hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you re watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary church. just ahead, hollywood writers heading to the picket line. thousands set to go on strike, a move that will bring productions to a updated on anying halt and send shockwaves through the industry. a dire warning from america s treasury secretary, saying the country only has about a month to pay its bills or risk an economic catastrophe. plus, we ll take you to a small island that s part of taiwan, but just four miles from china s border and almost totally defenseless against china s navy. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. and we begin in hollywood, where television and film writers are going on strike, a move that will very likely shut down most tv and film productions in the u.s. for the foreseeable future. the strike was announced hours ago after the writers gu
off from his mar-a-lago home sometime on monday on there for the formal arraignment on this 30-plus indictment that has been handed down. he would be the first former president to have to deal with something like this. it will be historic, and we re told that plans have been made to make it as unzoo-like, if you can use such a term, as possible by closing off traffic in lower manhattan and making sure that the former president can get safely into and out of that building. he will have to be the fingerprinted, he will have to be given a mug shot. there will be no handcuffing going on here, and he will be likely field on his own reconnaissance to the head back to florida. so we re keeping track of all of those storms. let s get the ones impacting a lot of folks who in some cases are dealing with this all off again. will nunley in wynne, arkansas, with more on that. reporter: nile, many a lot of cases absolutely total losses of their homes. and in the case of wynne, loss of li
thank you for joining us in the u.s. and around the world, this is cnn newsroom. a desperate man hunt underway after a gun man in texas went on a rampage. broken truce, thousands rush to flee sudan. the white house correspondents dinner, on a night filled with one-liners, president biden calls for russia to release the american in moscow. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. a horrific story developing in the u.s., a man hunt is underway after a gunman opened fire on his neighbors killing 5, including a 8-year-old. the shooting occurred after a family asked the man next door to stop firing a rifle in the front yard because their baby was trying to sleep. authorities were tracking his phone but they say the trail went cold saturday night. he could be anywhere now, that tracking dogs from the department of corrections picked up the scent and they lost the scent in the water. the area went from 6 square miles, it could be 10-20 depending on whether or nocrsed
in sudan is entering a third day, with doctors warning of increasingly desperate conditions in hospitals in the capital, khartoum. so far, 97 people have been reported killed and hundreds injured in the violence. fighting is between the sudanese army and the country s biggest paramilitary group, known as the rapid support forces, or rsf with these two men at the heart of it. the head of army is general abdel fattah al burhan. the leader of the rsf is mohamed hamdan dagalo. they re both vying for dominance, after leading the two main factions in the ruling military regime. but, caught in the middle, is sudan s population of around 50 million people. many are displaced and millions need humanitarian help. the sudanese doctors union says almost 100 civilians have been killed since the clashes erupted on saturday. we ve been hearing a range of different voices from inside sudan. katharina von schroeder, from save the children, has been sheltering with her eight year old son in a
and the singer harry belafonte has died. welcome to bbc news. we start in sudan and developments in the last hour or so with the uk government urging british passport holders to head to an airfield to the north of khartoum, tojoin evacuation flights. previous advice to wait until they are contacted has been dropped. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, said uk nationals would have to make the riskyjourney to the airbase without a military escort and warned it is impossible to know how long the pause in the fierce fighting will last. the first of the british transport planes took off from an airbase in cyprus bound for sudan it s thought there may be up to four thousand britons in sudan, a little over two thousand have registered with the foreign office for evacuation. rishi sunak authorised the operation late on monday night, after growing criticism that only diplomats had been rescued with british nationals left feeling abandoned. france, germany, greece,