good saturday morning. it is april 29th. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. i m amara walker. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin with ukraine and a deadly russian missile strike on an apartment complex. the attack killed almost two dozen people, including six children. and it s believed to be the deadliest strike on civilians since january. it happened 4:00 a.m. local time when most people were asleep. ukraine s air force says russia fired a barrage of long range cruise missiles from the aircraft in the caspian sea area. president volodymyr zelenskyy says his forces shot down 21 of the 23 missiles fired. cnn s nic robertson has been on the scene since shortly after the strike, joining us now from uman, ukraine. hi, nic. what s the latest there? it is bad news from here. the death toll is now 25. you can see the recovery efforts still going on. but this is really just pulling out the debris, getting that off the site here. and we ve been talking with firef
hello, everyone. thanks for joining us this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. a desperate man hunt is under way in texas, a gunman killing five people including an 8-year-old and police are racing to a house in cleveland, texas, overnight. on reports of an active shooter. at least three others were wounded in a brutal attack. and now the search is on for the suspect who took off before police arrived on the scene. cnn s ryan young is following this breaking story for us. so tell us what we know thus far, that is taking place in a house, does this mean that everyone knew each other, meaning the suspect and the victims? well, it appears they were neighbors. and in fact, they were talking to him across the street, he had a gun, and apparently, he s been firing in that yard, according to the sheriff, many times, and they asked him to stop shooting because it was disturbing the baby inside the home. and at some point apparently he became angry and then actually went inside the
fighting in that country we have the very latest on the deadly conflict and what could be next for thousands of americans who are still over there. plus, we ve got new polling on the 2024 presidential election how voters are feeling about president joe biden s re-election campaign as well as donald trump s mounting legal issues. and also ahead, what we can expect on capitol hill this week as the house is expected to vote on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, april 24th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us and we ll begin this morning with the developing news out of northeast africa the united states has evacuated and temporarily closed its embassy in sudan as conflict grows in that country. fighting between warring military factions in the capital has killed hundreds and thousands of citizens are still there. they re still remaining in the country. nbc news
it s a choice, a choice between two fundamentally different versions of america. in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, okay? i m not here to compare anyone s atrocities or tragedies their families have dealt with. i m here to continue to expose sins that our world continues to put in darkness. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. well, it is friday, november 4th, 8 a.m. here in london. that s 4 a.m. in new york. and 1 a.m. in california where u.s. president joe biden will be waking up today just four days until the mid-terms. mr. biden spoke at a campaign event near san diego on thursday night. this weekend he ll appear at a pennsylvania rally with his old boss, former president barack obama. across the u.s. candidates are making their final pitches for control of congress and dozens of governorships are on the line in texas where democrat beto o rourke
another witness announced for tomorrow s primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the attack. plus, we ve got the top headlines from last night s midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senators had hoped to reach a bipartisan deal on gun safety by the end of this week, but nbc news has learned that that timetable may slip. perhaps into next week. senators have hit a snag on how to expand background checks. two people close to the talks tell nbc news at issue is whether to add waiting periods for 18 to 21-year-olds and to enable the fbi to conduct background checks on their juvenile records. a spokesman for republican senator john cornyn of texas said he is not considering waiting periods but does support the provision on the juvenile records. democrats, howev