comparing notes and an ultimately laughing at the ridiculous farce that both of our imprisonment and i m sure his family is praying beyond to try to get him home as soon as possible. jason resign. thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. this morning. a new our of cnn news central starts right now new reporting this hour on president biden and donald trump, not just what they plan to do on stage during tomorrow night scene and debate but if focus now on what they plan to not do onstage during the debate new reporting also out of the department of homeland security today, the new data point he do a big drop in migrant apprehensions at the southern border in the three weeks since president biden took those new steps to crack down on asylum claims, what the homeland security secretary great has to say about that, and it s telling, our team, julian assange, just pleaded guilty and is now home and a free man. so what is next? for the wikileaks founder i m kate bold
That flag were to be removed. That would also require the legislature to work an extended session this legislative session, so well see how it plays out in the upcoming minutes and days. Back to you. Cnns Senior Investigative correspondent drew griffin is in charleston. We just learned that president obama and Vice President biden are planning on flying to charleston for reverend pinkneys funeral, one of the nine victims of the terrorist attack last week. President obama were told will deliver the eulogy there for pinkney. Tell us more. Yeah i think looking at all of this and the funeral behind me here jake here in charleston really whatever the shooter tried to do or whatever he was trying to do its having the complete opposite effect. We may see that flag removed from the State Capitol grounds. Well have a huge unity spirit for those funerals. We saw that over the weekend here. So i think looking at this whole, you know episode, this very, very dark episode, it is true that hate will
At the american airports, insiders whose back grounds are vetted by airports and not intelligence agencies as they are 99. 9 certain a bomb brought down metro jet a bomb suggested brought down by an airport insider. Saying for the first time that a terrorist attack may have brought down that flight tweeting that all russian flights to egypt are still suspended as reuters reports egyptian and russian investigators ignored the fbis offers for help in the metro jet investigation. Renee, what are you learning . Reporter what most people may not realize is that tsa depends on more than 400 airports and carriers to do criminal background checks for workers who get that secure access at airports nationwide. Airports collect, review and verify information. Tsa can only vet workers based on data it gets from airports. Now tonight there are concerns the current vetting process doesnt do enough to protect domestic flights from an insider threat. Officials i have spoken to today say not enough is
Hes not going anywhere. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We have some breaking news in our National Lead today. Columbia, South Carolina now ordering mandatory evacuations after a dam breach. Cnns bora sanchez joins me live from manning, South Carolina. Bor boris, tell us what you know. Reporter jake, were still working to learn more about that dam breach. What we know so far is mandatory evacuations in that area. Sean washington, a spokesperson for the city of columbia confirmed the breach within the past hour. To give you an idea theyre still working to figure out the severity of the situation. Its unclear exactly the extent of the damage. We can tell you that columbia is about 52 miles west of where we are now in manning, South Carolina. And you can see all around me the situation is already dire here. So if that dam breach has any effect on the situation here it could be catastrophic. This is highway 301. And it stretches all the way down to florida.
Charlotte is. This is not who we are. Reporter adding to the anger is what demonstrators say is a lack of transparency. Dash cam footage has not been released fueling speculation as to what really happened. Chris . That is the speculation thats of greatest concern, thank you very much. Charlottes police chief has vowed transparency in the keith l lamar scott. Why wont they put it to rest . Pola sandoval has more. They said he had a gun. Somebody said he had a book. We need to do our own independent investigation to see if that is actually true. Reporter two very different accounts emerging about what led police to shoot keith lamar scott. Police say that scott had a gun when he was confronted by officer brently vincent. Mr. Scott, as i said, exited his vehicle armed with a handgun as the officers continued to yell at him to drop it. He stepped out posing a threat to the officers and officer Brently Vinson subsequently fired his weapon striking the suspect. Reporter scotts daughter insi