atlanta metro area, all three locations are massage parlors. a suspected shooter first entered a business called young s asian massage parlor in cherokee county, 45 minutes outside of atlanta. police say the shooter at that location spot and killed three people there at that massage parlor and injured two others. then in a different location, less than an hour later, four more people shot and killed at two additional massage parlors in atlanta. again, so this is metro atlanta, cherokee county, and atlanta proper. now, officials have not said whether they think these shootings at three places were connected, but police did note tonight that the shootings took place at three spas, three massage parlors, where the majority of the employees are asian. police say all four victims who were shot and killed at the second and third locations appeared to be asian women. now, police say they have not yet identified a suspect or a motive. but again, nbc s affiliate in atlanta is confirmi
Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases
Easi easily. I completely agree on the delassification like that. The sources and that set a new precedent. It will be different for the investigation, turning over materials to congress. You turned over thousands of pages, in the middle of the investigation, now that it is closed you cant tell me you have any reason to hang on to that similar information. So good news and bad news for you. Were not going anywhere. Thats the bad news, the good news is it is your table now. Well, is that what happens . 30 seconds, now im supposed to throw mtp daily. All right, so this is what
they call weird vamping in this business. A better handover in person. We should be doing it more often. We were told that at 5 00 if something was going to happen that right now, and this is what it says in the relevant regulation that if if is happening right now it is happening right now. There is a report of a brief notification with a outline of the reasons for him turning in the actions. So right now supposed
intelligence report on the origins of covid-19 will be declassified when that report is issued. what might we find in that report? you know, there are several things that experts tell me we should be looking for. so you want to look for when these people in the lab got sick. what were they tested for? were they tested for other things that look like covid-19? were blad samples taken and were they maintained? dough with have blad samples from the workers at that time? that is really crucial. because that can tell us a lot. now we re told by a u.s. investigator who worked for the world health organization that these folks, these workers tested negative for covid-19 anti-bodies. the what test was done? it is the right one? can we see it? can we retest those people? all right. thank you so much. appreciate it. the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee gregory meeks joins us now. thank you for joining us. so president biden says the dn i-report will be released in a declassifi
look forward to the whistleblower s testimony as soon as this week. unquote. let s get right to kaitlan collins. kaitlan, it s interesting timing, obviously, less than two hours before the house democrats meet, the president tweets he s going to release what he claims will be the full transcript of the call with ukraine. reporter: yes, jake. the president believes by releasing the transcript is going to prove him right. he didn t say anything inappropriate during the last known phone call with the ukrainian president, and he says that s why he s going to release the unredacted, quote, declassified version of this transcript because he says, quote, you ll see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call where there was no pressure and,his words, no quid pro quo. of course this is going to be released tomorrow, the president says. that s the same day he s set to meet with the ukrainian president here at the united nations summit. releasing this follows an internal fight inside t