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♪ the race to flee war-torn sudan, this morning countries around the world rushing to get citizens to safety. u.s. diplomats and their families airlifted from the u.s. embassy with an estimated 16,000 americans still there. what the white house is now saying. president biden is ready to launch his reelection bid, new details on those plans. the thinking of those around him and a new poll that suggests most democrats are still on the fence about another biden run. a scary site in the friendly skies, fire erupting on two planes within days, one midair after a possible bird strike, the other during takeoff. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn "news central." ♪
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happening now, a global race to evacuate diplomats and citizens from sudan as the intense fighting rages on. over the last 24 hours at least 1,000 people have fled the violence by air, scene after scene of u.s. allies packing cargo planes just hours after u.s. officials confirmed that all u.s. personnel had been removed. on president biden's order and under the cover of darkness u.s. special ops flew into the war-torn capital city, the troops were on the ground less than one that are before airlifting nearly 100 u.s. diplomats, staff and their family members out. at this hour roughly 16,000 americans remain in sudan, most of them hold dual citizenship. much more on that in just a moment. but first the world health organization says clashes between rival military factions have now killed more than 400 people, 4,000 others have been wounded. cnn's sam kiley is in djibouti
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which is where many diplomats and families and others have been evacuated to. sam, why don't you tell us what you are seeing there. >> reporter: it's run out -- >> sam, john berman in new york. can you hear me? sam? sam kiley obviously is in djibouti having a hard time hearing our coms. djibouti is of course on the coast on the red sea coast of africa. the u.s. has a very large military base there. that is where a good many u.s. personnel, the diplomatic personnel and their families, have been taken to. sam has been seeing them coming in there. we will try to get sam back in just a moment. first, though, let's go to kate. >> we will get back to sam on the ground there very quickly. as john has been discussing president biden now says all u.s. government personnel have been evacuated from the region. the state department leading the effort to coordinate the evacuation. let's get more on that, cnn's kylie atwood is at the state department with the very latest.
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kylie, what are you learning about the other americans still in sudan? what are you hearing from the state department this morning? >> reporter: listen, it's a complicated picture for those americans who are still in sudan because what the state department said over the weekend is that they have no expectation that they are going to be running a u.s. government-led evacuation for those american citizens like they did for the u.s. diplomats. that's pretty typical. when u.s. citizens are stuck stuck in a country traditionally they have to follow the guidelines that the state department gives them leading up to any sort of crisis. for more than a year now the state department has been telling americans not to travel to sudan and so what they are sea saying now is that they still want to be in touch with those americans, they still want to provide them with support. what they're doing is they are offering them some convoys that are going out of the country led by other countries. so the uae and turkey are leading some convoys, we also heard from the nsc's john kirby earlier this morning saying that there is a u.n. convoy headed to port sudan and that has dozens
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of american citizens in that convoy. he also said that the u.s. is going to work on getting unmanned assets to monitor those convoys. essentially drones that can make sure that there aren't any issues, any conflicts with those convoys along the way. and then the u.s. military has assets, navy assets at port sudan to try to help those americans, you know, get to a safer place. but the complicated picture here is that, you know, there are about 16,000 americans that are in the country. of course, many of those are probably not only american citizens, but also citizens of sudan, it's their home, many of them aren't going to want to leave. but what we're going to be watching for here is the pressure potentially mounting on the biden administration to see if these convoys work out of the country that are already being led and if they don't what more the biden administration can or should do to support those americans. but for now what they're saying is that it would be even more dangerous for those americans on the ground if the u.s. were to actually try to evacuate more of
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them by flight like they did over the weekend with those diplomats. >> we're in touch with hundreds of american citizens that are there who want -- who may want to leave, it's up to them of course to decide to do that. we're doing the best we can to give them the information that they need that they can rely on and to do so safely, but honestly the fighting in khartoum is not a situation where we would want people moving about too freely or too aggressively right now. the safest thing for many americans to do who didn't get out when they were warned to get out is to stay safe and see if the situation can improve. >> reporter: and of course one of the concerning things, kate, is connectivity, communication with those americans who are still there. we heard this morning on cnn this morning from the family member of a woman who is there with her young child, an american teacher who is there with her child who is about just a year and a half years old and her family hasn't been able to be in touch with her for more than 18 hours now and that is of
