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of our viewers around the world and to our viewers joining us from the u. s and canada. i'm leila rock and you're watching cnn newsroom for nationals have been evacuated from sudan as fighting between the military and paramilitary forces stretches now into a second week . hours ago, the us confirmed that all american diplomats were on their way out of the country and that the u. s embassy in the capital khartoum has been temporarily closed. cnn's oren lieberman has the details. a successful mission carried out in the dark of night in sudan to evacuate the u. s embassy in khartoum, according to us officials. three chanukah helicopters took off from djibouti some 750 or 800, miles away from khartoum flew into the country landed, secured the embassy and then brought out all of the embassy staff and their family members, a group of just under 100 people, according to us officials, who briefed reporters on the operation and what happened around it during the operation and afterwards.
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they were then brought out to ethiopia again a distance of some 750 or 800 miles, so the operation itself took several hours and consisted of about 100 troops, all of them special operations forces with the embassy staff successfully pulled out of the country. it is the temporary closure of the u. s embassy in khartoum. us officials said. they do hope there's an opportunity here a ceasefire that holds a resolution between the two warring parties there and an opportunity to reopen the embassy. but that is an enormous question. as the fighting there enters its second week the u. s was looking for a window of opportunity, a ceasefire that holds essentially to be able to evacuate the embassy itself, and the weekend brought that opportunity with the little federal holiday. the two warring parties committed to the ceasefire, even though there were reports of violations of that ceasefire. in the end, president joe biden made the decision to go ahead with the operation to evacuate the embassy. now a large question. what about all the u. s
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nationals? the private citizens who remain in the country, and there are thousands of them, many of them dual citizens, sudanese american right now they have no help at the embassy with the closure of the embassy, but us officials did say they are considering options. for land routes there if that's the way out of the country for many of these citizens, defense officials said they are considering surveilling the land routes out and setting up perhaps naval option a maritime option at ports sudan and they're looking at creating deconfliction lines so that to assist in the evacuation of u. s citizens there who are trying to make their way out of the country again that under consideration a very difficult question, with the fighting continuing, but as we learned on saturday night the successful evacuation of the u. s embassy in khartoum under 100 people there, the diplomatic staff and their family members brought safely out of the country via helicopter. oren liebermann, cnn at the pentagon. for more. i want to bring in cnn military
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analyst at colonel cedric leighton. so good to have you with us. he's joining us from washington, d c. i imagine everybody is breathing a sigh of relief. whether they certainly this is one of the most difficult operations to plan because the detail the amount of intricate detail that you need to go through in order to make something like this work is really incredible. everything from you know, knowing which way the wind blows and what the temperatures are to actually knowing what the forces are like on the ground what their disposition is what their attitude is. you know, if there's been fighting, you wouldn't with the last few hours , those kinds of things become incredibly important and that's why these missions are so difficult to plan. they take so much time and even such preparations. it's very possible that something like this can go wrong, very, very quickly. exactly because and i want us to talk a little bit more and flesh it a little bit out in terms of
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what goes into planning an extraction of diplomatic personnel like this one and their families in what is an active urban warfare very chaotic, very violent, very unpredictable. and where not a single ceasefire has held yeah, that's exactly right. it is the most non permissive of non permissive environments and the reason i say it that way is because you know, in the normal situation, people can come in and go as they please. this is the exact opposite of that. and that very fact means that not only do all the logistical aspect of an operation like this have to be home to the ends degree, but the other part of it is this they need to the military. forces engaged in this need to know what to the local commanders are doing on the ground to local commanders in this case of the rsf and the sudanese army. they need to know what their attitudes are. what then people are going to be
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doing how much control they were exercising over their own people and whether or not they can trust them enough. to in essence , safe passage from the embassy compound to the airport to that point of embarkation and wondering what lessons do you think that have been learned from the widely criticized afghanistan? evacuations might have been applied here. but i think one of the key things is the timing of this. you know in a i think leyland one of these situations, you know, with the afghan situation. in particular , there was a big delay before people were actually evacuated. we were even the evacuation started. this is something that was done, you know? yes it was a reaction to what was going on on the ground, but it was more of a proactive approach to what was happening, as opposed to reactive approach. which and that that was something that i think it was partly due to lessons learned from afghanistan
