direct .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. alright you are looking at live pictures. there was breaking news out of louisville, kentucky . you see a huge police presence there. there are quote multiple casualties, according to police as they respond to an active aggressor officials, including the f are telling everyone to stay away from the area of 300 block of east main street. the mayor also urging the public to stay away from the area. we have now learned that this is a shooting that there are multiple people who are down, including a police officer. our cnn correspondent omar jimenez is following the developments as we watch them there live from our affiliate. w e. we are seeing a lot of police down there, and we re hearing that the governor may be on his way. what can you tell us? omar? that s right, sara. for starters, they are describing this as an active or as a shooting incident in downtown louisville. they had been describing it
have more to share later on. i want to bring in our senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz shimon, what more are you hearing there? we know that this happened before the bank was open around 8 30, which gives us a little bit of a clue of what may have been going on and who the suspect who is now dead is right. and by all accounts at this point based on what we re hearing from witnesses and law enforcement, this is quite a chaotic scene. police officers arriving and then within minutes that they were there they had encountered . according to police. they were fired upon. there were gunshots , and then we have seen indications where glass has been broken at the front. what appears to be the front of this bank has happened. as you said around 8 30 this morning before the bank was open for business. we re hearing from people inside the bank having to hide inside the vault the bank s vault to try and protect themselves and police. we believe this point encountered
justice department from getting back to work on more than 100 classified documents. also, in puerto rico, huge search operations happening to try to find trapped survivors after hurricane fiona. things may get worse before they get better. we ve got a team on the ground there with the latest. plus, what went wrong in the agency s response to the baby formula shortage? coming up. a lot of new details for you. i m hallie jackson with vaughn hilliard, tom winter, and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. vaughn, i know this has just wrapped up. what went down? reporter: right. both sides just exited the course house seconds before we came to air. as well as the trio of trump attorneys provided no comment but this hearing lasted about 35 minutes rather speedy hearing in which really the central component of the argument at hand. i was talking the andrew weissman as we exited the course house, about whether trump s teams would have access to the documents marked as classif
quote, in the interest of transparency, unquote. team s trump interest in transparency doesn t extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. a federal judge today refusing to put on hold her own ruling that the senator must appear. he filed an emergency request with the u.s. court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today that the doj has got to make public that internal legal memo that was commissioned by then ag william barr back in 2019. remember the one that he had to analyze whether he should charge then president trump with obstruction of justice related to the russia investigation? the court finding barr never considered charging trump, saying in the ruling the memo barr ordered was an academic exercise and a thought experiment. back to the mar-a-lago search here. the biden white house has kept near tot
$4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive damages of $750,000 per plaintiff. so it seems he won t be forced to fork over quite that much yet. he s still facing two more defamation trials, and one of them is in connecticut. but it appears the jury did listen to this plea from the attorney for the sandy hook family. we ask that you send a very, very simple message. and that is stop alex jones. stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. estimated to the jury that jones may have a net worth as much $270 million but has been trying to hid his wealth with personal loans and shell companies. now, jones said at trial he faced financial ruin if there was an award of more than $2 million. more lies on top of lies, perhaps? the mother of 6-year-old jesse lewis who was kill