life. reporter: eight people dead and at least seven others wounded after yet another mass shooting on american soil. we have multiple reporter: this time at an outlet mall in allen, texas, saturday about 25 miles north of dallas. the gunshots, it sounded like a war zone. it was horrifying. reporter: investigators say the 33-year-old gunman who was killed at the scene by a police officer may have been driven by right wing extremism a. senior law enforcement source tells cnn there isn t a specific motive they ve identified yet but investigators have uncovered an extensive social media presence. stephen spainhour rushed to the scene. saw a little boy about 4 or 5, he kept saying my mother is hurt. i told him everything was fine, that help was on the way. i checked him for no wounds, but he was caked with blood from head to toe. reporter: greg abbott attended a vigil for the victims said authorities don t yet know enough about the gunman to make determinations.
a deadly chokehold by a stranger on a new york city subway car. why this incident spaurrked a homicide investigation and important conversations about mental illness and vigilantism. and then the fight gets under way to overturn an abortion ban in one state, a ban dating back to 1849. you heard that right. years before the civil war. decades before women could even vote. we re talking to the attorney general who filed the lawsuit. welcome to the lead. we begin in our politics lead. a major milestone in the prosecution of the pro trump rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6, 2021. and an effort to in an effort to forcibly keep trump in power after his resounding and legitimate election defeat. today four members of the far right proud boys militia group were found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy in their roles in the teek. these are of course the same extremists donald trump declined to condemn during a presidential debate in september 2020. what do you
verdicts. also this hour, as russia vows revenge for an alleged drone attack on the kremlin, it s now casting blame on the united states as well as on ukraine. i ll ask a key white house national security council official john kirby what the administration knows about the incident as he s accusing moscow of spinning lies. and there s breaking news we re following. an arrest was just announced in connection with a series of brutal stabbings near a university of california campus. stand by for details on the suspect and the charges. welcome to our viewers here in the united states, and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. tonight the u.s. justice department is claiming a new victory for american democracy after four members of the proud boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the january 6th riot. cnn s sara murray reports on the jury s verdict in this very high profile trial. reporter: four members of the far right p
hello and welcome. coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. the u.s. has shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon after it traveled across america for days. recovery efforts now under way. china says the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident, heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. live in hong kong with the latest from there. it s not the only one. the pentagon says a second balloon is flying over latin america. a report ahead. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we br to show you the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that has caused so much havoc this week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers, that it took a few seconds for the shockwave to reach the grou
watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, recovery efforts are underway after the u.s. military shot down a suspected spy balloon over the atlantic ocean. meanwhile beijing is warning it will use necessary steps in similar situations. could this push the u.s. toward a cold war with china or will both sides find a diplomatic solution? after days of suspected spying over the u.s. mainland, a chinese balloon was abruptly shot out of the sky on saturday by a u.s. fighter jet. the balloon was so high up when it was destroyed, the sound of the blast took several seconds to reach the ground. listen to this. and the shoot-down ended days of concern and speculation about the balloon s purpose. chinese insist it was a balloon. the u.s. is confident it was conducting a survey over the ocean and the u.s. issued a fighter jet with heat-seeking missile to destroy it. the debris landed in water that s about 47 feet