anderson cooper tomorrow at eight on cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in the african country of sudan , where thousands of americans are caught up in an escalating crisis. the u. s. state department has announced it will carry out a military assisted evacuation of government personnel if the crisis worsens. in the past week, more than 400 people have died since two rival generals first lead their forces into a battle for control of the country. that death toll includes at least one american, both sudan s army and its paramilitary rival. or s f say they will. help evacuate foreign nationals. in fact, minutes ago, the rsf commander says he has talked to us officials and pledged his assistance. when it comes to evacuating americans. the u. s is making preparations . we understand to get diplomatic personnel out right now, but the white house says private citizens should not expect any evacuation and cnn s larry meadow has the la
we are going to start with kenya in this hour. police in the capital nairobi have shot dead at least five people taking part in huge demonstrations against planned tax increases. crowds broke through police cordons and entered the city s parliament buildings, setting part of the complex alight. for several hours, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as thousands of protesters marched through the streets. about a0 people are being treated in hospital. our correspondent merchuma is following developments from nairobi and has the latest. this is the accident and emergency unit at the kenyatta national hospital here in nairobi, the biggest referral facility in the county and country. and the whole day, the medics here have been on standby to receive casualties from the protests that have been happening in town. initially, there were two other medical camps set closer to the central business district, with volunteer medical personnel taking care of the injured people, giving t
moore, the detroit lions and shaka tony of the washington commanders are facing an indefinite suspension. shortly after the nfl s announcement. the lions released cephas and more from their contracts to additional lions players. stanley berryhill and jamison williams are suspended for the team s first six games of the season. and let s talk now with the former nfl linebacker chad brown. he joins us now he played more than a dozen seasons with new england, seattle and pittsburgh. chad great to see you. what do you think about this gambling situation? does the does the league have a problem with this? is that what we re starting to see emerge? we are beginning to see the beginnings of a problem for the league when the league decided to make relationships and partners with sports books, they knew the slippery slope was going to be there, so there was a player suspended last year for the entire season. now we have the news of this washington commander player and troy lion players, but ther
wired. that s okay because there s lots of news this morning. up first this morning, heads about to roll. at jp morgan chase. according to bloomberg, the firm s entire london staff could be dismissed. the banking giant also expected to accept the resignation of this woman, ina drew. pulling down a salary of over $15 million a year. drew and two other company executives being held accountable for a stunning $2 billion loss. ceo jamie dimon doing damage control on sunday talk shows is. it was a stupid thing that, you know, we should never have done but we re still going to earn a lot of money this quarter. it isn t like this company is jeopardized. we hurt ourselves and credibility, yes, that we have to fully expect and pay the price for that. christine romans is here with us this morning. how much worse is this going to get? i know we were hearing about billion dollar loss, they re going to weather it. the big question is why should we care. the real damage here is f