of royalties on an ai colab using her voice. as we gauge on into the brave new world of music. steve patterson, nbc news, los angeles. another career for you, steve. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports, let s get right to it. at this hour, the next potential candidate to take on former president trump is hinting that he s getting ready to jump into the 2024 race. we ll tell you when that announcement could come. plus, escaping war torn sudan, armed at u.s. drones helped escort hundreds of americans on a 500 mile journey over the weekend to a key port city after having to flee the country and fierce fighting. and zero leads a massive man hunt is underway in texas to find the suspect responsible for a mass shooting that left five dead including a 9-year-old boy. where that investigation stands now. plus, slow moving disaster, the mississippi river is set to crest today as homes are already seeing serious flooding across iowa and illinois
from msnbc s headquarters here in new york. alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news in texas. a man hunt intensifying at this hour for a gunman suspected of carrying out a deadly mass shooting against his neighbors. five people, including an eight-year-old were killed overnight in a home in cleveland. that is a city just north of houston. according to priscilla thompson, who is on the scene for us there. priscilla, welcome, what are you learning at this tragic hour? yeah,, alex police are now naming this murder in this case. identifying him as 38-year-old, francisco or up hazza. police say he is a mexican national and is being charged with five counts of murder and police say he is two miles from here and have established a perimeter and are using dogs and officers on horseback and drones that are working to track him in order to locate him. the sheriff is saying that he hopes to have the suspect in custody within the next couple of oropeza hours, and this informatio
dangerous traveling alone or in a very small group of people. so unless that situation changes, they re pretty much on their own up until port sudan. when they get to port sudan. then the u.s. has told them that they could possibly get on to commercial vessels, which will take them to the port in saudi arabia. they re a long way off from that. we know that before this latest wave of evacuations, there were around 16,000 in sudan. most of them in the state department said a fraction had expressed interest in leaving. of course the u.s. had come under a lot of criticism, embassy staff, and elite seal commander mission, basically telling the thousands of others left there on their own. that s the situation for the people currently there. ali arouzi, thank you.
estimated 16,000 americans believed to be in sudan before this latest wave of evacuations. most of them are due nationals, according to the state department. only a fraction of them express the desire to leave. what we do know now is that land, sea and air evacuations of hundreds of american civilians from sedan is underway, according to the state department. it is this initial stage were traveling, in a convoy of hard bosses head into the red sea before being taken out of the war torn country. the u.s. is offering a logistical support for some of these evacuations, but they still have to navigate a lengthy and treacherous journey. different countries have taken dramatically different approaches to getting the citizens out of sudan, and the u.s. has come under scrutiny for 17 embassy staff in an elite seal commanders were warning thousands of u.s. citizens there will be no similar evacuations for them. in recent days, the scale of the fighting has declined with
we re following new developments in the controversy over a former navy s.e.a.l. platoon leader ed die gallagher. his case drew the attention of the president as he was tried and acquitted of murdering an isis fighter. videos obtained by the new york times shed light on his fellow s.e.a.l.s accusations against him. barbara starr reports. we need to warn you her report contains some disturbing images. reporter: members of s.e.a.l. team 7 alpha platoon broke their own code of silence in 2018 with their opinions about retired special operations chief ed die gallagher and some making accusations that the elite s.e.a.l. committed murder and potential war crimes. reporter: these are portions of recorded navy s.e.a.l. interviews published by the new york times, where team members them investigators their views on the platoon leader. gallagher was acquitted of premeditated murder when a key