while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
be denied the speaker s gavel. plus a monster storm is pommeling california and it has turned deadly. more rain and flooding and ferocious winds are battering the state. and the man accused of killing four college students is set to appear in an idaho courtroom today. that is what we re watching at this hour. thanks for being here. i m kate bolduan. there are two big stories that we re following at though hour. first the house will convene once again in an hour to try to elect the next speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy has lost rounds of voting and making more concessions to lawmakers to try and turn the tide for him. in the meantime. the house is paralyzed. members could not sworn in, committees cannot be formed or do any business. and now the incoming chairs of the key national security committees foreign affairs armed services and intel, they say this delay is putting the safety and security of the united states at risk. as a republican stalemate grips congress, p
attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation. for the very latest, let s bring in cnn s arlette saenz at the white house. what more can you tell us about this statement from the biden administration? reporter: fred, getting new details about exactly the number of classified pages that were found at president biden s residence up in wilmington, delaware, and based on cnn s reporting and disclosures made by the white house counsel s office, it appears there were approximately 20 documents of classified markings that were found between the residence in delaware as well as that washington, d.c. office that president biden used when he had left the vice president s office. now, today in a statement from white house counsel, they had previously said that they had found one document amounting to one page in an adjacent room to the garage in vice president or in president biden s home up in delaware, but today the white house counsel
dozens others hospitalized. police are calling this attack on paradegoers both random and intentional. i do want to warn you, some of the video you re about to see is disturbing. it sounded like a string of firecrackers going off inside of a metal trash bin. that s what i thought it was. 20, 30, maybe. i just grabbed my dad and we ran and suddenly everyone was running behind us. and people were just shot behind us. there was a girl just dead. another man was shot in the ear, blood all over his face. you look down and you saw just people screaming, you saw people on the ground. and i think the instinct is of a physician to not run away. some of the bodies were there was an evisceration injury from the power of this gun. and the bullets. there was another person who had an unspeakable head injury. these are the bullets in guns that 18-year-olds have a right to shoot down on a parade in the sleepy little community july 4th parade. if you re angry today, i m here to t
the victims on scene tell cnn about the horrifying moments that followed. there were several people who were obviously deceased. there was a gentleman who i believe, i ve heard since has succumbed. he had a gunshot to his abdomen. we started an i ve. i went across the street. there was another woman with a gunshot to her chest. she was deceased. the people who were gone were blown up by that gunfire. blown up? blown up. blown up. the horrific scene of some of the bodies is unspeakable for the average person. those are wartime injuries. those are what are seen in victims of war. not victims at a parade. the highland park mayor says she expects charges later today against the suspect as investigators work to uncover more about him and what led to this deadly day. some of those details, a disturbing digital trail and a legally bought firearm. josh campbell was at the press conference and join us now. josh, tell us what stood out to you from all the new information we jus