hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom," and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, hollywood writers heading to the picket line. thousands set to go on strike, a move that will bring productions to a updated on anying halt and send shockwaves through the industry. a dire warning from america's treasury secretary, saying the country only has about a month to pay its bills or risk an economic catastrophe. plus, we'll take you to a small island that's part of taiwan, but just four miles from china's border and almost totally defenseless against china's navy.

>> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with rosemary church. >> good to have you with us. and we begin in hollywood, where television and film writers are going on strike, a move that will very likely shut down most tv and film productions in the u.s. for the foreseeable future. the strike was announced hours ago after the writers guild and studios failed to reach an agreement hours before a midnight deadline. about 11,000 writers are affected. they say their contracts need to be reworked in the era of streaming to make up for as will of income due to a dramatic decrease in residuals from reruns. they also want limits on the use of artificial intelligence in the industry. at the met gala in new york, tonight show host jimmy fallon said he stands with his writers. >> if there is a strike, yeah, i

think we will, yeah. i think we'll go -- whatever i can do to support the guild. i am actually in the writer's guild as well. yeah, i couldn't do the show without them, and i support my whole staff. >> the studios say they're hurting too, and that falling stock prices are forcing deep cost cutting and layoffs. the last writers strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, causing an estimated $2 billion in economic damages. earlier, i was joined by cnn media critic brian lowry, and i asked him what viewers at home will notice first. >> well, viewers won't see a lot that changes in the immediate -- in this immediate span. you will see late night shows go dark. "saturday night live" will also probably go dark. but there is an enormous amount of content, and most content has a long lead time to it. but if the strike drags on for any length of time, then you start to get into a situation

where it will start to slow that pipeline of shows. the difference now, of course, from 15 years ago being that there is such an abundance of choices and streaming services and available content that viewers may not feel that pinch quite as much as they did then. >> and these studios say they're hurting, but they do make hundreds of millions of dollars from the content that these writers provide. so why are they not willing to ensure that these same writers get a livable wedge, protect their jobs and residuals for content they create? and what is the main stumbling block in finding common ground here? >> well, a lot has happened. i mean, for starter, we had the pandemic, which had a dramatic impact on the industry, which was already undergoing fairly wrenching changes. but it really depressed the theatrical box office, which hurt these companies' bottom

line. we've seen that start to come back, but it's come back slowly. and in the meantime, the studios have migrated much of their content to streaming services, which for a while were great growth engines for these companies, but they're not particularly profitable because they're spending so much to try to buy those subscribers. plus, you've got the added competition of amazon, apple, netflix, these very deep-pocketed tech company shas have squeezed into the business. who of course for them the entertainment industry and the television content that they produce is just such a small part of their business, but they still want that to be profitable like any other division of their company. four days after a shooting in cleveland, texas left five people dead, the shooting suspect still remains at large. a source in u.s. immigration and customs enforcement tells cnn the suspect, francisco oropeza

had entered the u.s. illegally, and had been deported by immigration officials at least four times in the past. his current immigration status is unclear. more than 250 law enforcement officers are involved in the manhunt and an $80,000 reward has been offered for any information. for more on the story, here is ed lavandera. >> reporter: according to law enforcement investigators, at 11:31, someone shooting in a nearby yard. the suspect had been drinking before the violence on friday began, and that neighbors approached his property to ask him to stop shooting. >> the victims, they came over to the fence and said hey, do you mind not shooting out in the yard? we have a young baby that's trying to go to sleep. >> reporter: wilson garcia, whose wife and 9-year-old son were shot and killed says they called 911 five times that

night. they asked the gunman to shoot away from his property. he said instead, the gunman came to their home 10 to 20 minutes later and started shooting inside the house where 15 people, including at least four children were present. only 10 survived. those killed were 9-year-old danielle enrique guzman, his mother, deanna velazquez alvarado and jose jonathan casarez. >> everybody that was shot was shot from the neck up, almost execution-style. >> reporter: multiple people were found dead in different rooms. authorities say they believe two women died shielding children. there is an $80,000 reward for information leading investigators to the suspect who the fbi calls armed and dangerous, while officers search door to door in neighborhoods north of houston. >> what we need from the public is any type of information. because right now we're just --

