american plague. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, july 5th, 3:00 a.m. in highland park, illinois. the chicago suburb dealing with yet another tragic mass shooting. at least six people are dead, more than two dozen wounded and a suspect is in police custody now. the shooter started just after 10:00 a.m. local time monday as people lined the parade route along central avenue in the suburb north of chicago. we have video from the scene, but we have to warn you that it is disturbing. [ gunfire ] investigators believe the gunman climbed an unsecured ladder in an alley and opened fire from a rooftop. police say the gun was a high powered rifle, the attack appears to be random and intentional. the suspect was arrested without incident a few hours later identified as robert crimo iii. he had posted anonymous videos on lineneighboring name awake the rapper. the investigation will continue. charges have not been approved yet at this time
that region will now become nato territory. that is a big thing for russia to have to deal with. and when it comes to finland and sweden, sweden has huge amounts of water, it will now have to police with his submarines that they make homemade, also fighter jets is another part of the swedish defense sector as well. and then finland will have an 830 mile border to police with russia as well. and so a lot changing in this part of the world and it is all about trying to make sure that the war in ukraine stops in ukraine. the formalities need to apply out, don t they. there is a longer term process for sweden and finland to be officially part of nato, but in all sbenlintents and purpose, i there was an attack on finland already, what would happen? so this is the point. now they have the skecurity of invitee status. it just has to go through the individual 30 parliaments of nato countries to be rubber stamped if you like.
and everybody in the international community should be invested in making sure that the economic deterioration that s happened in the ukraine stops but also that these elections proceed in a fair and freeway in which all ukrainians, including russian speakers inside of ukraine are able to express their choice of who should lead them. and if we have a strong robust legitimate election, then there shouldn t be any question as to whether the ukrainian people are governed themselves without the kinds of outside interference that we see russia exerting. thank you very much, everybody. a brief remark from president obama following the unveiling of his budget at elementary school in washington, d.c. we were also listening to secretary of state john kerry on the ground in kiev in ukraine. let me bring in peter alexander
and everybody in the international community should be invested in making sure that the economic deterioration that s happening in the ukraine stops, but also that these elections proceed in a fair and freeway in which all ukrainions, including russian speakers inside of ukraine are able to express their choice of who should lead them. and if we have a strong, robust, legitimate election, then there shouldn t be any question as to whether the ukrainian people govern themselves without the kinds of outside interference that we see russia exerting. all right? thank you very much, everybody. all right. that was president obama in washington, d.c. he was speaking about the situation in ukraine right now. just a few minutes before that, we were listening to secretary of state john kerry in kiev, talking about the crisis in ukraine. their message, very much the same, even though the tone a
be invested in making sure that the economic deterioration that is happening in ukraine stops but also that these elections proceed in a fair and freeway in which all ukrainians, including russian speakers inside of ukraine are able to express their choice of who should lied them and if we have a strong, robust, legitimate election, then there shouldn t be any question as to whether the ukrainian people are govern themselves without the kind of outside interphones that we see russia ex-erring. all right? thank you very much, everybody. jon: president obama was visiting a school in washington talking about education but obviously wanted to make a statement about the situation in ukraine. we have our shepard smith there. you can tune into live fox news channel today, 3:00 p.m. eastern