announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start today with some breaking news. a shelter in place warning at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. authorities say there is a, quote, armed and dangerous person on or near the campus. the governor roy cooper now pledging all resources to capture the person he is characterizing at the shooter. moments ago a law enforcement source told cnn that federal law enforcement has responded to the scene but at this point, there was no information, at least not yet, about anyone being shot. right now we re getting information in about a situation where somebody is armed and dangerous. but we do not yet know if anybody on the campus in chapel hill, north carolina, has been wounded or shot in any way. we re going to go now to former boston police commissioner ed davis. ed, right now this is an unusual situation. moments ago local schools around the unc campus at chapel hill were clear to
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news out of jacksonville, florida. the shooter barricaded himself in a dollar general store. we are awaiting a press conference from officials there in just a short time from now. we ll bring that to you when it happens. while we wait, i want to go to isabel. you re learn more about the shooter. i ve been texting back and forthwith tracy davis, a state senator representing district five. that is the jacksonville area. she just told me right now over a text that the shooter here is dead. so she confirmed that. the shooter has, is dead. we don t know if they ve been killed. we don t know if it is from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. we re working to get more details. she s been unable to confirm how many are dead. she is being briefed by sheriff t.k. waters. i want to show you a tweet that she posted on x, formerly known as twitter. she put this. a tragic day in jacksonville. i m offering prayers to t
a tyranny. we have now in the name of the majority created a new tyranny. and i think that s wrong. i don t think that somebody who is religious should be forced to officiate a wedding they disagree with. i don t think somebody who is a woman who has worked really hard for her achievements should be forced to compete against a biological male in a swim competition. i don t think that somebody who is a woman that respects her bodily autonomy and dignity should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man. that s not freedom. that s oppression. jeanine: here s exactly the type of broken sanity vivek is standing up to. cnn publishing a detailed guide to the use of pronouns. a new kind of gender neutral or nonbinary pronoun that allows people to characterize themselves using genderless descriptions like leaf, sun and star. and as we try to figure that one out, there is growing outrage after a biological male who identifies as a woman smashed a women s world power lif
so this may be investors saying, oh, maybe you are okay with ending some of these trade wars. we ll talk about this trade deal and what it means. let s get to the white house where right now the president and first lady are wrapping up a meeting with the president of kenya and his wife. geoff bennett joins me. i want to get back to senator mccain and the controversy over flags that are at half staff in congress and many other places in the country but not at the white house. they were at half staff and are now back to full staff. reporter: flags are lowered by presidential proclamation so it s the president who decides who receives that honor and the recent tradition for senators who die in office have been to have flags lowered in their honor from the day of death until their burial. so during president obama s time in office, he had four sitting senators die. there was ted kennedy, robert byrd, daniel inouhe. john mccain under president trump did not receive that
honor. he appea