we're running into dead ends. >> reporter: an fbi agent was seen entering the suspect's home monday afternoon and also searched through various vehicles on the property. fbi officials would only say the agents are, quote, following all investigative leads. texas governor greg abbott unleashed a firestorm of criticism after the shootings when he tweeted "i've announced a $50,000 reward for info on the criminal who killed five illegal immigrants friday." he later stepped that back. in a statement, his spokeswoman says at least one of the victims may have been in the united states legally. we regret if the information was incorrect and detracted from the important goal of finding and arresting the criminal. but not before an emotional reaction from the local sheriff. >> my haeart -- is with this 8-year-old little boy. i don't care if he was here legally. five people died in my county,

and that is where my heart is. >> reporter: well, one neighbor we spoke with shared a troubling story. it was about a year and a half ago at a neighbor who was throwing a baptismal celebration. the woman had hired a dj. they were playing music in their front yard not too far from here. it was after midnight when another neighbor came over and asked them to turn the music off. the woman complied, but this neighbor we spoke with, that sent oropeza into a rage, and he pulled out a 9 millimeter handgun and emptied out an entire cartridge of ammunition, shooting into the ground, startling everyone there who was at the celebration. the woman told me after that they kept their distance from oropeza. u.s. law enforcement officials are looking for two men who escaped from a jail in farmville, virginia. one of the inmates is charged with murdering a sheriff. authorities in the neighboring state of north carolina are also searching for the men who were

discovered missing on monday. officials believe they escaped some time over the weekend. in oklahoma, authorities have found seven bodies, including two believed to be missing teenaged girls at the residence of a man who officials was seeking in the teens' disappearance. the sheriff says jesse mcfadden, a registered sex offender was living at the property. a highway patrol advisory says the two teen girls were last seen on monday morning and could have been traveling with mcfadden. the sheriff says they couldn't immediately identify the seven bodies. harsh, unyielding rhetoric, and a disturbing new prediction. that is the atmosphere in washington at this hour amid the partisan standoff over raising the nation's borrowing limit. treasury secretary janet yellen warned monday that if congress does not make a deal, the u.s.

could default on its debt as soon as june 1st. that's a full month earlier than previously estimated. and it could set off economic calamity worldwide. but the two sides are not compromising. republicans are insisting president biden negotiate spending cuts along with the debt limit, while democrats say gop leaders are trying to hold the economy hostage. president biden has just invited congress' top four officials to discuss the standoff on may 9th, but the white house says it's not budging undermining a clean raising of the debt ceiling without conditions attached. cnn's manu raju has been up on capitol hill talking to lawmakers and has more details on what's holding up a deal and what's at stake. >> reporter: in a stark warning to capitol hill, the treasury secretary janet yellen sending a letter saying the debt ceiling must be raised immediately, warning that a potential

default, the first ever default in u.s. history could occur as early as june 1 if the debt ceiling is not raised. this of course has been an issue that the two sides have been squabbling about for the better part of this year. the house republicans insist there must be some spending cuts attached to it given the debt is north of $31 trillion, and they've already passed a bill, they did last week along straight party lines to include a slew of spending cuts tied to raising the debt ceiling up through next march. but the senate democrats and the white house say that is an absolute non-starter. they say that there should be no negotiation of raising the debt ceiling given the potential calamitous impact of not raising the debt ceiling, saying that it must be raised, no conditions whatsoever. but that is a position rejected by house republicans. and in a sign of few far apart the two sides are, two senators today indicated how they believe it should be resolved. one, a democrat up for reelection saying there should not be spending cuts attached.

