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
governor and tomorrow in the contest for senate in pennsylvania. nearly 7.3 million people have already cast their ballots in 39 states according to one analysis. right now, president biden is making his pitch to voters. he s hoping to shift the momentum away from republicans. a new analysis of the political landscape in these final weeks shows republicans are making late gains as they try to win back control of the house. white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with us now. give us details on what the president is saying. reporter: president biden is delivering right now what he termed a closing argument here as we are just about two weeks from election day. the president, though, isn t in the battleground states where you might expect him to be delivering that kind of closing argument. he s at democratic party headquarters where he said his goal is to try to energize the organizers who are calling into those battleground states, the staff at the democratic party who
cnn s pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles o brien joins me now. pete, let s start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near ashland, mississippi. it flew around the area for about five hours. police in tupelo say they initially got a phone call at 5:00 a.m. central time from the person on board this airplane saying that they were threatening to crash the plane into one of the walmarts in tupelo, mississippi. according to flight aware, the plane flew around for about five hours, north west of the area and then over the holly springs national forest. we heard from sources that a king air like this, a beechcraft, sea
cnn s nadia romero is checking in on the situation from the world s busiest airport, atlanta s hartsfield jackson international. nadia, i was there yesterday with the canceled flight trying to fly standby. i know what that feels like for people out there. what are you hearing from passengers today? reporter: oh, i m sorry you were part of that big chunk of people we saw 1,400 flights canceled over the past couple of days. i spoke with one man who was supposed to get back to vegas, spent the night here. he had an 11-hour day after his flight was canceled three times. he finally ditched his first airline, got on a different airline flight to get back to vegas. i m glad you finally made it to your final destination. other people are happy to be at the airport because they re on their way to enjoy the holiday weekend. it s a mixed bag here. take a look at tsa, the main security checkpoint and it s moving pretty quickly. people are briskly going through, in and out of the differ
Has been found guilty of murdering her and dumping her body in a cesspit under their garage in hertfordshire. Ian stewart, whos 56, drugged ms bailey over several weeks before smothering her in april last year in the hope of claiming a multi Million Pound inheritance. The couple had met through an online Bereavement Group. Detectives are now re examining the sudden death of stewarts wife in 2010. Our Homes Affairs correspondent june kelly reports. Police recorded ian stewarts arrest at his home. Im arresting you on suspicion of the murder of helen bailey. Youre joking he was stunned hed finally been caught out. For three months hed been living with the body of his wealthy partner buried under the garage. My names helen bailey and id like to introduce you to my new book, which is called when bad things happen in good bikinis. Helen bailey was a successful author. As well as murdering her, stewart also killed her dachshund, boris, whom she doted on. Ooh, that wasnt supposed to happen aft