backdrop for movies like home alone and ferris buhler s day off. police say a gunman fired on people along the parade route from a rooftop. a barrage of bullets just after 10:00 a.m., causing spec to it tors, mostly families with children, both young and old, to scatter. right now officials say the victims range from 8 to 85 years old. five adults died at the scene, a sixth person later passed away at the hospital. witnesses describing chaos where strollers and belongings lay scattered on the streets that have become a crime scene. i picked up my kids and ran again, i put them in a garbage dumpster, and then i ran back to look for my partner and her daughter, and i saw people shot on the ground. all of a sudden, there was a stampede of people coming, and then i realized it was gunshots. i literally thought to myself, this is how it s going to end. we hope to learn more about a man who they say has not been charged but is a person of interest. within eight hours after
or smugglers see laws unenforced, they ll abuse the laws. we ve seen increase brazenness by cartels that feel empowered because we don t have a federal government pushing back against those cartels and their illegal activity. of course, the worst thing of all is the catastrophic death that we have witnessed. now, we saw this horrendous death occur in a track in san antonio earlier this week. and it is heart breaking. the numbers have increased. it s now reported that 53 people in that truck lost their lives. it is the deadliest migrant smuggling incident on u.s. soil, and it s on president biden s watch. the thing about it is that it s not the only way in which people who are trying to migrate here lose their lives. in the harsh high temperature of texas in the summertime and the texas heat, it will prove even more deadly. every year there s many reports about migrants that lose their lives in the heat. i was visiting with the sheriff moments ago. he was telling me reports ab
arlington national cemetery. that was just a couple hours after president biden addressed reporters outside the white house about last week s massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers in uvalde, texas. the president told reporters gathered on the south lawn that there is, quote, no rational basis for the ability to purchase high-caliber assault weapons that can fire hundreds of rounds, quote, it makes no sense. the idea that there should be at least limits on assault weapons in the wake of the uvalde and buffalo massacre, which together left 31 people murdered, was ek code by the vice president on saturday. after giving remarks at the memorial service for 86-year-old ruth whitfield, one of the victims of the buffalo supermarket shooting, vice president harris said this to reporters at the airport. you know, we re not looking for a vaccine. we know what works on this. it includes, let s have an assault weapons ban. background checks. why should anyone be able to buy a weapon th
Any minute, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell is set to speak on the floor of the senate for the First Time Since his latest Freezing Episode as questions swirl about the future of his leadership. Were monitoring those remarks. The man hunt for a dangerous escaped murderer is now expanding. Pennsylvania Authorities Say the convicted killer was spotted outside of the original search area. Two School Districts closed their doors as hundreds of Law Enforcement officers deployed to help with the search. And more than 50 years after his heroic actions in vietnam, retired Army Captain Larry Taylor will be honored at the white house. Captain taylor will receive the nations highest Military Award. We are following these latest developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. This hour on capitol hill, the senate is back in session after its august break, and many eyes and ears are going to be trained on the minority leader. Any moment now were expecting to he
The strikes killed at least 230 people in gaza while hamas militants have killed at least 300 israelis and taken dozens of hostages, both military and civilian. Overnight, Israeli Security forces rescued some hostages who had not been taken back to gaza and re took a captured Police Station. In the last few hours, they have shelled Enemy Positions in lebanon after reports of incoming artillery in northern israel. Our reporter simon jones has the latest. What israel is describing as its Mighty Vengeance on the Palestinian Militant Group hamas. Overnight, gaza has been rocked by explosions. Earlier, warplanes at several buildings in the centre of the city. Earlier, warplanes hit several buildings in the centre of the city. The Israeli Defense forces has released these pictures, which they say are hamas cells being targeted. The Israeli Military trying to show they are on the front foot after being taken by surprise by the hamas attacks. The israeli Prime Minister issued this morning in a