bullets. he went right over the top of them and was hit. what a fine man he was. as for the investigation into the assassination attempt, video shows the shooter, thomas crooks, lurking outside the rally in an hour before he tried to assassinate the former president. we re told at this point, police identified him as a person of interest for wearing a backpack and holding a golf rangefinder, which measures distances. but crooks was not yet considered a threat at that point, according to several lawmakers, 19 minutes before the first shots were fired. crooks identified as suspicious and then a search commenced. a secret service source tells fox the shooter hid his air 15 style gun somewhere before the rally began. the question is where the first time authorities spotted crooks with the gun he was holding it on the roof. as for crooks to phones, the fbi has gone into both of those phones. the 20 year old apparently had photos of president biden and the former and government o
east coast, 8:00 here in los angeles, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. breaking tonight, police now believe they have a killer in custody, saying that 22-year-old laken riley, a nursing student at the university of georgia, was murdered by a 26-year-old who is not a citizen of the united states, and very well might be from venezuela. though we do not know if he belongs to one of the venezuelan gangs that had been wreaking havoc across the country. but we do know that president biden gave 500,000 venezuelans protected status, and work permits. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in d.c. with late-breaking details on this. good evening. good evening to you. this story is obvious they both heartbreaking and infuriating in so many ways. tonight the university of georgia police have charged a non-u.s. citizen who goes by the name of jose antonio ibarra with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false improveme
we ve got some breaking news coming out of sterling virginia tonight. this is a house explosion. we want to show you some live pictures if we can put those up and then we re going to show you some video of kind of how this thing went down. do we have that? here are is this the video or the live pictures on this? so this appears to be this is the live pictures. this is in sterling, virginia which is a suburb of washington, dc. they just held a news conference moments ago, that news conference just ended, but this one was serious. we re talking about numerous people being injured, and we are hearing the possibility of one fatality. this is now videotape of what happened earlier. we do not know the cause. we know nothing about this. in fact, in the news conference the fire chief also doesn t know anything about the cause of this. he was just kind of laying out what happened to those who were involved, not only inside this area, inside the home, but also fighting this fire. s
watch cnn s fourth in america. it starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. thanks so much for joining inside politics. cnn s news central starts right now. gunfire interrupting holiday festivities, with dozens of victims across the country and children among the dead. as the nation marks 247 years of independence, we re also marking this tragic number of mass shootings. 345 so far this year, in just over six months. plus, new bloodshed in the middle east. the israeli military is extending an operation in the west bank for another day. new violence erupting as far away as tel aviv. what will it take for this stop? can it? and a new lawsuit on affirmative action. a civil rights group is trying to stop harvard from making it harder of sons and daughters of alumni to join the ivy league. we re following all of these stories coming in right here to cnn news central. on this fourth of july holiday, police are investigating two mass shootings in the span of 24 h
houthis in yemen. now, this comes after the houthis defied the u.s. and fired yet another missile into those red sea shipping lanes. we are getting a defense expert to give us analysis and should have him up, ready, and on camera in moments. meantime, just three days until iowa voters decide who they think the republican nominee for president should be. aishah hasnie is live in des moines iowa where voter turnout could be affected by extremely icy and cold conditions. aishah, good evening. reporter: trace good evening to you. the campaign trail has already been impacted by the severe weather. tonight, former president trump had to cancel two of his rallies tomorrow on saturday and a third on sunday leaving just one rally left. he said on truth social tonight that he is going to try to get to iowa by tomorrow night, possibly sunday morning. we ll see if that happens. meanwhile florida governor ron desantis, his schedule is also changing not due to the weather, though. he s n