron performances. 22 points, 20 rebounds and 7 assists. miami has won it and goes up three games to one! jimmy butler with the fourth most individual points in playoff game history. you denied it before. playoff jimmy, are you ready to it s not a thing. it s not. i just be hooping. good morning, everyone. especially to jimmy butler, unreal performance by him. i just couldn t even bereave that. but also that is not the breaking news this morning. we do have real breaking news this morning. as president biden is officially announcing he is running for re-election. the president launched his campaign with a video that took aim at republicans over abortion, social security and culture wars. around the country maga extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms. cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes from the very wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women ca
there are americans in sudan who want to leave but are they stuck? the lead starts right now. as the violence erupts in sudan, the u.s. and other nations evacuate their embassies, but what about other americans on the ground? ahead, i ll speak with a top house republican about the biden administration s response so far. plus, fired then hired. a kentucky sheriff s office explains why it hired the cop who killed brianna taylor. that cop s attorney is speaking out to cnn. and planes on fire, others hit by birds. what is going on with the airline industry? transportation secretary pete buttigieg is here. we have a lot of questions for him. welcome to the lead i m pamela brown in for jake taper, and we start today with our world lead. the white house says it is actively working to get americans out of sudan as a bloody conflict between two rivals turns even deadlier. they are using intelligence and surveillance tools to help national convoys of cars get to the port in sudan w
over biden and trump, why are so few of them backing anyone else? halfway across the world, the nation of sudan is careening toward a full-blown civil war. secretary of state antony blinken says dozens of americans have contacted his department trying to get out. that may be just a fraction of the thousands of americans still trapped there. we re following breaking news. two of the best-known media personalities at fox news and cnn, tucker carlson and don lemon are out. what we know about their departures but we start with all this new polling. the numbers showing that americans essentially are gritting their teeth over what s shaping up to be a $2 billion presidential rematch the vast majority of voters say they simply don t want joe biden or donald trump. both men are less popular than they were the first time they ran against each other with biden s announcement expected anyway, framing the election as the battle for the soul of the nation just as he did back in 2020 he en
$4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive damages of $750,000 per plaintiff. so it seems he won t be forced to fork over quite that much yet. he s still facing two more defamation trials, and one of them is in connecticut. but it appears the jury did listen to this plea from the attorney for the sandy hook family. we ask that you send a very, very simple message. and that is stop alex jones. stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. estimated to the jury that jones may have a net worth as much $270 million but has been trying to hid his wealth with personal loans and shell companies. now, jones said at trial he faced financial ruin if there was an award of more than $2 million. more lies on top of lies, perhaps? the mother of 6-year-old jesse lewis who was kill