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♪ and welcome to all you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, ahead on "cnn newsroom," the latest on the search for children believed to be buried under the rubble in ukraine after an apartment building was hit by russian missiles. evacuating more people from sudan. fears the mississippi river will flood while millions of people are preparing for stormy weather across the southeast. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. we begin with a race to save lives after a massive russian missile strike in ukraine. rescuers are trying to reach two children believed to be trapped in a bombed out building in the city of uman, 17 other victims have already been rescued from the high rise which was partly

collapsed. friday's strike killed at least 23 people, including at least five children while two more people died in a separate attack in the city of dnipro. nic robertson saw the rescue operation firsthand. >> reporter: the firefighters have been working here for over 20 hours already today. we've been watching them bring out bodies right throughout the day. they're up there now, high up, going through the last bit of rubble, they believe there are bodies up there. this is just going on all day. residents asleep as a russian missile ripped through their apartments. rescuers in this small central ukrainian city uman on the scene fast. sohei was one of the first. >> translator: there were terrible screams of children. the explosion was very powerful. the houses started to shake in the nearby areas. the first one we pulled out was a living woman who was put in

the balambulance, but she died hospital. >> reporter: the death toll climbing through the day. this lady telling us she heard the missile, put her kids in the bathtub, and pillows over their heads, and hoped they'd live. fighting back tears, she said so many children live here, a gaping concrete and rubble wound where those innocent lives shattered. families and friends desperately awaiting news of loved ones. this lady, telling us her friend on the eighth floor survived, but the friend's two daughters, one 13 years old and the other just 7, are still missing. a firefighter takes us up to see those top floors. onto the roof, nine floors above the recovery teams. you can see how the building has

literally collapsed down here. there should be building right out here, and the floors pancaked down with some roof tipping over down there. from here, the damage even more devastating than below. more than half the building's 46 apartments destroyed. so the firefighters will come up here. and as they've been doing all day in this dangerous mission here, literally putting themselves in danger to try to recover, to clear out the sight, to bring solace. ukrainian officials believe all this devastation caused by a single russian kh-101 stealth cruise missile. it is the single deadliest strike on civilians since january. 109 people registered living here. as night fell, many of them still unaccounted for. and this effort here to find the last of the missing is massive,

the police, the firefighters, they say they're going to work through the night, they're not going to give up. we've seen police here doing dna testing for families. police, psychologists counseling grieving family members here. it is a massive outpouring of support, it's a message for the ukrainians to themselves, it's a message to president putin from the ukrainians, no amount of shelling is going to make them give up. nic robertson, cnn, uman, ukraine. >> and selma abdel aziz joins me from london, a horrific strike interest, there's been plenty of international condemnation. you've been looking at the reaction. what are you seeing? >> absolutely terrible scenes that you see there in our package in that package from nic robertson. we do understand that as of this morning search and rescue operations were still under way, kim, there was believed to be two children, a young boy and a young girl trapped under the rubble of that home.

again, this is a strike that happened in the early hours of the morning. so families would have been sleeping. and the united states has been quick to react to that. the u.s. to ukraine bridget brink, she said more lives tragically lost as russia's missiles hit another apartment building, russia still hasn't learned its brutality only enforces ukraine's resolve and deepens our commitment to support them in the fight. i want to also bring you a few more updates, kim, across the region. i want to take you to the latest updates on the spring offensive as well. this is something that's been anticipated for months that as the weather warms ukraine will ramp up its push along the eastern front line. of course, russia is expected to ramp up its attacks as well. but an update from ukraine's defense minister saying that the preparations for that counteroffensive are coming to a close. he said, and i'm sort of paraphrasing his quote here, but