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course because of the fighting that has been ongoing. there are a lot of concerns for americans at home who have family members in sudan. >> absolutely. kylie, we will have a sister with two brothers who have been caught up in khartoum, she will be joining us in the next hour. in the meantime, there's a lot of moving parts clearly as the violence is getting worse not better, kylie atwood is at the state department tracking t john, over to you. >> communication has been hard for us, too. our sam kiley we had a hard time speaking so, he is in djibouti on the coast which is where many americans have been evacuated to. sam, if you can hear me, tell us what you're seeing there. >> reporter: john, here in djibouti this is the center now of a global effort, one of the kind of i would venture a very rare gathering of the elite troops from around the world from countries from south korea and japan, all the way to the united states of america,
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europe, british sas have been on the ground here, part of the evacuation that they organized yesterday involved an 18 kilometer move by british troops guarding a group of 100 plus britains and others. when the british man that evacuation by air out of an air base on the outskirts of khartoum, a less problematic evacuation in some ways because they were able to land fixed wing aircraft, unlike the americans who went in with helicopters. but in both cases, the level of fighting now makes it extremely difficult for people to get aircraft in. there are attempts ongoing, it's quite difficult frankly to keep track with how many people from different countries are being moved because there are so many different countries involved. the french and germans have recently landed back in their home territories with people that they have evacuated, the egyptians are moving people over land, uganda has 300 people on the move in a bus convoy heading to the ethiopian border. all of this going on when the
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sudanese themselves overwhelmingly are trapped alongside those estimated 16,000 americans and international contributors to sudan in particular, aid workers, scattered throughout the country. the focus of the fighting is in khartoum, but it is country-wide and that is posing very serious problems. now, there is a lot of effort going into looking at port sudan as a possible exit point for people who are being evacuated but as we heard earlier on, the effort of getting there is going to be left largely to individuals. the emirates have been trying to organize von choice but there is no armed escort international organization for an army effectively for civilians to get out to port sudan and there is a catastrophic shortage of food, fuel, water, and of course the vehicles are in short supply amidst the chaos. >> the land route evacuations they're vast, they are dangerous, it's complicated, which is why djibouti where you are is such an important place
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to airlift people out if they have the resources to do that. the u.s. operation to get embassy staff and personnel to where you are, sam, how complicated a mission was it? >> reporter: well, it's extremely complicated effort, which is why it could only involve a relatively small number of evacuees. what the americans did was taking with them some british members of the special air services, part of the british effort, they flew in with three helicopter -- helicopters of chinook helicopters via ethiopia where they refueled and then had to fly very, very low, these are relatively slow-moving aircraft, in order to avoid any possibility of ground fire effectively if you are very low you can get over people before they realize you're there. then they spent less than an hour on the ground having pre-positioned the people that they were going to evacuate in an american compound and then taking off and then flying them back to ethiopia.
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this is all being conducted at a time when the sudden anese is continuing air attacks. a highly complex operation, not one you can do to evacuate thousands of people at all. >> great to have you there. please keep us posted throughout the morning, sam. thank you. at the heart of this conflict in sudan these two men, sudan's military leader and the commander of a paramilitary group known as the rapid support forces until recently the two were allies. they gained power during the bloody conflict nearly two decades ago. nearly 2.5 million people were displaced in the violence. in 2019 they worked together to topple ousted sudanese president
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al bashir, i was behind ethnic cleansing in the darfour region. two years ago they played a pivotal role in a military coup. the coup ended what was supposed to be a power sharing agreement, a deal between military and civilian groups but tensions started to rise over who would be the subordinate in that new hierarchy. president biden set to announce his campaign for reelection tomorrow and this morning we have new details on the president's thoughts offer the weekend as he works to finalize that announcement. cnn's arlette saenz is at the white house this morning. arlette, spill. what are we expecting today? >> reporter: john, president biden spent the weekend at camp david, a weekend intended for him to go through some of the final details before launching this campaign. now, his advisories have been
