direct .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. alright you are looking at live pictures. there was breaking news out of louisville, kentucky . you see a huge police presence there. there are quote multiple casualties, according to police as they respond to an active aggressor officials, including the f are telling everyone to stay away from the area of 300 block of east main street. the mayor also urging the public to stay away from the area. we have now learned that this is a shooting that there are multiple people who are down, including a police officer. our cnn correspondent omar jimenez is following the developments as we watch them there live from our affiliate. w e. we are seeing a lot of police down there, and we re hearing that the governor may be on his way. what can you tell us? omar? that s right, sara. for starters, they are describing this as an active or as a shooting incident in downtown louisville. they had been describing it
for six mayors. if you stand up for me, i will stand up for you. it s important now that we get it right this time. if you don t get it right we re not gonna recognize this country tomorrow. one thing i will absolutely always get right is making sure that we stand for the important things in washington d.c.. welcome to our viewers in the states and around the. world i m in new york, it s not 1 am on the u.s. east coast. officially election day in america. republicans are more confident than they have been to this point. that is saying something. control both houses of congress. democrats are playing defense here. traditionally blue states to rising crime, president joe biden s lower approval right. republicans have had the best chance in house of representatives. gop they would bring an end to gop speaker who would most likely go to republican. republicans were taken troll i ve just won t see. georgia, nevada, pennsylvania all are toss-ups right now. arizona s leading d
he now has obliged and will make some remarks. let s go to caitlyn polanz. the former president can clear up a lot of these accusations. he has a documented inventory of what was taken from his home on monday as part of this search. and he thus far has decided not to disclose that. that s right. really we have heard mostly the trump team, his lawyers, himself trying to fill in the blanks about why they believe there was this search of mar-a-lago. we ve done our best to report out, but we are able to say there are national security concerns, there were concerns that the people at mar-a-lago weren t being entirely forthcoming about what was there, that there was a need to go back in after a subpoena with this search to get boxes. but i wanted to highlight one of the things that director wray said in this letter, he said when all the facts come out, we stuck to the process, and the process here, that is a process that s in court. so the reason that trump is able to go out ther
state department is rejecting steve bannon s sudden willingness to testify before the january 6th committee days before his criminal contempt trial is set to begin. bannon produced a letter from donald trump, trump saying he is waiving executive privilege so bannon can testify. here s the thing, the committee and most legal analysts say no privilege existed in this case to begin with. what s more, federal prosecutors argue, trump never invoked executive privilege here. so, this doj court filing also reveals that former president trump s attorney justin clark was interviewed by fbi investigators two weeks ago. let s go to washington, whitney wild is there for the latest on what we can expect in the committee hearing tomorrow. the oath keepers front and center. absolutely. this will be a very robust hearing and this hearing will focus on how the violent mob came together and the role of extremist groups in that deadly insurrection. to connect trump allies to militia groups, s
that brings the total number of dead to seven now. and dozens more are injured. we also learned today among the dead are 35 and 37-year-old arena and kevin mccarthy. they are or were aidan s parents. he is a 2-year-old boy. he was found alive after the shooting and was reunited with his grandparents. but now we know that he s an orphan. a gofundme page has been created to raise money to support little aidan. here we are again in america, after ewe vaumd day, after buffalo. my god. it goes on and on and on. at least 319 people in the u.s. so far this year, according to the gun violence archive. and it is only july. only hours after that crowd went running for their lives in highland park, so did a crowd of july fourth revelers in philadelphia when shots rang out, injuring two police officers. thankfully they re okay. the democratic mayor of that city is so fed up with gun violence, he says he can t wait until he s not in his job anymore. this is a gun country. it s crazy. we