investigative details on how they tracked him down after more than a decade. here are tonight s headlines. the suspect linked to the so-called gilgo beach murders by burner phones and dna evidence from a pizza crust. a demon that walks among us. record-breaking heat. dangerous temperatures for more than 100 million americans from opposing risks from blackouts to wildfires. an unusually wet winter prompted a huge growth of vegetation, which has now turned into hot, dry brush, the perfect fuel for fires. norah: plus, the northeast braces were more severe storms. today marks the first full day of hollywood actors going on strike. this is the first time since 1960 that actors and screenwriters have been on strike at the same time. they are very concerned about ai and its invasion of their likeness. norah: the battle for bakhmut. we are on the front lines with ukrainian soldiers. this is what it has come to along the front line, firing off at russ
president of the screen actors guild, fran drescher, will join us in moments. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. we re going to start with our law and justice lead and the hunt for a serial killer. any moment, state and federal investigators in long island, new york, will update the public on the first arrest in their dede-long investigation into the gilgo beach murders. this is a case tied to at least ten sets of human remains discovered since 2010 along the shore in suburban long island. earlier this afternoon, a married father of two and a new york city architect named rex huerman was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. he s connected to the serial murders of three women and is the prime suspect in a fourth. those three women were part of a group known to law enforcement as the gilgo four. their bodies were found near each other, wrapped in burlap, discovered within 2010. they were all in their 20s and offered sex services on craigslist. as details emerge showing hum
investigative details on how they tracked him down after more than a decade. here are tonight s headlines. the suspect linked to the so-called gilgo beach murders by burner phones and dna evidence from a pizza crust. rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us. norah: record-breaking heat. dangerous temperatures for more than 100 million americans, posing risks from blackouts to wildfires. an unusually wet winter prompted a huge growth of vegetation, which has now turned into hot, dry brush, the perfect fuel for fires. norah: plus, the northeast braces for more severe storms. today marks the first full day of hollywood actors going on strike. this is the first time since 1960 that actors and screenwriters have been on strike at the same time. they are very concerned about ai and its invasion of their likeness. norah: the battle for bakhmut. we are on the front lines with ukrainian soldiers. [explosion] this is what it has come to along the f
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president biden. jessica dean, cnn, des moines, iowa. donald trump and ron desantis will be on the campaign trail this weekend. trump will appear at the turning point action conference tonight in west palm beach, florida. desantis will hold a meet and greet in iowa and salute to the troops with a couple of state republicans. later desantis heads to nashville, tennessee, where he ll give remarks at a republican dinner. police in new york believe they have cracked a cold case of a serial killer who preyed on women more than a decade ago. a 59-year-old man has been charged with the murder of three of the women known as the gilgo four. they tracked down the suspect using data from burner cell phones and dna samples collected from trash outside his manhattan office. we have more details now. reporter: a major development in a cold-case murder mystery. since 2010, a series of murders terrorized a long island beach