chinese government spy operation in the middle of manhattan. and that s just the start of it. the lead starts right now. chinese dissidents in the u. s harassed and intimidated from online to door knocks. the fbi says chinese government agents were trying to silence their words against the chinese government, even operating a fake cop shop in new york plus outrage in kansas city as if, after a black teenage boys shot after showing up at the wrong house to pick up his brother s. cnn is learning that the gunman was an elderly white man and was released. after less than two hours in custody. why critics fear he may never be charged with a crime and live from new york. it s the house gop their spotlight on crime in new york today in the backyard of the prosecutor indicted donald trump. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and what appears to be a brazen act of espionage by the chinese government as us tensions with that country boil over, the u. s. justice department announced to
major disruption in ukraine this morning after russia fires a wave of missiles on targets across that country. the at least 22 people have been killed. dozens more are injured after several apartment buildings were hit. cnn s team has made it inside of one of the bombed out buildings. we will take you there live. incredible video out of florida. a huge tornado wiped out dozens of homes overnight, and now millions of people are bracing for more severe weather as two major storms are targeting that region. a big win for abortion rights in two republican-dominated states. failing, and failing, because a handful of conservatives helped to stop them. that and more news is coming in for cnn news central. the death toll keeps rising this morning hours after a russian cruise missile hit an apartment building in southern ukraine. one woman who lives there documented the aftermath. we will share the video with you, but it is graphic, and it will be disturbing to watch. tran
for the first time since russia invaded ukraine china s president xi jinping will meet face-to-face with vladimir putin. so what could this mean for the war and also tensions between the u.s. and china? we are on it. plus a cnn exclusive, dozens of mar-a-lago staffers, members of trump s inner circle as well, have now been subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing probe of classified documents. find out who is on that list. and big banks to the rescue, 11 of them are now offering a $30 billion lifeline to one of the regional banks in danger of collapsing after this week s banking turmoil. we will be watching for reaction when the markets open in less than 30 minutes. we do begin this hour with next week s meeting in moscow between the russian president, putin, chinese president xi. cnn s senior international correspondent will ripley is with us. what more are we learning about the talks and what they re expected to focus on? reporter: the timing is certainly significant, it
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
rahses says inaccuracies and lies when it comes to the this issue, and i don t know where to the even begin to answer this question because, again, it s been lies and lies and inaccuracy, and i m just not going to yet into it are from the here. maria: coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on questions over biden s influence peddling that will not go away. plus, former acting attorney general matt whitaker and constitutional law professor alan dershowitz on the efforts to take down donald rump there. whatever the case. then the disinformation campaign goes on. independent journalist matt taibbi on how the fbi and other government agencies helped keep biden s inconvenient truths out of the media. then the it has been three years since president obama told us exactly what he wanted after leaving office. i used to say, you know what, if i could make an arrangement where i had a stand-in, a frontman or frontwoman and hay had an earpiece in and i was just in my basement in m