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working towards release ago video likely tomorrow, rolling out that campaign, timed to the four-year anniversary of when he entered the race back in 2019, but the president has also been working through some of the other operational and staffing details related to this campaign. one of those key items is who exactly would be running the day to day operation and democratic sources have told us that the president is expected to name julie chavez rodriguez as the campaign manager. rodriguez is one of the most senior aides here at the white house serving as the director of the white house's office of intergovernmental affairs. that means she coordinates and works with state and local officials in trying to implement the president's agenda. she also had been promoted to a senior advisor just last summer and has long been known in democratic political operative circles and is also the granddaughter of the labor icon cesar chavez. rodriguez would be expected one named and once this campaign rolls out, she would be expected to work hand in hand with so many of those senior advisers
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here at the white house who have been sketching out what this campaign would look like. currently all eyes still remain on tomorrow for president biden to possibly launch this campaign. >> what is the political environment that the white house and the fledgeling biden campaign see as he plans to announce for tomorrow? >> reporter: john, some of the challenges president biden would face in a reelection are starting to come into view. so much of this centers around recent polling that has shown the majority of americans do not believe president biden should run for a second term. within his own democratic party he is also facing headwinds. a little over half of americans believe that the president shouldn't seek reelection this time around. now, if you break down those voters who do not think that the president should run for reelection for nearly half of them, 48%, they say his age is a major issue. president biden is 80 years old. he would be 82 at inauguration and 86 at the end of his second term if he were to win in 2024. now, the president's advisers
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don't believe that this will have much impact in the long run. you've heard from his allies arguing that he has a strong record to run on and that they believe viewers would ultimately side with him when they take a look at the alternatives being presented on the republican side. but this will be one of the challenges that president biden will face heading into that reelection when he announces. >> arlette saenz for us at the white house, i expect we will get more details dribbling out today before this video releases. so great to have you there. thanks, arlette. kate? more than four years after the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history jury selection begins today in the trial of a man accused of killing 11 people at that pittsburgh synagogue. plus a dragon at disneyland bursts into flames. it is not part of any show. the details on what happened there also coming up. and bed bath & beyond in bankruptcy, what happens now and what it means for your 20% off coupons that are about to become worthless. that's coming up on cnn "news central."
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really scary moments in the sky and now the faa is investigating an engine on an american airlines flight, look at that, burst into flames after a possible bird strike. that is not what you want to see out of your window. the plane turned around, but did manage to land safely in columbus. >> there was a lot of, you know, hand holding, you know, a lot of people closing their eyes and trying to text their loved ones and so forth like that. so it was scary. i mean, it's not something you deal with. >> cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, there was this incident, i think, on sunday and then days earlier another american airlines flight had an issue. what is going on here? >> reporter: well, you know, the latest incident here, sara, the good news is nobody was injured in either of those incidents but
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the latest one, american flight 1958 just took off from port columbus gallon jen international airport in ohio on its way to phoenix when passengers said they pretty quickly realized something was amiss on climb out. they heard this pulsing noise and looked out the window to see flames coming from the right engine. apparently a bird strike according to the flight crew. i want you to listen now to the air traffic control audio we obtained in which the crew said they had to return to the airport for a bird strike, calm, cool and collected, they were able to do that pretty easily, declared an emergency. listen. >> may day, may day, may day. american 1958 we had a bird strike and an engine failure. >> american 1958 roger. can you make it with traffic back to the runway? >> we're straight up for now.
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>> reporter: pilots having to drive straight to work through the engine. one engine on a 737 really no big deal, there are two engines, the plane flies okay on one. the best possible solution is come back and land. bird strikes are going up a little bit. there was a bit of a dip in 2020 when there weren't as many flights, although there are more flights now, a lot of things going into this. airplanes are getting quieter, easier for pilots to report bird strikes because there is no mountain of paperwork anymore, they can report these online. a big issue during migratory times. 85% of bird strikes involve commercial airliners, although the good news is that so few of them result in injuries. we are talking about .1% over the last 30 years, although typically bad news for the bird, sara. >> i'm pretty sure, pete, i heard you say no big deal because it was just one engine because you are a pilot it's no big deal to you. scary. thank you, pete muntean.
