billion with a b. we ve got this honore got this. we don t force in america thursday, july 4 x 70s dirt on cnn hi, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we are just five days away, people from the first presidential debate of 2024. and today, we re seeing a pretty stark difference between incumbent president joe biden and his republican challenger, former president donald trump, as the two men prepare for this high-stakes face off, while biden is holding intense, meaningful, a closed group of advisors at camp david trump is skipping the tradition no route for now and is instead hitting the campaign trail. here is just a few hours ago at an event and washington rallying his supporters for the big showdown with biden nobody is going to be watching the debate on thursday night, right nobody. will anybody be watching cnn s steve contorno, we ll be watching him in person soon live in philadelphia where trump is expected to hold a campaign rally
we got through the cold war without some terrible incident taking place finale airs on sunday night. stay tuned for that and tune in for the lead with jake tapper, which starts right now these cnn breaking news welcome to lead. i m phil mattingly in for jake tapper and we start this sauer with the breaking news, at least ten people have been shot at in arkansas grocery store two people were killed. and one of the injured is a police officer. i wanna get straight to cnn s sub l resolve he s well, what do we know about where things stand, how this actually happened earlier today hey, phil, we do know that the situation has been contained and we expect to get brand new details here. and about half an hour, that is when arkansas state police are holding a press conference to let the community know what has happened here. but here s what we do know from a press release from arkansas state police. this mass shooting which cnn defines as four or more people wounded or killed,