now. it s monday. good morning. we re so glad you re with us. oh, yeah. the team is reunited. let s get started with five things to know for this monday, april 24th. a daring special operations rescue of american diplomats and their families from wore torn sudan. 16,000 american citizens still remain in sudan. most of them are duel nationals. president biden set to name his campaign manager for re-election effort. julia chavez rodriguez. she is a senior adviser right now. the faa investigating a possible bird strike that caused an american airlines flight to catch fire. the plane landed safely. no one hurt. you better hurry up. the bed, bath & beyond coupons are not going to be good for much longer. the company announcing it filed for bankruptcy and now is starting to wind down the operations. also. a-list owners ryan reynolds hugging after the big win that clenched the team s promotion. cnn this morning starts right now. technically, we have six things. poppy ran
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
never for busing white house photos were just made public showing then president obama and top officials as the historic mission to kill osama bin laden was playing. out the man behind the camera, former white house photographer, pete souza, he will join us this hour. welcome to our viewers here in united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. here in the situation room. tonight nearly two dozen ukrainians, men women and children, are dead. at least four children among the dead after a russian strike on a residential building. residents fearing that more bodies maybe found as crews continue to search the rubble from multiple missile attacks. cnn s dick paton walsh is on the ground for us in ukraine. nick, russia unleashing this new barrage just ahead unexpected ukrainian military counteroffensive. give us the latest. as is often the case, we simply don t know what russia thinks it was aiming at, if indeed it was too concerned about where it s missiles landed. but in
and look to show solidarity and dismiss talks of cracks in ukraine s firewall. plus, full disclosure. senator john fetterman checks himself into the hospital for clinical depression. and new text messages reveal top hosts at fox the same hosts who carried water for-donald trump s election lies knew his claims were, quote, really crazy. up first the diplomatic battle field. right now the united states and its major western allies are in munich as the war in ukraine is about to hit the one-year mark. ukraine s president zelenskyy opened the global security meeting with this plea. goliath must lose. there is no alternative to ukrainian victory. there is no alternative to ukraine in the eu. there is no alternative to ukraine in nato. there is no, no alternative to our unity. zelenskyy wants allies to step it up and bring a quick end to the war. nato shows no sign of wavering at least right now but germany s chancellor in an interview with cnn s christiane amanpour says the
years. you know who is fired up about this? the great one, our friend mark levin joins us. the biden administration keeps lying about the economy because that s what they do. but americans know the truth. everyone is talking about the hit show the last of us, it s about a deadly fungus that turns people into zombies. there is a drug out there maybe doing the same thing. former d.e.a. special together is here to warn us about the so-called zombie drug. this is a serious monologue. the united states appears to be walking directly into world war iii. the signs are everywhere. the pentagon is planning to send 100 troops to taiwan for training. xi jinping is heading to moscow. and putin suspended participation in the nuclear arms treaty with the united states and threatened to resume nuclear testing. that sounds like a big deal. even worse, china appears to be strengthening their support for russia. meanwhile the biden administration just issued new sanctions against russia. and t