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kate? >> thanks, sara. jury selection is under way in the trial of the man accused of carrying out the mass shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue back in 2018. that attack was the deadliest attack on jewish people in u.s. history. the massacre killed 11 members of three different jewish congregations. cnn's danny freeman is in pittsburgh for us, he's joining us now. danny, what are you hearing about what could happen today in court and also what this trial is going to look like? >> reporter: absolutely, kate. well, as you said, this trial just got under way earlier this morning just before 9:00 a.m., jury selection is happening right now. i was actually in the courthouse watching on a video feed when the judge talked to all of the potential jurors and also n notably in that courtroom was robert bowers the defendant in this case, i can describe him, he was sit doing unin the front row wearing a green-grayish sweater with a collar looking down as the judge read out instructions to the potential
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jury, the jurors, the judge said, might have to determine if they sentence robert bowers to either life in prison or to death in this high-profile case. let me back up and give folks and viewers a little bit of a reminder as to how this case unfolded from the beginning. october 27, 2018, it was a saturday morning, that's when prosecutors said mr. robert bowers arrived at the tree of life synagogue in squirrel hill about five miles away from where we are right now with multiple guns. as you said, there were members of three jewish congregations who were there worshipping at the time. prosecutors said at that point bowers fired at the synagogue and then went in and fired indiscriminately at members in there who were, again, just worshipping. prosecutors say bowers said during that attack that he wanted to still jews and later they found multiple social media posts that said anti-semitic things as well. now, i will say 11 people were killed, others were injured, and bowers was also charged with multiple hate crimes at this
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federal level, that's why we are talking about a death penalty case right here. now, kate, one of the interesting things is that bowers has on his defense team defense attorney judy clark, she has represented other high-profile federal death penalty case defendants like one of the brothers in the boston marathon bombings, also the unabomber. the defense team has tried to throw out the death penalty cases a spect right now, that has not happened so far. as of now jurors will have to find that and that jury selection is under way right now. >> much more to come. danny, thank you very much. from pittsburgh for us. kevin mccarthy and the make or break test he is now facing as house speaker. the vote that mccarthy desperately wants republicans to get behind. and amazing and terrifying all at once. mostly terrifying. the moment a skier falls into a huge crevasse in the alps and it's all on camera. ur life... mom!
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so some news just in. we've learned that ambassador susan rice who is the white house domestic policy adviser is stepping down. rice joined the biden administration just after the inauguration in 2021, she held a number of previous positions. she was the u.s. ambassador to the united nations under president obama and then ultimately his national security adviser when she joined the biden white house, as i said, she was a key adviser leading domestic policy. president biden thanked rice for her work in the administration,
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writing, quote, there is no one more capable and more determined to get important things done for the american people than susan rice. kate? there's also this into cnn, hunter biden's lawyers are making another big offensive push to defend him against republican investigations in congress. cnn has learned that his legal team is now demanding an investigation into why a trump aide had hunter biden's banking records and they also are going after congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. paula reid has this new reporting and is joining us now. what's going on here? >> this is part of a more aggressive strategy by hunter biden's legal team that has been implemented over the past several months as the criminal investigation into hunter biden appears to stall and of course republicans took over the house and made it crystal clear that hunter biden would be one of their prime targets. in these letters that were sent today the first letter to the treasury's office of inspector general, biden's legal team is asking for an investigation into
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how former trump aide garrett ziegler came to obtain and allegedly post suspicious activity reporting known as sars related to hunter biden. they allege this is, quote, an illegal conspiracy pointed to comments ziegler made on steve bannon's podcast last year where he alleged to have an insider inside one of the banks helping him to get this information. we've been told by a source familiar with the legal strategy that ziegler is a primary focus for the legal team. they have also filed a lawsuit accusing him of harassing lawyers on hooupt's team. we have reached out to ziegler's attorney for comment. they also sent a letter to the ethics office seeking an investigation into representative marjorie taylor greene for her comments which they allege have been derogatory about hunter biden as well as her, quote, promotion of conspiracy theories and publication of personal photos and data. now, the treasury office of inspector general did get back to us, they said they have received this letter and are
