the covenant school, a small private school inside a church that the chief of police in nashville chief john drake, says appears at one point was apparently a student at that school. they were led to her by what he said was a vehicle parked nearby that they wouldn t go into further detail about her as this investigation is just underway. police say that she killed three adults staffers as well as those three children and students. the first call came in at 10 13 am local time and police say within 15 minutes of the call. the attacker was dead. cnn s dianne gallagher is tracking all the latest developments for us and diane police just gave an update. all of the families of those killed have been notified. they have identified all of the victims, and for now they are not releasing the names. that s right. and also bianna was noticeable that they said they did not want to release the ages, either. we are likely dealing with very young children . here is the covenant school at co
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
i always had a few questions about it. reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. you know, i didn t know about that. it happened i was not notified about that until a later date. reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? yeah, i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy s chief of staff. there s so many. i m sure he s not thrilled about that at all. as for santos, have we gone from ridiculous lies to russian ties? the bizarre saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. hold on now. meanwhile, republicans remain focused on president biden. they re laser focused on biden and his handling of classified documents. the
we re getting new reaction to his message and whether it ll make a difference with the all important mid-term elections just 12 days away. also this hour a secret hearing involving the trump team and the mar-a-lago document dispute. it ended just a short while ago. we re learning also that the january 6th select committee is now moving forward with interviews of top secret service agents and officials. standby for the details, reported first right here on cnn. and we ll have an exclusive report from inside the bunker of a ukrainian powerplant targeted by the russians. i ll discuss the war and the new taunts from vladimir putin and iran going on right now with key white house official john kirby. he s standing by live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with issue number one for so many american voters, the u.s. economy. president biden is seizing at a new report showing a re
neil gorsuch sided with liberal colleagues. he writes the current border crisis is not a covid crisis and courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative ed ictus for one emergency. we re a court of law, not policymakers of last resort. some democrats want the president to act on the crisis and show his administration has a real plan in place once title 42 is gone. congresswoman elect in a border district length it rip. they refuse to come down to the border to see what s happening. they haven t put any policy nor any plan in place for this surge of migrants that is going to come across our border once title 42 is lifted. molly: former border patrol chief set to weigh in on this. we begin with aishah hosni in washington keeping us updated on these changes. good morning. lawmakers on both sides are urging this administration to use this time, this extension, to come up with a better border strategy. texas representative henry cuellar this morning. h