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in the numbers, we can confirm in the past hour from a press conference 12 people are hurt, at ten of them were shot, two are in critical condition with the shooting happened at 2:03 p.m. this afternoon it was reported by a witness at the columbia mall. right now we know three people are detained. police say they were all seen with guns inside the mall and at least one is accused of firing a gun near the gap store. here s the columbia police chief talk about a possible motive. we don t believe this is random appear to think that is very important situation like this. we believe the individuals were armed and knew each other some type of conflict occurred resulted in gunfire. this is not a situation where we had some random person show up at a mall to discharge a firearm. you mention them all being on lockdown. we have new video of people being led out of the mall by police. the people you see here are the ones who could not leave because it was not safe. at the dire ....
beijing olympics. they are not holding back when it comes to china s human rights abuses. we re going to analyze that coming up. and later big tech platforms leaching money from local media. does d.c. have the solution? senator amy klobuchar joins us in a few minutes. but first, the future of cable news. inside cnn this was a week like no other. the sudden removal of cnn boss jeff zucker has rattled this news outlet to its core. staffers are confused, angry, and concerned about what might come next so let me try to explain it based on my reporting from inside this very organization. since wednesday morning s resignation shock i have talked with at least 100 people here at all levels as well as sources on the outside who represent all the players, and the dominant question that i m getting from inside cnn is why? why did this happen? this is the ugliest shake up at cnn since the days ted turner was walking the halls. zucker was in charge one minute and he was gone th ....
what actually happens to my physical remains is of zero interest to me. i don t want anybody seeing my body. i don t want anybody i don t want a party. reported dead. unless it could provide entertainment value in a perverse or subversive way, if you can throw me into a woodchipper and spray me into, in the middle of rush hour, i wouldn t mind being remembered that way. one, two, three, four, five, 6 road runner with the radio on, i m through massachusetts and the highway with the radio on what the am i doing here? i shall explain. one minute i was standing next to a deep fryer, the next, i was watching the sunset on the sahara. i realized that one thing led directly to the other. had i not taken a dead-end dish washing job, i would not have become a cook. had i not become a cook, i would never have become a chef. had i not become a chef, i would never have been able to f-up so speck ta spectacularly and that memoir i wrote would never have been ....
that prompted zucker to fire chris cuomo and the state investigation of his brother, andrew cuomo, allison gollust worked earlier for the then-governor. zucker found cuomo if improperrerly aided his embattled brother. he didn t try to get zucker fired, but his lawyers took some steps as a warning shot in the negotiations to have cnn pay off cuomo s contract. as this source put it, chris dropped the knife that was used by zucker s enemies. the cuomo camp want to contend that zucker dumped his biggest star for a conflict of interest, but with jeff gone, that argument evaporates as a way of cuomo collecting his remaining $18 million. by the way, msnbc, which loves to attack fox, has not aired a single word on zucker s ouster. nothing to see here. jeff who? that is pretending a friend ask one-time boss w an absolute dereliction of duty. the larger issue is how zucker transformed cnn from there a reporter-driven network to a left-leaning outlet that crusaded against donald t ....
about it invasion, us troops arrived, the first appointment of us troops in support of nato are in poland with more expected to arrive in romania in the coming days to beef up a wall against vladimir putin. president biden warning russia and its president will face heavy sanctions if putin invades ukraine and while the administration continues to look for a diplomatic offramp senior officials admit the country is prepared if putin pulls the trigger. we are in the window. any day now russia could take military action against ukraine or it could be a couple of weeks from now or russia could choose to take the diplomatic path. the key thing is that the united states needs to be and is prepared for any of those contingencies in lockstep with our allies. eric: we have coverage throughout the hour. steve is alive in ukraine s capital. first let s go to alexandra who is at the white house. reporter: eric, it s a grim grim prediction on top of civilian loss of life general m ....