this juneteenth, i m chris jansing. with begin with developments in donald trump s classified documents case and a new ruling from the magistrate judge with strict restrictions around classified documents and warning to him and his defense team that they cannot release evidence to the public or the media ahead of trial. but will the former president cooperate? meantime, the one competitor who trump trails in the polls is slow rolling his start two months after officially announcing his reelect campaign, his first rally over the weekend, and today, his pitch to voters and donors in california. and what we know about secretary blinken s high stakes meeting in beijing, can it calm international fears over the chill between these two countries. and multiple states under dangerous weather warnings at this hour. we ve got the latest on the deaths, the impact across the southern region and that weekend of severe storms and tornadoes we ll have a live report from texas now unde
good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 30th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it is the back half of the weekend. my favorite day. make it yours? mine is saturday. really? sunday is my big family day. get to grill out and hang out and no wake-up time. make it count. here s what we re watching for you this morning. he is a threat to the community and we need the community s help to, hopefully, locate him soon. texas police and the fbi are looking for a man who allegedly killed five of his neighbors. the youngest victim just 8 years old. the simple request that led up to this shooting. private u.s. citizens trapped in sudan amid the conflict are out of the country. the evacuation coming amid growing anger from americans who felt abandoned by the u.s. government as the conflict broke out. how this convoy came together and what happens next. a tornado watch is in effect across parts of florida this morning a day aft
out the second largest failed bank in u.s. history we re going to have the latest on this developing financial crisis. tell you what, it was a crazy weekend. yesterday, the white house working along with people across the financial industry, doing everything they could to stop a meltdown. yeah. and it looked in the early afternoon like that meltdown was coming they understood that china s markets were going to be opening at 8:00, 9:00 at night, and they had to get things lined up before then so the asian markets didn t collapse, which would cause u.s. markets to collapse this morning it was touch and go, as you know. yeah. because we were on a lot of calls yesterday afternoon. it was touch and go for quite some time. it looks like, for now, they ve stemmed the bleeding but this, for a while, was looking like it could spread much like 2008. absolutely. meanwhile, mike pence finds the courage to speak out on donald trump, but only behind closed doors and off camer
immediate steps that are being taken to try to keep gas prices under control. the other thing that continues, we think, to be very important, is to hold oil companies accountable. you know, just about everybody in this country is frustrated with the extraordinarily high price of gas, except for oil executives who have made it clear they re not going to invest in production when they re as profitable as they are. that s why the president has called for use it or lose it rules if an oil company is sitting on production permits or leases and not using it to do the kind of production that could lower the cost of oil, that they re held accountable for that. right now, there was unified, congressional opposition, but we think it s a good one that would make a difference for consumers who are feeling the pain at the pump. secretary, i know you re here to talk about transportation, but unfortunately many days we have to talk about gun violence, and so given the latest mass shooting
commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, what