cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the escalating crisis in sudan and the emergency evacuation of u. s government personnel and their families about 100. us special operations forces carried out the overnight mission today. the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and a rival paramilitary group more than 400. people have been killed, including one american state department estimates estimates there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, our correspondents, our position here and around the world to bring you all the angles of this developing story. let s begin with cnn s am kylie live from djibouti. sam djibouti s international airport is struggling to keep up with the sudden increase in flight volume. do this mass exodus from sudan. what more can you tell us about that? well, jim, it s not only the pressure, they say local off
five things to know for this wednesday, march 29th 2023 new body camera footage shows what to hero national police officers confronted when they took down the school shooter who killed six people. the white house says. president biden has called to thank them. of course, the big question that remains this morning is how did the shooter gets so many guns? also former vice president, mike pence, has now been ordered to testify in the justice department s january 6th investigation pence team says that they are evaluating the judge s ruling and whether they will appeal. we ll have all of that, plus this and say it s freedom in jeopardy this morning, an appeals court has reinstated his murder conviction and ordered a new hearing aid was the subject of the serial podcast. the serial podcast. also today, former starbucks ceo howard schultz set to testify on capitol hill, senator bernie sanders and others will question schultz about starbucks alleged efforts to block unions and meet
got a lot to cover as you saw there in our five things. so let s start with brand new details in nashville and that school shooting and questions about how the shooter was able to buy so many guns. police say the shooter was being treated for an emotional disorder but was able to legally buy seven guns before murdering three children and three staff members at a private christian school in nashville. and there s brand new reporting from the new york times about the shooter s past, now, the shooter s former teacher at an art college told the times that years ago, the shooter had an emotional breakdown in her class when she had trouble creating a password for the school s online student portal, and in recent years a shooter had been grieving on facebook about the loss of a romantic partner. there s new, harrowing police body cam video that shows officers rushing in and confronting the shooter. we have sync up both angles released by officials warning for you now, okay? i just w
maybe you don t have the whit to be a median. kamala harris still hasn t realized she doesn t have to take what it takes to be president or vice president or anything else that involves leadership. kamala harris has launched her well, we have lost count, fifth rebrand tour? trying to get america to fall in love with her and make sure biden doesn t kick her off the ticket? you can call this a re-re-rebrand. her first stop was on the stephen colbert show. now, these types of shows are highly choreographed. two or three preinterviewed before show time. kamala knows every question she is going to get asked. all rehearsed. should be a slam dunk for the v.p. it was a disaster. colbert eased into it reminding the audience that kamala shatters. my first guess this evening is the vice president of the united states. she is the first woman, the first black american, the first south asian-american to hold the office please welcome back to the late show vice president kamala harris.
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis