good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart reporting live from monterey park, california. it is a community here now reeling from tragedy as it becomes the scene of the nation s latest deadly mass shooting. it s a story that s become far too familiar here in the united states where a night of celebration turns into horror and heartbreak after a gunman opens fire at this dance hall, the star ballroom dance hall right here. this is the entrance. there s a small memorial that s just come up in the last couple of hours. this is where this tragedy, this massacre occurs. people were marking the lunar new year on saturday night, ten people were killed here. five men and five women. ten others were injured. the attack happening in one of the country s largest asian american communities. it is the deadliest shooting since the massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, last year that took the lives of 21 people. the suspect has been identified
just confirming there s no safe place anymore. there s nowhere for you to be safe anymore. it s a scary thought that this world is not safe anymore. what we know about the 72-year-old suspect, the weapon police say he used in the attack, and the impact the massacre has already had on lunar new year celebrations around the world. president biden faces growing scrutiny after a justice department search of his delaware home turned up even more documents with classified markings. a source tells nbc news the search was prompted not by the doj, but by the white house itself. we ll tell you what president biden s lawyers are not revealing this morning. plus a power struggle taking shape in the southwest. this morning, ruben gallego launching his senate bid in arizona. the clash this sets up with kristen sinema and what could mean for democrats hopes to keep the senate in 2024. we start with the breaking news from california. joining us right now is kathy park, ken dilania
Maine, but a war in israel that started three weeks ago is just getting started. In maine we are minutes away from an update from State Officials confirming Shooting Suspect robert card is dead from a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Closure for some, but not for the families of 18 victims still wondering why he did it in the first place and eager to learn what he wrote in that note he left behind. In israel, rapidly expanding ground operations on and a building u. S. Presence in the region. The Uss Eisenhower Carrier has entered the mediterranean and set to join the uss gerald r. Ford in a show of force as protests pick up anew all over the world including thousands gathering in london right now in support of palestinians. Welcome, everybody, im neil cavuto. Good to have you on a very, very busy muse day amidst a growing and expanding rumble in israel. Weve got you covered on both as we await that Press Conference. Lets go right to nate foy in lisbon, maine. Nate. Reporter hey, neil, good
Good to be with you, im katy tur. A church, a synagogue, a walmart, a school, a grocery store, a nightclub, a spa, a shopping mall, a neighbors house, a chinese new years celebration, a bank, a hospital, and now a bar and grille, and Bowling Alley where a gunman killed 18 people and injured 13 others. Police have i. D. d him as 40yearold robert card, a man with a recent record of Mental Health issues, a man who has now been on the run for 20 hours, perhaps hiding somewhere in rural maine, perhaps long gone. The Lewiston Police department, federal, state, county, and other municipalities are involved in a coordinated search at this moment for this individual. The search to apprehend this person both happen simultaneously. Our reality for today is the suspect is still at large, and we want to provide Community Support for the victims, for the families, and the communities across the state. But we also have an incredibly strong, laser like focus on bringing this suspect into custody, and
potentially made a threat against that target. i ve heard no evidence of anything like that in this case. so it s quite different, you know, more complex in many ways. i think what is remarkable is how quickly they were able to track him down. remember, this shooting happened in the middle of the night. lots of the local businesses around there cctv which you showed there, you know, security camera footage hard to get in the middle of the night. they really rallied quickly to bring this to a quick resolve in terms of finding that man the next morning. yeah, you know, clint, it s just maybe i m 15 feet from the entrance of this ballroom, and just right at the entrance i m seeing two security cameras. that s just right here in the front entrance. there s also some security cameras in this noodles restaurant. and clint, there are so many questions. i mane, the fact that he apparently at least had, what, two handguns if we follow kind of the time line of what happened here, he comes in w