good morning. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m victor blackwell. admiral walker. thank you so much for being with us this morning. it is sunday friday and we are excited. here are some stories that we are following for you as fighting intensifies in sudan, american diplomats and their families are now safely out of the country after an overnight operation. we re going to have the latest from our team of reporters. the race for president potential and current republican presidential candidates are in iowa. how would the latest supreme court ruling on abortion and the divide inside the party play. with evangelical and anti abortion voters, and overnight there was a new round of missile strikes in ukraine. it comes as a battle for bach mood intensifies. we re going to have the latest on that conflict major warning from airline experts tsunami of upcoming retirement could lead to more pilot shortages what could that mean for airline safety? american diplomats and th
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everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with a dramatic evacuation of u. s. government personnel and their families from sudan president biden confirming the operation overnight more than 100. special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the decision to evacuate came after a week of heavy fighting between rival military factions that left more than 400 dead and thousands injured. we ve got full coverage with kylie atwood at the state department, kevin liptak at the white house. kylie let s begin with you. this was a big operation. i mean what was happening behind the scenes at the state department and what provoked this decision. major operation and what you have to understand with embassies like this that are in areas where conflict can arise is that the state department has plans for these evacuations. but then they have to go back and look at these plans in a very detailed way, and that s what state department offic
our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church just ahead. a grieving nashville community left asking why it s a question. investigators are working to answer as they comb through ominous writings left by a school shooter. terrifying video shows the moment of fire ripped through a migrant detention center on the mexico us border, killing dozens of people and an extraordinary moment as former vice president mike pence, is ordered to testify before a federal grand jury investigating former president donald trump. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us well, nashville, tennessee is planning a citywide candlelight vigil tonight for the three children and three adults killed in monday s school shooting. there s already a growing memorial of flowers, balloons and crosses outside the covenant school. nashville mayor john cooper says the city has set up a fu
morning. it is april 15th. i m victor blackwell. merrill walker. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. um how s it going? move here . you know what i have in my mind right now is when we re getting that invite to your place once your bar is all built out, is being built out. the bottles have not yet arrived from storage. but it s coming. it s coming. haven t arrived yet. no invitation just come and look at the shelves. okay it s coming. sure i m sure the shelves are beautiful. here s what we re watching this morning. this is not just about taking home documents. a 21 year old air man charged in connection with the leak of classified documents appeared in front of a federal judge friday . what we re learning about him and the questions being raised about who should have access to classified information. president biden is weighing in on the supreme court s decision to temporarily extend access to an abortion drug while it considers the case the next steps in