as long as god wills it, the weather allows and commanders give the go ahead, we will carry out this spring offensive. it's important to note just the pouring of weapons that have come from nato allies in recent weeks and months, there's been this lightning speed preparation to prepare ukrainian soldiers, to train them on this new weapon, particularly tanks. 98% of tanks promised by nato allies have made their way to ukraine. so, signs there from ukraine's defense minister that those preparations, that training is nearing an end. i want to finally bring you an update from crimea, russian occupied crimea. we have images to show you from the port city of sevatapol. there, a fuel tanker is on fire, that fire has spread across a thousand square kilometers. they say initial reports indicate it could have been a drone attack. now, we know in the past ukraine

has used drones in covert operations on russian territory, and inside russian-occupied regions. now, ukraine has time and time again denied this, and it's unclear what's taken place. this specific attack. but yet again something to keep our eye on. there is no update yet on casualties, kim. >> all right, really appreciate the updates. selma abdelaziz in london, thanks so much. russian president vladimir putin signed a decree on thursday that allows the deportation of ukrainian citizens from territories illegally annexed by russia if they're deemed a quote national security threat. res dens from kherson, zaporizhzhia, donetsk and -- will be recognized as foreigners and could be expelled. ukrainians living in these areas without a russian passport would have to apply for a residence permit, undergo fingerprint registration and provide documents translated into russian. a ukrainian government adviser responded to the decree on

twitter writing quote the process of changing the ethnic composition of these territories where russians are being resettled is taking place. it's an obvious administration of the genocidal nature of the war. the u.s. is deeply disappointed that a request to visit evan gershkovich has been denied. a reporter for the "wall street journal" was detained in russia a month ago on espionage charges. last week in a moscow court he was denied an appeal to change the terms of his detention. the state department's request was denied by the russian foreign ministry, it was in response to washington in the providing visas for russian journalists to -- but it may take additional steps to get access to gershkovich and fellow american detainee paul whelan. pyongyang is reacting by south korean president yoon, the state media commented on this recently, announcing joint

defense agreement between the u.s. and south korea. he called it evidence of a desire by both nations to act against pyongyang, calling the deal an example of an extreme anti-dprk policy that would, quote, never be welcomed. texas is once again being hit by severe storms. there were dozens of severe weather reports friday, many reporting golf ball sized hail and hurricane force gulf wind gusts. it continues across the southeast, with florida in the crosshairs. a waterspout just north of miami, it meandered for several minutes but luckily never came ashore. there was a report of possible tornado in palm beach county. now, most of the severe weather has died down for the night but the storm prediction center says multiple rounds of potentially heavy rainfall are expected from early saturday into the evening hours for the parts of the southeast. it's not just wind and hail threatening parts of the u.s. spring snow melt is causing the

mississippi river to rise even more, flooding many communities along its banks, like davenport, iowa where residents are bracing for the expected crest on monday. as you can see the water levels are already high. local businesses are trying to get ahead of the water, but it's already had a severe financial and emotional impact on them. this isn't the first time davenport has seen historic flooding. the last time was just in 2019. and california is bracing for the full impact of all the rain and snow its received in recent weeks. coming up we'll talk with a state lawmaker about his appeal for help and the possible impact on food prices across the u.s. and beyond. and thousands are seeing -- seeking to flee the fighting in sudan. we'll take you live to saudi arabia where many evacuees are ending up. plus, u.s. republican lawmakers vote to raise the debt limit. it's moving to the democratic-controlled senate. report from washington after the break. please stay with us.

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the rapid support forces accuse each other of violations. this, as the rsf says it now controls 90% of khartoum state. fighting has also increased in sudan's west dar 4 region with the risk of deadly clashes. basic necessities like food, water and medicine are in short supply across the country. the united nations says more than 50,000 people have already fled to neighboring countries while thousands of other civilians are unable to escape the fighting. on a boat in the port of saudi arabia where many have ended up. larry, tell us a bit more about what you're seeing there, and why you're there. >> reporter: kim, we're on a saudi warship. and taking off to evacuate more people who have made a difficult journey to get to port sudan and they're going to be brought book here and to whatever country

