, heart pounding body cam. footage of those critical and terrifying minutes. officers rushing toward the gunfire, and now the killer s family is speaking up about what they call his mental health challenges. officials say the smoke pouring into the skies over indiana is definitely toxic. we are live on the scene of this huge recycling plant fire. thousands have been told to evacuate these stories and more all coming in to cnn news, central. there is an emergency unfolding in eastern indiana. happening now toxic smoke billowing into the air over the city of richmond, this as fire crews are making progress. they have contained the fire to the plant itself, but they are still battling that plant at the fire still very much burning, as it has been for the last day. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and officials say it could be days before the danger clears. omar jimenez is live for us on the scene, omar you ve been there now for some time described the situa
failures, and the surgeon general of the united states declaring gun violence a public health crisis. this move, one of the strikes longest tools his office has. the surgeon general is our guest and a family is desperate for answers this morning after a woman disappears while attending we ll go retreat in bahamas. new details on the search i m kate bolduan, this era signer and john berman, this is cnn news central he might as two days to cnn s historic debate and the countdown right now is entering a cripple a window with president biden hunkered down at camp david and facing a flurry of new advice are new reporting this morning, it binds outside biden s campaign are urging him to not talk about his own first-term policies on the debate stage, but instead focus on going after former president donald trump today, a new attack ad from biden s team he was taking direct aim at trump s economic plans. also this morning, the only person who has ever debated both men is sharing he
imagine that he ll be armed to do that, but in service of the message which i think is what was one thing that biden is very good at staying focused on the bigger picture. we shall see and thanks thanks to our panel. thank you for joining us. i m on a roger cnn news central starks, right now the preparation began the first presidential debate of 2024, which will be hosted right here on cnn. a little more than a week away. and president biden, donald trump ramping up their attacks on each other already. a sweeping pardons for more than 175,000 marijuana convictions, who is affected by this history? historic move. and then 15,000 acres burned so far and more to come. wildfires raging with weather conditions, poised to make things even worse. for kate is out today. i m john berman with sarah sidner, and this is cnn news central they re attacking each other or with just ten days to go until the first-price the ventral debate right here on cnn and president biden and donal
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eastern john. thanks kate this morning, ukraine s security service has launched a war crimes investigation. into the horrifying video that appears to show the beheading of ukrainian soldier this is the second video to emerge on social media showing graphic violence against ukrainian soldiers. now cnn is not showing these videos, but we do have some freeze frames from the clips that appear to show the victims and the perpetrators and give us a sense of who they may be. let s look at some of that. you can see the white leg band. that indicates support for the russian military person appears to be kneeling next to a body on the ground. additional stills that cnn has not yet released show the yellow armband worn by ukraine s military. ukrainian president zelensky vowed to hold those behind the videos accountable. efficient in the muscle. there are things