hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. emily larock getting out. the united states evacuates its diplomatic personnel and their families from sudan fighting there is intensifying even as a ceasefire is technically in place and the supreme u. s supreme court has preserved access to a widely used medication abortion pill. for now, the country got to this place and the battle for mahmoud , where ukraine says it needs so much more military aid to defeat russia. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom ahora. france has begun evacuating its diplomatic staff from sudan now , as well as other european officials as more fighting has erupted between rival forces in the capital. khartoum comes hours after the u. s. also pulled out american diplomats from the country and announced that its embassy in her tomb has been temporarily closed. us president joe biden spoke about the situation in the region, saying quote this tragic violen
politicsnation tonight s lead, one step at time he right now, abortion right activists are breathing a sigh of relief. as a key abortion pill wil stay on the market for now but, the fight over access t the bill now heads back to a appeals court. where the legal battle wil resume next month. meanwhile, on this earth day weekend, president biden i shoring up his green credential s with the bi announcement on environmenta justice. ahead of an even bigge announcement that he will ru for reelection that news is expected as early as tuesday as the 2024 presidential fields take shape on both sides. and, in just over a week after he was shot twice for ringin the wrong doorbell, kansas cit teen ralph yarl what i recovering at home his shooter, on andrew lester, now facing what could amount t life in prison on a firs degree assault charge. to which he has pled not guilty y all s family and their lawyers want a federal hat crime charge against leicester and, in a few minutes, ralph yarl
good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, march 15th. thank you for waking up with us. here are five things to know this morning there are new tensions between the u.s. and russia over the downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. they clipped the drone over the black sea forcing it to crash. russia denies the accusation claiming the drone fell on us own. yeah. and another day of jitters over the fate of america s banking system seem to be easing slightly. stocks of some regional banks bouncing back after suffering declines. fallout is far from over. doj and scc investigating the collapse of silicon valley bank. also this morning high stakes case over abortion pills set to get its day in court. a federal judge in amarillo, texas, will hear arguments over a lawsuit that could disrupt access to the pills nationwide. protests are planned outside the courthouse. also the faa is convening a rare safety summit after seven close calls at airports. the faa says the flight cros
developments we re following this hour, but i want to get to the breaking news right now out of texas. that s coming up. a very dangerous tornado outbreak unfolding right now. cnn s rosa flores is in deer park, texas for us. she just filed this report. reporter: wolf, the pictures out of deer park, texas, are very dramatic. take a look behind me. there is an overturned car. the glass is broken. the car is mangled. you can see the trees here are also mangled. but these are not the most dramatic pictures. i want to show you, because there is a car that is yards from where we are. i talked to the sister of the owner of that car. she tells me that that car was parked right over where i am actually standing, just near here. and you can see that some of the cleanup has already started. but that car was, according to that woman, parked in this parking lot that you see over here behind me. this woman said that she actually works for the district, and that they were inside when the
we begin with the aftermath of him, and what could be the costliest hurricane in u.s. history. and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering with heavy rains from the creek of islands to new england marking. out some and delivering strangers storm surge to the south. in florida, it s climbing. in this hour it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they re also assessing the damage, it could amount to billions of dollars in the southwestern part of the state. businesses destroyed. homes flattened. residents, left in complete shock. i wish we should be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that storm. the power of that storm? it would ve crashed into that side of the house. we would ve been swept away. to see the damage of clothes, it s almost frightening to see just how easily he d chewed through tons of concrete and steel. but to the danger above? heartbreaking. when you realize this is the only way an entire community c