they're going. they've evacuated about 3,000 people from 80 different nationalities, most not from saudi arabia, 100 or so were from saudi arabia. we're awaiting one ship expected to dock here in 30 minutes bringing more people trying to escape the conflict in saudi arabia. this is what is called a small warship, part of the fleet of the saudi royal naval forces involved in the operation to evacuate as many people as possible out of sudan, saudi arabia is a key diplomatic player in the country, it's part of what's called the quad, the u.s., the uk, and the united arab emirates. this is a military side of the jetta port, the commercial side, and you see the other ships in the fleet of the saudi naval forces carrying out this operation constantly. they've been coming back and forth port sudan and jetta across the red sea. the reason maybe it's an important part of the evacuation operation it's the closest major

port from port sudan under the red sea people can take across here. especially for people who didn't have initially evacuation efforts on the nations such as the united states. the united states evacuated diplomatic staff at the khartoum embassy but private citizens were told it's too dangerous to evacuate private u.s. citizens. many came here to eventually make it to the u.s., or whatever country they want to go to, kim. >> larry modowa, appreciate that. i want to bring in ezra baa knee, an american sudanese volunteer who traveled to egypt to distribute aid to evacuees from sudan. thank you for being here with us. tell us exactly where you are. >> i'm right now in aswan, actually stationed as you can hear the train, stationed right next to the aswan train station, and we've been going to the

border, and to this area called calcutta, one of the first staps before you enter aswan and we're also here in easwan. >> what kind of stories are evacuees telling you about what they've been through? >> it's horrific stories that we've been hearing. i just -- it's very hard to even process. you have about 270,000 people being stuck in the border trying to leave, none of them expected that they will be waiting for five days to cross the border which should be, you know, taking maybe at most like six hours, or five hours. so people are coming, not prepared, and even people who are prepared and had money to buy supplies to keep them alive don't have the access to supplies. the supplies are running short. so we do know that many people

have passed away, actually, in the border. so they're fleeing war, and they're actually dying from dehydration. you have diabetes patients, people with heart problems. it's a really very difficult situation, especially from the ones that we meet right at the border when they're leaving. they couldn't even find water for many days. so the ones that are making it here, some of them get taken by the ambulance right when they arrive here actually. >> it sounds like a desperate situation for so many people, and a chaotic situation at the border. how exactly are you trying to help them? >> look, i'm going to be extremely honest, when we came here, we wanted to distribute aid because people are sending us messages, i'm an individual, right, i'm not an entity, not an organization. our families are sending us messages from the border saying help, sos, help, we need water, we need food, et cetera.

so the most normal thing you would think is that we would collect some money and we would help them out, right, the sudanese diaspora and our friends have come together to fund an evacuation process that should have been done by an international ngo, or at a country level. it is now completely being funded by individuals like myself, and we came, we honestly did come to the border with supplies that we thought at the beginning was for a thousand, 200 people that were struck, we found the numbers were astronomically higher than that, people stuck in between egypt and all the way to sudan are close to 300,000 people. and you're not allowed to take the supplies actually in to distribute them. so they're going in, you don't see where it's going. people are coming out, and most of the people are saying that they could not find enough supplies, right? so we started rerouting our help

or aid to helping people who are just leaving out. there are a lot of people where the buses just left them at the border and went back to sudan. there are people who are stranded after this five-day trip, and could not -- cannot get themselves to aswan. it's not even a funding issue as much as a strategic. it needs like a full evacuation, humanitarian crisis strategic plan. but individuals are now a part of, individuals like myself, where we're trying to find out, buses, to pick up people from that area, taking them, finding out where people are going to stay. i'm going to be really honest it's all run on groups by multiple sudanese across the world. we are just friends. >> i want to ask you, you talked about people feeling they were abandoned. some countries are extracting their citizens. the u.s. so far, you know, has said that the situation on the ground isn't conducive to getting all of their citizens