>> what they're saying is they're going to default on the debt. >> should you guy just find a middle ground between the two? >> what is a middle ground? >> a deal with spending cuts tied to the increase. >> i think it's a big mistake. a big mistake. thinking deal has to be between biden and mccarthy, or their respective teams. because there is no other way that something gets 60 votes in the senate. the pressure is mounting and intensifying, and it should. >> the second senator is senator john thune saying the gop is not going to swoop in at the minute and try to cut a deal with the mocrats, saying that seriously with not work. there must be explicit blessing from kevin mccarthy in order to move ahead here, saying without that, that it would not be 60 votes, which is what is needed in the u.s. senate. meaning 51 democrats, at least nine republicans. he said there is no formula in which that would happen without mccarthy's blessing, which is why it is such a grim picture.

perhaps the worst scenario of a potential default since 2011. at that point, the u.s. credit rating was downgraded as washington moved closer and closer to that deadline. ultimately a deal was reached to raise the debt ceiling. will that happen here? that is anyone's guess. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. new fighting in the e sudane capital is further damaging the ceceasefire, and tens of thousas of people are fleeing the country. ahead, he will spepeak with an amamerican professor who recent escaped.

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we are getting new reports of explosions around the sudanese presidential palace in the capital as rival military factions once again violate the sixth attempt at a ceasefire. heavy smoke rose north of khartoum on monday. the head of the rapid support forces told a saudi news outlet

that he sees no reason to negotiate with army leaders. meanwhile, sudan's health ministry says more than 500 people have been killed since the fighting began more than two weeks ago. and another 73,000 people have left sudan for neighboring countries, according to the u.n. refugee agency, which warns that figure could balloon to more than 800,000. the u.s. secretary of state says the u.s. will keep organizing convoys to get americans out of sudan for as long as that assistance is needed. the state department says the u.s. has helped more than a thousand american citizens leave sudan since the start of the violence. a third overland convoy delivered americans to sudan port on monday, and a naval vessel has been bringing those evacuees across the red sea to jeddah in saudi arabia.

let's go to cnn's senior africa editor who joins us live from lagos. good morning to you, stephanie. what more are you learning about these efforts to evacuate more people out of the country? and that's the latest on fighting across sudan? >> good morning, rosemary. so the uk was the latest country to evacuate some 2,000 citizens on monday in what it says are the final organized evacuations it will do because of a low demand and also what it says is an increasingly volatile situation. we're also hearing that russia is planning to evacuate some 200 citizens. but the fighting continues, and this fighting has spiraled completely out of control, leaving hundreds of people dead. and it also happens this conflict is happening against the backdrop of the 20th year

anniversary of the darfur gen genocide. you'll remember that some 200,000 people were killed in this genocide and two million displaced. and what we're seeing now, especially in west darfur is the warring factions now stoking up those same ethnic violence that happened during the genocide. and so far we're hearing that 94 people have died, and bodies are still being counted in el janina in west darfur. so there are fears that this conflict could spiral into a civil war, rosemary. and we also have a looming humanitarian crisis which the u.n. has said is at breaking point. they are desperate for ceasefires to enable much needed aid to get in for the people of sudan. and that doesn't look likely to happen any time soon with this ceasefires being broken at every

turn, rosemary. >> stephanie bayouusari in lago many thanks. joining me now an assistant professor of anthropology and african studies at the university of toronto. she also managed to flee sudan with her daughter, making to it saudi arabia and then back to canada. thank you so much for talking with us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> now before we get to the current situation in sudan, i do want to start with your own experience here. as we just mentioned, you fled sudan with your 3-year-old daughter to saudi arabia, and then back to canada. how terrifying was that experience? and for all those other people around you? >> yeah, i mean, as for many hundreds of people who are trying to either leave sudan or get just outside of khartoum or darfur where the fighting has

