california. ten people were killed and another ten hospitalized. after a mass shooting saturday night in monterey park. the sheriff describing the assailant as an asian male who fled the scene and remains at large. the shooting happened inside of a dance studio seen in these images here shortly after 10:00 p.m. local time during a lunar new year hold celebration. president biden and vice president harris has both been briefs on the attack and today law enforcement officials shared some details on the investigation. everything is on the table. we don t know if this is specifically a hate crime defined by law, but who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people. there were multiple rounds fired at the first location where we have all of the victims. and survivors. we don t know how many rounds were fired. different weapons have been described. in regards to the specific weapon, we don t believe it was an assault rifle at this time, but again that is part of the investigat
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we want to have an update now on some breaking news coming in to cnn. dramatic new developments in a standoff that is believed to be connected to last night s mass shooting at a dance shooting in monterey park, california. police say the s.w.a.t. operation, part of this story, is now over, and the neighborhood is safe. this is the moment that police approached a van matching the respect s vehicle description, and then breaking the window. you can see there, and just a short time ago, police entered a second white van from torrance, california. the sheriff s department says they are working to determine at this moment if the driver of that white van is this man, their suspect. police have not released their name. they have not named him, but they describe him as an asian man, who is armed and dangerous. they believe he is responsible for opening fire on a lunar new year celebration, killing ten people and injuring
these are about affirmative action. we re live outside of the court. plus opening statements in the criminal trial against the trump organization. we ll look at those charges against the former president trump s personal business. and the man accused of attacking nancy pelosi s husband will be charged. what he brought with him when he broke into the speaker s home. but the supreme court will begin hearing oral arguments as can considers two cases on affirmative action in higher education. jessica schneider joins us now now. the supreme court has upheld affirmative action but it could be banned nationwide. all eyes and ears are on the conservative justices because it is very likely they will in fact ban affirmative action in particular the chief justice here john roberts has been outspoken about racial issues in many cases in past years. he put it this way in one of the cases. he said the only way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on
you are asking for the opportunity to leave the new at least have the wherewithal and the confidence and the integrity to say i m going to tell it like it is. because i would hope again, i recognized but i m saying. people are probably chuckling and say that is not how washington d.c. works. well that s how it should actually work. don t call me baby girl. you call yourself a bigger. hey, i can say baby girl. [laughs] but you can t? i would say you are right. you are right though. that is how it should work and so we see some evidence i will believe it when i see it, how about that? i will believe it when i see it. i keep hearing people saying things are changing and things are backing weight, but we will see. in terms of coming up we will have more evidence of it. sure. all right baby girl. amen. [laughs] i you get a pass. i was going to say you sound like oprah, in the red dress and everything, i will see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight and we ve got a l
but this source says that it was january 27th, after the request. what do you think of that discrepancy? they clearly have some explaining to do here. the secret service certainly has nor explaining to do. and the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point, what they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is what are the steps that they are taking to determine first of all whether any of these messages are still recoverable. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency, and it has substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigatin