this is cnn breaking news. i m max foster joining you live from london. bianca is off for the day. we ve got breaking news to bring you at this hour. it is that essentially the second largest bank failure in american history has been announced. first republic taken over by the authorities late last night. and they have sold a large proportion of the assets to jpmorgan chase. thos those assets we re being told is just announced by the federal deposit insurance agency. that s the agency that ensures deposts for customers. this is the third bank to fail in two months. there s a relief other banks haven t failed. as you can see, the medium-size banks are struggling in the united states. there s concern that contagion may spread to other parts of the world. but so far, the authorities seem to be handling each one on a case-by-case basis. as i was aing, j.p. morningen will take over the assets, the deposits held with the bank. customer deposits are safe for now. authorities tryin
states and all around the world. investigators offer a reward for information leading to the arrest of the mass shooting suspect in texas. plus the husband and father of two victims describes why he chose to run away from the gunfire. regulators weigh bids for first republic. plus the crisis in sudan. the first u.s. evacuation ship is expected to arrive at a saudi arabian port in the hours ahead. you will hear from those who managed to escape the fighting, and what they endured. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, a small texas town is in mourning and on edge after a deadly shooting in which five people were killed. this man lost his wife and 9-year-old son in the shooting the meanwhile, more than 200 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies are involved this the manhunt for the suspected shooter. and there s also an 8 o$,000 reward being offered for any information that could lead to his arrest. a
our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. when that tape comes out tomorrow, it s going to be horrific. this evil is russian aggression, can and should be stopped only with adequate weapons. the terrorist state will not understand anything else. i m not sure the news could have been any better. economic growth is up, stronger than experts expected. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 27th. 9 a.m. here in london. 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee. that s where a vigil was held last night for 23-year-old tyre nichols. he died after a violent altercation with five memphis police officers. tyre nichols, a lifelong skateboarder, a vigil was held at a skate park. his mother warned of the graphic nature of the video that will be made public today. have a listen. i d like to say to
of donald trump s top allies now says he s ready to testify. plus, president zelensky message to russia on a deadly strike in an apartment building in ukraine. live from cnn, this is cnn newsroom. thank you for joining us, japan is preparing to form a leader just hours after his party won big in parliamentary elections. a private wake will be held about three hours from now, followed by funeral service tuesday afternoon. u.s. secretary of state anthony lincoln made an unscheduled trip to tokyo to pay his respects. during his time in office, he really took the relationship between our countries to new heights. as i share with our colleagues we saw in him something rare. a man who had the vision and the ability to realize that vision. but mostly, i came because more than allies, we are friends. and when a friend is hurting, other friends show up. in the meantime we are learning new details about the suspect and his anger over an unnamed group he thought they were conn
shield. there also appear to be at least two rifles there. that picture was taken at 11:52 a.m. that s just 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school. and 58 minutes before officers took him down. now, there s another picture obtained by the texas tribune this time that shows multiple officers armed with rifles there. ballistic shields, multiple shields. and axe-like tools. most of which the tribune reports were never deployed. now, we must note, we do not know at what point in the standoff this image was taken. but it does seem by these images that police were well equipped to storm the gunman. and this is raising new questions and understandably new anger about the police response by uvalde officers. we re also learning that some officers on the scene questioned the plan, as confusion delayed the breaching of the classrooms with kids still inside. rosa flores is live in san antonio this morning. rosa, with the new images that really just delve further in to w