for ultimate business. and it's all from comcast business. you feel the wind this is a secret. >> a secret and spies tomorrow at ten on cnn good morning, everyone. >> welcome to cnn. this morning, it is saturday, june 22, just five days away from debate de here i'd cnn, i'm amara walker. >> i'm victor blackwell well, thank you so much for joining us this morning. here's what we're watching for you new details about the suspect who started shooting at a grocery store in arkansas. what police are saying? about how it happened and the victim's condition. >> and just five days, president biden and former president donald trump will meet face-to-face for the cnn presidential debate. what both candidates it's our doing to prepare for their first base off of this election cycle, we can see hundreds of record highs this week as summer heat tightened its grip on parts of the country allison chinchar, stand above the forecast all right. >> as i also for the third time this morning, we are just days away from the first presidential debate of 2024, hosted by cnn and biden and trump are taking different approaches to preparing for this face off. trump is on the campaign trail this weekend, making stops in war washington dc, philae, and philadelphia today. in recent weeks, he's participated in roughly a dozen policy discussions sharpening his message on the economy, the border, and crime, but none of the sessions have included mock debates are role-playing. >> president biden is meeting with close advisors at camp david this weekend, he's focusing on holding trump accountable. well, both sides are playing an expectations game for this crucial debate. now, it is unusually early in the campaign giving the candidates a chance to jolt a white house race that has been largely stable for months. cnn's camila to chalice is joining us now from washington. so let's talk team biden. what's their goal? well, for this weekend president biden really wants to use this weekend to craft and fine tune his messaging on a wide array of issues that he's expected to talk about during the debate when he goes head to head with trump, he's fine tuning his messaging when it comes to the economy. and what has taken his policy stances on a lot of form policy issues. now, campaign advisers tell us that during this weekend when he's at camp david and even next week, he's going to be gathered around close aides and close advisers that will really be helping him prepare for this debate. we are told that his former chief of staff, ron clean, is leading these debate preparation gins, and these preparations entail everything from informal conversations. he's having while discussing a lot of topics to just even a formal 90 minute mark debate, where he's going, where he's trying to just really tune that messaging of how he wants to respond to certain questions. and we're told that his ultimate goal here is to the strategize more ways to show how trump is unfit for office and strategize ways to really hold trump accountable for the policies he has enacted and the paths and viktor, we know that is no small task that this debate, there's a lot of stake at stake for biden and trump during this debate because this is a way for them to really gravity and tell voters where they stand on issues and make it clear why biden or trump is best to serve as the next president. so there's a lot of stake here and biden is taking these preparations very seriously viktor amara, back to you. camila to chalice. thank you very much. now, former president trump's advisers say he is because more on policy than rhetoric headed into thursday's debate cnn's alayna treene reports on how team trump is preparing for the debate. we'll vector name or donald trump and his team are really trying to adjust expectations as they look ahead to next thursday. now as we know, for months now, donald trump and many of his advisers have tried to paint a biden as this weak and feeble candidate who isn't fit for office that he's mentally and physically unfed and have even argued that he may not be able to stand on stage for 90 minutes. however, that is set a very low bar for joe biden at something that behind the scenes has become somewhat of a concern and take a listen to what donald trump told the all-in podcast yesterday he beat paul ryan pretty badly and i assume he's gonna be somebody that will be a worthy debater. yeah, i would say i think i don't want to underestimate him. >> so as you can see, they're victor and amara. he's clearly trying to raise the expectations for joe biden. and again, this really comes as there have been conversations questions about what next week could look like. i know that donald trump's team recognizes the amount of preparation that joe biden's team is doing, and that has reframed how they're thinking about what it could look like. this contrast between both trump and biden on stage. now as for the preparation, donald trump's team has consistently tried to downplay that the former my president needs any preparation at all. they argue that his rallies and his media interviews have served as his debate prep. however, he is doing preparations behind the scene, so they're dumping these prep sessions as policy discussions. i'm told he's participated in more than a dozen of these with vice presidential contenders senators, even some people from his former administration like kellyanne conway rick ronel, and stephen miller. and many of the discussions into these meetings has really focused on sharpening his rhetoric on some of the key issues they think he's vulnerable on. so earlier this month, he did one of those sessions with jd vance, a top contender to be his running mate. they met at mar-a-lago and talked about inflation and the economy. we know that last week as well, he met with senator marco rubio, another potential vp contender, as well as senator eric schmitt. and they talked about american democracy as well as his handling of the january 6 attack on the capitol. i'm also told that there has been discussions about how to frame his guilty verdict, his conviction in the manhattan courtroom last month, where he was found guilty of falsifying 34 counts of business records and so all of that has been playing out behind the scenes. and really, again, donald trump's team is trying to manage expectations in the coming days and really try to see how they can get donald trump to stay on message and talk about some of the issues they think are most important to voters come this fall back to you thank you for that let's bring in shelby telecom reporter with semaphore. good morning to you, shelby. thanks so much for being here this presidential debate. it may is going to be one of the most consequential ones in decades are van jones has been saying that this debate is biden's to lose do you see it that way well, i think there's an argument to be made that it's either candidates to lose, but certainly this is the first opportunity that the president has to really show voters that it is him against donald trump. >> and that's been something that anytime i've talked to joe biden's campaign over the past several months even last year they've tried to highlight that eventually voters will realize that this is an election between joe biden and donald trump, and that voters will come back to joe biden so far based on the polls that has not happened. so this really is an opportunity for him to show voters that front and center for the first time in several years. >> mean this race has been stable for months. now, writing, when it comes to the poles, there has been no clear leader, which is obviously troubling for biden as an incumbent, but also with a criminal conviction for trump, the polls haven't changed much if at all. i mean, what kind of strategy could biden then? ploy for this debate. i mean, that could be effective we've seen how joe biden over the past few weeks and his campaign have begun to really ramp up their rhetoric when it comes to that conviction. >> and donald trump's legal issues. and that's really a shift from what we saw last year when i talked to campaign aide and people close to the white house, there was a split, but a lot of them argued at the time that they didn't really need to go hard at donald trump's legal issues because voters already knew who donald trump is and they wanted to focus on the issues at hand. the economy, abortion, things that voters care about, that seems the past few weeks to still be a focus, but now we're seeing how they are going after donald trump's legal issues and his recent conviction more often. and so i do expect on the debate stage next week that we're going to see some comments from joe biden to that effect. >> let's talk about the campaign cash dynamics, because it really is remarkable to see what's been happening over the past couple of months when you look back just two months ago, president biden had a huge financial advantage. and then if you look for the last two months in a row, it is trump and his campaign. and other republicans, the rnc out raising biden. you can see these numbers here in the month of may, $141 million for trump and the rnc 85 million for biden and the democrats. i mean, that's a staggering reversal of fortunes quite literally for biden absolutely. >> and to be clear, they're both still raising a lot of money. joe biden's numbers are impressive just as donald trump's is. but the shift really has come, i think in part because of these legal issues and particularly because of the conviction last month we saw how in 24 hours after donald trump was convicted in new york, he raised, i think over 50 million. those are huge numbers and it shows what candidates in the primary against donald trump were struggling with. i remember ron desantis shortly before he dropped out said in an interview that the legal issues sort of solidified the support that donald trump has. and i think that is still the case in the general election when voters see republican voters see that donald trump is going through these legal issues and that he has been convicted. they have opened up their wallets as a result with this huge cash lead earlier on we saw the biden campaign setting up camp in battleground states spending tens of millions of dollars on tv ads and they point biden's campaign points to this political infrastructure that they have been able to build in several of these key states as opposed to trump having having not done so. but even with that, biden has not been able to change the trajectory of the race. >> so how much of an advantage has this early cash advantage been for biden? >> well, i think as we see