good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, april 8th camera, walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for being with us. i almost wore my easter pick today. early tomorrow. try for tomorrow. i had had a lavender for one of the days, but you know, we ll figure it out and the color s up for tomorrow. i promise. here s what we re watching two major, very different rulings on access to a medical abortion pill across the country. one judge halts availability of the drug another preserves access to it in some states will sort out the rulings and the coming legal challenges escalating tensions in the middle east. at least three people are dead in separate attacks. we are live in jerusalem with the very latest it s sad and pathetic to think. that our democracy. can be taken away from a voter. vice president kamala harris travels to tennessee after two democratic members are expelled for leading a gun protest on the house floor. their constituents now left wit
30th 2023 we have breaking news. an american reporter has been arrested in russia accused by russia of espionage. evan gersh covic works with the wall street journal and russia s main security agency now says in a statement. they claim he was collecting information about the country s military industrial complex overnight to u. s. army helicopters have crashed and kentucky police and military teams are on the scene. details still coming in also this prayers for pope francis days ahead of holy week. we re live in rome with the very latest on the health scare that has him in the hospital. also did a little disney magic calls some of governor ron desantis his power to go away the legal trick that puts the governor s new handpicked board that is overseeing disney, potentially in a bind some of the biggest names in tech, signing a letter hoping to slow progress and artificial intelligence. elon musk is joining dozens of tech leaders and calling the fast moving breakthroughs in a i
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
republicans expel a democrat from the house legislature for protesting gun violence on the house floor right now to more democratic lawmakers are also staring down. expulsion votes, also breaking escalating violence in the middle east. israel striking gaza tonight after facing a barrage of rocket attacks, the israeli ambassador to the united states is standing by to join me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin our coverage tonight in nashville, tennessee, where a democratic lower democratic lawmaker, a democratic lawmaker was just expelled from the state legislature after protesting gun violence on the house floor. cnn s ryan young has been on the scene all day. for us, ryan. there are two more democrats who are also in jeopardy of being ousted tonight. what is the latest in nashville? alex. people are exasperate
interior ministry, saying that that that s what they re looking into at this point, and there s certainly there s video, and there s been eyewitnesses giving accounts of this figure. vlad lynn tartasky is the sort of pen name that he had. his real name is maxine forming mandatory isse, russian pro war military blogger. inside that cafe. you can look at the devastation on the screens right now. that s obviously the aftermath of the explosion and at the moment russian health officials are telling us that as well as the one person dead vladan tartasky. there s 25 injured. 19 of them are in hospital, six of them in a very grave condition, according to the russian health ministry. tartasky mandatory isse figure very popular figure inside russia in the sense that his telegram channel has more than half a million million followers, he s one of the country s most prominent military bloggers. he came to notoriety last year when in september he was in the halls of the kremlin, and he p