been particularly intense, it was one of those decisions we had to make between staying in place, sheltering in place and making this kind of very dangerous treacherous journey across several towns to port sudan. but we made the decision partly because we were running out of food and water where we were in khartoum. and then later on where we sheltered in place, or kind of evacuated to a village south of khartoum, there was fighting that was nearby that was kind of getting closer to where we were. so we kind of made the decision to leave. but it was at great risk. and we didn't have much information to actually make an informed decision about how to do that. >> so difficult. and we're hearing all of the really terrifying stories from so many people trying to get out. and of course this conflict in sudan involves a struggle

between two generals for control of the country, and they appear to be willing to fight to the bitter end here through failed ceasefires, multiple failed ceasefires. so how does this get resolved? what needs to happen here? >> yeah, so i think in my view at the moment, what we need is a coordinated international response to essentially leverage, you know, the international community's power to pressure these generals to cease fighting. and at the very least, put a ceasefire in place that allows for corridors, you know, to get humanitarian assistance, food, water, medicine to the places that are hardest hit, which as i mentioned are khartoum and several towns in darfur where some of my own family members remain sheltered in place

without access to water and food. they haven't had electricity since day one or water. and, you know, there are people in their neighborhoods organized through resistance committees that are providing life-saving support to them, bringing water from the nile to them, making sure they have food. but at great risk, of course. and so what is needed right now is pressure from the international community to open up the borders, allow people to seek asylum, but also to provide people the ability to leave where they are into safer places in sudan. there are lots of towns and areas of sudan that are relatively safe that people trying to reach. but because it's such a dangerous journey at the moment, people are making the difficult decision of staying in place where they're still surrounded by gunfire and missiles and explosions, as we were for several days. so i think that's key. we're not asking here for international intervention, right.

we're asking for the appropriate humanitarian response in a coordinated fashion. and i want to say that, you know, thus far, the closing of borders, right, the leveraging of this kind of pressure to create cease-fires exclusively for foreign nationals, the evacuation of foreign nationals, right, the support of either of these armed factions from libya and egypt, you know, that is also supported by other external actors, these are all forms of international intervention that have been damaging that need to stop. and i think another thing that really needs to be highlighted here is that the resistance committees that are currently coordinating these life-saving -- this life-saving work, sort of filling a vacuum that has been left behind by the international aid agencies that have left or ceased operation, these interest people that have been asking and demanding a full transition to civilian rule from the very beginning. and we need to listen to them. they're the ones who have, you

know, that need to guide the next steps after the cessation of violence and kind of any kind of international engagement needs to be led, sudanese-led by those pro-democracy forces that for the most part were not taken seriously during the transition. and, you know, part of what got us to this place that these war criminals, borhan and hemiti were legitimized during this protracted process that was supposed to lett lead us to a transitional government and ultimately to elections. at the expense of these pro-democracy forces that have said no negotiations, no partnership, and no legitimacy to these war criminals. >> nisrin elamin, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having meme. and still to comome, a starartling assessmement of rus

casualties in ukraine.e. plus, a look at what life is like fighting a war in the trenches near the front lines in bakhmut.

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russia says it was targeting ammunition and weapons facilities. meanwhile, the governor of ta region in russia blames an explosive device for a train derailment and fire. no one was killed in that incident. newly declassified u.s. intelligence shows more than 100,000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war on ukraine since december. and cnn's scott mclean is following developments for us. he joins us now live from london. good morning to you, scott. what is the latest on these recent strikes across ukraine and in russia, an patiently new strategy? >> look, rosemary, there have been plenty of mysterious explosions on russian soil since the outset of the war. it's just that the ukrainians rarely if ever actually acknowledge them. in the case of this explosion on the train in the region of russia, both sides have some incentive to downplay this, because the ukrainians don't

