let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, quote, w
of aggravated malicious wounding and one count of malicious wounding. certainly raising questions about security at these district congressman office. thank you. new details this morning on a deadly mass shooting happening in farmington, new mexico. an 18-year-old gunman killed three people and wounded six others including two police officers before being shot and killed by police. the gunman used three guns, one an ar-style rifle. according to police, he roamed a quarter mile area firing randomly. natasha chen joins us now. all too common in america, using an ar-like so many others have. what do we know this morning? reporter: poppy, the police chief posted a video to facebook last night describing the scene as wide and complex. you mentioned that the shooter apparently roamed for up to a quarter mile through this neighborhood. the chief said shooting at, quote, whatever entered his head to shoot at. and that included apparently at
officials are investigating the possibility. it was a us air force ac-130 gun ship. it was in the area firing at that position. the ac-130 gun ship is very precise. it has on-board guns. they aim straight at enemy personnel positions. so it is very precise. it is able to stay up in the air quite a while. there was an ac-130 in the area according to military reports. they are investigating whether this is the aircraft that may have been involved in the attack. thanks to barbara starr for that. we know, chris, that the u.s. military is early on in this investigation. what s the reaction thus far to this bombing? after our barbara starr talked about that this morning, the army released an updated statement. that statement read like this. they said u.s. forces conducted
from celebration to confusion in less than one day. this time yesterday we were reporting how rebels were gaining on tripoli. international leaders talking about a new political era and rebels bragging they had captured gadhafi s son. then saif appeared overnight and said he lured them into a trap. as we look at the live pictures out of tripoli, we still don t know if gadhafi is in his compound or not but nato jets are flying low over his compound. at least one explosion has been reported. nato won t confirm any bombing, however. and rebels are engaged in fierce fighting near the compound as well. as we heard just a moment ago, a rebel official reporting they have actually breached the gates there. we are hitting the story hard with multiple correspondents on the ground. matthew chance in the heart of tripoli. arwa damon reporting from the city s airport and sarah sidener and frederik pleitgen is in ben gaza. state to matthew chance who is caught up in a pretty dangerous situ