today with a deadly mass shooting in alabama. it happened last night in the small town of david ville. officials say four people were killed, and there were also quote a multitude of injuries. they say the incident was tied to a birthday party that coming from police and it happened downtown cnn s isabelle rose salas is following the latest developments, and she s joining me right now from dade ville. isabelle, what are you learning? hey friday, stolen, active and busy scene out here. you can see the yellow police tape blocking off essentially a block here leading into the venue right behind me. that brick building that is where the shooting occurred. it s a dance studio, and we re told by a witness. this was a sweet 16th birthday party. this is where the shooting occurred. we recently heard in the last couple of hours from the alabama law enforcement agency elia, who say that they have launched a death investigation. the shooting happening just after 10 30 saturday night her
than an hour on the ground they were able to plug some 17 plus embassy staff and their families , plus a small number of foreign nationals, the state department said out of the country and then flying them back, at least to eat the opiate now there were no contacts with any kind of violence in that operation. there have been some unconfirmed reports that it almost simultaneously. almost simultaneously. a french evacuation effort may have come under fire, but that has been unconfirmed at this stage of british special forces and the french special forces evacuated some 100 plus people from their nationalities and other foreigners at the belgium s dutch and even the norwegians are now and germans are now carrying out their efforts. but there are 19,000 potentially americans still stuck. in sudan , many of them dual nationals, not all of them necessarily wanting to be evacuated. but this isn t just focused on khartoum. in terms of the need for evacuation. there is violence spread
updates by whisker priscilla alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with major damage control underway inside the u. s intelligence community right now , the pentagon is trying to assess the fallout of leaked classified documents. 21 year old jack tachira and air national guardsman is in custody and charged under the espionage act. the documents he is accused of leaking are considered highly classified and include eavesdropping on adversaries and allies alike. cnn s jeremy diamond joins us now over at the white house, jeremy, what more? are we learning about this damage assessment that s underway. well, jim, we re talking about dozens of highly classified documents that were leaked online allegedly by this 21 year old airman jack teixeira . and now the pentagon is working to assess exactly what the damage to u. s national security will be of some of these documents. and if you look at the brea
protest for gun control. their republican colleagues called it breaking the rules of decorum. the lead starts right now. debate and voting underway right now, as tennessee state house republicans try to expel three statehouse democrats, they protested on the statehouse floor in the wake of the nashville school shooting, but should they really be kicked out of office plus airspace over northern israel shut down after rockets were intercepted, fired from lebanon. this is just one day after israeli police raided a mosque in jerusalem all of the moves, sparking fears of a greater conflict and luxury trips. travel on yachts, all on the dime of a republican mega donor, a new bombshell report alleging that supreme court justice clarence thomas accepted at all and disclosed almost none of it. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start in our national lead any moment now the republican controlled tennessee state house will be voting on whether to expel three state house democr
i don t know how you feel about that. but i you know, i think that you know, decorum and courtesy and kindness always works, but everybody i know has an opinion about something. i just think we have to figure out a way to have a good conversation without tearing each other down, and i think that we can do that question. today was the first day of the show. what s got what s going on in the world. what s going on in sports? let s go on what would be the topic today? today i think the thing me and ernie actually touched on it on the podcast the other day. i don t want to be the person. they re like every time we want to have one of these mass shootings be like, oh, another mass shooting happened. let s get to the next story. like nah, man, we ve had three mass shootings in the last week. the one in alabama. the young black kid who got shot and knocking on the wrong door. the girl was in the driveway in the driveway who got went to the wrong house and got to do didn t even ask f