striking a bird, and what we are learning about this. and a prom turns into a nightmare after 19 are injured when bullets start flying. we are following these developing stories and much more as they come in right here at cnn news central. a race to get out as people are rushing to get their people out of sudan. special forces have now carried out a risky operation to get the u.s. embassy officials and families out of khartoum. this is a photo of antony blinken monitoring situation. the u.s. government is warning an estimated 16,000 americans remaining there and many of them dual citizens after a large scale operation of those who want to leave is not happening now. the u.s. is facilitating evacuations in other ways. more from the white house in a moment, but sam kiley is in djibouti where the operation began. sam, this seems like a global retreat. global retreat is the exact way to put it. here we have a french air force long distance cargo plane. that has been, we u
we are hours away from his sentencing. the hearing will be this morning at 9:30. brian: took the jury less than three hours of deliberations to convict murdaugh in the murders of glinchtsd watson is live outside the court house in water borough, north carolina. convicted of the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. he was remanded almost immediately after the verdicts were read and led out of the coal tap county courthouse facing 30 years the jury came back with the unanimous verdict of guilty two counts of murder and guilty of two counts of possessing a weapon in possession of a violent crime. this after weeks of testimony including from alec who was forced to admit that he lied to police about not being at the scene of the murders after his voice was caught on video by his son paul. in court, the disgraced south carolina attorney didn t really show any emotion as the guilty verdicts were read late thursday evening. his surviving son buster sat a few rows behind him w
cnn tonight. listen, one of the most catastrophic storms in florida s history, possibly the deadliest, regained strength to become a category 1 hurricane tonight. south carolina is now bracing for ian s wrath sometime happening tomorrow. and the very latest on its track in just a moment. we have yet to learn the full scope of the destruction caused by hurricane ian in florida. but what has certainly come into focus today truly is hard to find words for. at least 17 people have died so far, and that is linked to hurricane ian. president biden warns there could be substantial loss of life, perhaps more killed by a storm in florida than ever before. but it s really too soon to know more. and also too soon to say that the danger has now passed. i mean, there is debris everywhere. there s water everywhere. power lines are down. trees have been shredded. boats thrown on top of one another. countless homes destroyed, entire buildings washed away. fort myers beach took the brunt of
former attorney general bill barr, was seen exiting the january six committees conference room. this would have been at least the second time that barr has met with the committee. back in january, chairperson thompson confirmed that barr had spoken with the panel and has cooperated with its investigation. it remains to be seen if barr or any other high-ranking trump official will testify in front of the american people as part of the committee s public hearings. the justice department, by the way, isn t just working on g involving the twice impeached ex presidents former aide, they are working to prosecute his insurrection supporters, to. yesterday another member of the far-right extremist group proud boys pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. joshua pruitt is facing up to five years in jail, for taking part in the mob that ransacked the capital, and endangered the safety of members of congress. in court documents, he admitted that he near
Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez in washington, d. C. With john berman on the ground in maine where an urgent manhunt is under way for the suspect in two Mass Shootings. And cnn just learned the name of one of 18 people gunned down in that rampage. Trisha ashlan was a 53yearold mother who worked at the Bowling Alley, according to her brother, that is one of the locations where the shooting broke out. The other was a bar grille, a tenminute drive, three of them in critical condition, john. Yeah, this is huge manhunt under way in the surrounding area here. Hundreds of officers state and federal on the hunt for this alleged mass murderer. 40yearold robert card. His family has urged card to surrender. That is according to his brother. But that man is now been on the run for some 18 hours now which is really shut down much of the area. Schools, stores, banks, the department of motor vehicles. L. L. Bean which is about 15 miles away which many people know is open on christma