now falling. i m fredricka whitfield. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin tonight with the sad reality that it has happened again. another mass shooting in america, this one in a tiny alabama town, with teenagers making up most of the victims. here s what we know. at this hour. four people are confirmed dead and dead. ville alabama spokesman for a local hospital, says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients he attack was tied to a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. let s go live now to date ville and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel. what s the latest that we re learning there? hey gemma. good evening to you. we are learning that one of the four victims who was killed right behind me at this dance studio that was a venue. we re told by witnesses. first sweet 16 birthday party. that victim has been ident
expulsion and cnn tonight starts right now, thanks for joining us. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. turmoil in the tennessee state house tonight to democratic state reps were expelled for so called decorum violations, but there s much more to this story. what we re seeing is a very dangerous um, step in tennessee. that should signal to the nation that this is if it can happen here can happen anywhere. it s hurting people killing people, and they re treating things like this is normal. we can never normalize the ending of democracy. should america be worried about what we ve seen here today? america should absolutely be worried about what we ve seen here today. okay. in a moment, i will speak to that. woman live representative gloria johnson, who narrowly survived the expulsion vote. this controversy started last week after three children and three school officials were shot to death at the covenant school. the democrats demanded action, and
here with me ready to dive into this. we have the host of the fast politics podcast molly jong fast. john hart, former communications director for senator tom coburn and the goldberg business reporter for the new york times, and nicholas carlson, global editor in chief of insider but first, let s bring in cnn s tom foreman to break down this explosive propublica report. tom. hey alison. the revelations in this propublica reporter really quite astonishing about justice clarence thomas, his wife, jenny and harlan crow. he is a texas real estate tycoon worth a lot of money, big donator to conservative causes. so what went on here? a lot of travel, paid for by crow and enjoyed by the justice and his wife, according to this report from propublica, where indonesia. new zealand, california, georgia, texas. a reporter behind this said some sort of travel some sort of perk seem to be happening almost every year for 20 years. among the other perks. yeah travel onboard a super yacht whe
fired from lebanon. israeli military announced new strikes on both gaza and lebanon days after israeli forces stormed one of islam s holiest sites decided i hear the warm it was very, very scary peacekeeping force in lebanon stressed that neither side wants another war. one week ago. we had members take it upon themselves to rush the well and stop the people s business point. did we encourage violence . and we will never quit? justice thomas s luxury trips with the gop mega donor republika, revealing decades perks the supreme court justice received from texas billionaire harlan crow struck us in this reporting was just the frequency of these trips and just the lavishness. revelations in this report has critics in congress calling to impose serious ethical rules on the highest court in the land. you say better regulation would not have prevented they would have would have. so what s better? very often. when it comes to regulations you have. this is the problem. they try to fix
perry s attorneys are calling for a new trial, saying they want to introduce evidence that foster repeatedly instigated confrontations and was the quote first aggressor. when the murder happened on july 25th 2020 perry, now a 35 year old army sergeant. worked as a rideshare driver and had just dropped off a passenger near a blm protest. prosecutors say perry drove into the protest and instigated a confrontation. perry s attorneys say foster, a 28 year old air force veteran motion to perry as protesters were beating on his car practice something some of them right legally carrying an assault style weapon. that night . perry had a handgun in his car and at some point in the exchange. he fired multiple times, killing foster. during the police interrogation. perry gave several versions of the position of foster s gun was going in there. they want to, you know, also told police he did not try to kill foster honestly did not want to want him to die. i wanted to do was capacity him.