one of the areas of the country to get out while they can, and grieving families in texas are furious with officials over their lack of answers about the uvalde school shooting. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we re now learning that the funeral for japan s shinzo abe will be held next week. a wake is scheduled for monday, with his memorial service set for the next day. a hearse carrying the former prime minister s body arrived a few moments ago. he was gunned down while giving a campaign speech on monday. doctors spent hours trying to save him but his blood loss was too great. police are hinting at a possible motive. listen to this. translator: the suspect committed the act as he had a grudge against a specific organization and believed former prime minister abe was part of it. we would like to refrain from getting into the details. condolences have been pouring in from world leaders who knew and worked with abe during his years as p
politician up ahead of reelection this monday. now the nation will be holding his funeral. president biden paid a visit to the japanese embassy yesterday saying he was stunned, outraged and saddened by the former prime minister s killing. and he had this to say about the assassination on japan s security. we re going to learn more about, as time goes on, about motive, about the whole japanese, prime minister is a stable ally and we, do not believe it s likely to have i don t know yet likely to have any profound destabilizing impact on japanese security or japanese solidarity. when we look at this, japan one of our key allies, particularly in this region and particularly militarily with all that goes on with chinese efforts to expand. and a lot to talk about on a global scale. absolutely, and i think that hearing the outpouring from so many world leaders about the legacy of abe, japan s youngest prime minister when he took over and the longest serving when he was don
accounts on the platform despite multiple requests. all of this sets the stage for a potential major legal battle. a conference this afternoon musk avoided commenting on his decision or any potential legal fallout. christina coleman is live in los angeles with more on this, christina. john, elon musk was in front of an audience of tech ceos and investors at the allen and company conference today at less than 24 hours after he announced he was to back out of his deal twitter. but he did not talk about the deal at the event according to reuters for yesterday musk announced he wants to walk away from the merger agreement with twitter claiming the social media giant has not provided accurate data on how much of its user base is made up of fake accounts. his legal team says musk needed that for business planning and sec filing they said quote twitter has failed or refused to provide this information. sometimes twitter has ignored mr. musk s request. sometimes it has rejected the
to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
president volodymyr zelensky has called for ukraine s candidacy tojoin the european union to be speeded up. he said membership should be quick and not take decades. earlier, his chief of staff accused russia of waging a war on ukrainian civilians, in response to military defeats. there were missile strikes overnight on a resort near the black sea port of odesa. the emergency services say 19 people died and more than 30 others were injured in the attacks. a block of flats and a recreation centre were hit. our corresppondent in kyiv, joe inwood, has the latest. today we had another attack, once again using these old soviet era missiles which hit a resort town just to the west of odesa. it was a nine storey apartment block that was hit as well as a holiday complex. a 12 year old boy is amongst the dead. now, what s interesting about the odesa attack today is it happened maybe 12 hours after the russians had been pushed off an island called snake island in the black sea. now, tha