Saw. She grabbed his arm, it happened in seconds. Well get to that press conference as soon as it begins. Lets check in with dan simon, live for us right now in marysville. Dan, what else are we expecting to learn today from investigators . Hi, fredricka. That press conference is coming up. Were standing in front of the hospital. We should tell you that there are two patients here, two girls. Their conditions are said to be extremely critical after being shot at very close range. You talked about that handgun that was recovered. That was a 40 caliberberretta handgun, highcapacity weapon. And police recovered it at the scene. Theyre also telling us, police are, that they interviewed more than 100 student witnesses. Obviously a lot of people saw this shooting. Again, just to reiterate what happened, this occurring at 10 30 yesterday morning. This is where the shooter walks into the cafeteria. This was not a random shooting, fredricka. He goes to a specific table, knows who these people a
Teens. Another massive typhoon slams into the philippines. The latest right now in the cnn news room. So good to be with you this morning. Im christy paul. Im victor black well. 10 00 here on the east coast. 7 00 on the west coast. A Dramatic Mission by American Special forces ends in heartbreak for a family who desperately wanted their son home. But american luke somers is dead along with another hostage. U. S. Commandos swept in overnight to try to get the man to safety. He had been held more than a year. Just days ago the milt pts released a video threatening to kill him unless washington met their demands and we are learning new details. A fire fight broke out and they shot somers and another hostage. One died on the way to the u. S. Military ship. The other died aboard that vessel. President obama is talking today about this as is secretary hagel who you see there. But the president is saying that his deepest con doelss are with the somers family. He also explained why he ordered
Good morning everyone. 10 00 here on the east coast. 7 00 out west. And were starting with the breaking news. North korea is coming out swinging at accusations by the fbi that it is behind a massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures. North korea says it is being framed by the United States. And that is not all. Pyongyang says the insults to its Supreme Leader showings americas hostile tendencies and while america continues to point the finger at us we suggest mutual investigation with america on this case. Pyongyang warns of serious consequences if that doesnt happen. And all this as top sony exec is defending the decision to yank the movie from Theatrical Release. President obama calls that move a mistake. I am synthetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes i think they made a mistake. We have not caved. We have not given in. We have pers veered and we have not backed down. We have always had every desire to have the American Public see this movie. Senior media corre
There. No, christi. It is important to stress that baghdad doesnt appear to be under threat at the moment. Keeping in mind saz sprawling city of 9 million. And the majority certainly would not welcome isis. Where they are making progress is of course in Anbar Province, iraqs largest province. Provincial officials tell me more than 80 is under isis control and they continue to expand. We understand now the town of hadifa is now completely surrounded by isis. Some good news, apparently what we hear from also provincial sources, a police official, that this afternoon there was a strike on a large isis convoy by Coalition Aircraft describing many military vehicles including two apcs being struck in that hit. But by and large the worries are the Iraqi Military simply isnt capable of keeping isis back. We heard this provincial official appealing to government in baghdad to get the americans to deploy Ground Troops but the Iraqi Government has rejected that and certainly it is a political hot
Georgia. And more, guess what, on the way. Hello again, everyone, im fredricka whitfield. Developing news on the Virgin Galactic spaceship disaster. The ntsb about to release an update about spaceship 2 coming down. This as we understand that virgin ceo Richard Branson could arrive at any moment at the crash site in california. The shasship 2 plane fell apart just two minutes after fridays launch over the Mojave Desert. One pilot was killed, the other hospitalized. Cnns Stephanie Elam is near the launch site. The second private space disaster this week. What are we learning about what happened . Any commonalities here . Reporter yeah, its very disturbing, obviously, its a very rough week for Space Exploration and these private endeavors as well, fred. What youre seeing here are the challenges of actually trying to get up to space. The plan was to take people up 62 miles above earth so that they could feel maybe for five or six minutes what its like to be weightless in the lower regions