One week away from the president ial debate between Vice President harris and former President Trump. This morning, a new look at how differently they are approaching this big moment breaking overnight, israel says it has killed a top Hamas Commander responsible for the October 7 massacre and its a whale of a tail. The video you have to see this morning launched into the air by a whale, a snorkeler gets to surprise of a lifetime. Im Sara Sidner with John Berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central check your calendar as its the first day of that. Always talked about post postlabor Day Sprint to the finish. In this election cycle. That is 63 days to go nine weeks, exactly. And soMe Ballots though will start hitting the mail in North Carolina this week in pennsylvania, early voting starts, theyre in two weeks. So calling it a sprint, no exaggeration. And one thing to president ial candidates are sprinting to right now is to get ready for their big debate ahead of their first faceto
highland, illinois, a sell brigg celebration ended in tragedy when a gunman opened fire on an independence day parade. six have been killed, one at the scene and five died at the hospital. at least two dozen have been taken to the hospital with serious injuries and at least one is a child who has been quit critically injured. the gunman is still at large and police say that the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. the suspect carried out the shooting spree from a rooftop and is believed to have acted alone. the suspect had a high powered rifle recovered at the scene is right now being urgently traced by federal officials to determine who purchased the weapon and where it came from. officials are searching social media for any threats or clues. we expect a fourth update from law enforcement within this hour. i want to go live to the scene in highland park, illinois. police say this is still a very active situation. what is the latest they are saying about telling the com
this morning millions of americans are waking up waiting and wondering where is the help they need? where is that covid relief bill? the short answer, still making its way to the house with the senate expected to send it over as soon as today. when we expect the final vote and when you can expect a check to hit your bank account. i don t know how i would have survived without the extra amount. it s a godsend. president biden promising to sign it as soon as he gets it and getting ready to make his first prime time address as president. marking one full year since the country shut down. and we are live in minneapolis inside this courtroom, day two of the murder trial of former police officer derek chauvin, with jury selection set to start for real this time any minute. the drama over whether to add to third degree murder charge and the controversial defense that led george floyd s sister to walk out. that is where we start live in minneapolis where jury selection is set t
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
going to get the russian forces inside and surround the capital on foot? well, again, the one aspect is the tactical incompetence. this is actually the theater level incompetence. they shouldn t have even attempted this. they maybe should have had a holding effort, the russian should have had a holding effort in those areas where they were until they were able to set the conditions and move the rest of the forces up so they could hit it all together from three or four different directions. but never are not doing that and they are just losing their power by these small scale incursions that are getting knocked out. so it does call into question really across the board what they can do. there is a danger to that too. because as you kind of allude loaded to just a second ago. if putin starts to feel pressured and panicked, that it s not working and is he going to risk losing. he may increase the fire power and use more indiscriminate mat bombing and air power. that s the real risk what