holding last-ditch talks tonight fighting to win the speaker s job. we ll tell you who s been heading into his office. also, the suspect in the brutal stabbing deaths of four college students is expected in court tomorrow. authorities seeking his return to idaho to face first degree murder charges, even as they remain silent about a possible mo motive. a deadly new year of war in ukraine. russia suffers today what may be the biggest loss of life since the start of the invasion. ukraine claiming a major strike against russian forces as moscow unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles and drones, including in kyiv. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a very big cloud of uncertainty hanging over republican kevin mccarthy s bid to be the next speaker. lawmakers will vote tomorrow on whether kevin mccarthy should hold one of the most powerful positions in washington that puts him second
and the first lady laying flowers at a memorial at the market. you see that makeshift memorial there. during his remarks, president biden blasted the surge in white supremacy that had motivated him to run for office more than three years ago and that police say radicalized a white teenager to commit that mass murder in buffalo. white prsupremacy is a poiso. it s a poison. running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. reporter: more on the president s speech in a moment, but first, the latest on the investigation. online postings show the suspected gunman visited the scene of the buffalo massacre, the store behind me, three times on a single day in march and he wrote about carrying out the attack on march 15th but then he delayed several times. repo
the military for sure. i would be speculating how it will affect putin since most of his support clearly is internal with the domestic audience. i couldn t comment on that. i would defer to the ambassador. what it means to the military is they have demonstrated that the russian military lacks leadership that s competent, knows what it s doing and they also lack an organizational structure that allows them to fight in a fluid way. what you see is a collapsing military that is making decisions like this. you never geographically co-locate an ammo supply point with a garrison or an area where you re trying to refit your soldiers. if there s a requirement for those soldiers to grab ammunition, you have a sufficient offset so something like this doesn t wipe out your man power. this is an absolute
parents could be charged, he said he couldn t comment on that but he said they are investigating his relationship with the parents, also not leaving off the table of charging someone at the school or investigating someone at the school for their roles in all this, but it still stands that after that mental health evaluation, after he was evaluated and released, he was able to purchase at least two guns legally, victor. brian todd, thank you for the new reporting. joining me now, new york state assembly member peoples stokes. buffalo is in her district. unfortunately, i think we just lost that shot. hopefully we can get her back up. to talk about what we heard here from the mayor and the visit from the president. we ll see if we can we ve got her? okay, all right. so, assemblywoman, thank you. we re working through some technical issues here. we ll try to get through this conversation. first, let me start with the visit from the president and the first lady. what did that mean? what
her. was she in the room? yes. was there any signs of drug use or drug overdose? it s still under investigation. our detectives are upstairs right now. hotel security was trying to recess tate her? they did initially begin ree resuscitation efforts but they were not successful. who made the call? somebody in her entourage. was she staying with rayjay? i do not know that. what happens at this point? it is currently under investigation. our detectives are going to follow up. the first thing to determine is whether or not it was natural causes or some other cause of death. eventually it will be turned over to the coroner s office for investigation. first name is mark, mark, last name rosen and i m a lieutenant with the beverly hills police department. will you give us an update later? i ll be happy to give you an update, give you more information as it becomes available. she was on the fourth floor in her room? yes. and there are investigators