out. it's led to a lot of anger. many are dual sudanese-u.s. citizens like yourself. what do you make of the biden administration's decision on this? could they be doing more here? >> absolutely. you know, the thing about it, i'm now here. i have just came in, i spent the night, actually, with an elderly senior citizen sudanese citizen that just came out of the border and was in a very bad situation to have to be taken to the hospital. i've been spending the day with her here. we called the u.s. embassy, and they weren't able to provide any help. i had to provide the help. i'm taking care of these citizens. and everybody is just calling each other, helping each other, it's an amazing community, but most of the people crossing the border are dual citizens from lots of different countries, we've found people british, sudanese, australian, that made it across the border because they were left behind.

not only were they left behind when they were asking for help in the border or being stuck in the border or have health issues, nobody came for them, right? so they are relying a lot more on the sudanese diaspora network than they are relying on their own embassies. if they are evacuating people from i don't know where they're evacuating people, could they have at least some presence on the ground in argin and in the borders, could they have some hotline presence on the ground to help the citizens that made it across to get them back to the u.s.? we've already funded a big part of this, could you please fund just the last part, like fly out your citizens? i think that's a very simple thing to ask for, right, it's a very reasonable request. we've already got them here. they're alive. please, please take them. >> yeah, those are definitely the questions so many people are asking. wee will have to leave it there. i want to commend your incredible efforts that you're going to, to help people. i know you're driving hours to the border, and back, just to

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and welcome back to all you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn newsroom," some u.s. lawmakers are calling for dialogue between the white house and capitol hill to resolve the impasse over raising the debt limit, and avoiding economic disaster this summer. now, this after house republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling for a year in return for spending cuts that would gut president biden's domestic agenda. cnn's manu raju has the story from washington. >> reporter: house republicans earlier in the week passed a bill to raise the national debt limit by the narrowest of margins, and after four republicans voted against it they approved it. with 217 votes in the house. barely getting it through. that has not necessarily changed the dynamics here on capitol

hill. because democrats in the senate, the democratic leader in the senate, the house democratic leader hakeem jeffries as well as the president of the united states all are saying they will not negotiate any sort of debt ceiling increase with house republicans, saying simply they should raise the debt limit without any conditions, without any spending cuts, because of the fact that the full faith and credit in the united states economy is on the line here and raise the debt limit without any conditions, they say. but that is a position that is strenuously opposed by the republican leaders and the republicans in the senate, including senate republican mitt romney, who's one to have known to cut deals in the past, but this time it's the white house that should be cutting a deal with the house gop. >> the house has acted. republicans, we in the senate, stand with the house. we have our point of view. time for the president to step in and say what's his point of view, and do a deal, work together. >> do you think that it's time for the white house to sit down with mccarthy, try to get a deal on the debt limit, actually have

a meeting with biden and mccarthy on this? >> i think that, you know, we're at a place where the president has put out his budget. we now have a counteroffer. we'll have to -- we have to raise the debt limit, and i think the dialogue should be constructive among all of us. >> now, that last comment from martin heinrich, a democrat from new mexico, one of a number of democrats are saying there should be some sort of dialogue. some have gone further, including jared golden of maine, representing the swing district, and he told me earlier in the day that the president should sit down with the speaker of the house. they should try to find a compromise, given the fact that the house republicans put out a plan, they passed a bill, they may not like it, he said, but they should still try to find some sort of resolution. but whether that actually happens remains to be seen. kevin mccarthy told me earlier in the day he has not yet heard from the white house on this issue. when he will, it remains to be seen. and the possibility of a first debt default could occur potentially as early as july

