primaries. the republican contest is a free for all between a surgeon, a tycoon, and a big lie believerer. we begin with the horror in buffalo and a law enforcement consensus it could have been worse. more could have been killed. investigators have evidence the shooter planned to continue his rampage at a nearby super store. buffalo s mayor says the shooter s motive is hauntingly clear. he, quote, came here with the expressed purpose of taking as many black lives as he could. the authorities this hour are now paging through a racist creed allegedly written by the shooter. a document filled with great replacement theory conspiracies, careful attack planning, and idol like worship of other mass shooters. ten were killed. more soon on the victims. 11 of the 13 shot were african american. in buffalo today, a mixture of brief, disbelief, and pleading that racism is very real and very dangerous. this is just clear to the rest of the country that racism, white supremacy, still e
white supremacy. president biden and the first lady are headed to buffalo tomorrow and the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, all black americans, ranging in age from 32 to 86. the former buffalo fire commissioner and son of one of the murder victims, ruth whitfield, speaking out against the hate and racism that investigators say motivated this shooter. what are we supposed to do with all of this anger, all of this pain? i can tell you, this was an easy decision for us to go public. we re a private family. this was not easy for us. but how else could we honor our mother, how else can we uphold the things she put in us, the things she believed in? how else can we do that? what else are we supposed to do, he says, with all of this pain. and i know you re learning more about what the shooter had planned. yeah, we learned this from the buffalo police commissioner. he told me this morning there s some documentation that the shooter had plans t
lashing out over sweden joining finland in seeking nato membership. the kremlin is now threatening to retaliate. and there s a significant new development impacting the nationwide shortage of infant formula. a deal has just been reached to reopen a plant that was shut down because of a recall. how soon will desperately needed nourishment for america s babies are back on store shelves? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . we begin with new evidence that the buffalo shooting suspect was plotting a racially motivated slaughter for months. visiting the city back in march, and potentially looking to attack a second store. cnn s brian todd is on the scene for us, following all the new developments tonight. this was a straight-up hate crime, pure evil. reporter: tonight, police revealing details about the meticulous planning that went into the massacre of ten people in a buffalo store
tight united states senate. so in trump s corner, you have tv show dr. oz neck and neck with former bush official dave mccormick and commentator kim barnett who has been coming up the side on the rails there. really squarely in contention. they have three gop candidates, right? you would have those this would have whittled down. they re all around 20%. then you have about 20% that haven t decided yet. so this is fascinaing to watch. president trump asking voters in north carolina to get behind this the re-election for a controversial young member of congress, madison kawthorn. he said give him a second chance. he s made foolish mistakes. you can check out what s going on there. kind of interesting in that story. so charles watson is live in charlotte, north carolina where action will be going on tomorrow with more on that. first we go to rich edson. he s in the keystone state. he s in pittsburgh. hi, rich. good afternoon, martha. you know, you only get one endorsement in
we will bring all of the resources of the federal government to bear on this case. this is the number one priority of the department of justice and i can assure the citizens of this community that anything that we can do at the federal level with this case will be done and justice will be served for the victims. just on the hate crime issue as well, i ve already asked our hate crime task force, the new york state hate crime task force to be investigating as well. so it is being treated absolutely as a hate crime. and i ve been in touch with officials in washington and at the white house on the issue, what we re doing here so aggressively. so i appreciate the fbi s engagement as well. thank you, everyone. our coverage of the breaking news out of western new york continues this hour. police say an 18-year-old man dressed in tactical gear and protective armor opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, just hours ago, killing ten people and wounding three others. police say