the department of public safety that he drives into a ditch. this is after the shooting where the grandmother is shot. sometime after that he s in this incident where the car ends up in a ditch, and then somehow manages to get past the shootout with law enforcement there to get into the school and kills these 19 kids. so that s what we know at this point. we don t know very much about the motivation. we know from law enforcement that that is focus right now, talking to people who are in touch with him on some of the social media. we heard now from some people who were in touch with him who talked about him being a quiet person, a loner, so to speak, and he was able to purchase these firearms legally. that s now the focus of federal law enforcement to try to support the work there of the local authorities that are doing this investigation. we re learning about the shooter. according to a classmate, he had been bullied, that he worked at a local fast food place. what else are
and were just weeks away from summer break. he crashed his car on the school and was seen running on campus carrying two firearms which were purchased by ramos legally on his 18th birthday. two ar-style 15 rifles were posted. a lone gunman killed 20 children in the first and second grades as well as six adults in newtown, kentucky. joe biden said it s time to stand up to the gun lobby and pass common sense regulations. i am sick and tired. we have to act. and don t tell me we can t have an impact on this carnage. i spent my career as a senator and as a vice president working to pass common sense gun laws. we can t and won t prevent every tragedy, but we know they work and have positive impact. when we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. when the law expired, mass shootings tripled. the idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong. what in god s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill som
hello, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m john vause. you re watching cnn newsroom. and just ahead, the white house walks back joe biden s promise the u.s. would intervene militarily if china attacks taiwan, causing confusion and concern ahead of a summit between the u.s., japan, australia, and india. revenge fantasy. of all the primary races across the u.s., it s the state of georgia where donald trump wants a win for his endorsed candidates. and a love triangle turns into tragedy. an elite cyclist is dead and u.s. marshals now looking for the woman accused of murdering her. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. right now, the second in-person summit of the quad this year is under way in tokyo. leaders of this informal alliance between the u.s., japan, australia, and india, will soon head into a working lunch and then one-on-one meetings after that. just a day earlier, the u.s. president launched a new
store where you are. yes. and then after that, it was silent but i didn t know if there were more people in the store or anything and i proceeded to get a phone call from another friend. he is a is a local that gives employees rides to and from the store and he called me and said, please tell me that you are okay and i whispered to him and i said, yes, i m scared. i m i don t know what to do and he says, where are you, and i said, i m at the desk. he said, stay down, don t move. the cops are outside and they are going to be coming in and i will be outside waiting for you. it just come find me outside. so i waited and i heard the walkie-talkies from the police and i peeped my head up a little bit over the counter and a officer happen to look in the window when he said, stay down. stay down. i got back down flat and i waited a couple more minutes. it seemed like forever. i heard people walking and i heard somebody crying hysterically. i kind of just got up and stood up with
not the last aid package for ukraine has been overwhelmingly approved by the u.s. congress. a rare and notable achievement given the deep political divisions between democrat and republican lawmakers. on thursday, the $40 billion aid package for both military and humanitarian assistance passed the senate, but not without opposition. 11 republicans voted against the bill in defiance of republican mitch mcconnell. anyone concerned about the cost of supporting a ukrainian victory should consider the much larger cost should ukraine lose. president biden is now heading to south korea and is expected to sign the bill into law once he arrives. but wait there s more. just as the senate approved that $40 billion, the biden administration announced another security package worth $100 million and the flood of money to ukraine comes at a critical moment. ukraine s top military commander claims his troops have broken the russian siege s at kharkiv and miykolaiv and says ukrainia for