according to some estimates. we don't know the exact time frame yet, but that is not a whole lot of time, because congress are to cut a deal, if they are to get one, try to go through both chambers of commerce, all of that will take significant time and effort and no talks are happening ahead of what could be the first ever debt default and a potential economic disaster coming in just a matter of weeks. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. president biden is making his first big fund raising push since officially launching his reelection campaign earlier this week. he met with more than 100 of his biggest donors at a washington hotel friday night. the president told attendees, quote, we need you, our democracy needs you, because this is about our freedoms. maga republicans are trying to take us backwards. together, we're not going to let them do it. in the midwest the mississippi river continues to rise. it comes as snow from this year's blockbuster season is

still melting and could potentially lead to the worst flooding in 20 years in some places. have a look, this is davenport, iowa, where some homes and businesses have already taken on water with the city's mayor saying the worst is still to come. several roads have been closed as flooding threatens towns all along the mississippi. now, flooding there isn't the only concern in the u.s. those in california are preparing for floods this weekend too. parts of yosemite national park closed on friday over flooding concerns. the park has remained closed until wednesday, but the closure could last longer. state and local officials are preparing for floods in the tolary lake basin as snow melt starts. california governor newsom visited the lake tuesday to find ways to divert the snow melt. >> you can look at a scene like this and think the worst is going to recede, that the worst is behind us when, in fact, quite the contrary, every day you're seeing incremental half inch and inch of more water, new water present itself here in this basin.

as a consequence we not only need to maintain our vigilance, but we can't be impatient in terms of the impending floods and the damage that will occur here. >> billions of dollars in agricultural products can be lost to flooding according to california's department of food and agriculture. california representatives are pushing for disaster relief package to combat just that. for more on this i'm joined by congressman jim costa, representing the 21st, congressional district, and also a senior member of the house agriculture committee. thank you so much congressman for being here with us. so normally, as you know in california, we're talking about severe drought, but over the last year it's been storms and flooding. we saw on many farms equipment swept away by water. employees out of work for weeks, economic losses. what effect have the storms had on farms and ranches? >> well, we've had a devastating effect, and we're still at the same timing to determine the

economic losses. we are surveying every agricultural county in the valley and elsewhere in california every week to determine what the crop losses are going to be based upon flooding that's taking place, the reemerging of historic lake called tolary lake, and we're not out of the woods yet because as the temperatures are springte in may it was 93 degrees today, that 250% to 300% snow pack in the high sierra nevada above normal. that's 250 to 300% above normal is just now starting to melt. and so we're concerned about additional flooding. that's why road -- this bipartisan letter to ask the leadership in the house and in the senate to work with the

president on the disaster designation status that he has declared on those counties that have been the hardest hit. >> so what exactly would that do? >> well, the disaster status makes funding available from fema, and it also provides additional funding from other sources as we're determining how we're going to make up the losses that have been impacted by our farms. we've had dairies that are milking 2,000 cows and more that have had to be relocated. and that's quite a challenge to move 2 to 3,000 cows, and then to try to find a setting where they can continue to be milked. >> yeah. and it's not just the farms as well, i mean it's the farm workers too who are extremely vulnerable, i was reading some 12,000 jobs were lost last year.

>> yes. and that number will sadly, i think, grow because land that cannot be put back into production. i mean, usually we are in the middle of planting season in march. we're now at the end of april, and we're now just starting to plant some of these crops where we can get in the ground but there are other places where this tolayr lake is reeearly morning, we're not going to be able to get in that ground for over a year or longer. and so farm workers are going to be very much impacted, and we're looking for assistance for them as well. >> and impacted not just, you know, the farmers and the workers, i mean it's something that affects us all. your state, as you know, produces a third of the nation's vegetables and two-thirds of the fruit, and canada as well gets a lot of its produce from california as well. what are the downstream effects on the food supply? will things be harder to get, will they cost more?

