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it's the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell in buffalo, new york. police here say the suspect in that racist rampage that ended with the death of 10 people plan to keep killing beyond the toms market if he had not been stopped. authorities say the suspect, an 18-year-old white man drove more than 200 miles to this neighborhood to kill, to kill black people. many in the community here and across the country are outraged that there is another mass shooting, apparently driven by white supremacy. >> and of course the tributes are already pourin...

Im sara sidner in tel aviv and news on the dozens of hostages in the hands of hamas in gaza. We have learned significant progress in the press to release the more than 200 hostages. The latest on the war in israel. Im john berman in lewiston, maine, and the authorities are searching ground air and now water for the suspected mass killer. And now, we have an important update from the Law Enforcement that the divers are going into the river to search for a possible body. Im kate bolduan in new york, and the focus on the 18 lives lost in the tragedy. We are learning more about the victims and how...

Our lives having lost our mother to this senseless, heinous evil crime. and that's hard to fathom. that's hard to digest. >> now, whitfield is the former buffalo fire commissioner here. he and his attorney, ben crump say they plan to pursue legal action in this. as for the shooter, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder over the weekend, expected back in court on thursday, and then of course we expect president biden to visit with the families tomorrow. >> omar jimenez, thank you so much. listen, ten people, their lives gone here and we have discussed how this impacts individual families, ...

So i'm sure there are those who are saying that why didn't biden push john lewis bill as hard as he pushed it the last month. why didn't he push it six months ago as hard as he did now? the fact is that there is -- there's a timing that is not of one's own choice. it's dictated by events happening in country and around the world as to what the focus is. but part of the problem is, as well, i have not been out in the community nearly enough. i've been here an awful lot. i find myself in a situation where i don't get a chance to look people in the eye because of both covid and things that are ha...

You opened this news conference talking about him. i spoke to a number of black voters who fought to get you elected, and now they feel as though you're not fighting hard enough for them and their priorities. and they told me they see this push on voting rights more as a last-minute pr push than it is a legitimate effort to get legislation passed. so what do you say to these black voters who say that you do not have their backs, as you promised on the campaign trail? >> i've had their back. i've had their back my entire career. i've never not had their back. i started on the voting rights issu...