son on tv, but you know that child of holocaust was reporting the news. the best revenge. is to survive and thrive. that s why it s so important that we educate and we show the world what was going on, and that s what we re doing. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and us diplomatic personnel and their families are now out of sudan. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti in a dramatic overnight evacuation more than 100. us special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the u. s embassy in her tomb has now suspended operations. violence in sudan broke out more than a week ago. heavy fighting between rival military factions, leaving more than 400 dead and thousands injured. cnn s or in lieberman is at the pentagon for so or in what more are you learning about this operation? this was an operation carried out effectively in the dead of night by a fairly small group of special operations forces right ar
Anderson cooper. one whole story one whole hour. all right, straight ahead. firefighters in california s mountain communities went beyond the call of duty after unrelenting snow trap some people in their homes last month. how they came to the rescue next. but first this week we celebrate earth day and the importance of environmental protection beneath the ocean coral reefs, support of bio, diverse community of marine life and protect our coastal areas, but these valuable ecosystems are threatened. this week s cnn hero is committed to rebuilding them. call reefs without them. nothing is here. simply put, they are what it is. that brings the ecosystem together. sadly i ve watched us lose that coral reef and the disappearance of that diverse marine ecosystem. care. we ready, let s go down.