tropical storm system closing in on florida. it s bringing heavy rain. there s already some flooding, as you can see, from these pictures we re getting in. there are 10 million people under tropical storm warnings right now. the timing and potential impact coming up. plus the show goes on despite the queen s absence. the platinum jubilee celebrations that are under way today. we are so grateful you re starting your weekend with us. it s saturday, january 4th. good morning, christi. good morning, boris. let s talk about the two former trump administration officials. they will not face charges for contempt of congress in the january 6th investigation. now the department of justice says it won t indictment former white house chief of staff mark meadows and former jeopardy chief of staff dan scavino. it could hinder the committee s efforts to enforce subpoenas. another trump ally is facing charges. a grand jury indictmenting former adviser peter navarro for contempt of
to reopen today. what this means for the nationwide shortage and how soon could formula be back on the shelf. i have been told that this person did not have a motivation. new details on the school massacre in uvalde, texas. whether classes will ever be held at the school again. two former trump officials won t be charged for stonewalling the january 6th committee. we have reaction from committee members ahead of next week s high profile hearing. you have to have fun in summertime. and on the road again. decades-high inflation not stopping millions from traveling this summer. how people are getting creative, changing travel habits to salvage their vacations. plus the show goes on despite the queen s absence. the platinum jubilee celebrations under way today. newsroom starts right now. we are so grateful to see you on this saturday, june 4th. welcome, i m christi paul. great to be with you, i m boris sanchez. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we re lookin
reporter: fredericka, sources tell cnn the suspect had a long list of targets and officials say that this was somehow related to the judicial system. we don t yet know how. was this a single case or series of cases? we continue to ask the questions that law enforcement continues to ask as well. this all began 6:30 friday morning when someone ran out of judge roemer s home and called 911, that person reporting that someone had broken inside and fired off two rounds from a firearm. throughout the morning, once police arrived, they tried to negotiate with the suspect who was inside but eventually those talks simply broke down. around 10:15 a.m. friday, the tactical teams made entry into that home and that s where they found 68-year-old john roemer dead. they also found a 56-year-old suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside. throughout this investigation they ve learned that this was not random. here is what the officials in wisconsin said. this, as i mentioned befo
and with me now, cnn legal analyst, elliott williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general, and elliott, this is a friday night news dump, no question about it. no question. we know them well this this town. the justice department will not charge scavino, not charge mark meadows. they are charging peter navarro. how do you sort this out? you got to look at every case differently, jim, and set aside navarro and steve bannon who s also been charged. number one, the jobs each of these individuals held was different. steve bannon wasn t even a white house aide at the time of the conduct in question. right? number two, the nature of their behavior. there s at least the factual question as to whether meadows and scavino complied at least in part with the committee to a point that it just would have been hard to charge them with a crime. as a justice department, you want to be able to make the decision of do we think we could win this in front of a jury. it s just a cl
realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their classroom, inside their school, he s trying to process it all. and he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for even causing a little bit of his own. and he actually said to me, don t worry, mommy. i will be home tonight. he said, i make a promise to myself every day that i will make it home at night. now, these should not be the promises any child has to make. not in a nation where our promises to keep them safe have not been kept. i remember when mr. rogers was trying to comfort kids like me by telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. okay, well, as far as we know, the helpers stood in the hallway. the helpers heard shots even after they believed it was a barricade and not an active shooter, and when the helpers aren t being tight hp lipped, they re offering changing narratives but i m still going to look to these helpers. but this time it will be for an