made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
lives. bill: so the victims range in age of 8-85. the attack prompted nearby cities to cancel events in illinois. officers arresting a person of interest later around 5 miles away from the same. he s identified as a 21-year-old aspiring rapper with a history of posting violent imagery online. dana: the parade attack follows a recent string of mass shootings targeting churches, schools, grocery stores. the headline fourth of july terror and those that were there say that the scripted accurately. side screaming. they did know it was coming from. seem like it was fireworks. that s when everybody was running inside then we started noticing how many people were bloody. i saw somebody on the ground with his leg in the air and the garlic crying next to him. then to my left my mom and i saw at least three more people on the ground, bloody. the naturally likely to started running towards her car. my granddaughter said to me when she was leaving she said pop pop dealt with
and innighting sheer terror. people that work for the parade said keep running, keep running. my daughter said mommy, i don t want to die. as i was holding her friend s head. i said it s okay. let s keep running. people walking with blood on their shirts and pants. listening to a woman screaming her child s name trying to find her child. let s get to mike tobin. he has the story for us live from highland mark, illinois. mike? a sad update. i just got confirmation through highland park and lake county authorities that there s a seven s fatality. so from the people that were injured and hospitalized, another sadly succumbed to their injuries. the investigation moves forward by leaps and bounds. the suspect here, 21-year-old shooter was described by police as dressing up like a woman to avoid detection as part of the planning for his attack. that s why the early description of bobby eugene crimo included long hair. the weapon used in the attack described as a high powere
misdirection or ignorance when it comes to inflation. charles payne weighs in. sandra: america reports with new details from the police just out in the last few minutes on the suspect arrested in the disturbing and deadly shooting that rocked a small north shore chicago suburb celebrating the 4th of july. i m sandra smith. police say robert crimo, iii, attacked his parade route, and he dressed in women s clothing to escape after the shooting. sandra: the gunman firing more than 70 rounds with adults and children running for their lives, when they realized what they were hearing was not fireworks. we will be joined with more in a moment. sandra: grady is live in highland park, illinois, and vigils announced as well by the mayor of the small town. what s the latest, grady? shocking developments from the press conference just a few moments ago. i want to go kind of line by line, officials said it started several weeks ago when the suspected gunman started planning
isolated to the chicago area. we have fox team coverage tonight. molly line is in boston covering the surge and independence day shootings in major cities around the u.s. but we begin with senior correspondent mike tobin in highland park with the latest on the tragic fourth of july massacre. good evening, mike. police say he dressed like a woman to avoid identification. he wrapped rifle in red blanket. from that roof top, he fired 70 rounds in rapid fire succession. the weapon is now described as similar to an ar-15. a high powered rifle. it was discarded on the roof. he then blended in to the crowd and fled to his mother s house before escaping all the way to madison, wisconsin and then returning to where he was picked unjust six miles from this location. authorities did have run-ins with him back in 2019. first a suicide threat. then a threat to hurt others. the matter was being handled by mental health professionals at that time. there was no law enforcement action to be