want to provoke any kind of response, and the russians don't really want to acknowledge to their own citizens that there is war taking place on russian soil. so the ukrainians in the case of this train explosion have not acknowledged it at all. the local governor, though, says this was not accident. it was an ied planted on board. and the russians say the only thing on those trains was construction supplies and oil products. now bryansk has been at the center of plenty of back and forth as of late. you had the governor just today saying that overnight there was ukrainian shelling on a border town. it comes after he says there was other shelling over the weekend that killed four civilians there. now the ukrainians say that there have been drone strikes on the capital, kyiv, originating from bryansk. and it was less than two months ago that the ukrainians said they actually -- or that the russians said that there were ukrainian militants that breached the border into

bryansk. the ukrainians also acknowledged that they launched their own drone strike in bryansk, something extremely rare. >> and we have also heard reports that a former u.s. marine was killed near bakhmut. what can you tell us about him? >> his name is cooper harris andrews, 26 years old, a former u.s. marine and firefighter from cleveland, ohio. he was, according to his mother killed by a mortar strike on the access road, one of the few access roads in and out of bakhmut. his body has yet to be recovered because of the heavy fighting there. now his mother also told cnn that he was there out of a sense of duty, a sense of obligation to help the people of ukraine, a guy who liked to fix things, someone who thought you shouldn't just believe things, you should actually act on them and do something about it. he was serving with the ukrainian foreign legion from november. his contract actually ended in march. but even after that, he decided to stay on. and obviously, this was the result of that, the tragic

result of that. now bakhmut has played an outsized role, an outsized importance since the outset of the war. and in recent months, the russians have really put a ton of resources, a ton of manpower into trying to capture it with no luck thus far. the ukrainians say they continue to hold on there. in fact, the latest word we have from them is the russians are actually having to ration the ammunition that they're using, which is a big change from last summer, for instance, when they said that it seemed like russian ammunition was practically unlimited. rosemary? >> scott mclean joining us live from london. many thanks. at least six people were killed when a dust storm caused dozens of vehicles to crash along a major highway in central illinois. police say more than 30 people were hospitalized with injuries on monday ranging from minor to life-threatening. the injured ranged in age from 2 to 80 years old.

authorities say at least 40 passenger cars and another 30 commercial vehicles crashed along interstate 55 as dust from newly plowed fields took over the highway. two semitrucks also caught on fire. winds have been gusting up to 45 miles per hour. well, the problem in iowa is too much water. record snowfall in the upper midwest has produced flooding in towns all along the mississippi river. residents in north buena vista are living in flooded homes and using boats to get around. >> you start to get used to it. you get familiar. this one isn't as bad. i think last time we had some levees break. there is probably a little more damage. but it's not too bad. it's looking pretty good. everyone is pretty prepared, you know. they've been through this before. if you're a local, you know what to expect. >> in davenport, the river crest

on monday ranked among the top ten of all time. residents were prepared, packing sandbags since last week. thinking time around, we knew ahead of time what to do. so i don't know. i just kind of take charge. bobby let me take charge. and i took all the volunteers who weren't sure what to do and organized them into, you know. >> team. >> a team, thank you. team work. yeah, i probably lead about 90% of these by hand. but it worked. >> flood warnings have been posted along the mississippi river from st. paul, minnesota to just north of st. louis, missouri. but forecasters say they don't expect major flooding for areas farther south. it's a smallll island in a tough spot. cocoming up, we will take you ta part of taiwan that's veryry close, perhaps too close to

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welcome back, everyone. a small island about four miles from mainland china is hoping that war will never come again. the kinmen islands are part of taiwan, and some residents remember battling the chinese communists years ago. will ripley reports many there are pushing to become east asia's new demilitarized zone. >> reporter: as the sunsets on

the taiwan strait, the neon lights in southeastern china dazzle in the dusk. cnn cameras close enough to read the glowing signs, a glimpse of mainland china on the inside. but you may be surprised to learn i'm not standing in mainland china. i'm here in taiwan on a small island sitting surprisingly close to that bustling metropolis behind me. less than four miles of water, that is all that divides this democracy from communist china. our 200-mile flight from taipei to the kinmen islands takes about an hour. a boat can reach the mainland in minutes. some islanders feel like sitting ducks at the mercy of china's people's liberation army. the pla wants massive military drills near taiwan, twice in the last nine months. china calls the drills a response to taiwan president tsai ing-wen's high profile

