a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the western w
disturbing new details about the mass killer in allen, texas. officials are probing possible ties to right wing extremist groups. also in texas, we are told that charges could be imminent after an suv slams into a group of people outside of a migrant shelter and several people were killed. w we are live outside of the scene. and images of death and destruction are all coming in live to cnn news central. we want to begin this hour in brownsville, texas, where the police are expected to give an update in the deadly crash involving several migrants. at least eight people are dead and several others are injured right now. a ton of questions right now this morning of why this happened. hopefully some answers will come in the next hour. this is what people, police say that we know so far. an suv plowed into a group of people outside of the homeless shelter and the horrifying moment was caught on surveillance camera, and the video is going to pause just before the moment of
right now, students and staff at uc-davis are on high alert after three stabbing attacks near the campus and two of the victims have died, and search for suspect. more than 11,000 hollywood writers are on strike after their union and studios could not make a deal. what it means for your favorite show. and the u.s. could default on the debt if a deal is not struck by june 1st, will the president and house leader kevin mccarthy make a deal? those stories and more are all coming in right here to cnn news central. police have now lifted a shelter in place notice for the uc-davis community, but the danger is still streaming for the dangers on the campus, it happened late last night, and woman is in critical condition after being stabbed and this is after a 50-year-old man was found dead in a park a mile and a half from campus. then on saturday, a uc-davis student was stabbed to death at another park. the police have made no arrests or named suspects. nick watt is joining
coming in to cnn news central. so it is now official in writing right there and also in video, president biden says that he wants to finish the job, and he wants to be what he callss - he wants to beat what he calls maga extremism. when i ran in 2020 i said i wanted to have more freedom and not less, and i think i know what the answer is and you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i am running for re-election. it was exactly four years ago today that biden threw his hat in the ring for 2020 and warned voters then about donald trump s rhetoric. we will go to white house now, and arlette seanez, we have seen the president on video today, and what do we expect from him life and in person? well, john, in a little over an hour, president biden is going to be holding the first public event since officially rolling out the presidential bid. he is expected at 12:30 to speak at a union conference here in washington, d.c., as he is looking to highlight the
facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. norfo