good saturday morning. it is april 29th. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. i m amara walker. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with ukraine and a deadly russian missile strike on an apartment complex. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including six children. and it s believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it happened 4:00 a.m. local time when most people were asleep. ukraine s air force says russia fired a barrage of long range cruise missiles from the aircraft in the caspian sea area. president volodymyr zelenskyy says his forces shot down 21 of the 23 missiles fired. cnn s nic robertson has been on the scene since shortly after the strike, joining us now from uman, ukraine. hi, nic. what s the latest there? it is bad news from here. the death toll is now 25. you can see the recovery efforts still going on. but this is really just pulling out the debris, getting that off the site here. and we ve been talking with firef
a daring evacuation. the u.s. military carries out an operation to pull government personnel out of sudan s capital. but thousands of americans are still trapped in the country as it descends deeper into chaos, and the white house says it s not safe to get them out right now. the gop s fight over abortion erupts over the weekend. political peril for the republican party as the national battle over reproductive rights heats up. and kimberly potter set free after serving only 16 months in pr prison for killing daunte wright. the former police officer spent more than two years behind bars for fatally shooting wright while yelling taser. critics say the punishment didn t fit the crime. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. scrambling to get out of sudan as foreign powers rush to evacuate the war-torn country. the biden administration says that u.s. special forces have carried out a daring rescue operation, s
incredibly careful in sort of steering clear of commenting on the details given that the doj is currently looking into the matter, so we ll have to see whether the president is a little bit more willing to dive into the details and share anything more that we don t know but again, you know, earlier today just sort of exemplifying this, the white house counsel spokesperson said they re just s simply limited in what they can say because the doj is looking into the matter but they want to handle things correctly and they may be able to share further details at a later time. we ll see what question the president gets and also, just more broadly speaking of course, how he addresses the various issues that he has been discd discussing over the last 48 hours with the leaders of canada and mexico as we ve been talking about for the last couple days. migration and immigration is going to be a top issue that the three leaders have been talking about at this meeting, jake. m.j. lee st
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