standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
bakhmut in ukraine. and the reason this matters, jake, is because the fight for bakhmut, as has become the case with much of the war in ukraine, has become a war of attrition that military and intelligence officials increasingly say is really likely to turn on access to artillery ammunition, which side is able to sustain its supply of artillery ammunition the longest. one senior western intelligence official that i spoke to earlier today said in bakhmut alone, the two sides are spending up to multiple thousands of rounds of ammunition a day, which is just staggering. so what north korea is doing here is really helping wagner, and by extension the russian side, perpetuate this fight in bakhmut that our sources say has left this part of ukraine looking like they re done. will the weapons and ammunition from north korea make a difference in ukraine? not necessarily from a broader strategic perspective. the fight in bakhmut specifically is not seen, even if russia is able to
somebody i knew would be involved? definitely not. i read the article and heard it was a dance studio, it crossed my mind. reporter: you thought about your dod potentially? yeah. the young man whose father was murdered at the dance studio now speaking out in a heart-wrenching interview. gun violence never seems to end. two students shot and killed at a des moines, iowa center for at-risk youth. cnn reporters on the scene to bring you the latest. a critical hearing in fulton, georgia. finishing a report on donald trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election in their state and now a judge decides whether the public gets to read it. we start in california reeling from three mass shootings in just three days. this time it s a small northern california city of half moon bay. investigators say the gunman killed at least seven people at a mushroom farm and trucking facility. come here! come here. hands up! there you see it right there. sheriff deputy found the susp
crackdown. what that means to the war effort now. and ticketmaster is in the spotlight. a senate hearing digging into the taylor swift foe asco. that is what we re watching at this hour. i m kate bolduan. p another deadly mass shooting in california. it is the third in three days. this is in a statement where some of the strongest gun laws in the country. seven people were killed in half moon bay south of san francisco. the gunman attacking two plant nurseries. and in a wild twist, at rest of the suspect all played out before tv cameras. police apprehended the 67-year-old suspect within hours of the killing. he is believed to work at one of the locations that he attacked. let s begin with veronica miracle in half moon bay with the latest on this investigation. reporter: kate, this horrific mass shooting took place at two different locations here in half moon bay, about five minutes from each other. that first 911 call came in just before 2:30 in the afternoon yesterda
culprit. yet another dose of gun violence adding to a string of shootings already staining the headlines. right now, police in washington state rushing to find this man, officials say he walked into a yakima gas station last night opening fire and killing three. he then possibly carjacked a fourth person. let s get straight to cnn s lucy kafanov. lucy, what do we know? reporter: john, the details are still coming in. three people, at least three people are dead following that overnight shooting at a circle k store in yakima, washington, that the man responsible for firing those shots is still at large. matt murray, the yakima police chief calling this individual dangerous telling reporters, quote, it s random so there is a danger to the community. we don t have motive and we don t know why. when officers arrived to the scene they initially found three deceased individuals at the circle k store. they quickly realized there was a second incident, a shooting mow tensionally