five people including a nine-year-old boy. the u.s. sending hundreds of additional troops to its southern border, in anticipation of a massive surge of migrants. and, b day in the u.s. debt crisis could come as soon as june 1st. with days standing for default. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. a four-day manhunt. for the suspect in the fatal shooting of five people including a mother and her nine-year-old son in texas was arrested tuesday evening. authorities say that 38 francisco oropeza was found hiding in a closet under some laundry at home just miles from the house where the killings took place. oropeza is being held on five counts of murder with bonds set at $5 million. and, will appear in court in the coming hours. and, because he is a mexican national, the mexican consulate will be notified. cnn s josh campbell has details. a major development, in southeast texas, authorities announcing tuesday the arrest of the man accused of brutally
trying to get out of the country during a tenuous 72 hour ceasefire that threatens to break. among them are british people being told to go to this air base outside the capital where they are being flown to safety in cyprus then on to the uk where we are expecting very soon the first plane to arrive. the uk says more than 300 people have been evacuated from sudan with more flights expected in the coming hours. full nearly 2000 people from other countries have taken another route out by crossing the red sea on a ship organised by saudi arabia. tens of thousands of sudanese continue to try to reach neighbouring chad, egypt and south sudan. as thousands leave, residents in khartoum tell us about their fears that the world is abandoning them as supplies of food, water and medicine are running low. officials wanted for war crimes have been released from prison although the army says they have been moved to a military hospital. our correspondent is at the airport in cyprus. this is
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in sudan where the rescue operation to bring british nationals out of the country has made progress the latest official figure is that 536 people have been rescued so far. tens of thousands of sudanese and foreign nationals have left sudan in the past week, fleeing the violence that s erupted between two military factions. we ll have a report by our special correspondent lucy manning on those arriving back in the uk, but we start with this report from cyprus, and our correspondent there nick beake. finally, an escape for britons who ve been stranded in sudan. but as the raf carries out more evacuations, there are some concerns the airfield in the capital, khartoum, is now breaking up with hundreds of uk citizens still stuck in the devastation inflicted by the feud between top generals. today, though, flights out have been reaching cyprus, which is halfway home. and this is how it feels to have escaped. here in c
welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim brunhuber. coming up on cnn newsroom. the search is on for a suspected killer in texas. ahead, what we re learning about the victims of this latest mass shooting. plus, evacuations are happening in sudan, but many say it s not easy to get out. hear one woman s story about how the u.s. government did nothing to help her parents leave. plus, tv stars mingled and mixed amid the white house correspondents dinner, president biden had a seriousage message about freedoms. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in texas where the federal bureau of investigation is assisting in a manhunt follow a shooting rampage north of houston. at least five people after detectives say the neighbor francisco oropeza is at large. we consider him armed and dangerous. we re not going to stop until we actually arrest him and bring him into custody
few hours. you want to see that picture up, oropeza, the reason we want to put it up is we re trying to help the sheriff s department in that area about 45 miles outside of houston find this man. what we ve learned so far, the neighbors nextdoor heard gunshots and went next door and asked him, could you stop shooting, we have a young child trying to go to sleep. he responded angry and said, i can do whatever i want. at some point, according to the sheriff s department, he went next door and started shooting people. five people killed execution-style. listen to the sheriff talk about this shooting. my understanding is that the vi victims came to the fence and said, could you mind not shooting in the yard, we have a young baby that s trying to go to sleep, and he had been drinking, and he says, i ll do what i want to on my property. fred, when you think about the details of this, you have an 8-year-old shot as well. there were also two children that were found under the bod