Im max foster. Bianca is on assignment. Just ahead donald trump now faces federal criminal charges for trying to hold on to the presidency in 2020. This is politics. This indictment is pure politics. Mr. Smith and his team followed the facts and the law wherever they lead. Suspected gilgo beach serial killer Rex Heuermann facing a courtroom. We have a great deal of information, evidence, photographs, reports. Ukraine is using drones to strike russian targets inside russia. Probably would be a bad move. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. It is wednesday, august 2, 9 00 a. M. In london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where preparations are under way for an expected Court Appearance by donald trump on thursday after thrm Court Appearance by donald trump on thursday after the former president was indicted on criminal charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This is the third time hes faced criminal charges. In this case prosecutors allege that he
In doha we have all your sports. Two runners failed drug tests at the world championships. Its a toll which keeps rising, now another 50 refugees are known to have died trying to make it across the mediterranean. They were discovered in the hull of a boat off libya. Hungary is considering sending troops to the border after fighting broke out. The tensions peaked after some refugees refused to be fingerprinted. In germany, germany chancellor was jeered an. And thousands arriving in macedonia every day. Unrest of the European Union border. U. N. Troubled registration center. With the build. Of Security Forces there are fears of violence here. Police are trying to play down the crisis. There was a small conflict that erupted as several people tried to approach the fence. The police tried to stop them, and they used tear gas. A three meter high fence is being put up on the border, but right now thousands of people are getting through sections with where there is only razor wire. Police her
Lets tell you about the victims. 24yearold Allison Parker on the left, 27yearold adam ward on the right. The two reporting from a Shopping Center about 25 miles southeast of roanoke at the time of the shooting, doing a story about tourism. As for the suspect, you see him here, hes been identified as 41yearold vesterly flanagan ii. Hes in very Critical Condition following a self inflicted gunshot wound but he does have a pulse. He used to work at the same tv station under the name bryce williams. He grew up in the bay area. We have several reports on this breaking avny3st. B bob redell and Stephanie Chuang are tracking the local ties. Reporter a suspected gunman is in custody after shooting himself along the side of a road in Northern Virginia. Police say Vester Flanagan allegedly shot and killed a local Television News crew during a morning broadcast. The shooting happened live on cbs affiliate wbdj at 6 45 a. M. This is the broadcast right up to the point of the shooting. Killed in th
Weeks ago. Reporter police say the man who opened fire on them. Vester lee flanagan also knew them. He was recently fired from the wdbj. The gentleman thinks that things tran spired and spiraling out of control. Reporter after the shooting flanagan fled the scene. In the aftermath he posted a video of the shooting. Police found his car at the roanoke airport. Flanagan then left the airport in a Chevrolet Sonic that he rented earlier in the month. Reporter flanagan fled north on i81 and then onto i 66 where a state trooper located him in Northern Virginia Fauquier County through a license plate reader. In your view how instrumental were the license plate readers in catching the suspect . License plate preceders are a great tool. The state police threw several others throughout the state and it helps. Reporter and that is what identified flanagans vehicle. When a state trooper tried to pull him over, he refused and police say he shot himself right there on i66. Now as far as the other pe
Stations in florida, South Carolina and texas, but few will remember him for that. All right, guys. Hes got something in his right hand and he reached for something. I dont know what he reached for. Reporter this is who people rill remember, the man who ruthlessly will remember, the man who ruthlessly took the lives of two young journalists on tv while people watched. It would appear at some point in his life things were spiraling out of control. Reporter after shooting and killing Alison Parker and her photographer adam ward flanagan fled the scene. A few hours later he posted a picture of the shooting on his twitter account claiming the pair had wronged him, one by supposedly making racist remarks, the other reportedly reporting flanagan to hr. After many of his incidents of anger coming to the fore , we dismissed him and he did not take that well. Reporter the shooting happened around 6 30 this morning. Police found flanagan at the airport. Flanagan then left the airport in a shelve