Good evening. Continuing aricept national coverage of the Assassination Attempt on former resident Donald Trump rooted in a moment of great challenge for our country, President Biden addressed the Nation Tonight from the Oval Office, stressing a message of national unity and and and to political violence. Tonight, i want to speak to what we do know. A former president was shot Eric An American Citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing. We cannot and must not go down this road in america. We have traveled it before throughout our history. Violence has never been the answer. Whether its members of congress in both parties being targeted and shot or a violent mob attacking the capital on january 6, or a brutal attack on the spouse of the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. Information and intimidation on elected officials with the Kidnapping Lot against a sitting governor and an attempted assassination on Donald Trump york there is
Them safe. In minutes, President Biden will hit the road for cleveland. Reporting about the case he is going to make there that his economic plan is working. First, heartbreak in silicon valley. Nine families changed forever. This morning, we know their names and we know some of their stories as well. We will share some of the stories. We are live at the house where authorities say the shooter, samuel cassidy, lived. Its a home that was on fire around the same time of that shooting. What could change this time around, if anything . For years, lawmakers have not been able to agree on a way to regulate Purchase And Use of guns in this country. Now, we are learning about some quiet bipartisanship thats apparently happening on this exact issue. We will dig into that. We start on the ground with our team in San Jose. Roughly this time yesterday, we were talking about americas latest Mass Shooting. Nbcs Lindsey Reiser at there. Jake ward is ten miles away at the shooters house. Nine more fam
Could potentially face criminal charges in the months ahead. And the u. S. Intelligence community is now tasked with investigating the origins of covid19. President biden wants answers to specific questions for china in the next 90 days. Lets start our coverage this hour with cnns Dan Simon joining us from san jose near the scene of the latest deadly Mass Shooting here in the United States. We just got another update from local officials a little while ago. Give us the latest. Hi, wolf. This is a very large Crime Scene. You can see investigators behind me at the Rail Yard continuing to process the scene. This shots breaking out about 6 30 in the morning. At around that same time, wolf, Fire Crews In san jose were responding to a House Fire. A house that belonged to the shooter. How that wraps up into this overall investigation really remains to be seen, but the shooter was known to his victims. He worked at that Rail Yard. Targeted his own employees. Take a look. We do have multiple vi
Were essential workers. These vta employees helped us get through this horrific pandemic. They were showing up every day to operate Light Rail and buses to ensure people could still continue to go about their lives amid all the challenges of the pandemic and they were taking risks with their own lives in doing so. Certainly our san jose Police Officers and sheriffs deputies responded immediately. Obviously well learn more through this investigation about what exactly happened and how. But i Cant Help but think they may well have saved more harm from happening. And, of course, weve got Grief Counselors already hard at work supporting families of Loved Ones who are suffering awful trauma at this moment. Were going to pull together. Were going to continue to work together and support our families of Loved Ones who have lost so much during this tragedy. Were going to continue to provide more information as this investigation unfolds. Thank you. Reporter does anybody have any information ab
Families and the coworkers because we know that so many are feeling deeply this loss of their Loved Ones and their friends. The Santa Clara County sheriff said they would be holding another briefing later this hour. We assume that will have some more information about the incident itself, the Suspect And Number of people injured and killed. Well bring you that briefing when it happens live. Let me go back to Lindsey Reiser who were just hearing in the previous hour. Shes in california near the scene. Also joining us is a reporter from the San Jose Mercury News. He covers public Justice And Safety for the paper. Lindsey, let me start with you. You know, lets start with what we know. Take me back. When did we learn that there was an active incident . Catch us up on the timeline. Yeah, chuck. We heard shots fired calls around 6 30 this morning. Within an hour, the Sheriffs Office was announcing the shooting was announced dead. Like you said, a lot of details still left to be answered. For