>> well, undoubtedly they're going to cost more. i mean, let me give you some numbers. i mean, california produces 98% of the processed tomatoes, you know, that's tomato sauce for pasta, and for pizza, and all those wonderful things we enjoy. 85% of the citrus, and so we are still trying to determine how our navel oranges have been impacted. 75% of the world's all mondays, 50% of the world's pistachios, 20% of all the milk product for the united states is produced in california. so we're the number one agricultural state. people tend to forget that. with over 300 crops that we grow. and so we're going to find that impact in the grocery store, and in our favorite restaurants and fast food places. we don't know what the totality of that's going to be yet at this time. we're trying to make a

determination. so that we can try to mitigate for those losses. >> yeah. it's so vital for so many people and so many americans across the country. congressman jim costa, i have to leave it there, thank you so much for being here with us, i really appreciate it. >> thank you. ahead, a supreme court justice has his suspicions about who might have been behind the draft abortion opinion leak last year. that's next. stay with us. mildewy tiles? can-do - these? - yup, it's the can-dodo can. nothing kills more germs on m more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray.

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he doesn't have proof enough of who was behind the leak to actually name the person. cnn's jessica schneider has more details. >> reporter: justice alito speaking out to the "wall street journal" and pointing fingers when it comes to that leak of the draft opinion last spring overturning roe v. wade, saying that he has a, quote, pretty good idea about who did it but acknowledging he doesn't have enough proof. and justice alito here implying that he believes that the leaker was likely someone who did not want roe v. wade overturned as it ultimately was when the court issued its 5-4 decision last june. the justice also seems to be throwing cold water on this theory that a conservative justice or someone linked to the conservative side leaked the draft last may to lock in the votes. justice alito telling the story, that's infuriating to me. it's made us targets of assassination. would i do that to myself?

it's quite implausible. it was an extensive interview conducted just a few weeks ago in mid-april. the justice also talks about how it created distrust among the justices. each justice has 24/7 security protection because of the threats they've faced. justice alito is basically being driven around in a tank for security. he also lamented bat attacks on the court's legitimacy. saying this type of concerted attack on the court and on individual justices is new during my lifetime. we are being hammered daily, and i think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. and nobody practically nobody is defending us. justice alito in that sense talking about the barrage of criticism, how it's not just undermining the court but also confidence in government as a whole. this really is the first time he's spoken out so extensively. particularly about the leak and it comes as the court is just a few weeks away from issuing more consequential decisions on

issues like affirmative action and gay rights, jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> who bills to further restrict restriction abortions have failed in nebraska and south carolina. while several republican-led states have enacted sweeping abortion restrictions since the court overturned roe v. wade last year, the unpopularity of the bans around the country may be causing some republican lawmakers to reconsider their stance. dianne gallagher has more on the story. >> millions of women who feel like they've never been heard. >> reporter: lawmakers in south carolina and nebraska rejecting extreme abortion restrictions thursday by the slimmest of margins, just one vote. for the third time since the u.s. supreme court overturned roe versus wade last summer the south carolina state senate where republicans outnumber democrats nearly 2-1 blocked a ban on abortion in the state with limited acceptance for rape and incest. the five women senators, three

of whom are republicans, led a filibuster, where they spoke for days about biology, backlash, and the concept of control. >> once a woman became pregnant for any reason she would now become property of the state of south carolina. >> abortion laws have always been, each and every one of them, about control. >> in nebraska thursday tears and cheers. after lawmakers killed a bill that would ban abortion around the sixth week of pregnancy, often before someone knows they are pregnant. a vote to break a filibuster failed by just one vote when two senators abstained. one of them, the bill's co-sponsor, 80-year-old merv -- who had said he had done more research and offered an amendment moving the deadline to 12 weeks. >> the six-week ban appears to be a winner take all position, and the pushback will be strong, it will be immediate, and it will be funned heavily. as now seen in other states. >> reporter: his warning on the

