this is not who you thought it was, was it, because she was already so deeply ingrained that the fact he was latino was supposed to be a big deal. he had an ss tattoo on his arm and a swastika on his chest. this guy was not stopped for impersonating in fact he found a bigger community online. that s ben collins describing the online presence for the man who shot and killed eight people saturday in allen, texas. we ll have more on what else we re learning about him and the victims in just a moment. meanwhile in washington president biden will meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy today to discuss the debt ceiling, their first sit down on the issue since february. we ll go through what is expected today come out of this afternoon s talks. and also ahead an update on donald trump s civil rape trial as the case goes to the jury for deliberations later this morning. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 9th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for sta
right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
kremlin. now, russia did not provide any evidence of these claims, which were reported on russian state media. ukraine claims they have nothing to do with the alleged overnight drone attack. we ll have a live report with what we know and don t know at this hour. and more breaking news this morning, the massive manhunt in texas is over. social media video appearing to capture the moment an accused mass murderer was taken into custody just 20 miles from where the horror unfolded. police say francisco oropesa was found hiding in a closet underneath laundry. he s charged with five counts of murder and being held on a $5 million bond. and his arrest just one of several. there has been several arrests, but i can t go into the details on that. we will have the very latest from a police update this morning about how that days long search came to an end. let s begin with those claims out of russia that ukrainian forces tried to strike russian president vladimir putin s reside
someone who used to be president and currently running to be president again, is caught up in so many allegations of misconduct, of crimes. and so everything changes now. i mentioned this once earlier tonight. we will remember march 30th. it will be marked in the history books. the future is unwritten, whether it s marked at the beginning of a trial that sends someone to prison or the beginning of a process that cleared his name. we can t tell you that and anyone that tries to p prejudge that might be getting ahead of the process but is the end of a period where donald trump was not legally held to account. and today, in the rest of donald trump s life are different, as he learns, perhaps for the first time in his life, what it is to be completely out of control, to have to react to a government and propecsecutorial system whe his antics do not matter what matters is what a judge says, what a jury of his peers says not what he says or posts. so we re going forward on this tog
several of them are calling out fox news for down-playing the violence of that dark day. we ll have those comments in just a moment. plus, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. and also we could be closer to finding out who sabotaged a russian pipeline last year. that new reporting is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 8th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with a growing number of republican senators blasting fox news and prime time host tucker carlson for showing select footage from the january 6th insurrection on his prime time show. that footage provided by house speaker kevin mccarthy. the fox news try today portray the deadly riot as peaceful, calling the insurrectionists sight seers and that lawmakers who suggest otherwise had lied to the american public. even alleging some capitol police officer