turning a july 4th parade into a mad dash for survival. police say the fgunman fired frm a rooftop. witnesses describe the confusion and chaos. i thought for a second maybe it was fire crackers. you ve heard before people aren t sure what it is, but it was too fast and too quick, and my son said no, that s gunfire. we turned and ran and i pushed my son s wheelchair, and the wheelchair collapsed on the pavement. he toppled over and i fell. it happened again. and then my young son picks up my older son and ran. we ran for our lives. six were killed. dozens more wounded. the video shows police apprehending a man described as a suspect and a person of interest. we re getting details this hour including about the weapon. what authorities call a high-powered rifle. the highland park mayor says the shooter bought the gun legally. that s despite a growing body of online evidence of disturbing posts from this man fantasizing about carnage and carrying out attacks and even suicide
the victims on scene tell cnn about the horrifying moments that followed. there were several people who were obviously deceased. there was a gentleman who i believe, i ve heard since has succumbed. he had a gunshot to his abdomen. we started an i ve. i went across the street. there was another woman with a gunshot to her chest. she was deceased. the people who were gone were blown up by that gunfire. blown up? blown up. blown up. the horrific scene of some of the bodies is unspeakable for the average person. those are wartime injuries. those are what are seen in victims of war. not victims at a parade. the highland park mayor says she expects charges later today against the suspect as investigators work to uncover more about him and what led to this deadly day. some of those details, a disturbing digital trail and a legally bought firearm. josh campbell was at the press conference and join us now. josh, tell us what stood out to you from all the new information we jus
conservative super majority. today two more big rules. one tieing the biden administration s hands in the climate change fight. the other clearing the way for the biden white house to end a controversial pandemic era trump administration border policy. those decisions closed a turn d make block buster changes to american law and to american life, including new limits on how states can regulate guns and, of course, the end of the roe v. wade decision that guaranteed federal abortion rights. president biden ending a big overseas trip earlier today called the role reversal destabilizing and, quote, outrageous. he said democrats should make an exception to the filibuster and pass a new federal law. let s get to the supreme court as we wait. i may have to interrupt you for the swearing in justice ketanji brown jackson, but what do we expect as we watch this ceremony play out and we get justice breyer leaving and justice brown coming in in a new job she must be thinking wow, intere
dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?
choices will echo for decades. we re standing at an inflection point in history where the decisions we make today will have far-reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. plus some new numbers in the too close to call pennsylvania republican senate primary. georgia is the headline state next tuesday. already an early voting record there, and in several of the big georgia races, choosing a candidate means saying yes or no to donald trump and his big election lie. and phone calls. handwritten notes. new details today about trump s deep personal involvement in the strategy to try to steal the election. and the january 6th committee asked a republican lawmaker to explain a tour of the capitol complex he gave the day before the riot. the president s overseas juggling act. the asia trip, the priorities are consequence shl. a china with a stagnant economy. north korea hell bent on provocation. a war with russia and ukraine with no sign of going cold any