meetings with two house speaker, nancy pelosi last year and kevin mccarthy in california last month. just off the coast of kinmen, we see chinese sand dredgers. china is reclaiming land to build a new airport. the mainland coast getting closer every day. "we all hope war doesn't break out here" says the chairman of the visitors association. "we think it's basically impossible for our military to defend kinmen." but they did defend the islands more than 70 years ago. tens of thousands of nationalist troops from taiwan repelled the mainland's communist forces. things are very different today. only a few thousand taiwanese soldiers remain. china now has the world's largest navy. taiwan's outlying islands are no longer strategically valuable and almost defenseless if the pla decides to make a move. many here are calling for taiwan's military to pull out completely.

"we don't want kinmen to become a battlefield again" wu says. if there are no soldiers or military installations, we can become a demilitarized zone and attract more tourists. he says the handful of remaining military sites are shockingly vulnerable. last year civilian drones from china hofvered over several island outposts. this video shows startled soldiers throwing rocks raising questions about the military's readiness. taiwan says it shot down at least one unidentified civilian drone. in so many ways the local culture on this side and that side almost the same. politics of course the big exception. but many who grew up here are calling for closer ties with communist china. they lived with the alternative, decades of ferocious fighting right here on the front line. these battle-scarred outlying islands bore the brunt of damage during the worst decades of the cross-strait conflict. from the late 1940s through the

1970s, relentless artillery attacks left behind mountains of metal. "we worry history might repeat itself" says maestro wu who makes knives from old artillery. "if that happen, it will change our way of life clothe. bullet-riddled buildings, bomb shelter, beaches lined with anti-landing spikes, rusty relics waiting for the waves of change to come crashing in. will ripley, cnn, kinmen, taiwan.. and still to come, evacuation warnings go out across parts of colombia as scientists warn the ruiz volcano could be days away from erupting.

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residents of more than two dozen communities in colombia have been told to leave after a volcano began spewing increased levels of rock and hot ash. scientists are warning that the notorious nevado del ruiz volcano could erupt within days or weeks. cnn's isa soares reports. >> reporter: the ruins of a ghost town are all that remain from amero. the small town in colombia was wiped away by the nevado del ruiz nearly 40 years ago, killing almost 25,000 people in a matter of minutes. and now officials are warning it will erupt again in just weeks, or even days. seismic energy is intensifying, and volcanic activity is very unstable. officials declared orange alert since late march.

but according to the colombian geological service, the conditions of the volcano have made the probability of an eruption greater in the past couple of days. they have a hard choice to make, whether to potentially breathe, a gray clouds and lava, or leave everything they have behind. >> translator: our life is worth more than an animal and other things. but as poor people we have to go on. it's not fair that we leaf here and leave our things behind. >> translator: for us, this is not possible to evacuate because of the animals. if one of us leaves, another one comes to see what's left. >> reporter: the slopes of the nevado del ruiz in central colombia are fertile grounds for local farmers. the colombian government called for the voluntary evacuation of 28 communities in the area, and they are offering housing assistance to those who do. the many locals have refused, saying they are worried about leaving their livelihoods.

some local farmers have lived through earlier eruptions and do not trust their lands or even animals will be safe if they leave. officials tell cnn that dozens of people have evacuated the area. they warn it is not just the eruption they should be concerned with but the aftermath. when volcanos erupt, there is a dense, fast-moving flow of lava pieces, volcanic ash and hot hashes that can go on for hours and destroy everything in its past. near rocks create avalanches that can take everything in their way. >> it has been making these eruptions for almost ten years. the locals say well, the volcano already does this. we are used to it. that is very dangerous. you cannot get used to what is not normal. >> reporter: this region is still reeling from the tragedy that struck in 1985, and now officials fear another disaster. desperate for history not the

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