coming to an end and it s a high stakes election day in five u.s. states with donald trump s influence looming large over key primary races. we will take a look. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. u.s. president joe biden will travel to buffalo new york in the coming hours, where he will meet with families of the victims of saturday s racially motivated shooting. a white house official tells cnn, the president will make remarks in buffalo and condemn the shooting as terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology. and he is expected to call on americans to quote, give hate no safe harbor. this comes as we learn new details about the 18-year-old accused in the attack that killed ten people. brian todd has the latest. reporter: this was a straight up hate crime. pure evil. police revealing details about the planning that went in to the massacre of ten people in the buffalo store and how it could have been worse. he had plans had he go
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell in buffalo, new york. police here say the suspect in that racist rampage that ended with the death of 10 people plan to keep killing beyond the toms market if he had not been stopped. authorities say the suspect, an 18-year-old white man drove more than 200 miles to this neighborhood to kill, to kill black people. many in the community here and across the country are outraged that there is another mass shooting, apparently driven by white supremacy. and of course the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, they re all black americans ranging in age from 32 to 86. the family of one victim, ruth whitfield speaking out and a loved one collapsing during the news conference, over welhelmedy grief. for those people who do not see us, how dare you not see us as american. we stand here on the blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors, and taught us to be proud of that fac
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
congressman richie torres of new york, the man behind the brilliantly named act stopping another non truthful office seeker, aka the santos act joins me to react to the federal charges that the new york republican is now facing. but first, my friend richard lui is here with the headlines. some of the stories we are watching for this hour, today marks one year since the top supermarket massacre in buffalo new york. the city held a moment of silence to mark the moment when a 19 year old white gunman opened fire at a majority black neighborhood killing ten people and wounding free others. church bells rang out in honor of the lives lost. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy continues his diplomatic tour in europe seeking to bolster military aid for counteroffensive against russian forces. so lewinsky met with german prime minister olaf scholz in berlin amid later made a surprise visit to france as he discussed military needs with french president emmanuel macron. and cyclone mocha ma
york republican is now facing. but first, my friend richard lui is here with the headlines. some of the stories we are watching for this hour, today marks one year since the top supermarket massacre in buffalo new york. the city held a moment of silence to mark the moment when a 19 year old white gunman opened fire at a majority black neighborhood killing ten people and wounding free others. church bells rang out in honor of the lives lost. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy continues his diplomatic tour in europe seeking to bolster military aid for counteroffensive against russian forces. so lewinsky met with german prime minister olaf scholz in berlin amid later made a surprise visit to france as he discussed military needs with french president emmanuel macron. and cyclone mocha making landfall in myanmar and bangladesh. the u.n. warmed that 2 million people are at risk. more ayman mohyeldin after this.