in georgia, raphael warnock s lead in the polls over herschel walker, it is a narrow lead and stacey abrams is trying to unseat brian kefrpt in the second head-to-head battle for governor. nearly three quarters of a million georgians have already cast their ballots. in pennsylvania, john fetterman is holding a slim lead in a race with trump backed mehmet oz. and tonight in florida, ron desantis holds his only televised debate with charlie chryst. this morning bernie sanders who caucuses with democrats is warning them to focus more on the economy and less on abortion rights. house speaker nancy pelosi pushing back on that. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy. but it s about both. and i can tell you, that that issue is very, very provocative and encouraging people to vote. here now cnn s senior data report harry enton. a laser focus on key senate races here. and in some of them, republicans have gained ground. in some of them, most of them they ve gaine
they are very involved and remain point throughout all of this. . reporter: [ inaudible ]. not information i can release yet. reporter: [ inaudible ]. not information i can release. we still consider him armed and dangerous. reporter: is it one shooter? at this time that s the information we have. reporter: [ inaudible ]. we re still working on that. we ll take two more questions. we re not going to go into the specifics of where the gun was recovered but a firearm rifle was recovered. reporter: what s the ages? what s the ages of those passed away? we ll have more information on that. we ll be releasing that as soon as we can. we have six confirmed deceased and we have approximately two dozen that are seriously injured. okay, thank you. we are coming on the air after that update from police, from the local sheriffs in highland park on that horrific, 4th of july parade shooting that happened about 10:15 local time there. a massive manhunt now happenin
custody at lake forest, illinois, after a brief pursuit earlier. police also recovering a high powered rifle, who say believed to be the weapon he was at the shooting. that is the car that police say crimo was driving. you can see it here on this live picture. this all started approximately, at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the town separate from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials reported that at least two dozen, if not three dozen, were hurt. 25, with gunshot wounds, in that total. let s go straight to shaquille brewster, and as an msnbc correspondent there on the ground for us. and shaq, just the breaking news within the last 15 minutes that they have apprehended that person of interest. what else are we hearing? well, we are likely not gonna have any more updates from local law enforcement until tomorrow. but you are just in the past couple of minutes there, we had that major update,
live picture. this all started approximately at 10:14 am, central time. the shooter opened fire on the towns parade from a rooftop, along that route. and again, police say six people have been killed, and health officials report that at least two dozen, if not three dozen, were hurt. 25 with gunshot wounds in that total. let s go straight to shaquille brewster and as an msnbc correspondent there on the ground for us. and shaq, just the breaking news within the last 15 minutes that they have apprehended that person of interest. what else are we hearing? well, we are likely not gonna have any more updates from local law enforcement until tomorrow. but you heard this in the past couple of minutes there. we had that major update that person of interest was identified and, identified and captured. he is now in custody. just so you get a sense of where lake forest is. it s a town about 15 minutes from where i m standing right now. i m at the crime scene, about a block away from w
was dressed in women s clothing and investigators do believe he did this to conceal the tattoos and the identity and help him in the escape with the other people who were fleeing the chaos. after escaping in his mother s car that man robert primo tracked to lake forest and arrested. he is in custody but not charged. he fits a disturbingly pattern. police say they still don t know why the gunman opened fire on the parade but learning more about the six people killed. among them a 76-year-old grandfather shot three times while sitting in the wheelchair. among the 30 wounded several children, victims as young as 8, as old as 85. while it was the deadliest massacre in highland park this is far from the only shooting on the fourth of july. at least three dozen people shot and killed across the country yesterday. three dozen in mass shootings in at least seven cities leading to this question. is there some way to balance the right to bear arms with the freedom to live without fea