of six of the seven victims killed in the shooting so far. two of them were a couple. the mccarthys there, whose toddler found alive underneath the father s body. once the shooting stopped. cnn s josh campbell is outside of the lake county courthouse where that bail hearing will take place just a short time from now. what more do we know about these warning signs that have been detailed in his past and about the charges he s now facing? reporter: good morning. we learned quite a bit about this investigation in the last 24 hours. prosecutors now formally charged the shooting suspect with seven counts of first-degree murder. one count of each of those victims killed during that parade attack. we re also learning that the weapons that were purchased here were purchased legally. authorities say over the course of the year, he purchased five weapons including one assault-style rifle that was allegedly used in this attack and police releasing information about the planning that
from a rooftop with a military-style weapon that he purchased legally. there are a lot of questions remaining about how the suspect slid past safeguards in illinois. red flag laws, despite his threatening violence in the past. in the meantime, six of the seven people killed in the attack have now been identified. that includes a couple whose toddler was found alive and alone after the shooting. let s begin our coverage with cnn s josh campbell outside of the courthouse in illinois with today s top story. reporter: boris, we learned a lot about this investigation over the course of the last 24 hours, specifically, two police encounters in 2019. authorities tell us that they were called in april of 2019 to the alleged shooter s home. the family member indicated that he had allegedly attempted suicide. police ultimately determining that there wasn t a policing issue. the suspect was apparently under the care of a mental health professional, and fast forward to september of the
schmidt, filing dozens of lawsuits against school districts across the state to stop mask mandates, tweeting, the calvary is coming #nomaskmandates. that was vaughan hilliard reporting. right now want to bring in dr. ujay blackstock into the conversation. good to see you. thanks very much for joining us. let s start with vaughn s reporting there. and give us a fact check. how effective and crucial are masks at stopping the spread of covid? and is there a reason behind keeping kids in masks at school? thank you so much for having me. i think it s so important for the public to know that masks are a crucial part of a multilayered strategy that keeps kids safe in schools. masks save lives. and i think even more so recently because we know omicron is so much more contagious than the previous variants people need to understand that covid is airborne. so wearing a high-quality,
after all that is happened, in the wake of all of that, in the wake of dozens of news organizations, filing dozens of news stories this week, about those, based on those internal facebook files, portraying the company intensely unflattering light, today, we got word from the wall street journal, that the ftc, which again has the power to break up facebook, they are scrutinizing these new disclosures of internal documents as, well as well as their previous scrutiny of facebook, for their market share. they are reportedly in touch with the facebook whistle blower and her attorneys. this is an agency that has the power, and apparently the intention to break up facebook. we also learned in recent days, that the securities exchange commission, is in touch with the facebook whistle blower as, well since some of what she s disclosed about the company s behavior, arguably constitutes securities, fraud which is a crime, which is a kind of thing that can make your company go
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