in the polls, assuming the polls are correct and of course things change very quickly. could change very quickly over the, over the next few months. but it hasn't really impacted the race in the way that i think traditionally, we would assume it would. and so will be interesting to see now that donald trump are caught up whether or not the money factor remains as much of a non-issue as it has been this presidential race. >> shelby talcott were read it. we'll leave it there. thank you so much. >> and make sure to tune in to see the cnn presidential debate right here on cnn coming up on june 27th at 9:00 p.m. eastern were following new details on the deadly grocery store shooting and arkansas police say 44-year-old travis eugene posey is the man who opened fire at a grocery store just outside of little rock killing three people and injuring 11 others. >> the shooter is now in custody, is facing capital murder charges. >> one witness told cnn, and when she first heard the shots, she got something had fallen off the shelves once you realize they were gunshots, she and her child, they ran and hid in a freezer cnn's rafael romo is here following the story for us, he joins us live what else do we know about how this happened? >> and good morning, viktor amara, another horrific shooting in the united states. it was just before noon when the shots rang out the shooting happened at the mad butcher supermarket and fordyce, arkansas a ton of some 3,700 people located about an hour south of little rock. the first 911 calls came in at 11:38 in the morning, according to officials law enforcement responded immediately and exchanged gunfire with the lone suspect identified as 44-year-old travis eugene posey arkansas public safety secretary mike hagar said that the suspect was shot and taken into custody. overnight. authorities said that three people were killed and ten others wounded, including two police officers, were injured in the shootout with the assailant. hagar also said that both the officers and the suspect are expected to survive the injuries to the civilians range from non-life threatening to extremely critical local official said the entire community is shocked about what happened this is a very devastating, they never the billion years, what we think so i this would happen. >> there's a lot of families involved as effective for this. continue to pray for them on behalf of the state police law enforcement, community off of it. first responders it's tragic, are our hearts are broken, our prayers long and governor sanders entire state of arkansas would be with this community and joseph the victims arkansas governor is sarah huckabee sanders, reacted to the shooting in a post on x saying, i am thankful to law enforcement and first responders for their quick and heroic actions to save lives. >> my prayers harb with the victims and all those impacted by this horrific incident, according to authorities posey, the suspect will be charged with three counts of capital murder, with additional charges pending, and to put it in perspective, victor an mri at least 234 mass shootings have taken place in the united states in 2024. this is according to data from the gun violence archive, which like cnn find some mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter at very horrific again. >> all right. raphael, thank you. thank you still to come 100 million people across the midwest and northeast dealing with record breaking here this weekend, where we could see hundreds of record highs plus detained american paul whelan march and other grim milestone this week, more than 2000 days in russian custody what he's urging the biden administration to june next, plus justin timberlake is back onto after being arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and sag harbor, new york this week we'll tell you what he shared with his fans debate in america as biden and trump meet. and only cnn has come pleat coverage with unrivaled access and exclusive pre and post of beat analysis. follow cnn for every catalyst moment, followed debate night in america, thursday at 7:00 p.m. i'll be honest by the end of the day, i floors who has the time to clean? >> that's why i love my swiffer wet yet 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time with this particular heat wave is everybody keeps saying, but it's summer, it's supposed to be. >> and we get that, but we don't issue heat alerts when you're temperatures where it should be, we issue them when they're 101520 degrees above average. and that's what we've got. you take a look at all of the areas, look at this. it stretches from the midwest, the pio valley, the mid-atlantic, into the northeast. all of these folks dealing with temperatures well above where they even should be for the summer time and it's not just here. you've also got some that are out until some western states as well. so a lot of different areas dealing with that extreme heat and taking it into comparison of when we would usually have it, look at how much we've seen a number number of people under those heat alerts really take off in just the last week for some perspective, this black line here, this is the summer average, so it can be comparing it to last year to where we are now. we are way above. 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