the identity and other details about this killer, except to mention one unusual fact. wn what s unusual about this? this was a 28 year old woman pro apparentlyfi, that s an uncommon profile for these kinds of shooters. s just. be i mean, it is the the massmale. shooters tend to be male almosto in all instances. the more than 90% of these shootings are carried out by men. well, it turns out the killer s identity didn t quite match the preferred criteria of the media, whicherrr is usually a white male.e an they like it when they re angry at immigrants and others ore someone who is mentallyst unstable, perhaps, but stillil had access to an ar-15 style weapon. but this shooter wasn t just any old former female student at the school. she referrede referr to herselfn shot him and was t reportedly in the midst of a so-called transition process. now, whaw whatt treatments this individual was receiving or had received is still unknown. but all day long, authorities o went out ou
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, i m christine romans. just moments ago you watched live ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy speaking via video link in berlin marking one year since russia s invasion. one year ago today russia invaded ukraine believing that they would overwhelm the country in short order. instead a straightforward russian victory has become less likely by the day and this morning instead of dwelling on ukraine s losses, president zelenskyy released an inspirational video urging people to face the enemy, resist and fight. he says we know 2023 will be the year of our victory. melissa bell is live this morning in kyiv. what is the mood there on what one would think is an unhappy milestone here? reporter: mixed really. on one hand ukrainians are bracing this morning for more russian strikes. that is what the head of ukraine s military intelligence has been warning about on this grim one year anniversary. but th
also meeting with british prime minister rishi sunak. the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there many mistakes made along the way? of course. and james clayton explained how the in
it s the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. we re following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. it s huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growing calls to shoot it down, for now president biden is opting against that. the chinese are saying it s a weather balloon that blew off course. we re aware of the statement. the fact is we know it s a surveillance balloon. i can t be more specific than that. we know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law which is unacceptable. we ve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. john miller is here with us, cnn s intelligence analyst and kylie atwood. tell us abo
84-year-old man expected before a judge accused of shooting a black teenager after he mistakenly went to the wrong house and rang on the man s doorbell how the community is rallying around the injured teen. and in texas, a man under arrest accused of shooting two cheerleaders after one in their group mistakenly got into the wrong car. one of the girls being treated in the icu new this morning, a hearing for a massachusetts air national guardsman accused in a massive leak of classified intelligence documents. that hearing delayed but now new details about what those documents reveal it is one of the largest defamation payouts in history. a huge settlement between dominion voting systems and fox news, but fox s legal troubles are not over in florida, governor ron desantis feud with disney heating up today as he faces new criticism from his potential presidential rivals. and we begin this morning with what appears to be yet another tragic incident of gun violence this tim