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, and i think also what the americans wanted to do was avoid the chaos that we saw in kabul back in the best of 2021. they wanted to avoid that as much as possible. extricate the americans and then make sure that they were brought to safety before i you know whatever happens next in the sudanese conflict takes place. my final question to you. i mean these decisions. they raised some very , very hard and difficult questions. the decision about who to leave behind because obviously there are still americans, civilians in sudan. you know what about dual citizens? what about sudanese staff who work at diplomatic u. s diplomatic missions in the country that are stuck there? yeah this is a you know, often very heartbreaking situation because you know, in some cases, dual nationals will want to stay in the location like cartoon in spite of the danger, but in many cases they want to leave as
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well. and you know, it becomes a question of capacity and the ability to get people in and out , so it's a question as much of logistics is of desire. you know , clearly, people want to help as many people as they possibly can, especially those that are worked for the u. s embassy. but it becomes a matter of being able to do things safely. and this is where you know they need guarantees of safety for a larger group of people. it's one thing to bring out 77 or so personnel. it's quite another to bring out 16,000. and that, of course, is going to be a very, very tough ask no matter what happens next in this conflict in sudan. cedric leighton. thank you. thank you very much. you bet, leila. abortion rights advocates are celebrating the u. s. supreme court's move to preserve access to a commonly used abortion drug, but the protection may not last long, and now canada is offering a backup plan for american women details next plus perfect
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challenge. the texas case that challenged the strong 23 year old fda approval. that's back to the fifth circuit court for an appeal on may 17th. well the debate over abortion rights in the us has spilled now into neighboring canada. government minister there has made it clear canada will provide americans access to the drug destro. if it were to be banned in the united states. cnn's paula newton has more now from ottawa. the abortion debate in the united states not happening in a vacuum . of course, many jurisdictions around the world taking note and that includes canada. now justin trudeau's government is on the record as saying it is unequivocally pro choice and will continue to be and in a really interesting move before the supreme court came out with its ruling on friday, canadian minister weighed in saying that the canadian government would do what it could in order to help american women access those
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abortion drugs that they could no longer get them in the united states. despite the ruling, her office in fact, released a statement to cnn saying, we stand in solidarity with american women standing up for their rights to access reproductive and sexual health care, including their access to abortion. we have discussed what canada's support for american women in need might be and those discussions are still ongoing. now. what's interesting here is that the minister herself, karina gould pointed out that what they do not want to do is place american women in further legal jeopardy. how might that happen, even if they offer to give american women abortion certainly access to abortion pills if they need it? they believe, and they have heard from states in the united states , saying that they will criminalize that that they have threatened to prosecute women who crossed state borders or perhaps access abortion drugs in order to have an abortion, and for that reason, canada says that they continue to watch this
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issue carefully, and they are seeing how they can proceed. and cnn ottawa. in texas, the state senate there has passed a bill that would require public schools to prominently display the 10 commandments in every classroom. the legislation passed earlier this week by a 17 to 12 vote. it will now head to the states house of representatives, the state's governor says, bringing the 10 commandments back to our public schools will enable our students to become better texans. however the move has drawn backlash from civil liberties advocates who say lawmakers should not dictate what religious materials students are exposed to. meanwhile, in california around 250,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the los angeles river, prompting closure of seven miles of public beaches. county officials say the spill was caused by a malfunction in equipment used by sanitation
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maintenance crews. cnn's camilo bernal has more. it's unclear exactly when the beach will be open again. officials say they're going to be testing the water and we'll let people know as soon as it's safe to get back in the water, but it is a beautiful day in southern california. so many people out on the beach. a lot of them do not even know that the beach is closed. it is a lifeguard walking up and down the beach, telling people look, you should not be in the water. there's a number of signs that tell you that the beach is closed. but some people just came here without knowing and maybe missed the sign officials saying it is not safe and we've spoken to people who got in the water and we're told, hey, maybe you should get out of the water. here's one of these california residents. soon we found out we were kind of discussed it. but what can we do now? like all the way to get to the cab and go home, took a shower and this bill happened on thursday, the waste overflowed into the
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streets. eventually going into the l a river. they were able to clean that up on thursday, but all of that went into the l a river and eventually made it here to the ocean. which is why officials say you should not be in the water at least until they say it is safe to do so. camila burnell, cnn, long beach, california. the department of environmental protection in maine is telling a rail company to do a better job cleaning up its mess following a derailment and fuel spill that happened last weekend when a c k p c c freight trains spilled 500 gallons of diesel fuel. it's saturated the ground and fouled local waterways in the state is threatening to take over the cleanup. and build the railway. but the real way, he says, it's committed to a full cleanup. meanwhile florida governor ron desantis plans to request a major disaster declaration for the flood stage devastated southeast florida 10 days ago,
