now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, may 17th. i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in new york. we have live pictures of the white house this morning, very shortly president biden about to depart for buffalo, to meet with the families of those killed in the racist mass shooting there. moments ago, officials told us the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. and he will call on americans to give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to try to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning we re getting new details about the suspected shooter. cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment he was taken into custody by police, new evidence shows he spent several month
saying he spoke with the suspect. the alleged gunman asking, are you going to be here tomorrow? stephanie ramos here at the scene tonight. we are also learning more about the victims here. and we will honor them. the youngest, 32, the oldest, 86. tonight here, their stories. and the hero security guard killed while confronting the shooter. our interview tonight with a mother and daughter working inside the store. what they saw that guard do. tonight, how they describe his heroism, his bravery. the investigation tonight and major questions now about the warning signs. the suspect interacting with law enforcement around the time of his high school graduation last june. his alleged threats one year ago. and what s now been found tonight. what he posted just two weeks ago on the internet. was his plan out there weeks before this horrific attack? pierre thomas and what he s learned tonight. the other mass shooting in america, this time, at a church in california. one perso
all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we ll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city s final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we ll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday s deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect s alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house national security council on that. and it is primary day in pennsylvania. the senate race there has been rocked by twists and turns in the key final days. for the democrats, the leading candidate, john fetterman, is recovering from a stroke. on the republican side, an unexpected surge on the far right from kathy barnette. we ll be watching to see how trump-backed dr. oz performs tonight. good morning
it sounds a lot like the filth you would most certainly encounter in the bowels of the interweb, places like 4 chan where the racist domestic terrorist who drove 200 miles to a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo to slaughter black people says that he was radicalized while he was sitting at home bored during the pandemic. this vile person killed ten people, all black and injured three more. he spelled out his ideology in a manifesto he allegedly wrote filled with racist and anti-semitic memes citing the great replacement theory of white supremacists, the false idea that began in the early 30s in france that claims that white people in europe and in the united states are being systematically replaced with non-white people as part of a jewish conspiracy. it s the camp of the saints that you might have heard from former bebright boss and consignificant-year steve bannon and might seem like the crud that s relegated to the darkest corners of the intraw
more about those lives that were taken so callously, solely out of hate. we re also learning more about the suspect. authorities identifying him as this 18-year-old white man who apparently traveled more than three hours from his home to target that community. a 180-page manifesto attributed to the suspect was posted online just before the attack. it shows the meticulous planning that apparently went into a racist attack in just chilling detail. we also learned the suspect was already on law enforcement s radar. he had made a generalized threat as a high school student last year. tomorrow president biden will travel to buffalo to meet with families of the victims. the terror in new york, sadly, just one of several mass shootings in recent days. let s begin with cnn s victor blackwell on the scene in buffalo. the suspect currently faces one count of first-degree murder. that really a starting point here. do we expect that federal hate crime charges will be added? reporter: y