pay them but to stop lying about them. texas governor signing a bill that makes entering texas illegally a state crime w. why do we have to carry our passports around. governor abbott said we also welcome a supreme court decision that would overturn the precedent set in the arizona case. massive volcano erupting on iceland s peninsula. the haze of fire. it seems that the lava flows are changing direction away from the town. good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. donald trump and his top rivals for the gop presidential nomination all hitting the campaign trail there today. nikki haley, ron desantis about to kick off a busy day of campaign events across the state and trump is set to speak there at a rally tonight. the big push in iowa comes less than four weeks before the caucuses. tonight, we ll see if trump keeps amping up that dark, anti-immigrant rhetoric we heard during his campaign rallies over the last several days, la
morning. absolutely. thank you. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. we are learning more about the man in custody accused of attacking a staffer, intern for democratic congressman gerry connolly. he didn t have any particular motivation, he was on a tear. we have to assess the security we do or do not provide district offices. it s concerning and quite frankly scary. the clock is ticking closer to what would be the first debt deno-fault american history. we don t know what the economic impacts will really be. and that s the scariest part. the fact of the matter is they re now negotiating. they have to. you have to have something done by this weekend. we are nowhere near any of that. after four years and millions of taxpayer dollars, durham report is out. got his own information, which is this information plus plus plus. this report does nothing. it is absolutely a big zero. florida governor ron desantis is expected to launch
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something peo
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
migrants about the border being closed, the legal consequences, the fact that they would be barred from re-entry for five years, kaitlan, that message is resonating on the mexican side by these migrants because they re seeing it on their social media now. they re seeing images of migrants being shackled and being boarded on planes and deported back to their home countries. that appears to be resonating. how long will this last? we don t know. but we re going to be monitoring it. i know you ll be monitoring it closely. rosa, thank you. florida governor ron desantis apparently days away from launching his 2024 presidential campaign. we ll talk about his strategy ahead. also, we have a live look at louisville, kentucky, as voters are heading to the polls today to decide which republican nominee, which republican candidate, is going to face off against the current democratic governor andy beshear, who is up for re-election. a lot of republicans are running. we ll tell you what the vo