good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 30th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it is the back half of the weekend. my favorite day. make it yours? mine is saturday. really? sunday is my big family day. get to grill out and hang out and no wake-up time. make it count. here s what we re watching for you this morning. he is a threat to the community and we need the community s help to, hopefully, locate him soon. texas police and the fbi are looking for a man who allegedly killed five of his neighbors. the youngest victim just 8 years old. the simple request that led up to this shooting. private u.s. citizens trapped in sudan amid the conflict are out of the country. the evacuation coming amid growing anger from americans who felt abandoned by the u.s. government as the conflict broke out. how this convoy came together and what happens next. a tornado watch is in effect across parts of florida this morning a day aft
the latest on that case and why prosecutors are opting not to charge the shooter with a hate crime. plus, florida governor ron desantis making a personal bid to try and pry conservative lawmake areas way from donald trump. could today s event in d.c. break the dam and give other republicans the green light to defy the former president? and american reporter evan gersh gershkovich, denied bail this morning and ordered to stay in the same russian prison that specifically is designed to cut off inmates from the rest of the world. but we start in kansas city, and an extraordinary scene taking place just a short time ago. hundreds of students marching to declare their love and support for 16-year-old ralph yarl the teenager shot for simply going to the wrong house we love you, ralph. we love you, ralph we love you, ralph that march happening as members of yarl s family and their attorney are demanding accountability for 84-year-old andrew lester, the man accused of pulling t
systems underway in a delaware courtroom. with dominion seeking damages for repeated false claims about the 2020 election promoted by fox news guests and anchors on some of the network s highest rated shows. this hour, jailed american wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich losing his appeal of russia s baseless espionage charge, appearing in a glass box in a court for the first time since he was arrest nearly three weeks ago the u.s. ambassador at his side. president biden speaks to the unarmed black missouri teenager who was shot in the head by a homeowner after the boy mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers with the alleged 84-year-old homeowner, the shooter, now facing a potential life sentence. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington opening statements begin this afternoon in that $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news and fox corporation after jury instructions, do
i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we just heard the kind of conversations that a lot of us are having at our own dinner tables. bill maher talk to jake tapper about politics and race and cancel culture and wokeness. how do you define wokeness? because i hear people use the term all the time. and it means something different to everybody. well, again, i think it s this collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism, but very often undoing it. i mean, five years ago, abraham lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. we liked him. [laughter] now they take his name of schools and turned down his statues. really, lincoln is not good enough for you? are we all having conversations also where we accidentally step in it? and what conversations do we now feel uncomfortable having because we re afraid to get it wrong? so, our panel is going to tackle all that in just a moment. also, the supreme court hearing challenges to president biden s student
please. absolutely not, absolutely not. john: ah, absolutely not but the numbers tell a different story. have a look here. the president has held 23 news conferences since he took office and this time in his presidency, president trump had held 41, and obama had held 53. so, what gives with 23? sandra: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour on this monday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. and great to have you back. john: maybe channelling michael jordan with 23. joe concha has a theory. why hold a news conference when tiktok influencers can do the work for you. we ll talk to him how in the world the white house is spinning the press access as a good thing and the army of influencers pushing the president s lies. but first sandra: chaos on chicago streets after hundreds of rowdy teens flooded the downtown area over the weekend. police responding to reports of gunshots and scenes of juveniles smashing cars, blocking traffic and fighting i