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
she watched two of them die. they died in front of her. i got my daughter and she s alive. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. we begin with quite an update from mexico. two americans are dead this morning. two are alive though. they are back on u.s. soil after those four were kidnapped at gun point in mexico. we ll break down where they were found and what we re learning about the man who has been detained. later, the family of one of the survivors will also join us. more exposure for fox news. a trove of private text messages and e-mails have been revealed as part of a lawsuit against the network. what tucker carlson said about donald trump leading up to the january 6 attack on the capitol. also, a bipartisan group of senators are now trying to give president biden more power to ban tiktok in the u.s. cnn this morning starts right now. we gun with that deadly cud nap kidnapping of four americans in mexico. two of them have been found dead. the two
overtime. the heat had a two point lead in the extra period. and with time winding down, bucks didn t get a shot off. just a stunner in this one as miami wins it in five. listen to what janiceuary giann when asked if he thinks this season with was a failure for the bucks? do you get a promotion every year? no. so you work hard. yes or no? no. every year you work, you work towards something, towards a goal. and i did which is to get a promotion, to be able to take care of your family, to able i don t know, provide the house for them or take care of your parents. you work towards a goal. its no the failure. it s steps to success. so strong words there from giannis. heat now going to face the knicks in round number two. the knicks winning a series for just the second time in 23 years. much fans pretty excited there in manhattan. oh, yeah. going to be epic. caitlyn is excited. poppy is also excited. cnn this morning continues right now. thanks, andy. the nationa
good morning. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. this morning mexican authorities have just finished autopsies, sadly, on two americans killed in mexico, now their families are waiting for answers with just how this happened when a group of four friends were kidnapped just across the southern border, two survivors are now recovering in a hospital in texas. ahead, what we re learning about their ordeal, the effort to bring them home and broader law enforcement issues in mexico. plus right now lawmakers are gathering for a hearing on the origins of the covid-19 pandemic as the department of energy says they have low confidence in the lab leak theory. plus five texas women filing a landmark lawsuit to challenge that state s abortion laws, saying those bans nearly killed them, but the lawsuit isn t asking to overturn the law. what they are seeking, you re going to hear directly from one of the women about the impact of that law. we will get to all of that this morning, bu
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. i m jim acosta in the cnn newsroom. ukraine is entering the brutal fight against russia as the troops rolled across the border into ukrainian cities. many, especially those in russia, thought it would be swift and ukraine would fall quickly. but ukraine had other plans. they have surprised the world with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price as it is estimated at least 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began. many wonder how long kyiv can continue to hold on in the face of so much russian aggression. days after his historic visit to ukraine, president joe biden spoke with abc news about how he sees the war progressing at this point and what he thinks about the idea of a negotiated settlement. nothing about ukraine without ukraine west won t dictate to