pushback felt nationally in the first real test after the supreme court's dobbs ruling gave states the final position on abortion, kansas voters shocked republicans with a resounding rejection of restrictions at the polls. since then several states have enacted new laws severely limiting abortion access, especially in the south. though some states remain tied up in the courts. south carolina did pass a six-week abortion ban, but the state supreme court struck it down. so, as neighboring states shut down access, south carolina has seen a sharp increase in out of state patients seeking abortion care. right now abortion is currently legal in both nebraska and south carolina until about 20 weeks. but that doesn't mean that further restrictions are totally off the table. especially in south carolina, where there's still about a week of this session to go. in fact, the state senate has passed a bill that they say addresses the issues the state supreme court had with the original six-week abortion ban

with exceptions. but according to those three senators, the republican women, the house won't entertain anything that is not a total ban from conception. they told cnn they believe the two chambers are at an impasse. dianne gallagher, cnn, back to you. inside a momentous day, newly released photos, never before seen moments at the white house in the raid that killed osama bin laden. that story and more when we return, please stay with us. you know you are retired right? am i? ya!! save $500 on our next gen sleep numberer smart beds. plus, special financing. only at sleep number.

- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. monday is the 12th anniversary of the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden. we're now getting new perspective on the historic day, newly released photo capture the never before seen moments inside the white house situation room. cnn's brian todd has our story. >> reporter: a never before seen image depicting the intensity and drama during the raid that killed osama bin laden. then president obama, and vice president biden in the white house situation room. tension visible on their faces, pressing defense secretary bob

gates. one of several newly published pictures from inside the white house on that momentous day, may 1st, 2011. >> if this thing goes wrong, al qaeda fights back, special operations people are captured or killed, bin laden isn't there, the pakistani military gets involved, a lot of things could go wrong. >> the obama presidential library frat freedom of information act request, this was the image the public knew best from that day. obama along with biden, then secretary of state hillary clinton, and other top aides, watching the bin laden raid in realtime, clinton's hand over her mouth. cnn national security analyst peter bergen believes this was around the time the navy seal's helicopter clipped a wall and was damaged in hard landing. bergen interviewed president obama in all the key players in the room for the cnn documentary we got him. >> it's here where we observe, for example, that one of the helicopters got damaged in the

landing. >> and what were you thinking? >> i was thinking that this is not an ideal start. >> and your heart was in your throat the whole time we were in there, i've never spent a more stressful 30 plus minutes in my life. >> reporter: the newly released pictures chicago obama watching intently, asking questions, when word came that the raid was successful, obama is photographed shaking hands with gates. other photos depict the president making calls to give the news to former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton, and calls to other world leaders, other images show the president and his team working on the speech he would give to the nation late that night as they could hear a crowd gathering outside the white house. in one of the newly released photos biden and then joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen show white house photographer pete sue is a the ro rosary beads they had wrapped around their fingers during the raid. >> i tell you what a lot of people said, they said that they

only really realized what a big deal this was when they left the white house. suddenly they hear these cheers and know that's when people said, you know, some people i started crying. >> usa usa usa. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: on those phone calls president obama made to tell other world leaders about the bin laden raid according to obama's memoir when he told then pakistani president it, his reply was, quote, whatever the fallout, it's good news, end quote, that despite the public backlash from the pakistani government at the time expressing serious displeasure with the raid. brian todd, cnn, washington. the uk is getting ready for a very big day, the coronation of king charles iii now only a week away. the palace just released new portraits of king charles and queen camilla. the photographs were taken last month in the blue drawing room

of buckingham palace, sitting in chairs dating back to the early 1800s. the stone of destiny is on its way from edinburgh castle to westminster abbey, an ancient symbol of scotland, and has been used this coronations for centuries. watch special live coverage of the coronation of king charles iii next saturday may 6th, starts at 5:00 a.m. in new york, 10:00 a.m. in london here on cnn. and finally, this hour, the folks at the bronx zoo say a peacock didn't escape, he just decided to roost in a tree outside the zoo. neighbors nicknamed the bird raul. he became something of a springtime attraction for new yorkers of all ages. raul eventually flew back to the zoo, but he did peck at a man who tried to trap him, causing minor injuries. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom," i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back with more news in

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