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reviewing it, but we have not heard back from the congresswoman's office. >> you're also hearing that hunter biden's legal team will be meeting with the department of justice. what are you hearing about this meeting? >> we broke this story on friday, this is expected to be what is described as a routine meeting. it was hunter biden's legal team that requested this g seeking an update on this long-running investigation into their client. we've learned that in attendance is expected to be at least one career justice department attorney as well as the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who has stayed on after former president trump left office and has been overseeing the investigation into hunter biden. of course that raises the question what exactly is going on with that criminal probe. we have learned from our reporting that prosecutors have narrowed possible charges down to a few possible tax crimes and possibly one charge related to a false statement in connection with a gun purchase. of course, no charges have been filed up until now and there haven't been any public events. this is the first thing that's
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actually happened publicly in this investigation in a long time, but i am told we are not likely to get a final disposition on the case from this meeting this week. >> okay. let's see. great to see you, paula. thank you. sara? let's turn to capitol hill where house speaker kevin mccarthy faces a pivotal week. mccarthy wants to unite his party around him to pass his $1.5 trillion bill that would raise the debt ceiling for a year in exchange for deep spending cuts. mccarthy says he will bring the plan up for a vote this week. he also invited president biden to discuss the debt ceiling with him, but the white house has repeatedly said it will not negotiate over a debt ceiling increase and will only accept a clean proposal to raise the nation's borrowing limit. cnn's lauren fox is tracking all of this. she joins us now live. this is perhaps mccarthy's biggest task that he has had to put forward since becoming speaker. how is he planning to thread the needle here? >> reporter: sara, a lot is on the line for house speaker kevin
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mccarthy. over the weekend he and his leadership team working overtime to try to shore up the votes they need for this proposal later this week when it comes to the floor. they are optimistic that the votes are going to be there, but he can only afford to lose four republican members of his party and conservatives are calling for more substantial cuts than what is in this proposal already. leadership not thinking that they want to change this bill at this moment knowing that if they start to tweak it now, they could run into problems with their more moderate members who are backing them up right now. so that is what leadership is facing, but the reason that this is so crucial for kevin mccarthy is that this proves to his conference he can unite them as well as proves to the white house that republicans are going to stand together in this fight on the debt ceiling. if he can't get the votes that he needs, the problem is that the white house can point back to house republicans and say, look, republicans aren't united, the only solution is to have a clean increase of the debt ceiling and that is the position that we're going to negotiate
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on. question remains is biden going to sit down with kevin mccarthy if republicans can pull that off? we just don't know right now. sara. >> we will obviously have to wait and see, lauren fox on capitol hill for us, thank you so much. on the brink, that is where troubled retailer bed bath & beyond find itself this morning. the company which is widely known for its 20% off coupons announced sunday that it's filing for bankruptcy and will, quote, begin winding down operations. this is a stunning turn around for a chain that once had more than 1,000 locations which were stacked interest floor to ceiling with pots, pans, towels and bedding. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here. where do i get a bath mat now? what does that mean for my coupons. >> the business model was you get in for the bath mat and bought everything else, too. this was a successful model for a long time but it isn't anymore and your coupons are good just through tomorrow. may 8th gift cards -- if you have gift cards find them and use them. gift cards are due until may
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8th. returns are good until may 24th. that's when these stores start to really close. this is a big going out of business sale. you have 360 bed bath & beyond stores that will be closed by june 30th according to the company in its bankruptcy filing. bye-bye babies also owned by this company 120 of those stores will close as well. this is 14,000 employees who will lose their jobs. >> the coupons by tomorrow? >> by tomorrow. find the coupons, use the coupons if you want. you've seen some of these empty shelves. they have secured the financing to wind down but this is a gigantic going out of business sale. there were management missteps along the way. you could say an uncertain retail environment but really big, big competition from amazon, target, walmart, the other big box retailers. this is a company that tried to turn itself around and just couldn't. it really pivoted to private labels and that worked at target, it did not work at bed bath & beyond. >> they were profitable until 2019. >> i know. that's absolutely right. they were profitable for decades
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and just turned around very, very swiftly. this is, you know, bed bath and bankrupt here. >> i see what you did there. i know where i will be tomorrow. christine romans, thank you for that. sara? coming up, a bill in texas that would require public school classrooms to display the ten commandments now heads to the stays house of representatives. also in texas, prom night memories turn into a nightmare when nine teens are injured during a shooting at after after prom party. we will have those stories ahead. interesting piece. let me bring in my e expert. mmm... so many scratches... oh those are from my car keys. such a rich history.y. yeah. this won't do well at auction. but at at&t, it's worth a brand-new samsung galaxy s2323. wait really? mmhmm. what about this? at&t's deal is back. wow. everyone gets a free new samsung galaxy s23 with a galaxy phone trade-in. any year, any condition.
