and he has done it again. it took five tries. everyone has a bad day. cnn this morning starts right now. everyone has a bad day. we hope yours is going well so far. we re going to begin with solomon pena, he was angry he lost the election last fall and claimed that the vote was rigged. now he is in police custody in connection with orchestrating four shootings at homes of local democratic officials in new mexico. no one was injured in any of the shootings that happened in albuquerque. police say that pena was the mastermind and allegedly conspired and paid four others to carry out the attacks. the evidence that we have is not only firearm, but it is also from cell phones and electronic records, surveillance video, and multiple witnesses inside and outside of this conspiracy that have helped us weave together what occurred. on the last shooting, we now have evidence too that pena himself went on this shooting, and actually pulled the trigger on at least one of the fire
string of shootings targeting his political opponents. we re going to have that for you. plus cnn has learned more searches could be coming as biden biden white house continues to face questions over the handling of classified material. and a college student in indiana was stabbed in the head and police now say it was a racially motivated attack. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here, everybody. i m kate bolduan. let s start in new mexico with a wild story that is raising questions whether political violence is becoming a norm. police have arrested a man for being the mastermind behind a series of shootings at the homes of state and local democratic officials. solomon pena, he is accused of conspiring with and paying four men to carry out the shootings. he had run he had run in an election, lost as a republican candidate, for the new mexico state house. thankfully no one was injured in those shootings. but officials believe that
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Time for the rescue swimmer. In this case it was running out of the fuel. Crew where is forced into a more dangerous maneuver using this sling right here, both men were attached to it and hoisted up out of the sea just in time. It is kind of out of it but he made comment i hope you have blankets up there. Reporter they did and the man will be fine. Happy ending in a tight spot. We could not ask for a better outcome. Good days work. Reporter math rivers, cbs3 Eyewitness News. We are all grateful for what they do. Our long stretch of hot weather continues tonight this is now day number seven of our heat wave and it is not over just yet. Meteorologist kate bilo is tracking more hot hot and humid weather from our cbs3 sky deck. Thanks, guess contact a couple months ago i went on one of those helicopter ops with that coastguard and it was intense. I can only imagine how that was like. Very many brave men and women. Great job by them. We are little breezy on the sky deck but dry for now. Not