our thanks to wxyz for that. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with this breaking news on the manhunt undway under way cleveland texas for the suspect accused of the shootings of five including an 8-year-old. ryan young isle toing all of this for us. what more are we learning about the suspect? troubling details on this. we ve been following this for hours. we ve been given a name. francisco orpeza is the name police are looking for at this point. they are still actively looking for him. this all started with a 911 call over a noise disturbance. apparently he was on his porch file firing a well. neighbors asked him to stop shootings. he went to the home and started shooting people execution style. listen to the sheriff early on in this investigation. when they got here, they found four people deceased inside of the residence. there was an 8-year-old that had been shot. everybody that was shot was shot fr
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with a manhunt for the suspect in yet another horrifying mass shooting. police say the rampage started after a family asked a neighbor to stop firing a rifle in his front yard because their baby was trying to sleep. now five people are dead, including an 8-year-old child. this latest horror unfolded in cleveland, texas, about 40 miles northeast of houston. cnn s ryan young is following all of the latest developments for us. ryan, what do we know about the manhunt that s happening right now and this suspect in just another case of a terrible mass shooting in this country? yeah. i mean, troubling details in this, jim. when you think about all of the pieces that have been laid out so far. we know the fbi has just joined the manhunt for this man. his name is francisco orpeza. that s the mans that you see on your screen. he apparently is the next door neighbor. sheriff s deputies have been able t
several of them are calling out fox news for down-playing the violence of that dark day. we ll have those comments in just a moment. plus, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. and also we could be closer to finding out who sabotaged a russian pipeline last year. that new reporting is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 8th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with a growing number of republican senators blasting fox news and prime time host tucker carlson for showing select footage from the january 6th insurrection on his prime time show. that footage provided by house speaker kevin mccarthy. the fox news try today portray the deadly riot as peaceful, calling the insurrectionists sight seers and that lawmakers who suggest otherwise had lied to the american public. even alleging some capitol police officer
pandemic-era policy, set to expire in just under three weeks. new reporting on how the biden administration is getting ready at the border. meanwhile, charges dropped what we re hearing from alec baldwin since prosecutors announced the actor will not face criminal charges for his role in the fatal rust shooting we ll break down the latest push against transgender rights across several states and we ll bring you inside the billion dollar latin music industry breaking records around the world. and we begin this morning with the news that president biden appears to be on the verge of announcing his re-election campaign three sores familiar with the matter tell nbc news the president will make his intentions to seek a second term official next week the tuesday will be four years since he launched his last run to the white house. a new wall street journal poll out this morning gives the president a three-point advantage over donald trump among registered voters. that same
[ inaudible ] no time? big mistake. reporter: jake, that was an assessment that lined one what we heard with his advisers over the course of the last 24 hours. not notably, president putin s announcement came hours before joe biden s speech. just a short time ago, an interview was released where the president called it a big mistake but was confident they could work things out. that underscores a subtext here. u.s. officials make clear this is a reversible position. the treaty goes until 2026. there is time to figure this out. keep in mind, this was the first agreement reached by joe biden and putin at the start of his time in office. it goes to show even on issue where is they thought they could negotiate and reach agreements, the relationship is all but imploded at this point. phil, the president is set to land back in washington in a few hours. what will await him as republicans continue to splinter on the subject of support for ukraine? reporter: yeah, there are