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tennessee lawmakers who made national headlines protesting over gun reform. justin jones and justin pear son were expelled from the republican-led statehouse and reinstated by their local city councils. the white house says today's conversation about focus on gun laws. scary moments caught on tape at disneyland in california. an animatronic dragon went up in flames in the middle of the fantasmic show saturday night. everything i said there is actually true. all staff and visitors were evacuated and the fire was put out without anyone getting hurt. and in texas the state senate pass add bill making it mandatory for every public school classroom to display a copy of the ten commandments. the wording also specifies it must be in a size that makes it legible from anywhere in the room. the bill now heads to the texas house of representatives. kate? let's stay in texas for a very different reason right now. officials are investigating a possible connection between two shootings in east texas. one at an after prom party, at least nine teenagers are
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recovering from what's being described as nonlife-threatening gunshot wounds from that shooting. cnn's ed lavender ra is tracking this. what more are you learning about this and the investigation into a possible connection? >> reporter: good morning, kate. jasper county sheriffs officials say that the first shooting happened just after midnight early sunday morning, as you mentioned, at an after prom party. at least nine teenagers wounded with nonlife-threatening injuries, they were taken to two different hospitals. investigators say they do not have a motive or what led to this shooting, but investigators are also saying that there was a second shooting, exactly when that shooting happened we are not exactly sure, but investigators say that the vehicles involved in the second incident were also present at the first shooting. so they are continuing to look into a possibility of a connection between both of those incidents. this shooting erupted as we mentioned at a home on the north
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side of jasper, which is a community in southeast texas, north of beaumont and it was just after midnight when the shooting erupted. nine teenagers wounded, investigators saying that they will be fine, they were treated at two hospitals, but clearly a great deal of concern of another violent night following a night of what was supposed to be, you know, common festivities, a night of prom turned into this violent situation. kate? >> absolutely. much more to learn here, ed. thank you. sara? a state takeover of jackson, mississippi, is what the naacp is calling new legislation there which the group is now suing over. these laws signed last week by governor tate reeves will expand state police jurisdiction in jackson and establish a new court system in a district created by the state. cnn's isabelle rosales is following the story for us. critics are saying that the two laws put mostly white conservative state officials in
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charge over a democratic city which is 80% african american. can you tell us what more details you have learned? >> reporter: sara, good morning. there are certainly concerns of black leadership getting undercut here and of a slippery slope potential happening. others meanwhile are hopeful with these new laws saying that the police force needs some help here. that this could save the capital city after a spike in crime. specifically they point to the homicide rate, which has doubled in the past decade in jackson at 12 times the national average peaking in 2021 making jackson one of the deadliest cities in the united states. let's talk a little bit about what these new laws do and what will happen in jackson. it will allow the state of mississippi to expand state-controlled police to the entire city of jackson. this is a force that has not -- has primarily focused on protecting the capital and the surrounding areas, has not been involved with law enforcement in
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the city. this is a force that does not answer to local officials but rather state-appointed leadership. the other side of this is the judicial system, major changes coming to that, including new court -- a new court with a judge appointed by the republican state chief justice and also prosecuting attorneys appointed, again, by the republican state attorney general. one of the supporters of these new laws is the man who signed them into law, that's the governor tate reeves. here is what he had to say. >> jackson has so much potential. i've lived in jackson for almost a third of my life and i want what's best for jackson, but for us to continue to see young kids getting killed in the streets, for us to continue to see property crimes that are happening here that are causing businesses to leave, we've got to make sure that we have law
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and order. >> reporter: and, sara, one of the focal points to this controversy is representation. you were talking a little bit about that, but the legislators who introduced these bills originally represent districts outside of jackson. the state legislature is primarily republican and white. meanwhile, the city of jacks season over 80% black and primarily democratic. the naacp did electronic clee file a lawsuit on friday when these bills were signed into law and here is what they had to say. lawmakers in jackson residents have opposed both bills throughout the legislative session citing outside attempts to increase policing without adequate training. die lensed dissent from jackson residents and stripped residents from their voting powers to elect judges and district attorneys who serve their interests. sara, these laws go into effect july 1st. we have reached out to the governor's office and also the mississippi department of public safety to get a better understanding of how they're going to implement these laws. we have not heard back. >> the city knows what a fight
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