This morning, neck and neck, new polling shows no clear leader in the race for the white house. Kamala harris and Donald Trump prepares to come Face To face with first time. And debate details on the polls and how the candidates are preparing for tomorrows big showdown. This morning, a manhunt underway for a suspect accused of shooting five people on a busy highway in what is being called a planned attack. And Football Season officially in full swing. And the Super Bowl halftime michelle just revealed what Kendrick Lamar saying about his big moment in new orleans. Im Kate Bolduan with John Berman and sara sidner. This is cnn new central its going to be one of the most critical moments in the president ial elections so far, the first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in preparations are already in full swing this morning. All while new numbers from a New York Times Sienna College Poll showing just how critical Tomorrow Night is going to be among likely voters, right now, the
want to bring in ali vitali who is on the scene for us. this is breaking in the last hour or so. we re learning more by the minute. what do we know right now? reporter: learning more by the minute, yasmin. expected to get even more hard information as soon as this press briefing starts. i m told that the sheriff is on his way over right now. and we ll start getting more information. when that happens, i ll go over and try to ask all the questions that we still have, which is effectively what is the official timeline of what happened here. i will say i caught up with a parent, who was picking her children up here, they were thankfully okay, but she described to me that moment where she got the text message from one of her kids saying that there was an active shooting at their high school, and she never thought that it could happen in this community, and to her children, and unfortunately now this has come to perry, iowa. she also told me that while this shooting may have hap
fight for the speakers dpafbl house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard fought victory to work and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing in front of the portrait of george washington the speaker described rights. so many parents were attacked, call terrorists because they simply wanted to go to a school board meeting to be heard on what s going on. one thing going on in this country is education is a great equalizer and we want parents to be empowered, and that s what we re doing today, that you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here s a bill introduced by the speaker of the house changing the way parents children are taught in school. mccarthy is literally the government telling them what to do, and he s not alone. in the past several months there s been a wave of republican led bills attacking schools and attacking educa
pro patrols the schools. they ve suspended them and they re going to put them on desk duty. this was certainly a shocking development. not something anyone expected, but something that family members have been wanting for quite some time, jake. and it was not justifiering, shimon. one of the department s administrators resigned today as well. tell us about that. reporter: yeah, the administrator, a man by the name of ken miller, he s the number three administrator at the school. what he does, this is actually the lieutenant, lieutenant hernandez on your screen, just to be clear. this is the lieutenant who did the vetting of the officer that they hired who eventually got fired from the dps. there s documentation that this lieutenant, miguel hernandez, received a document, received a letter from the dps saying that this officer was urn investigation, but somehow they still hired him. this is ken miller here on your screen. this is the man who was put on leave and now also r
hello, everyone, and happy new year. i m bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re following several different developments into a machete attack in times square on new year s eve. moments ago the 19-year-old suspect was arrested for attempted murder and assault of police officers. cnn has also learned that the suspect was added to a terrorist watch list just a few weeks before the attack. sources tell cnn that fbi agents interviewed the suspect in mid-december after family members grew concerned about his plans to travel to afghanistan to join the taliban. let s bring in glroria pasmina from times square. the suspect has opinion arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer and two counts of attempted assault. the suspect remains in the hospital. he was injured during the attack. a police officer did fire his service weapon energy him on the should, and he remains at this hour under police guard at the hospital. let me tell you what