Announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. The fbi had a hand in what s being called the sting of the century down under. They seized 4 tons of drugs and $45 million in cash in a massive crackdown on organized crime. A global law enforcement team had been working on the operation called iron side for three years. They developed an encrypted app used by alleged criminals to communicate, but it also gave law enforcement an all access pass to their dealings. Using that intel police say they shut down six laboratories, acted on 21 death threats and saved a family. Australian prime minister scott morrison says the sting is a major blow to global crime. Reporter: t. Today the australian government has struck a heavy blow against organized crime not just in this country but one that will echo around organized crime around the world. This is a watershed moment in australian law enforcement history. Gabriella power from sky news australia with much more on the stor
Fellow republicans have. Trump pushed the big lie and with cheney out of the way the party can now use the lie to contest future elections without a pesky truth teller in their midst. Even a republican lawmaker who plans to support cheney predicts she does not survive. Even those who like liz and agree with her think the current situation is untenable. Untenable or inconvenient, chainy is standing defiant to the end. Cnn s daniella diaz is live for us in capitol hill. Reporter: congresswoman cheney has said she is not going anywhere. She will continue to be outspoken against former president donald trump and the threat that she believes he poses to american democracy. There s a lot going on across the country right now. As a result of this big lie, you know, this lie that former president donald trump and his allies are spreading that the election was stolen from him, lots of state governments and republicanled state legislatures are trying to pass laws to limit voter access. Congressw
Three more shots and then my buddy levi saw someone running out of the building and then more shots went off. Somebody went behind their car to the trunk and got another and got another gun and then i saw one body on the floor. And that was the body behind the trunk. How are you doing? i m a little i m a little overwhelmed. I ve worked here for ten years and i have never seen that happen in my life. The attack happened late last night in the early morning hours. Indianapolis police had this update. Just after 11:00 on thursday evening the indianapolis metropolitan police department responded to 8951 mirabel road, the fedex ground plain field operation center. We received a call referenced shots fired to that location. As officers responded, they arrived to an active shooter incident at that location. Preliminary information at this time is that the alleged shooter has taken his own life here at the scene. After a preliminary search of the grounds inside and out, we have located eight p
covered. only cn can this morning. i m christine romans. it is thursday, may 6th. it is 5:00 a.m., exactly, in new york. liz cheney is on an island facing near-certain exile from house-gop leadership. the wyoming congresswoman is making a last-ditch effort. she hopes to save not her job, her leadership role, but her party and much more. republicans are rejecting cheney because, well, she insists the 2020 election was legitimate and she voted to impeach the former president for inciting a deadly mob. a new washington post op-ed, she writes this, quote, there is good reason to believe that trump s language can provoke violence, again. trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work. confidence, in the results of elections and the rule of law. the republican party is at a turning point, she writes, and republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the constitution. she continues, while em
let s take stock of where we ve come from. when we got here january 20th we were at about 8%. it s getting easier, part of it s because there is more supply, part of it is because it s in more places and there s more vaccinators. right now the cdc says almost 42% of american adults have been partially vaccinated. slavitt says he expects that pace to pick up. president biden now moving up the deadline for states to make all adults in the u.s. eligible for a vaccine. by no later than april 19th in every part of this country every adult over the age of 18, 18 or older, will be eligible to be vaccinated. no more confusing rules. no more confusing restrictions. the president also urging senior citizens to get their shot now before younger americans rush to get an appointment. in advance of that new national full eligibility date, i want to make a direct appeal to our seniors and everyone who cares about them. while we have made incredible progress vaccinating three quarter