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he declared a state of emergency in broward county on april 13 if the white house approves the request. it would provide federal assistance for public infrastructure and also for more for the more than 1000 homes damaged by the flood, and that was startling scene in utah as two houses. slid from their foundations and off a cliff the how the homes had been empty for several months of facebook post from the city of draper, utah, said the buildings were deemed unfit for human habitation in october because shifting of the ground below cost cracks in the foundation to adjacent houses have been evacuated and the rest of the neighborhood will be evaluated for safety concerns. championship is not a word very often associated with wrexham football. but today it is the clubs to celebrity owners now have a glittering trophy and something even better promotion
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was always to preserve her original footage and then try to make it as seamless as possible . there were careful decisions made as to what cinematographer would be continuing her work, and bianca klein is fantastic and is honoring helena's vision by maintaining her work. and civil suit against baldwin by some of hutchins family members is proceeding us gymnastics star and olympic gold medalist simone biles is now married to nfl player jonathan owens. couple shared these pictures on social media on saturday, announcing their wedding biles also caption them. quote i do officially owns while the announcement comes just days after the two posted a picture, holding what appeared to be a texas marriage license, and they met online. and right before the covid 19 pandemic it now for a little football team from a small town. it's a moment that could only come from hollywood wrexham fc marooned for 15 years at the bottom of
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british football. gets bought by two celebrities and has now won a championship and a promotion to the english football league. world sports. don riddell explains why this is a very big deal. if you're a fan of the television show, welcome to wrexham. here's a spoiler alert . season two is going to have a very happy ending. wrexham have been promoted back into the football league. now. cnn sports wouldn't normally focus on a team that plays in the fifth tier of english football. but this team now has a global fan base thanks to the involvement of their celebrity owners ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenney. on saturday, wrexham were at home to boram would knowing that promotion was within their grasp , but they made a disastrous start, conceding a goal within the very first minute. them have been brilliant this season, especially at home and the equally shortly afterwards when elliot lee was given a free header. welsh club knew that they had to pick up three points from one of their last two games of the season to guarantee promotion, and it was fitting
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that their talismanic star paul mullen, delivered the result with a couple of brilliant second half strikes. that's how they did it. hollywood, ending a 31 win, which unleashed scenes of unbridled joy at the racecourse ground. the owners were emotional. the fans were just delirious, and everybody here senses that this could be just the beginning of a wonderful story for this club and for this community. okay? well i'm not sure i can actually process what happened tonight. i'm still a little speechless. i know that the one thing that's running through my head over and over again, as people said at the beginning, i wrexham. why rex? exactly why wrexham happening right now is why you've put so much into this project. how does it how does it feel when it finally feels like it's paying off? well i think we can hear how it feels to the town, and that's what's most important to us that i think this is a moment of catharsis for them and celebration and for us to be welcomed into their community and to be welcomed into this experience has been the honor of my life. rob
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mcelhenney has always said that the goal is to get this team into the premier league. and it might be rather difficult for some american sports fans to understand that it would be like a single a baseball team working their way up into the majors. they always sunny in philadelphia star told me that he knows people laugh at him. when he says it. he knows they raised their eyebrows. but he is deadly serious. that's the goal. and now fans all over the world must believe that anything is possible with this team back to you. the australian comedian who created one of the world's most outrageous drag characters, has died. they edna average satirical alter ego of barry humphries became a worldwide sensation during a seven decade career, died at 89 after complications from hip surgery. very humphries through his 89 years. enormous contribution to australia, and he also showcased
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that uniquely australian sense of humor to the world. he will be missed by so many of his family. loved ones. and indeed, here's one off the most loved of australians and i pay tribute to him today. to his enormous contribution to australia. humphries began as an actor, creating the housewife edna average in the 19 fifties, the act was a staple on talk shows where the irreverent character poked fun at everyone freeze even picked up a special tony award on broadway. australia's prime minister called him an absolute one of a kind. game at this hour of cnn newsroom i'm leila horak. thank you so much for spending this part of your day with me. i'll be back with more news in just a moment. hi
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