the story this morning is in wyoming, and that s where jeff zeleny is joining us now with the latest. jeff? reporter: good morning. we re getting more details of what the next steps for congresswoman liz cheney will be. overnight, her campaign team filed paper work with the federal election committee changing her campaign to a leadership pac that allows her to donate to other candidates, it allows her to travel around the country, sending a message. but the name of the leadership pac, so interesting, the great task. and she used those three words last night here in wyoming. the great and original champion of our party, abraham lincoln, was defeated in elections for the senate and the house before he won the most important election of all. lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union, and he defined our obligation as americans for all of history. speaking at gettysburg, of the great task remaining before us, . reporter: so that is the name of the new leadership group
some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. tonight investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter after key putin ally was preplanned. the murder investigation is now under way after darya dugin died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and considered one of the architects of the ukraine invasion, often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen is in moscow tonight. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stand with that investigation. however, one of the things that we have h
imperial ambitions. darya dugina died as an explosive device went off as she drove. she is the daughter of alexander dugin, an ally of russian president vladimir putin. for the latest let s turn to frederik pleitgen in moscow. fred. reporter: hi there christine. first of all, the reason why i m standing here is because today is also russian flag day and there is a big celebration here, people coming out and are told to show their patriotism here in central moscow. but of course the killing of darya dugina really is something that continues to dominate the headlines here and especially the question of how it could happen and second of all who might be behind it which is really something that lot of people are debating here. what is being becoming clear is that there does seem to be a pretty high degree of sophistication behind all of this. of course we know that her car blew up on a moscow highway late saturday night. and then engulfed in a fireball, she crashed and was dead
cnn s chief white house correspondent caikate lynn coll with us. the daughter of alexander dugina was killed. they believe someone planted explosives and ordered the attack. darya dugina died at the scene, she was a russian tv commentator and outspoken supporter of russia s actions in ukraine. dugina s father alexander owned the vehicle and might have been the intended target. he is an influential writer in russia, he advocates for an aggressive imperialist russia and many believe that his ideas have a lot of sway inside the kremlin. some russian officials are already blaming ukraine for the deadly bombing, but a top adviser to ukraine s president says that his country had nothing to do with it. fred pleitgen has the latest from the moscow. reporter: hi there, kaitlan. the read of russia today, kremlin controlled media, has come out and demanded that kyiv be hit in response to the death of darya dugina. you already just mentioned the fact that there are some in russia who
make a near full recovery after having emergency brain surgery to save his life. he did have another big scare over the weekend as he fell and hit his head again. he was trying to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night by himself which he isn t supposed to do. doctors performed a ct scan following the fall to make sure there wasn t any swelling in his brain and thankfully the results came back normal. this happened just after easton had thanked all his fans for the thoughts and prayers. hey, this is easton. thank you for the prayers. you starting to feel better, bud? yeah, i m starting to feel better. awesome. team easton. we love you, buddy. love you, too. we all continue to pray for easton and his recovery. his team from utah was eliminated from the little league world series yesterday. new day continues right now. alarming new video of a violent arrest in arkansas. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins