accomplices to shoot up the homes of democrats and now investigators want to know if drug sales fuelled his campaign. and elise stephanic is denying she knew anything about george santos deceptions. she spent a year doing everything in her power to get him elected in that district. cnn is going to take a look at that relationship. it is a busy money morning but first we ll get to this. the nation reeling from the deadliest mass shooting since uvalde. investigators senching for a motive after a gunman massacred ten people and wounded others at a ballroom dance hall here in southern california. police say the gunman shot killed himself when police finally tracked him down after his bloody rampage. cnn is learning he used to be a frequent here at the dance hall he attacked. we re told the shooter went to a second dance hall after the shooting to kill more victims but the people inside wrestled away his gun before he could hurt anybody and drove off in his van. he was disa
park, california where investigators are searching for what motivated a man to kill ten people on saturday night at a dance studio during lunar new year. police have identified the gunman as 72-year-old huu can tran. he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers closed in on his vehicle following a massive manhunt and this morning we re hearing from one fts heros who helped so stop the carnage. a 26-year-old man who subdued and disarmed the gunman at a second location is speaking out for the very first time. natasha chen joining me now with this hero s riveting account. good morning. what did he say. reporter: well, brandon tsay said he was cleaning up after most customers have gone at the lailai dance studio in alhambra and wasn t paying attention to the front door but he heard it close and he saw this man and heard the sound of metal rubbing together. this man, he said, seemed as if he was not looking for money. not as if hes with trying to rob anybody
blamed ukraine for that blast, calling it a terror attack. ukraine s president has also accused moscow of terrorism after a string of russian strikes in zaporizhzhia. hours ago a new attack reportedly destroyed an apartment block, leading to several casualties. before that attack, ukraine s president said the strikes this week killed 43 civilians including 14 at this building. cnn s fred pleitgen is live in kyiv with the latest. reporter: just now, ten seconds ago, there were two very big explosions we re hearing right now. i can hear them very clearly from where we are right now. it s unclear whether or not that is incoming russian rockets or any other attack, whether or not that might be outgoing air defense rockets, unclear from our position. certainly it sort of americans with what we ve been seeing the entire morning which appears to be, to us, the ukrainian capital under full-on, massive rocket attack by there s another explosion right now. it seems as though there
it is the right time to leave. don t wait. get our economy going, that is what i m focused on. we aim at lowering the cost of gas. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, september 8, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. and we begin with breaking news. four people are dead after a 19-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in memphis, tennessee. police say 19-year-old ezekiel kelly was arrested following a high speed chase and is being transported to the shelby county jail. here is more from memphis police chief. so first, i want to reassure the community that 19-year-old ezekiel kelly is in fin fact in custody. this has been a mhorrific week for the city of memphis and the memphis police department. we extend our seincere condolences to all the victims who have been affected in this sequence of violent acts today. the shooting rampage is believed to have stretched across eight crime scenes and lasted nearly 2
disaster. cnn s frederik pleitgen is joining me live from ramstein air base. what do we know about the new aid package? reporter: the secretary of defense made those remarks just a couple minutes ago here and you re right, it certainly comes at a really decisive time as the war is dragging on in ukraine. on the one hand the fighting around the zaporizhzhia power plant, but then also you have the ukrainians making gains in south of the country and also in the northeast of the country as well. the secretary of defense says the u.s. wants to make absolutely clear that they remain strong in their commitments to ukraine and are going to give the ukrainians what they need to succeed. he was saying that the package from the presidential drawdown is $675 million and he listed some of the main items on that new drawdown. here is what he said. the latest package includes more gimmlecs, howitzers, artillery munitions, missiles, humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems, small a