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american plague. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. >> it is tuesday, july 5th, 3:00 a.m. in highland park, illinois. the chicago suburb dealing with yet another tragic mass shooting. at least six people are dead, more than two dozen wounded and a suspect is in police custody now. the shooter started just after 10:00 a.m. local time monday as people lined the parade route along central avenue in the suburb north of chicago. we have video from the scene, but we...

it was because of his time in the military. thats what it sounded like. the street behind me frozen in time, you can still see the chairs strewn about, the beach chairs where people were lined up for this moment of celebration for july 4th, left where they were, as people fled the scene in terror. the rifle, a rifle was discovered soon after the shooting on the rooftop. we have some new information about that rifle, which well bring to you in just a moment. the shooter himself, who the...

now in custody. police called the attack random and intentional. it is difficult, but important to hear the moment that gunfire erupted to begin to understand the terror that people faced. ill warn you, the video were about to see is disturbing. >> lord help us. personally i witnessed bursts of gunfire like that before, but only from u.s. military firing positions, while embedded with u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. that was on an american street. >> yeah. and those bullets left a...

dozens others hospitalized. >> police are calling this attack on paradegoers both random and intentional. i do want to warn you, some of the video youre about to see is disturbing. >> it sounded like a string of firecrackers going off inside of a metal trash bin. thats what i thought it was. 20, 30, maybe. >> i just grabbed my dad and we ran and suddenly everyone was running behind us. and people were just shot behind us. there was a girl just dead. another man was shot in the ear, blo...

turning a july 4th parade into a mad dash for survival. police say the fgunman fired frm a rooftop. witnesses describe the confusion and chaos. >> i thought for a second maybe it was fire crackers. youve heard before people arent sure what it is, but it was too fast and too quick, and my son said no, thats gunfire. we turned and ran and i pushed my sons wheelchair, and the wheelchair collapsed on the pavement. he toppled over and i fell. it happened again. and then my young son picks u...

constitutional right to an abortion. for president joe biden to lawmakers, to everyday americans, it seems like everyone is bringing -- the newly minted justice jackson >> the behavior of the supreme court of united states. >> what we have seen in the last weekend on guns, climate, abortion is just a preview of -- >> we are seeing not only the overturning of decades of protection, but with the descend upon us, there is an indication of what else could be coming down the line. this affe...

heat advisories are in place for more than 58 million americans. brittney griners message to the white house. her letter to president biden, handwritten from a russian prison, terrified she might be there forever. and on this fourth of july, how freedom means something different to griner today. shark attack. a lifeguard playing the victim in a training drill is bitten by a shark. how he fought back. and, baseball for the social media generation-- its driving fans bananas. this is the ...

about why no red flags were raised, possibly stopping him from legally buying at least five guns. alex perez and pierre thomas are standing by. were also learning more about the seven people killed. their names made public late today. the 78-year-old grandfather, the beloved wife and mother, dead kated to helping her family. and the financial adviser who at 88 was still taking the train to work every day. president biden ordering flags lowered to half staff. also tonight, more than...

white house and peter doocy in saudi arabia. peter, well start things off with you. >> and here in saudi arabia, the leaders of telling president biden they can help expand their oil production capacity, but only a little bit. so, if president biden came here thinking he was going to get saudi arabia to increase their oil production capacity so much that it might lower gas prices back at home, hes leaving emptyhanded. >> in this era, announced increase of the level maximum sustainable ...

should be subpoenaed. the russian foreign ministry has now claimed responsibility for the attack. >> there is a major sense of urgency around getting that grain exported to the countries most dependent on ukraines grain exports. ♪ its monday, july 25th. 59 a.m. here in london, 5:00 a.m. in the u.s. west coast. where millions of americans across the country are seeing the impact of the growing climate crisis. a dangerous and scorching heat wave thats already responsible for severa...