everyone. it is tuesday, april 25th. welcome to cnn this morning. we re so glad you re with us. we do begin, though, with news about this show. as you may have heard yesterday, cnn parted ways with anchor don lemon. a statement, chris licht thanked don for his contributions over the 17 years. writing in part, don will forever be a part of the cnn family. we wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future ende endeavors. he was one of the first anchors to have me on his show. that s something i ll obviously never forget. we wish him the best. we certainly do. don was one of my first friends at cnn. i m so thankful to worked alongside him and for his support for nearly 15 years here and i wish him all good things ahead. we re really proud of this show. we re so proud of the dedicated team that works around the clock to bring you the news every morning and our priority is you, the viewer. we re grateful you welcome us into your home each morning. absolutely. of c
the window and goes! one of the all-time great lebron performances. 22 points, 20 rebounds and 7 assists. miami has won it and goes up three games to one! jimmy butler with the fourth most individual points in playoff game history. you denied it before. playoff jimmy, are you ready to it s not a thing. it s not. i just be hooping. good morning, everyone. especially to jimmy butler, unreal performance by him. i just couldn t even bereave that. but also that is not the breaking news this morning. we do have real breaking news this morning. as president biden is officially announcing he is running for re-election. the president launched his campaign with a video that took aim at republicans over abortion, social security and culture wars. around the country maga extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms. cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes from the very wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women ca
there are americans in sudan who want to leave but are they stuck? the lead starts right now. as the violence erupts in sudan, the u.s. and other nations evacuate their embassies, but what about other americans on the ground? ahead, i ll speak with a top house republican about the biden administration s response so far. plus, fired then hired. a kentucky sheriff s office explains why it hired the cop who killed brianna taylor. that cop s attorney is speaking out to cnn. and planes on fire, others hit by birds. what is going on with the airline industry? transportation secretary pete buttigieg is here. we have a lot of questions for him. welcome to the lead i m pamela brown in for jake taper, and we start today with our world lead. the white house says it is actively working to get americans out of sudan as a bloody conflict between two rivals turns even deadlier. they are using intelligence and surveillance tools to help national convoys of cars get to the port in sudan w
Trump trailing joe biden by 13 points. This is in florida. Other polls show biden leading in other Battle Ground states as well. Overnight, the cdc released a new guideline supporting opening schools but only if its safe. If its not safe enough to hold the Gop Convention in florida how is it safe enough to open schools . Joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and john harwood. Sanjay, in terms of the type of event that is clearly not safe, an Indoor Convention is very high at that list on that list. So as a doctor, your reaction to the decision from the president . Yeah, i mean, it was an inevitable decision, frankly. I mean, i say that, of course we saw what happened in tulsa and arizona. But i think at this point, given how much viral spread there is i think the Public Health communities have been pretty unified in their voice on how risky this is. You can look at one of the riskiest type of events and one of the lowest risk types of events and frankly, an
And well update you on the rescue effo rts and well update you on the rescue efforts going on for those that remain alive. A grand jury in the us state of kentucky has voted to indict one of the Police Officers involved in the shooting of breonna taylor. The officer, brett hankison, will face three charges of wanton endangerment because some of his bullets went through ms taylors apartment into a neighbours flat. No officer will face charges for her killing. Heres the attorney general, who led the investigation. I understand that miss Breonna Taylors death has become a part of a National Story and conversation, but we must also remember the facts and the collection of evidence in this case are different than cases elsewhere in the country. Each is unique and cannot be compared. Two other officers, Sergeant Jonathan mattingly and detective myles cosgrove, also fired their weapons. Heres the attorney general explaining why they wont be charged. Detective cosg rove and Sergeant Mattingly