To hold a News Conference coming up at 5 00 eastern time, and of course well have that for you as it happens. Cnns natasha chen is near the scene of this Ongoing Police operation there in lebanon, tennessee, just about 25 miles outside of nashville, where theyre looking further into this suspicious vehicle. Shimon prokupecz is in downtown nashville. Also with me is cnn senior Law Enforcement analyst Andrew Mccabe joining us by phone. Natasha, let me begin with you and what is an active investigative scene here involving that suspicious vehicle. Reporter right, fred. Well, we just got here a few minutes ago, but i can tell you what this looks like here. Authorities have this roadblocked off. This is actually right at the entrance of a state park, cedars of lebanon state park. I just talked to someone who lives right on the other side of this barricade, and she says shes been stuck, unable to go home since about 11 30 this morning. She went to drop off her kids at church, and, you know,
Lost my entire detail. Speak of the explosion went off. I got knocked to the ground. I was trying to make sure all of our people are okay and going from there, trying to figure out the best course of action. Thats what saved my life, thats what got me to see my kids and my wife on christmas. Julie and emotional News Conference there yesterday. Today, the tennessee governor told fox he is getting help from the white house. Listen. Speak of the damage is enormous. It was an indescribable blast, and it has destroyed businesses all up and down that downtown block. We have requested an emergency declaration, i actually spoke with the president myself yesterday. It appears that that will be coming shortly, so we are very grateful to President Trump for his response to that request. Julie Charles Watson is live in nashville with the very latest there. Hi, charles. Hi, julie. Federal authorities are working together to peace together the motives as their Destination Resort in nashville. They a
Minority leader Chuck Schumer has abandoned his Fundraising Efforts because he is pessimistic about warnock and ossoffs chance in georgia next week and doesnt want to ruin donor relationships. Wait a second, you wasted hundreds of millions of dollars trying to knock off republican senators in november, and now, you are worried about ruining donor relationships . Meanwhile, Stacey Abrams is already complaining about Voter Suppression. Watch this. When we create access to the right to vote for eligible citizens, more people participate, and republicans do not know how to win without Voter Suppression is one of their tools. That is why we see true the vote in georgia challenging 364,000 voters, nine days eight days before the election, because Voter Suppression is their modus operandi. Trey democrats are right to be worried, not about Voter Suppression, voter education, may be, not Voter Suppression. Both Democratic Candidates find themselves mired in scandal. It has come to light Raphael
Team, i wanted to give you a major update in a development weve come to in this case and that is, based on the evidence that weve gathered to this point, weve come to the conclusion that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber. That he was present when the bomb went off. And that he perished in the bombing. We base this conclusion on forensic evidence, including dna evidence that youll hear about, as well as evidence that was gathered at the scene of the bombing. Because this was a collaborative effort, i want to turn the microphone over to each of the agency folks here. Theyre going to talk about their agencys role in the investigation and how the evidence that they gathered, how the tests they conducted led us to this conclusion. So let me start out by introducing Tennessee Bureau of investigation director, david rausch. Thank you. I first want to say that we appreciate the collaborative effort that has taken place in this investigation. Local, state and federal authorities
Security of tens of millions of americans hangs in the balance. Remember, it was five days ago that the president took to twitter with this video calling the Coronavirus Relief bill a disgrace, blind siding lawmakers on capitol hill, blind siding officials and putting that relief into limbo. We know tonight that according to one source that a private ballroom in maralago has been set up now with a signing desk and a chair, ceremonial, ready to go for the president to sign this before he heads to dinner as we expect him to this evening. But whether or not he ultimately follows through on that still is a question because the white house staff did the same thing on Christmas Eve. They set up a signing desk, a chair and those ceremonial pens that the president uses to sign legislation on Christmas Eve, so thursday evening, after that legislation was flown down from washington, down here to his Maralago Club in palm beach. Only for the president to ultimately scrap those plans and decide no