donald trump did. and who can actually get there on day one and make a big difference because the country is sliding away from us. the pennsylvania senate race has the democrats best chance to flip a republican seat to their side. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, may 17th. and in the coming hours joe biden and the first lady are set to travel to buffalo, new york where they will pay their respects to the victims of saturday s racially motivated shooting and meet with their families. the visit comes as we learn new details about the 18-year-old accused of opening fire in a supermarket. investigators say the suspect travelled 200 miles to the area two months ago and he was there this past friday for what authorities say was recognizance. just a day before the massacre. absolutely incredible someone with so much hate in their heart, so much hate in their head, traveled from more than three hours to get to this community, a commun
honk the victims, 86-year-old ruth whitfield who stopped for groceries, she had just returned from visiting her husband in the nursing home. her son spoke to omar jimenez. one of the things that we as a family wanted to ensure is that we call it what it is, it is white supremacy, it is hate, it is racism, it is bigotry. we got to call it what it is and stop beating around the bush and take it head-on because it is proliferating, it is not getting better. jasmine wright is for us in washington. and as you just heard, the families are calling for officials to confront racism head-on and it seems like that is what the president plans do today. reporter: that s right, christine. a white house official says that the president is expected to address the racial motivations that led to this shooting and he is expected to condemn them, but also call on americans to embrace diversity, the thing that makes this country really america frankly america here. so we will see the presid
the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. we are told the president will call on americans to, quote, give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning, we are getting new details about the suspect in buffalo, the investigation and new copycat threats against that city. this cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment the suspected shooter was taken into custody. new evidence shows he spent several months carefully planning the attack. he was here. we found some things that show that he was here in early march. and then again, we know that he was here on friday, basically, doing reconnaissance on the area. the suspect had also considered attacking churches or elementary schools. according to his own social media posts but he hesitated beca
and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to keep guns from the mentally ill. there is cell phone video the moment the suspect was taken in by police. he spent months carefully planning it s attack. he was here. he was here in early march. then again, we know he was here on friday basically doing reconnaissance on the area. a manager at tops, the store where this attack took place, tells the news, he was was actually seen the day before the attack. he was wearing the asame tacticl jum jumpsuit. he was told to leave because he looked like he was bothering customers. and we ll have more on the disturbing details in a moment as well as how he was easily able to purchase a firearm, including the one he used to gun down ten people, despite the fact he d been given a mental health evaluation less than a year ago. cnn has obtained a photo of two of the rifles that the shooter brought with him to the scene in buffalo. and writing appears all over then, including a
now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, may 17th. i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in new york. we have live pictures of the white house this morning, very shortly president biden about to depart for buffalo, to meet with the families of those killed in the racist mass shooting there. moments ago, officials told us the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. and he will call on americans to give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to try to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning we re getting new details about the suspected shooter. cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment he was taken into custody by police, new evidence shows he spent several month