The department on their findings . You heard the ag a moment ago saying that the Justice Department stands ready to provide resources and support in the days ahead. What is been going on for the past four years . Its obviously intentional. In these couple months leading up to the election they want to put people on notice to not intimidate, harass, all of the above anyone who is part of an election or watching these polls and the like. This is a Task Force they put together some time it appeared im not entirely surprised. It is certainly part for the course for this Department Of Justice to do something like this. Again, im much more interested in what is happening with iran with respect to the United States and how they are trying to actively undermine our election in 2024 and hurt Donald Trump and wondering why the administration has not taken more serious action on the front. John when you think about the days ahead, lets remember in two days voters in North Carolina start casting e
a fiber freelancer. former vice president mike pence joins wolf blitzer, cnn primetime tonight at nine. top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you, jim. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean. and any moment now, officials at fort campbell in kentucky will be giving everyone an update after two blackhawk helicopters collided overnight, killing nine u. s service members that is, according to an army official. we re standing by for that, and we ll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. the governor among those who will speak their plus russia has now arrested an american journalist, it says on suspicion of espionage. even draskovic, a reporter for the wall street journal, detained in a small town east of moscow, the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter, the kremlin says. he was caught red handed, refuses to offer any details their track record on this kind of thing. begs a lot of questions. we re going to have details ahead. we begin this
few moments from now. it was here almost exactly 24 hours ago now that a gunman opened fire from the roof of a building about two blocks behind me, killing six people, you can hear the sounds of it right there, wounding 25. it caused hundreds of people to flee the scene. a real moment of sheer terror. you can see actually behind us now some of the chairs that they left behind still littering the scene here. police did find a gun on the roof of that building. ultimately about eight hours later they were able to apprehend someone there y re calling a person of interest, they used the phrase suspect, that person has been in custody overnight and several hours and investigators are going through his past trying to learn more about what might have led him to open fire on this celebration of the nation s independence. let s get the very latest on where the investigation stands this morning, i m joined by josh campbell who has been on the scene now for 20 hours at this point chasing
backdrop for movies like home alone and ferris buhler s day off. police say a gunman fired on people along the parade route from a rooftop. a barrage of bullets just after 10:00 a.m., causing spec to it tors, mostly families with children, both young and old, to scatter. right now officials say the victims range from 8 to 85 years old. five adults died at the scene, a sixth person later passed away at the hospital. witnesses describing chaos where strollers and belongings lay scattered on the streets that have become a crime scene. i picked up my kids and ran again, i put them in a garbage dumpster, and then i ran back to look for my partner and her daughter, and i saw people shot on the ground. all of a sudden, there was a stampede of people coming, and then i realized it was gunshots. i literally thought to myself, this is how it s going to end. we hope to learn more about a man who they say has not been charged but is a person of interest. within eight hours after
Sam shepard dies at the age of 73. And one of french cinemas biggest stars, jeanne moreau, has passed away at her home in paris at the age of 89. White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci who was appointed just ten days ago by President Trump, has been fired, according to us media. The former financier took the job last friday, replacing Spokesman Sean Spicer who left his post. The New York Times is reporting that scaramucci was fired at the request of new Chief Of Staffjohn kelly, who was sworn in today. Lets try and get some clarity on this. We can speak to our american reporter in washington. I think these reports first appeared in the New York Times. The New York Times and politico, all reporting the same thing, that anthony s cara mcshane was effectively forced out by president donald trump. This was also at the request ofjohn kerry, the new Chief Of Staff who was sworn in this Morning Scaramucci came in about ten days ago, Sean Spicer Resort and shortly after he was