right. it s the top of the hour in the cnn newsroom. i m fredricka whitfield in new york and we are moments away from an update on today s deadly mass shooting in louisville, kentucky. a gunman opening fire at a downtown bank, killing at least four people and wounding nine others. police responded quickly getting into a gunfight with the shooter. two officers were injured in the exchange, with one now in critical condition. the shooter is dead and police are still trying to piece together how he was killed and why the former bank employee may have gone on this shooting spree. officials are expecting to hold a briefing at any moment. of course, we ll take that to you, but before it begins, let s go first to cnn s shimon prokupecz. so shimon, what do we know about how all of this unfolded right so sometimes around 8 30 this morning after a 30 before the bank was open. the shooting took place police saying that they were there within three minutes. just think about that for the
potentially hit. plus congresswoman liz cheney says she is ready to part ways with her party if donald trump becomes the nominee in 2024. we ll tell you how she plans to keep fighting to prevent the former president from running for the white house. and making a direct appeal to russian fighters being called up into harm s way. plus, a hollywood actress st stalked for more than a decade. we ll tell you about the dna technology that helped solve this crime. the start of a new week, sunday, september 25th. thank you so much for waking up with us. amara, good morning. it s always so refreshing to hear you say it s the start of a new week. we are watching one storm, all of florida watching the caribbean this morning as tropical storm ian continues to gain strength. the latest forecast shows it s growing to a category four hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slamming into florida. it would be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. so yesterday f
disinformation and flat out lies continue to pour out of trump world this week, as the red continues to scramble to try to get their stories straight following the fbi search on trump s home. in just a few days, the official maga line says there was no cause for a search and that the fbi planted classified materials to u.s., there was classified materials, but trump somehow telepathically the classified them. look, each lie is more absurd and more cartoonish than the one before it. quite honestly, it is even more dangerous because the lies are actually turning into threats. those threats are beginning to turn to real world consequences. in fact, just last week, the fbi and the agents issued a joint bulletin warning that threats to federal law enforcement have spike since the mar-a-lago search. here s the thing, trump and his allies, they have continued their attacks on what enforcement agency even after a pro trump gunmen attempted to storm distance in it fbi field office. th
that s a quote. they view it as part of their territory. that s why it s a big deal. will ripley is there. tell us about what you re learning. so i ll start with the response because that s the new information we re getting from the chinese side. they have actually put out a map showing a number of different military exercises that are going to be happening at various locations that encircle the island of taiwan. some of these locations are very close to the shore line of taiwan. so we don t know exactly details yet about what these military exercises are going to entail, but theoretically, if they re loud enough, there could be some people living in taiwan along the coastline who can actually hear the sounds of this. and that will be incredibly escalatory and exactly the kind of point that beijing is trying to make to express their fury over nancy pelosi visiting home to 25 million people who elected their president, a president beijing does not feel is legitimate. he does
Welcome to cnn this morning. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett is live in tel aviv. A hostage released by hamas yesterday is now speaking. She is tell her story this morning at the hospital. 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz told reporters how she was abducted and held captive underground for weeks. The grandmother says they stormed her kibbutz and took her away on a motorbike and beat her with sticks. She says they took her in hamas underground Tunnel Network and held had her with four other ginls. They had guards, a doctor and paramedics who took care of them. Hamas had a stockpile of shampoo and other toiletries for hostages to use. There are huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spiderweb. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and they are not going to hurt them. And that they share they ate the same food that the hamas was eating. They have released four hostages as israeli troops gear up to launch an assault by gaza by gr