i m brianna keilar live from cnn s washington headquarters. under way right now, three dead in california by a gunman opening fire on a crowd at a festival. a 6-year-old boy among the victims. police took down the shooter, but a second suspect may be on the loose. and racism as a political strategy. aides close to the presidency the politics of hate as a winning message. plus president trump nominates a staunch loyalist to be in charge of america s biggest secrets. and just before the cnn debate, kamala harris, who s delivered mixed messages on health care finally unveils her plan and her rivals pounce. first, more on our breaking news. another deadly mass shooting in america. this time in the small town of gilroy, california, at a popular food festival. any moment now we are expecting to get an update from officials who are on the hunt for a possible second suspect. looking at live pictures here as
sara, what more do we know about this gunman and this possible second suspect? reporter: so far we ve gotten zero new information about a second potential suspect. one thing police have not said is there was a second shooter, just that there was one shooter, this 19-year-old. we have also seen some of his social media posts on instagram which have been taken down at this time. one of those instagram posts he directly mentions the gilroy garlic festival. he says an expletive as he feels things are expensive at the festival and also recommends a book that is a known book filled with white supremacist ideals. so those two things are new information about this 19-year-old who police shot and killed, saying that he was the shooter that killed three people and injured as many as 11 people. we are getting new information as well about those people who were shot during this terrible
processing. there are people that were at the festival that literally ran away and left their belongings and we have vehicles and those vendor tents and whatnot. we can t allow them back in until we finish with the evidence processing portion of this, so we have a team that s set up to help assist those people and to provide some support until we can get them back to their belongings. chief, can you talk about the victims, they were so young. you have three people under the age of 22, children, we talked about the suspect here. but can you speak to the young lives being lost? well, i think any time a life is lost, it s a tragedy. but when it s young people, it s even worse. you know, it s very difficult. i don t know that there s i
of the witnesses here whose friends were all with him. he was here just like everyone else, trying to raise money for a charity. that s something this festival does every year. they said they had to throw a table up and get behind it as bullets were flying by. this has scarred many, many people in the gilroy area. and we re awaiting information, live information coming from officials there so you re going to stand by for us as we await that. we ll bring that to our viewers as soon as it begins. 2020 democratic candidates are reacting to the shooting. many of them expressed their condolences on twitter and turned the conversation to their positions on gun violence ahead of this week s cnn debates where no doubt this will be something they are trying to discuss. california senator kamala harris one of those sort of talking about this issue. she was, of course, california s attorney general. it just keeps happening in our country. and these families are right now in deep pain.
incident here at the gilroy garlic festival. just to give you some idea, this is a summer pastime in northern california. i lived in this area. when you come through gilroy, you know it s the garlic capital because you can smell it. people come here with a lot of joy in their hearts on sunday, which is family day, to enjoy this festival. as it was starting to wind down after 5:00 p.m. it ended up being a crime scene with people running for their lives. but ages 12 to 69 are still in the hospital, one person in critical condition, john. sara sidner with the latest of a horrible tragedy. sara, keep us posted as this plays out. appreciate it. coming up for us, the president continues his attacks on an african-american congressman from maryland. we sit down with some african-americans to ask them their thoughts about the president, politics and race. my insurance rates are probably gonna double.