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federal judges split, throwing the future of a key abortion medication into question by the administration should ignore this ruling. how will the fda respond? health and human services secretary javier bezerra and democratic congresswoman alexandria koziol cortez next and political retribution. tennessee republicans expelled two democrats over their gun reform protests during session they think of the issues over we ll see you on monday, another flashpoint in the guns debate, baldy congressman tony gonzalez will join me. plus ultra mega, a defiant former president vows to fight charges against him as other ongoing probes accelerate . how are republican voters responding? do not go to the gutter avoided, it turns off the voters. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wondering what doesn t become politicized these days, we just closed out and especially bitter and divisive week in american politics. on tuesday, former president donald trump was indicted
washington. we begin this hour with the tempers flaring in nashville. where emotions are raw politics, much like the rest of the us bitterly divided republicans in the state house there voted to expel lawmakers were breaking decorum during a raucous but peaceful protest demanding gun reform that protest ignited by the nashville school shooting that left three adults and three young students dead. how the expulsion vote ended, has only added to the anger representatives justin pearson and justin jones. who are black, were expelled their fellow protester and colleague gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by one vote. cnn correspondent isabelle rose salas joins us now with the latest isabelle what happens now? i guess there is some hope that these two lawmakers who were expelled might get their seats back. and that is certainly a very real possibility. here, jim. right now the spotlight is on filling those two vacant statehouse seats, and what we re seeing is local lawmak
newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington and at any moment we re expecting a news briefing from law enforcement officials and dave ville, alabama, the sad sight of last night s horrifying mass shooting. we are hoping to learn more about a suspect or possible motive in that shooting rampage in this tiny alabama town. this is a look at a vigil that s about to get underway. at any moment. these are live pictures that you re looking at right now of this vigil that is about to take place in memory of the children. teenagers many of them who were lost in this mass shooting. here s what we know right now about this tragedy for people are confirmed dead, spokeswoman for one local hospital says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients. the attack apparently happened at a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. one of those killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her 16th birthday. there you see
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