let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, quote, w
congressional leaders back to the white house with the days to get a deal done simply running out. will either side budge before default? that economists say could be a catastrophe. so word is republican governor ron desantis is now just days away from declaring his 2024 run for president, but the new fury he is facing in florida, all this now on cnn news central. we have new there are new details coming out this morning on the terrifying random shootings in farmington, new mexico. this happened yesterday afternoon and now three people are dead and six others are wounded. police are calling the shooting purely random. the gunman has not been identified but police do say he was 18 years old and he was killed by police once they arrived on the scene. cnn s natasha chen is following this for us, she s joining us now. natasha, the randomness of this is what is so scary. what more are you learning? reporter: the police chief posted a video to facebook last night talkin
switch to xfinity mobile and get the best price for 2 lines of unlimited. just $30 a line per month. i should get paid more for this. you get paid when you win. from xfinity. home of the 10g network. a controversial claim that an american has been killed fighting in ukraine. this as the russians also say they have destroyed an american-made air defense system. random and indiscriminate, the search is on for answers after a teenager terrorizes a new mexico neighborhood, and three people shot dead. and a new law is causing confusion, and could hurt the economy, and what the reaction is for the penalties of undocumented workers. all of these stories are coming in right now to cnn news central. so, this morning a new claim that a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut which is a city in eastern ukraine that has been seeing fighting for months now. the wagner paramilitary group says that a body has found with u.s. document, and the state department has not verified the claim,
least six houses and three cars. you mentioned he shot and killed three people. he injured six others, including two members of law enforcement. one farmington police officer and one state police officer. they are expected to survive with nonlife threatening injuries. the police chief did talk about this as being one of the most difficult days that farmington has ever experienced. he called it difficult to understand and devastating. here he is talking about the investigation. we re doing the best that we can. piece through and talk with family members of the suspect. piece through what was going on. look at the evidence to see if we can figure out what the motivation was. but at this point, it appears to be purely random. that there was no schools, no churches, no individuals targeted. and for a time the schools in the area were locked down as