good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for sharing your morning with us the back half of the weekend. easy start to the sunday smile is so big this morning. i m feeling good. i m feeling good. here s what we re watching for you this morning. special operation forces evacuated american personnel from the u. s embassy during heavy fighting and clashes in sudan. now u. s officials are trying to figure out ways to help private american citizens as the crisis intensifies. a team of cnn reporters will have the latest showdown takes shape and washington house speaker mccarthy scrambles to unite his party on a debt ceiling plan. can you get the votes to avoid a financial crisis and will president biden and mccarthy be able to see i to ii before time runs out, plus a wake up call. a new study reveals an alarming number of teams admit to abusing 80 hd medications. what s behind the rise and what you can do to protect yo
Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases
rule in sudan, but they can t agree over who will ultimately be in charge of this to fighting forces. and that is why this place victor camera. appreciate that. larry madonna. thank you. joining me now is cnn military analyst and retired air force. colonel cedric leighton. leighton good morning to you, colonel. first off, talk to us about how difficult an operation like this was to pull off. can you just walk us through the planning and also the execution of it? i mean, we heard from us officials that this was fast and clean. yeah i m really good morning. this is one of the most intricate operations that the u. s military performs. basically what you need to be able to do is you need to have a flight route that gets you into a hostile place like cartoon and then be able to extract not only yourself, but the people that you re coming to rescue, so this is a very difficult thing to do . it requires a lot of pre planning both from an aviation perspective as well as a from a tactical and o
reporter: no other gun man is found. at this point it looked like he acted alone. reporter: officials won t say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if he s cooperating. randi kaye, cnn, new york. let s get much more on this. i want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. great to have you on the program. we want to talk about airport security to start off with. should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when he d already flagged himself up to authorities? absolutely. it is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. the fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
this may lead to clues, though from an aviation perspective and show us there may be other parties involved as well. we can t rule out that there may have been something wrong with the aircraft. brian alexander, thank you very much. thank you, brooke. coming up next what is this piece? what does it do? i want to help you better understand what it is because we ll take you to a tarmac and look firsthand at this boeing 777 flaperon. we spoke to an expert who actually noticed something on this plane that you are looking at that is missing on the piece off the island. we ll show you up close, next.