the death toll from the russian missile attack on the apartment building in dnipro, ukraine, a rising. ukrainian officials say the total number of people killed now stands at 44. earlier this morning ukraine s first lady olena zelenska speaking in davos condemning russia for the senseless murder of civilians. translator: there is nothing off limits for russia. this missile was built to destroy aircraft carriers and was used against the civilian infrastructure. these ordinary people at home on a saturday, that s enough reason for russia to skill. we will take you live to the site of that atrocity where search and rescue efforts are ongoing. here in the u.s. several meetings are happening today. president biden hosts the dutch prime minister at the white house, secretary of state antony blinken meets his uk counterpart in a high-level delegation from the united states is in kyiv at this very moment. all this as russia says it is planning to increase troop levels. we a
p.m. the cnn newsroom continues the cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new today, a member of the january 6th committee weighing in on what would happen if former president donald trump ignores their promised subpoena. here s congressman adam kens ger. do you believe that the justice department, if the president refuses, should hold him in criminal contempt? look, that s a bridge we cross if we have to get there. you know, look, we well-recognize the fact that because of the committee only being able to exist until the end of this congressional year because that was the mandate, we re in a bit of a time limit here. and as we re wrapping up the investigation, we re also pursuing new leads and facts. and we want to speak to the president. look, he s made it clear he has nothing to hide is what he says. so, he should come in on the day we ask him to come
this is cnn breaking news. . i m victor blackwell, thank you for staying with us. we are of course covering the breaking news, this man hunt happening right now for the man who opened fire at a july 4th parade in highland park, illinois. he s described as armed and dangerous. at least six people are dead. more than two dozen have been taken to hospitals. now, a briefing a short time ago, police described this suspect. the suspect is currently described as a male, white, approximately 18 to 20 years old with longer black hair, a small build and wearing a white or blue t-shirt. a firearm has been recovered from the scene. it does appear he was shooting from a roof. the roof that he was shooting from, i don t have that information right now. we now know that the fbi is assisting in this investigation. and authorities are asking of course anyone with video to contact highland park police. we ve known the video in situations like this has been crucial. cnn s adrienne broad
parade in the city s downtown area came to a halt after multiple shots were fired. witnesses describe a horrific scene with terrified people running. some ran inside and others hid behind dumpsters and underneath cars. the gunfire started just 14 minutes after the parade began as the band was playing. pictures show multiple victims lying in the street with blood on them. here s how one witness described what they saw. a little after the band went through we heard pow, pow, pow. everybody thought it was fireworks or the military was going through with shotguns. i said something is wrong. i grabbed my dad and started running. i turned and saw a girl shot and i saw her die. i ve never seen anything like this. we were hiding behind the dumpster in about an hour. one man hiding with us had been shot in the head, he had bleeding all over his face. i m just happy that s all that happened. another girl was escorted out was shot in the leg. we went out to get our car keys and the st
they are very involved and remain point throughout all of this. . reporter: [ inaudible ]. not information i can release yet. reporter: [ inaudible ]. not information i can release. we still consider him armed and dangerous. reporter: is it one shooter? at this time that s the information we have. reporter: [ inaudible ]. we re still working on that. we ll take two more questions. we re not going to go into the specifics of where the gun was recovered but a firearm rifle was recovered. reporter: what s the ages? what s the ages of those passed away? we ll have more information on that. we ll be releasing that as soon as we can. we have six confirmed deceased and we have approximately two dozen that are seriously injured. okay, thank you. we are coming on the air after that update from police, from the local sheriffs in highland park on that horrific, 4th of july parade shooting that happened about 10:15 local time there. a massive manhunt now happenin