this report. distant artillery fire the situation in soledar depends on who you ask. it s under control as of this morning according to this ukrainian commander. they will never break us, says his injured comrade. we are winning. but if you ask these two, wagner are clearing the city, they say. russian, yes, but not from the regular army. they re from a private military group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russia s fighting. its boss, yevgeny prigozhin, has recently recruited convicts from russianjails, and they ve been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. we chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if that s the case. don t believe russian propaganda. it s not true. bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. kyiv has described the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. and that s all we can say with real certainty. small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over and t
legally legally with an ar-15 rifle, all done one day after he turned 18. he shot his grandmother, as we reported last night. crashed his truck near the school, as you see there. greg abbott, governor of texas did try to confront the shooter but he did not engage and the shooter was able to enter the school you see here. he also barricaded himself in his classroom. he distributed part of his plan to kill in what we are told was a private facebook message about 15 minutes before this shooting. he also reportedly sent text messages to a 15-year-old located in germany. the gunman was 18 years old and reportedly a high school dropout. reportedly there has been no criminal history identified yet. there is no known mental health history of the gunman. he used one weapon which was an ar-15, using two 23 rounds. that s additional information we re learning there, courtesy of the governor of the state, greg abbott. he is the chief executive of texas, he is law enforcement, he
dana: dr. mehmet oz and dave mccormick are separated by a few thousand votes. if the margin doesn t get bigger it heads for a recount. bill: pennsylvania s recount threshold, half a percentage point, .5% still tallying the votes and both candidates sounding very confident late last night. when all the votes are tallied i m confident we will win. we can see the path ahead. we can see victory ahead. dana: bryan llenas is reporting live from new hope, pennsylvania. you had a late night. catch us up this morning, bryan. good morning. we re in bucks county, the philadelphia suburban county that put oz over the top. the margins here were better than people expected. oz is currently leading dave mccormick by less than 3,000 votes statewide. the doctor is winning bucks county by some 5,000 votes. the mccormick camp says they re confident that thousands of absentee and mail-in ballots will break their way. perhaps voters chose mccormick before trump s endorsement of dr. oz
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