Possessing a semy automatic rifle. The individual s name is ryan wesley routh. Age 58 according to senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The suspect is in custody. A short while ago the palm beach county described the scene where they found him. Now in the bushes where this guy was, is an ak47 style rifle, two backpacks which were honed on the fence that had ceramic tile in them and a go pro which he was going the take pictures of. Reporter: they later released these images on what they found on the suspect. That backpack, the go pro camera and an ak47. Wesley routh lives in hawaii but previously lived in greensboro, north carolina. Some of his previous facebooks and linked inaccounts have been identified. We re checking in with you pretty regularly as we learn more about the suspect. We now have learned a little bit more about his background. His criminal record, social media profile. Give us the composite of what we re learning about who this man is in the early hou
Kevin mccarthys marching orders, the House Speaker directs his committees to open an Impeachment Inquiry of President Biden and the white house is already pushing back. Were going to tell you what the administration is saying. Also ahead, the manhunt in pennsylvania taking on a new sense of urgency with the fugitive now armed. Police say a homeowner fired shots at the escaped killer as he was stealing a rifle with a scope on it. Were live in chester county. And Fulton Countys District Attorney up against a deadline to explain how she plans to prosecute donald trump and his 18 codefendants all at the same time. Were following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy just raised the political stakes in washington this morning. He officially kicked off the process to begin an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Today, i am directing our House Committee to open a formal Impeachment Inquiry into president joe b
more landmark rulings. one could include whether the former president, donald trump could be immune from criminal prosecution. it might come. you never know until the clock strikes 10:00 a.m. eastern time and we re standing by. first, however, wandering on the world stage. so this was during a skydiving demonstration at the g7 in southeastern italy. the awkward moment redirected by the italian prime minister as you see adding to concerns about the president s fitness for the job. add that to what we saw at the white house earlier in the week and you can decide for yourself. good morning, everybody. it s friday. dana has the day off. our friend, gillian, is back for another friday addition for america s newsroom. welcome back. gillian: good to be with you. this is america s newsroom. the headlines. look at this today s new york post reads meandering chief. it has been a week marked by awkward moments for president biden. the slip-ups are overshadowing at times his trip
wheelchair, joseph de angelo spoke softly while addressing the judge. he did not enter a plea to murder charges stemming from a case from 40 years ago where he allegedly killed a young married couple. an attorney for de angelo says the 72-year-old is depressed and fragile. investigators allege he is the golden state killer, a brutal rapist and murderer who terrorized cal ifornians during the 70s and 80s. we all knew that we were looking for a needle in a haystack. we founds needle in the hay stack. and it was right here in sacramento. reporter: investigators were able to unlock the cold case with a dna sample left by the killer in one of the attacks. we ended up generating a dna profile from the golden state killer evidence. and then are with able to take that profile and union load it into an open source public genealogy database called ged match. ged match then is able to search
when we felt we had a government that s tipped off. i know from a conversation i had with richard helms, former head of the cia long long ago, that the cia and the days of telephone calls, before there was internet was able to pick up certain phrases even in russian, which gave them warnings about things to come. surely that is not beyond the reach now. if the nsa can t do it contract it to apple or ibm. charlie, you know a lot of guys in law enforcement. again, i think the information is there. what i don t understand is the connection of these dots and why we continue to allow them to get away. the guy is a gyro chopper. same deal. i ll kind of defend the fbi and nsa by saying it s a needle in the hay stack. this stuff is all over the internet there s about one million of these guys they have to sift through. we don t hear of all the attacks that they thwart.