in the church kathy ibanez with the details, jackie. good morning for shooting took place in laguna woods around 1:30 in the afternoon yesterday. the police say there were 3240 churchgoers inside the geneva presbyterian church at the time of the shooting. some inside the church used an extension cord to hog-tie the suspect and then take two weapons from him before the police arrived. listen. the churchgoers display what we believe exceptional or row wisdom and bravery intervening to stop the suspect. they undoubtedly prevented additional injuries and fatalities. speak with the police have not released the identity of the suspect but he is described as an asian man in his 60s. the shooting comes a day after ten people killed and three others heard by a gunman at a buffalo grocery store. fbi agent searching for suspect s home and speaking with his parents yesterday. the police say 18-year-old payton gendron who faces first-degree murder charges posted a white supremacist ma
had he not been stopped. tell us what we know so far about his motivation? well, obviously from what all of the evidence that we ve gathered so far, the motivation at this stage appears to be pure hatred. pure racial hatred. now there happens to be a penal law in the state of new york that is entitled a domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate. that particular crime right now is a crime that i m focusing on. i ve already got him charged mika with the highest murder charge in the state. murder if the first-degree. so we got that charged. we got him hold on that. so now, the next legal step is we have a felony hearing scheduled for thursday. it is a probable cause hearing to determine whether or not a felony has been committed. i m confident that the murder in the first-degree meets the probable cause standard. so he s going to be either held for the grand jury on thursday, or he s going to waive to the grand jury. so i m already in grand jury mode right now. so what that
states tomorrow, we ll have a preview of the races to watch. we begin with the aftermath of what was a violent weekend in a number of places. we start with buffalo, new york that is still realing after a white teenager carried out what they re calling a racist attack in a super market in a predominantly black neighborhood. nearly all of the victims were black. the gunman is in custody and being held on a first degree murder charge. he intended to take as many black lives as possible. president biden and first lady jill biden will visit the community to grieve with them. we are learning more about the victims, aaron salter a police officer turned security guard that tried to stop the gunman. katherine massey who tried to make her community a better place to live. pearl young who ran a food pantry for a quarter century. heyward patterson who was loading bags into a car. celestine chaney and roberto roberto drury who was just buying groceries. jesse, what have we learned about t
because if i don t i am killing me and i won t be able to go forward if i don t forgive him. we will talk about the warning signs missed along the way. plus the end to the baby formula shortage could be months away. what can parents do and what can the government do? xavier becerra will join me later to tell us. and also another wild twist on the eve of a pennsylvania primary. plus, an update on the democratic senate candidate, john fetterman recovering from a stroke with the primary tomorrow. and then let s start in buffalo. this is a horrifying result of racism and access to guns and hateful internet culture coming to a head and what makes it worse is this supermarket is the only supermarket in this neighborhood, meaning he did not just target the people inside that target but he targeted the only community. reporter: officials said this becomes a food desert, so it s like dumping salt in a horribly wide open wound right now. this is the front page from the buffalo news
ukraine. jim? anderson, thanks so much. this is cnn tonight. i m jim sciutto live from lviv in ukraine, along with the great laura coates in the u.s. the pentagon says tens of thousands of russian troops have now amassed in eastern ukraine. one of putin s commanders claims their new goal is to take full control of not just the donbas region in the east but southern ukraine to provide a land corridor to crimea and perhaps go further. still, president zelenskyy expressed hope and defiance tonight. translator: we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. the armed forces of ukraine continue to deter attacks by russian invaders in the east and south of our country. and i am grateful to each of our defenders who are bravely holding on. in this new offensive, they continue tonight in the region. this is the push and pull of the front lines. the russians launched for air strikes on the southern port city of mariupol earlier.