hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
national security officials go into the house hearing. they will testify on worldwide threats to the u.s. you think about this war in the middle east and the tentacles the stretch back to iran. critical meeting coming up here. secretary mayorkas will be there talking about the border and chris coffer wray. the war is on in what could be the final battle in gaza. israeli defense forces storage the hospital in gaza city looking for hamas terrorists. looking for hostages. as of this hour, it s not clear how many they found or located of either. so it s a big news day today. back together in new york yet again. i m bill hemmer, good morning. dana: good morning, i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. one thing about the hospital piece for yesterday the administration said yes, our evidence shows that hamas is hiding in the hospital. i don t know how long they knew that. but for weeks like in the last three weeks there have been media confusion on whether they were t
hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area.
clearly showses isis operators within the network of fuel dee poes there and pipelines there that make up this sprawling area. additional footage that i don t think we have seen before showing what looks like a sophisticated command and control center with lots of computer monitors, suggesting some of the sophistication of isis and the fact that even as it s being pushed back in other parts of iraq, even as it is enduring a campaign of nine months of u.s.-led coalition air strikes, it is still able to mount offensives and to put the iraqi government forces back on their heels in certain parts of this deadly battle ground in iraq. and you know, thousands of more people now displaced as a result. the poor people caught in the middle. ivan watson, thank you for that from hong kong. now we turn again to yemen. u.n. chief moon is calling for