Good morning, jeff. How does it look . Reporter good morning. We continue to feel aftershocks every couple minutes or so. We tried to catch a couple hours of sleep in the car. You could feel every one in a while the car start to move. This event is not over. This could be happening over the next few days. I want to go to this video that really gives you an idea of how chaotic that moment was last night. We were at dinner, trying to grab a bite to eat, when all of a sudden the whole building started to shake. There were things falling from the walls. People were screaming as they tried to he get to some safety. And once they got outside, you could really see the emotion on everyones face. Some people were crying, some were trying to lay on the ground to catch themselves, like what exactly they had gone through. A few minutes later we started to assess the damage. You could hear the sirens from the police cars going up and down the streets, the ambulances, the firefighters, and off into
This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Garrett good evening. Norah is off tonight. Im major garrett. And this is our western edition. The suspect in the el paso massacre told arresting officers he was targeting mexicans, that according to documents obtained by cbs news. It was one week ago tomorrow the suspect allegedly opened fire in a walmart near the mexican border, killing 22 people. Minutes earlier he allegedly posted an essay that spoke of getting rid of hispanic immigrants. Manuel bojorquez is in el paso. gunfire reporter the first reports of gunfire came in at 10 39 saturday morning. According to the arrest affidavit obtained by cbs news, minutes later, Patrick Crusius stopped his car at an intersection near the walmart. He came out with his hands raised in the air and stated out loud to the texas rangers, im the shooter. The affidavit also states the 21yearold waived his miranda rights and admitted to using an ak47, shooting multiple innocent victims. The detective
Betts was the gunmans own sister. They arrived to the area together before he went back to the car and came back with a gun. Ainsley in El Paso Police are turning to domestic terrorism and investigation there of deadly massacre. Jonathan serrie is live on the ground in texas for us, good morning. Good morning to you. The alleged gunman is being held without bond being charged with capital murder in connection with the deaths of 20 people in a walmart in the Shopping Center you see behind me. Meanwhile, federal authorities are investigating whether the defendant authored an anti immigrant online post as they consider domestic terrorism and hate crime charges. And the fbi is interviewing acquaintances of the defendant in the dallas area. Heres why. Interviews were putting the investigation together to be able to determine if he was was part of a group or working with other individuals that were planning any future attacks. At this point we dont have any credible intelligence saying that
Slamming the sal a stalled proceedings and House Speaker nancy pelosi. President trump shes doing a tremendous disservice to the country. Shes not doing a good job and some people think that she doesnt know what shes doing. They treated us very unfairly. They didnt give us to process, they didnt give us a lawyer or anything. Now, they come to the senate and they want everything. Mike she says she wants to know how they will run the impeachment trial before she sends over the articles. Chuck schumer says witnesses must testify in the Trump Administration needs to turn over emails and other crucial evidence to ensure a fair senate trial. President trump insists Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has the right to do whatever he wants. Meanwhile the House Judiciary Committee signals there could be even more coming as they fight in court to get grand jury materials from special counsel Robert Muellers russian investigation. Rich edson reporting live from west palm beach, florida, not fa
The center for Public Integrity provide us with a new timeline as to when the Trump Administration moved to suspend military assistance to ukraine. This is important. They include, one, that White House Budget Office official Michael Duffy said to a top pentagon official on july 25th, just 90 minutes after President Trump finished his call with ukraines president. Duffy wrote in that email, based on the guidance i have received and in light of the administrations plans to review assistance to ukraine, please hold off on any Additional Defense Department obligations of these funds pending direction from that process. The White House Budget Office responded to nbc news in a statement. It is reckless to tie the hold of funds to a phone call, as has been established and publiclyreported, the hold was announced in an interagency meeting on july 18th. All right. For more on this, lets go straight to nbcs Heidi Przybyla. Heidi, tell me where the information weve learned from these documents f