i am arthel neville. police in gastonia, north carolina which is just outside charlotte named the alleged gunman 24-year-old robert singletary. they say he took off after shooting that 6-year-old girl in the face then surrendered to hillsboro county sheriff s office in tampa, florida yesterday after two days on the run. that six year old says that she heard the shooter say he would kill her. fox news senior correspondent steve harrigan is live now with the very latest, steve precook the 24 old man in his first court appearance in florida. it comes after he turned himself in following a two day manhunt. he shut the mother, the father, and a 6-year-old girl. this came in gastonia. the events took place on tuesday afternoon. some children were playing basketball outside rolled into the 24 old north carolina man s robert singletary s yard. he got upset, came out of the house with a gun and began firing. the father of the six year old gold tried to draw his attention away. he shot
the hunter biden probe as an i r s agent trying to get whistleblower protection. claims he has information that contradicts the attorney general sworn testimony this as hunter biden s lawyers book a sit down with prosecutors, plus as the nation waits to hear if the u. s supreme court will keep a partial ban on a an abortion bill hill in place canada is now offering american women and girls access to the bill from north of the border. and an american kill as a vile, volatile situation in sudan gets even worse. the u. s. is now deploying troops nearby, ready to evacuate its embassy as other countries are going in to pull their citizens out. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our health lead any moment the u. s. supreme court could rule on the most critical abortion case since it overturned roe v. wade last year , the justices have until 11:59 p.m. eastern this evening to decide the future of the widely used abortion pill cristo. the bill is currently avai
district attorney bragg claims the former president misrepresented the payments as legal services. a fact, his attorney did pay daniels. top house republicans are again demanding that bragg hand over documents related to the investigation and testify in person on friday of this week. house oversight chair james comer calls the case a political stunt and says alvin bragg cannot defy congress. unfortunately for mr. bragg he doesn t have the luxury to determine whether or not he can comply with congressional requests. if there was a reason for prosecution, it should be done by the department of justice on the federal level. we believe it s a political stunt by mr. bragg. when you look at what we believe the role of the manhattan d.a. should be is to fight crime. harris: with this will they or won t they indict tumble phase dragging on some watching this unfold say it is all helping trump. i think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges. it is not going
on your wallet. president biden will announce a move to help keep energy prices down for americans less than three weeks before the all-important midterm elections. the president will announce the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic preserve. of course, in the past few days gas prices have been dropping in some areas but on average they re still up 17 cents a gallon from a month ago. of course, the cost at the pump factors into the economic worries voters will carry to the polls and could be a problem for democrats since they re the party in power. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house. phil, what do we expect to hear from the president? you know, ana, not a lot of levers the president can pull in an international economy and global market like the oil market. this, what the president will announce is one of them. both an actual action, announcing the sale of another 15 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve but also in sending
first confirmed hurricane related death in osceola count. 14 million people right now under a flood advisory. the scale of destruction is hard to comprehend. we are learning more by the minute. any minute from now, president biden gets a briefing on the scope and devastation of this storm. millions of floridians right now without electricity. lee and charlotte counties in southwestern florida knocked entirely off the power grid, that according to florida s governor. emergency responders working through a backlog of calls for help. for some, that help won t get there in time. in naples, scenes of desperation, first responders wading through shoulder-high water to carry, drag people to safety. in orlando, regret for not following orders to get out. i heard the evacuation going off on my phone, but i was, like, we re going to be all right. i kept saying, we re going to be all right, you know what i m saying? but, boy, was i wrong. i was wrong. if i would have known it was goin