i ve got a lot of people that care about me. and it s going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. i would like to apologize to each and every one of them. just a broken guy. got a few screws loose. you think this will get me a job as a pilot? i think they ll yeah, right. can this thing do a back flip? do you think? a barrel roll? if that goes good, and i m just gonna nose down and call it a night. let s try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anyone on the ground. all right. oh, damn it, i don t know, man,
they re likely transcribing a lot of what you just heard there to get the full picture here of what was going on in this man s head. of course social media is going to be important too. we know the sheriff s department said he was suicidal, but the fbi s going to want a fuller picture. did some specific event trigger him to do what we saw him do yesterday? the ntsb just gave a briefing. we know they re on the ground. you saw that plane crashed. he died. it
locations throughout the united states. this is a shared fate that everybody has to come together. law enforcement, the community, has to, you know, solve for this problem. all right. jonathan and josh and phil mudd in studio, thank you so much. you can follow me on facebook and twitter at jake tapper or tweet the show at the lead on cnn. our coverage on cnn continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. we re following breaking news. the investigation into home made bombs sent to cnn, the clintons, the obamas and other political figures in what new york city s mayor is now calling an act of terror. none of the devices exploded, but there is fear, serious fear, that there may be more out there. president trump called the
attempted attacks despicable, even as critic noted the intended targets were frequent objects of his contempt. i ll talk about the breaking new
but he knew he was in the bathroom and he was able to get out of the building, again, because these exit doors were working well. i can t tell you how thankful i am just to do that one task homeland security told us to do. because in the past you couldn t push through the exit doors? they weren t easily opened. they had safeties on them so they couldn t open either way. but now he was able to get out. i mean, he could be alive because of this. where were you when you found out this had occurred? i was heading up to the service. i m there every i was there last night for service. i go up there around 10:00 and in the morning and one of the vice presidents that i work with on facilities now that i stepped down, he called. he worked for city emergency management. and he said he just got word there s an active shooter at
tree of life. go up there and see if this is true. i tried to get up. i only live a block away from the synagogue. i tried to get up shady avenue and was
a synagogue in pittsburgh shooting is being investigated as a hate crime. we re expecting the police will update the public on the tragic events this morning in pittsburgh. here in the meantime is what we do know where, that ten people were killed. six others were injured, including among them, four police officers. the gunman is in custody and wounded and made anti-jewish remarks, comments during the shooting. he has been identified. he is 46-year-old robert bowers. cnn has learned that he frequently targeted jews on social media. particularly on a platform called gab, posting just today can t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics. i m going in. president trump has reacted to this shooting just moments ago. with one unified voice we condemn the historic evil of
anti-semitism, and every other form of evil and, unfortunately, evil comes in many forms. we come together as one american people. all right. let s get right to the scene, and our sonja mogi, who
el paso, texas outside another american crime scene, another sight of a massacre by guns. welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. any minute now, we will hear from president trump. this as the nation mourns 29 people killed in two states just 13 hours apart. what will the president say? what will he do? what will he push for? what will he deliver? so far he has floated the idea of tying universal background checks to something he s desired for a long time, immigration reform, which normally means money as well for a wall on the border. he also took a moment to blame the media for the attacks and the violence. left unsaid anything about white supremacy. in fact, since these shootings, particularly the one here in el paso where the shooter referenced white supremacist views, the president has not used those words. look at the comments of his fbi director, christopher wray emphasizing the danger in this country right now.
the country is mourning the lives of so