beaten a record set by open air chat app, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. now, it was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores in 100 countries. meta boss mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast, but it feels like lots of people are already on it. well, that s partly because it s connected to instagram. meta, remember isn t creating an app from scratch. it s benefiting from its two billion instagram followers, and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similarweb, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior. that s in the days immediately after threads launch. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the micro blogging app, but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social, well, they all remain still pretty small right now. as histor
ittems to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election, with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. these are the live pictures from istanbul, where reports say there s been brisk voting. people displaced by february s earthquake have been taken back home by bus to cast ballots. turnout among voters in the diaspora appears to have grown since the first round. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster is following polls are open now right across turkey and they ll stay that way until five o clock local time this
decade. officials have identified the 18-year-old shooter. he was killed by law enforcement here at the school. we want to begin our coverage with cnn s shimon prokupecz here with me. shimon, we learned a whole lot of new information a short time ago about this investigation and this timeline. give us the latest. yeah, so we learned that police were called after the grandmother of the gunman was shot, that he shot her and then police were called, this is according to the lieutenant with dps that spoke to us this morning and that he engaged the suspect here with the shooter and then went inside and as you said, he barricaded himself in one room, making it very difficult for law enforcement to get inside and then they had to call in for reinforcement and the tactical team and took some time. they got here but took some time to get inside the room. they were facing gunfire from the gunman, exchanging gunfire from the gunman. some of them took rounds. so there was a lot going o
on to us. so every time i see that i think about the fact that i was an innocent child that knew absolutely nothing about what was happening that day. we will be his innocence and eventually her pain is a good reminder that for a suffering world, both at home and abroad, courage can win, even if in the tiny shoes of just one little girl and on one particular november day. laura, my daughter has a book, it s called lady legends off a bit, and b is for ruby bridges. and i am grateful for that today and every day. you know, i am to. norman rockwell painting hung in my dining room as a child my entire life. it was passed down to my sister jennifer, now it is in her home. and i can tell you, there is not a moment that goes by when i was a student, one of very few number of black students in my schools ever in my entire life growing up. and i always thought about what it was like, and i am forever grateful for that little girl. and when she became. so i m so glad you monitor to
Mueller contradicting the trump barr claims, the reigniting of the impeachment debate, two mueller aides debating his approach. Ill be anchoring it at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on sunday night. I hope youll consider joining us. Dont go anywhere right now, because hardball is up next. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington with that horrific breaking news now out of Virginia Beach. Theres been a Mass Shooting at the Municipal Center there. 11 people are dead. According to police, the suspect, a current city employee, was also killed. Police say they believe the suspect acted alone. Were going to keep an eye on that and any developments out of that news story out of Virginia Beach. And now to tonights politics. The word tonight is that the trump partisan allies on capitol hill want to rough up Robert Mueller. The reason is politics. The president s allies wanting to discredit the Special Counsel and diminish his findings. They want him to testify before the congress where they can assaul