were back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. us diplomatic personnel and their families are now safely out of sudan as the african nation descends into increasing violence. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti and a dramatic overnight evacuation about 100. us special operations forces carried out a daring mission today, the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. and the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and arrival paramilitary group more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000, potentially as many as 19,000 americans in sudan. most though, are dual nationals and our correspondents are well positioned here. and overseas to bring you all of the angles of this developing story. let s go to cnn s sam kiley live from djibouti. he s gonna be there in just a moment. let s begin with cnn s oren liebermann . he s over at the pentagon o
border now away from ukraine. there is no question nato is relevant. it is effective. finland and sweden make nato stronger. the january 6 select committee once again has in its sights a republican member of congress. and republicans are now asking for the capitol police to release the video in question here. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. minutes from now, u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea to begin his very first az i sia trip as president, he will spend most of the weekend holding talks with the now south korea president and then heading to japan where he will meet with their prime minister and indian and australian leaders. this comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but he says he hopes to, quote, confirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. paula hancock is live in seoul for us. so an unwelcome/welcome gifts of sorts with some kind of weapons tests expected to be conducted during o
Blamed the Israeli Military for explosion. But after investigating the matter, israel said they have evidence that the cause of the blast was a failed rocket blast from Islamic Jihad. Israeli Officials Say the damage does not suggest an israeli missile. A spokesman for the Israeli Defense forces told me that the failed rocket from the Islamic Jihad was caught live on al jazeera. They were broad casting it live, and i have an image here of the launch of the broad cast. I screen captured what they did. You can see this is just 6 59, you see the al jazeera emblem. Thats the rocket that fell into the hospital. Israelis released audio of individuals who they claim are members of hamas discussing the inc incident, acknowledging that it was Islamic Jihad and the failed rocket fell near the hospital. The u. S. National Security Council reaffirmed that initial intelligence does not suggest that israel was behind the blast as they issued this updated statement this evening, saying the u. S. Gove
Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. The two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and its only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. Cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. Were live. Ed, what is the latest that youre seeing . Actually were going to show you the video of the moment when it happened.
question about whether it could collapse. as this hours long operation took place. take a look at that map there they had to get and this is three helicopters from djibouti across ethiopia. sudan safely land in khartoum on the ground for less than an hour load up the diplomatic staff, the family members and a few other nationals less than 100, but a significant number. and then get everybody out. and that includes, of course, the 100 troops. special operations forces who were part of this back the way they came a refueling stop in ethiopian all the way back out, so at any point along this route, the ceasefire could have got could have fallen apart. even more. the fighting could have gotten worse. there could have been all sorts of technical issues, but the operation went off. i don t want to say without a hitch, but president joe biden made the decision to go ahead with this operation, and it was executed well, and we got news late last night of the safe evacuation of the embassy. of c