A rapidly growing wildfire has forced evacuations and road closures. Well talk to officials there on the ground trying to get word out to residents right now. And also developing this morning, a suspicious fire at a houston mosque is under federal investigation after officials discover multiple points of origin. Was it arson . Was it a hate crime . Youre in the cnn newsroom. 9 01 straight up right now. And so good to have you with us. Im christi paul. Im errol barnett. In this weekend for Victor Blackwell. Good to be by your side. Thank you for getting up early on a holiday weekend. All righty. Listen, lets get to the breaking news out of california, first of all. A wildfire is raging out of control. Mandatory evacuations in place now. Highways are closed. The 1,000acre blaze is ramging near ventura. Officials say the fire is uncontained. At this moment, parts of the 101 freeway and the Pacific Coast highway, these are major arteries in this part of california. They are shut down. Look
Morning. Im victor blackwell. 9 00 here on the east coast. This morning, were starting with a picture. A picture of the suspected gunman in the attack on a planned parenthood facility in Colorado Springs. Police released this mug shot of Robert Lewis Dear just minutes ago. Dear is in jail this morning, after he allegedly shot and killed three people. Again, this is our first look at him. One of those people who died is an officer. Wounded nine ours. This is a sixhour nearly sixhour standoff. Yeah, we know this morning, police in colorado are mourning theyre fallen colleague. Officer garrett swasey, you see him on the screen. Killed after he responded to the scene from his post at the university of colorado. That schools Football Team will honor him today with a moment of silence during the game. Lets bring in eric singer, hes a reporter and news anchor for the Colorado Springs gazette. First, i want you to tell us what you know about this officer who is being remembered fondly this mor
Fireworks show at the nearby burj went on with this inferno next door a little over an hour ago. Lets get right to cnns becky anderson. Shes in dubai. Becky, is there any new information as to what caused this fire . What we are being told by sources is that a curtain in a room on the 20th floor of this hotel caught alight. And caused the hotel to effective effectively go up in flames. The hotel now is 90 contained so far as authorities are concerned. It is now just after 1 00 in the morning here. And this fire broke out at only 9 35 p. M. Only two and a half hours before the huge firework display just a kilometer or so away was due to take place. And indeed did go on. As far as injuries are concerned there are 16 people who have sustained minor injuries from this fire which was at the address hotel, a fivestar hotel. And residential compound. 63 stories high. 196 rooms, as you rightly pointed out, a hotel that was full tonight as are many of the hotels in dubai for what is one of the
Temperatures in the teens, dozens of shoppers hours later are still on lockdown, ordered to stay in place. Specifically ordered by the police to stay away from their windows. At this hour, at least nine people are injured, sent to the hospital, including of that nine, four Police Officers. Heres what weve also learned. That this suspect has brought bags of unknown items into the building and has been usinging a a long gun. The motive is another one of the huge unknowns. We dont know if anyone is being currently held hostage. They are evacuating folks from within the building but the police are still taking fire. So we have a lot of voices to go to at this hour on cnn. But trevor hughes, let me begin with you. Usa today reporter on the scene there in Colorado Springs. What do you know . Weve seen two police s. W. A. T. Vehicles leave the scene. But its unclear what is happening at the moment. Like i said, its been a very fluid situation all evening. Its definitely getting dark. It seems
We saw a number of passengers being released. They are largely Egyptian Nationals being released right now, though. A number of foreigners as well as crew members. What we are hearing from officials, they are saying this is not an incident of terrorism. They are saying that the motive behind this has to do with an exwife. Egyptian officials also casting doubt over whether or not this bomb is actually real. But officials arent taking any chances this morning. In the past hour, we have seen more hostages being released. When you see them being released, they arent fleeing from the plane running as if they feel their lives under under immediate threat. Officials arent taking any chances. Stay with us, if you would. We want to bring in our cnn aviation analyst and former fbi special jonathan. I want to start with you, jonathan. How do you know when someone claims they have an explosive belt on to take it seriously . You dont know. You have to treat it as though its the real deal. Because i