hello and a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead on what was supposed to be a beautiful summer evening, this armed and armored individual r wreaked havoc. the man who did this will face multiple counts of murder. this is a significant victory for the states that are suing the biden administration. a federal reserve judge has just blocked the biden administration from meeting with the heads of social media companies. there is no place we d rather be than in iowa. each generation has to step up and be a custodian of freedom. i think it is our generation s time to do that. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, july 5. 4:00 a.m. in philadelphia where the suspect who police believe shot and killed five people at random will appear in court and face multiple murder charges in the coming hours. police have yet to reveal a mo
biden to address active duty military families gathered at the white house for a holiday barbecue ahead of tonight s fourth of july celebrations here in the nation s capital. be we ll go there live. a pair of mass shootings interrupting the festivities in two major u.s. cities. a gunman in philadelphia accused of killing five and injuring two children, one of the victims just 2 years old. just hours later in texas, three people were shot and killed in a fort worth parking lot. we ll get the latest on the investigations. plus, in israel, eight people are injured after a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of people gathered near a tel aviv shopping center. police say the man then jumped out of his vehicle and began stabbing people before being killed by an armed civilian. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer s off today i m alex marquardt, and this is a situation room special report. we are standing by to hear from
gunfire interrupting the holiday festivities with dozens of victims across the country and children among the dead. the nation marking 247 years of independence and this tragic number as well. a number of shootings, mass shootings, so far this year. plus, developments in the middle east, the israeli military now says it is withdrawing from a refugee camp in the west bank. this as new violence as erupted as far as tel aviv. we re going to have the latest. and i m pretty sure it s the first rule of spin, you don t admit when you re down. but that s exactly what someone in ron desantis camp just did. he s on the campaign trail today alongside other republican hopefuls. we re going to take you to new hampshire and iowa as we follow these major developing stories and many more call coming in to cnn news central. on this fourth of july, three american cities are dealing with the aftermath of a mass shooting. in philadelphia, five people are dead and two children injur
custody this hour after leading officers on a chase through the streets spraying dozens of bullets along the way. mike tobin has more. mike? bryan, we re standing by to get the update from philadelphia police. they have declined to identify the gunman. the philadelphia inquirer has no idea what sent the man on the killing spree. he was wearing a bulletproof vest. he had an a.r.-style rifle and a sidearm and a scanner to listen to police ray. four fatalities were found on the street. a fifth fatality appears to be a man that tried to run from the gun fire in to the house. family went inside. found the son laying on the living room floor unresponsive. went outside where he saw the police officer. notified that officer. the officer notified medics. they pronounced the 31-year-old victim dead on the scene. another mass shooting on the west side of fort worth, texas. three people did, eight recovering from injuries. a holiday gathering around midnight. gun fire created panic
philadelphia do prepare to give an update any moment now. we ll go straight to that. also this hour, extreme weather in reeking havoc on picnics and parades as blistering heat and thunderstorms leave millions under a severe weather watch. we ll have the latest weather forecast of what you can expect today and on this busy holiday, about 15,000 hotel workers in southern california walked off their jobs further complicating travel plans. we ll explain why they re hitting the picket line. we ll start with the mass shootings that left two u.s. cities reeling with eight people killed. fort worth texas, three are dead and more than a dozen injured while in philadelphia, five were killed and two injured after a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on a street. any moment, we re expecting an update from philadelphia s mayor. this is the live picture at the microphone. we re watching that. when it does happen and the police commissioner joins the mayor, we ll take you there