welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
they re also going over surveillance video and cell phone video belonging to some of these victims and witnesses. unfortunately, though, this is now one of 310 mass shootings in the united states, according to the gun violence archives. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. quick hits across america now. at least one juvenile is dead, nine other teens injured after a mass shooting in st. louis at a downtown building where a party was held sunday. police have a 17-year-old in custody. in central washington state, two people are dead after a shooting at a campground near a concert venue. police say three others were injured including the shooter who is now in custody. a large bear seen dangling from a second-floor window in colorado, trying to figure out how to get down multiple times. had to go back inside the house and came out through a ground floor window. coming up, the death toll rising after a cyclone in brazil. and the leader of a starvation
i don t know if you can see it, but the stair case behind me is now basically a water fall. then a torrent of blackwater began pouring into the hotel. the storm surge had begun. within a few minutes it was at ground floor window. the panicked family now trapped in their room smashed the window and screamed for help. we managed to get the mother across to safety using a foam mattress and it immediately became clear that the cause of her panic, the daughter was severely disableed. storm chaser, josh and i went back across to get the terrified girl to safety. producer tim schwartz helped rescue the rest of the family. waters only rose a little higher. the height of the storm in fact passed. two hours later, wind lost their lethal strength. our position was a ruined shell.
health care less than $50 a month. less than your cell phone and cable bill. we can expect to hear more about the web site s problems when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius appears before lawmakers tomorrow. british man with ties to the occupy movement has been charged with hacking in to u.s. computers. lauri love described as a sophisticated hacker with special entry in to computers of large organization. they say he gained access to computers at nasa and the pentagon. he was arrested in england and released on bond until his trial in february. police in aurora, colorado, are trying to track down a man they say snatched a girl out of her bedroom. the man cut a screen and pulled the 8-year-old through a ground floor window on sunday. the girl did not go quietly. she screamed for help and managed to get away from the kidnapper. she put up quite a fuss, calling for her father, struggling. and somehow she managed to escape from the abductor.
through a ground floor window. commando used to thing, said the french interior minister said he had never seen such a violent attack. not the kind of violence seen in the amateur video of mara taking a joyride in a sports car. 18 months later he would go on a shooting spree that left three french soldiers, rabbi and three jewish students dead. hours after the siege was broken, police stand guard and look for evidence in front of the building. politicians here look for lessons from the horrible crime. french president nicolas sarkozy made a nationally televised address promising to crack down on anyone involved in terrorism online, in prison, or at training camps. all things the late shooter allegedly did. coming together and being unified must be our priority. firmness and moderation and service are values of the republic. there are no signs yet that sarkozy s handling of the crisis helped him politically.