motive. we have received a number of calls about is this a hate crime. we are still early in this investigation. we cannot make that determination at this moment. the georgia shootings do follow a wave of unprovoked attacks across the country of people of asian descent. president biden has just been briefed. vice president kamala harris also addressing the terrible shootings. we don t know, we are not yet clear about the motives. i want to say to our asian communities we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked all people. and the shootings condemned. i want to mention what happened just a few hours ago in atlanta in which several women were killed, including, we believe, four women of asian descent. we are horrified. counterterrorism agents were sent to atlanta out of new york city out of an abundance of caution. i am joined with correspondents who have been working on the case. blaine, first to you, what is the latest? we have a lot of
My understanding is that without hesitation, wearing his normal clothes, he dived in and tried to assist. And he, im afraid, was himself severely injured, but utterly heroic. Security moves centre stage in the General Election campaign, as labour and the conservatives clash over funding for the police and Security Services. Welcome to bbc news. We are as close as we can get to London Bridge. The Police Cordon is still in place after Saturday Nights attack after seven people died and 48 people were injured. The normal working week is resuming in london with attempts to get back to normality. Many Tube Stations disrupted yesterday are back and running again, but still there is still an awful lot to reflect on after the grim events of the weekend. Lets take a look at what we know this morning. Police have said they do know the names of the attackers and will release them as soon as operationally possible, while officers try to establish if they were a part of a wider network. Two more pro
a missing persons report was even filed. inside this really strange and bizarre story, straight ahead. and power right in your wallet. a new iphone charger the size of a credit card saves you when you run out of juice. we ll show it to you in 20 minutes. newsroom begins right now. good morning, i m zoraid zoraida sambolin sitting in for carolyn costello. penn state faces the stunning blow from jerry sandusky. they face the penalties of the school s cover-ups in the scandal. the penalties are described as unprecedented. steve is in pennsylvania where they re holding the news conference. what can you tell us? we re meeting with the executive chairman of the ncaa followed by a question and answer session in indianapolis, and we re expected to hear penalties on penn state university. one source familiar with the case told cnn what we will hear, that penn state will be hit with fines in excess of $30 million. reports are also circulating that penn state university will lose
survivors. this one guy, he was crawling on all fours and it seemed as if he had been shot in his back and he was just gasping for air, it was terrible. the battle wages again over america s gun laws. the shooter bought all four of his weapons legally in the last four months. this is piers morgan tonight. an act of evil that in seconds left 12 people dead. all the victims wanted was to see the new batman film. a packed theater, nowhere to run or escape from this maniac. police say the killer is james holmes, a 24-year-old ph.d. student. calmly vigil for the victims is being held right now. we re going to have all the latest developments on this tragedy tonight. first, we listen to what new york mayor bloomberg said today about the massacre. no matter where you stand on guns, we have a right to hear from both of them concretely. not just in general. specifically, what are they going to do about guns. and maybe every governor should stand up. but in the end, it is reall
they don t do that at all. drew griffin will have that. first, there s one thing that ties together all these cases we found so far. last time, we told you about another charity called the montreal spca. canadian charity that helps aband donned cats and dogs. it entered into a deal with an american private fund-raising company to solicit donations. after three year, the montreal spca received about $13 million in donations. but despite all that money, they ve still ended up in the hole more than $4.5 million, owing money. the bills from that fund-raising company were so huge that nearly every penny, every dollar that came in went to pay those bills. now, the montreal spca is so in debt, actually holds a lien on the group s animal shelter. the manager who put together that deal and was fired he went to a new u.s.-based animal charity called spca international. remember that name. its signature program is baghdad pups. here s drew griffin with part two of his investigation. r