zients is in. all right. good monday morning to all of you. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. officials in southern california last night identifying the gunman who killed ten people and wounded another ten at a ballroom in monterey park, that s east of downtown l.a. he is 72-year-old huu can tran. authorities say he died by suicide hours later after police stopped him at a shopping center 45 minutes away in torrance. when officers exited their patrol vehicle to contact the occupant, they heard one gunshot coming from within the van. our sheriffs s.w.a.t. team approached and cleared the van and determined the suspect sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. l.a. sheriff robert luna says the shooter s motive is still under investigation. cnn s natasha chen is on the ground in monterey park with more. reporter: on sunday evening, on lunar new year, when this community was
know everyone here in mourning for those who were killed, as we pray for those who are injured, and as we grieve for those many people whose lives are forever changed. the vice president was in florida to mark the 50th anniversary of the supreme court s decision in roe versus wade, the abortion precedent overturned by the court last year. police in baton rouge, louisiana, are searching for at least one suspect in a nightclub shooting that left 12 people injured. police are calling the sunday morning shooting a targeted attack. witnesses say a fight broke out between two groups of customers and several people pulled out guns and started shooting. three victims sustained life-threatening injuries. the club was hosting a back to school party for louisiana state and southern university students at the time of the shooting. fbi investigators finding more classified material while searching president biden s wilmington, delaware, home. according to the president s
the country to go unmitigated and unremedied. so yeah, the court is not having a great couple of months, and the public support for judge jackson and what she will bring to the judiciary perhaps will buoy the court for the time being, but we have to wrestle with the fact that this african-american woman, this historic nomination is going to bolster an institution that right now is governed by a conservative 6-3 super majority intent on rolling back 50 years worth of abortion precedent. and if we can read the tea leaves here, and i think we can based on this confirmation hearing that is correct will not be where it stops. the court s already signaled that they have an appetite for dismantling even more the way we operate government and the rights that we all recognize and perhaps take for granted. and i want to move back in a minute to that conversation about rights that we take for granted. i want to ask you, there was so
the court should uphold roe v. wade. but the composition of the court left the fate of abortion law in doubt. conservative justice clarence thomas has publicly called for roe to be overturned and former president trump predicted his three picks justices neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett, would overturn abortion precedent. all three describe roe as settled law during their confirmation hearings. it is historic the supreme court is taking up abortion again at this particular time with the current composition of the court. i think that there is a very good chance with who is on the court now they will finally acknowledge the science that human life doesn t begin at birth, it begins before birth, these are human beings like you or me. reporter: if the court were to overturn roe v. wade, would have immediate repercussions. there are a dozen states that have post roe trigger laws on the books. that means they would ban abortions the second that roe is overturned. if thi
right? settled law. in decent, justice stephen briar and other liberals called them out on this. look, law is based on these precedents. that s where the stability of the law comes. you are coming in and wiping away something that had been on the books for some 40 years. then, briar took it is step further. in making the argument, referred to abortion precedent. clearly, the justice s here are sending a signal to the conservatives, look, we are watching you unprecedent. that brings up the question of the newest justice, cavanagh. row is precedent. how is he going to rule on the cases? we know as a lower court judge, he decented when colleagues cleared the way for an abortion for an undocumented teen. we know a few weeks ago, the supreme court, by 5-4, decided to put on hold a louisiana law