investigation and the response to lawmakers in just a moment. plus, president joe biden defends his division to send troupes to the southern border as the covid restrictions are set to end this week and the polls are sinking. and now on the wrong side of a potential rematch with donald trump in 2024. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a second deadliest mass shooting in the united states this year. eight people were killed and several others injured on saturday when a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas, which is a suburb of dallas. we want to warn viewers that some of the footage you re about to see is disturbing. dash cam video, which police confirm is authentic, shows the moment the alleged gunman got out of his car and began firing. police have identified him as a 33-year-old suspected neo-nazi sympathizer. he was wearing
police officials now say, i was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. i was misled. i m livid about what happened. texas governor, aiming his iron at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. after a damning new admissions from texas authorities they incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. this was a barricaded subject there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and reach the door and take on the officials explained how the shooter got into the school. was propped open by a teacher. investigators clarified the timeline as police arrived. they went directly to the door and two received grazing wounds at that time from the suspect. while the door was closed. 11:37, there was m
theater. capitol riot manhunt, the fbi releases new video showing assaults on police officers hoping the public will help pubh identify some of the most violent offenders. more than two dozen tornadoes reported in the south. some packing winds up to 130 miles per hour. angry putin. the russian leader lashes out after president biden calls him a killer and says their country will pay a price for election interference. attention pet owners: is a popular flea collar to blame for the death of nearly 1,700 dogs and cats? peloton safety warning after a child dies. the company s message tonight about keeping your kids safe. and the sweet story of a hugging machine, a five year old s invention that lets students hug their teacher during the pandemic. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us, we will begin with new developments in the shooting rampage in the atlanta area that left eight pe
but these were the foot soldiers for a lack of a better term. what about those who gave the footsoldiers their marching orders? where s their accountability? there are very real questions here. how do a father and son from dayton ohio and end up traveling to d.c. to assault officers? what leads and air force veteran from san diego to storm the speakers gala? it doesn t happen in a vacuum. in the weeks before january 6th, even before the 2020 election, donald trump used a deadly pandemic to sow distrust in our democracy. he pressured local officials to toss of millions of votes to secure a false victory for himself, and when none of that worked out, he summoned a mob to our nation s capital and ordered them to march on congress. if you know this better than the members of the house select committee that investigated january 6th. over a year and a half, they spoke to more than 1000 witnesses and collected millions of pages of documents, all culminating in an 814-page report that recommen
months for his role in the january 6th attack. the judge did not buy his apology. he said, quote, you are not a political prisoner, you are not alexei navalny, a vladimir putin criticism who has been jailed there. schwartz who has 38 prior convictions was found guilty to use a wooden instrument and pepper spray to assault officers. we turn to the debt ceiling. 43 republican senators including entire leadership of the congress signed a letter to president biden on saturday saying they would be backing the house republicans plan that calls for substantive spending cuts in any debt limit deal. only six republican senators including mitt ruopp romney and susan collins did not sign on to the letter. with this latest move and california democrat dianne feinstein s absence, democrats