Public safety in mind when it implored the president not to come. They write in a letter, President Trump, you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism. But donald trump did not heed either their requests. In fact, he made abundantly clear in remarks last night hes going to keep hitting the same divisive notes he always hits, no matter what. I was in the headline when they got him, they didnt say bomber found. They talked about trump in the headline. Now, they didnt do that with Bernie Sanders when he they didnt do that with the democrats when other people came out. They didnt do that with president obama with the church, the horrible situation with the church. They didnt do that. They put my name in the headlines. Its when i say enemy of the people, im talking about the fake news, and it is fake. A moment of national tragedy, thats all that matters, Donald Trumps clips. At least eight elected officials refused to accompany the president to pittsburgh to
11 People Killed in the deadliest attack on u. S. History. Look at the front page of the pittsburgh post gazette. Its a powerful one. The names of those victims rangrang ranging in age from 54 to 97. A time for healing. Hatred will never win out. Several other people were rushed to the hospital. What do we know about their condition this morning . Reporter thats right. Six people were rushed to the hospital after that shooting. Four of them are in the hospital behind me. They remain there. We spoke with the head of trauma surgery. He said one of the most complicated efforts will be this 70 somethingyearold man who had several gunshot wounds to his abdomen. That will be a very, very long recovery. Two of those are police officers. This whole community is now sitting sit i ing. We have seen an entire community. Listen to what he had to say. For a moment i felt like im sitting at the cemetery and this is a massive moseleum. You said you could never use that sanctuary again. It cant be use
Controversial border policies, today Border Patrol posted some images of u. S. Troops installing barbed wire in texas. This has voters across the u. S. Just swarming their early vote locations. More than 27 million early ballots cast as of yesterday evening. That number has eclipsed early votes for a president ial election in some cases, in some states, let alone a midterm year. Well talk more about these remarkable numbers in a moment. First lets go to our cnn senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny who is at President Trumps rally in belgrade, montana. Jeff, what is the president s argument today . Reporter ana, the president is making a direct argument about why Montana Voters in his view should vote against jon tester. You can see behind me here, he is speaking in big sky country with air force one as a backdrop. From the beginning, President Trump making clear this race is indeed personal. He said, one of the many reasons ive been here four times is because of a personal veng
Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. We begin with breaking news. The lion air passenger jet crashing overnight during a short flight from the capital of jakarta to the island of pangkal. Lion airs confirmed it lost contact with the aircraft 13 minutes after takeoff. We have will ripley with more from hong kong. Will, what do we know . Reporter if you look at this on the surface, there are no clues to understand what caused the plane to go down. The plane made a sharp descent before it disappeared from the screen. Just 35 nautical miles off the shore of jakarta. We learned the identity of the captain. There are conflicting reports if he called air Traffic Control and asked to turn the plane around. The airline disputes that. What we know is there were thunderstorms in the air. Nothing dangerous in terms of weather in the vicinity where the plane went down. It was a safe distance from the lightning. There are so many questions for the family members waiting
Semiautomatic weapon. At that time, i instructions my congregates to drop to the floor. Do not utter a sound and do not move. Our pews are thick old oak. I thought perhaps theres some protection there. The people that were in the front of my sanctuary, i quickly tried to usher them up to the front, out some doors in the front towards exits or towards a closet, some place they could hide, some place safe. I turned back to see if i could help the remaining eight people in the back of my congregation. At that time, i could hear the gunfire getting louder. It was no longer safe for me to be there and i had to leave them. One of the eight was shot. And shes survived her wounds. The other seven of my congregates were gunned down in my sanctuary. There was nothing i could do. A short time frau now, the First Court Appearance for the man accused of killing 11 people. Robert bowers will hear the formal reading of the 29 charges against him. He could face the Death Penalty for the deadliest anti