striking a bird, and what we are learning about this. and a prom turns into a nightmare after 19 are injured when bullets start flying. we are following these developing stories and much more as they come in right here at cnn news central. a race to get out as people are rushing to get their people out of sudan. special forces have now carried out a risky operation to get the u.s. embassy officials and families out of khartoum. this is a photo of antony blinken monitoring situation. the u.s. government is warning an estimated 16,000 americans remaining there and many of them dual citizens after a large scale operation of those who want to leave is not happening now. the u.s. is facilitating evacuations in other ways. more from the white house in a moment, but sam kiley is in djibouti where the operation began. sam, this seems like a global retreat. global retreat is the exact way to put it. here we have a french air force long distance cargo plane. that has been, we u
military now to provide f-16s. the president discussing the possibility of us being involved there for a year to three years out at this point. so john kirby will join us from the national security council. lots of questions on covid, china and ukraine in just a few moments. winter weather await reaction from the white house as the department of energy joins the fbi in its thinking that covid-19 may actually have leaked from the lab in china, the wuhan lab. virology lab. it s the latest in several collapses of the covid policy that locked down, masked up and mandated the united states for over two years. this is a big deal. one of the biggest revelations that the naysayers now have is a 180 or natural immunity. a new study finds that one bout of covid is better than two covid vaccine shots in protection. that is published in lancet. remember, early on they were singing a very different tune. they said absolutely didn t come from the lab. we re talking about why they might h
we know what works on this. it includes let s have an assault weapons ban. vice president made the remarks before attending the funeral for one of the mass shooting victims in buffalo just a day before president biden travels to texas to mourn the lives of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. there s growing outrage in that town about the police response at the shooting. that the police chief chose to wait to confront the gunman, a devastating explanation that shatters the narrative of a quick response. i was misled. i am livlivid. those who deserve explanations are the families whose lives have been destroyed. they need answers that are accurate, and it is inexcusable that they may have suffered from any inaccurate information whatsoever. for about 80 minutes, students and teachers in two classrooms sat helpless, tewhil the gunman was telling them they were going to die. calls were from young children begging to send the police now. the entire time the police
the secretary of state is back in israel trying to stop the war from restarting. secretary of state antony blinken front is and center for negotiations. can he help secure the release of the eight americans still being held hostage by the terrorist group hamas before bombs start dropping again. plus one of the innocent palestinian college students in vermont describes the moment that the gunman came after him and his friends. he didn t hesitate without a word to just run down the stairs of the porch. his family says this crime was motivated by bigotry. so why no hate crime charges? plus a gag order just r reinstated on donald trump. who keeps personally attack ing the judge and his clerk in that civil fraud trial. prompting anti-semitic death threats. the judge s new warning as trump has ordered once again to zip his lips. we start with our world lead wrrks we could be just hours away from the end of the pause in fighting between israel hamas and the resumption of t
start to understand whether andy, i have to interrupt you for a moment, because evan perez is telling us that the law enforcement has confirmed the shoot ser er is dead. so we have that information who is getting it right every single time, evan perez, and he saying that they know the shooter is dead. that is the breaking news coming in from the law enforcement official that the shoot er is pronounced dead. it is helpful, but there are a lot of questions, were they a student or faculty member or staff at the school. all of those answers will help us to understand better what they might have been trying to accomplish, and was this like we have seen in michigan and memphis and other school shootings, a student who is