now falling. i m fredricka whitfield. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin tonight with the sad reality that it has happened again. another mass shooting in america, this one in a tiny alabama town, with teenagers making up most of the victims. here s what we know. at this hour. four people are confirmed dead and dead. ville alabama spokesman for a local hospital, says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients he attack was tied to a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. let s go live now to date ville and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel. what s the latest that we re learning there? hey gemma. good evening to you. we are learning that one of the four victims who was killed right behind me at this dance studio that was a venue. we re told by witnesses. first sweet 16 birthday party. that victim has been ident
here with me ready to dive into this. we have the host of the fast politics podcast molly jong fast. john hart, former communications director for senator tom coburn and the goldberg business reporter for the new york times, and nicholas carlson, global editor in chief of insider but first, let s bring in cnn s tom foreman to break down this explosive propublica report. tom. hey alison. the revelations in this propublica reporter really quite astonishing about justice clarence thomas, his wife, jenny and harlan crow. he is a texas real estate tycoon worth a lot of money, big donator to conservative causes. so what went on here? a lot of travel, paid for by crow and enjoyed by the justice and his wife, according to this report from propublica, where indonesia. new zealand, california, georgia, texas. a reporter behind this said some sort of travel some sort of perk seem to be happening almost every year for 20 years. among the other perks. yeah travel onboard a super yacht whe
perry s attorneys are calling for a new trial, saying they want to introduce evidence that foster repeatedly instigated confrontations and was the quote first aggressor. when the murder happened on july 25th 2020 perry, now a 35 year old army sergeant. worked as a rideshare driver and had just dropped off a passenger near a blm protest. prosecutors say perry drove into the protest and instigated a confrontation. perry s attorneys say foster, a 28 year old air force veteran motion to perry as protesters were beating on his car practice something some of them right legally carrying an assault style weapon. that night . perry had a handgun in his car and at some point in the exchange. he fired multiple times, killing foster. during the police interrogation. perry gave several versions of the position of foster s gun was going in there. they want to, you know, also told police he did not try to kill foster honestly did not want to want him to die. i wanted to do was capacity him.
everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with a dramatic evacuation of u. s. government personnel and their families from sudan president biden confirming the operation overnight more than 100. special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the decision to evacuate came after a week of heavy fighting between rival military factions that left more than 400 dead and thousands injured. we ve got full coverage with kylie atwood at the state department, kevin liptak at the white house. kylie let s begin with you. this was a big operation. i mean what was happening behind the scenes at the state department and what provoked this decision. major operation and what you have to understand with embassies like this that are in areas where conflict can arise is that the state department has plans for these evacuations. but then they have to go back and look at these plans in a very detailed way, and that s what state department offic
of leaking top secret pentagon information. jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and is now facing charges. his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source of the online leak of secret documents. cnn s or in lieberman has more. in a federal courtroom in boston 21 year old jack to sheriff faced his legal fate for the first time charged through the espionage act with unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents and national security information. the airman first class at the center of an investigation into a leak of top secret information in court, his father yelled out, love you, jack! the response love you, too, dad. five. outside the courthouse to share his family thrust into the spotlight with national security interests at stake, said nothing to cheryl was an i. t specialist with the massachusetts air national guard , he enlisted before graduating high school, his senior year photo quote that now appears prophetic actions speak louder tha