a confirmed tornado touching down in massachusetts. straight line winds downing utility poles like dominos near baltimore. thousands of flights delayed or canceled. and millions also facing extreme heat alerts from texas to florida and the carolinas. record temperatures expected into the weekend. rob marciano timing it all out. breaking developments late today. sources telling abc news the fulton county district attorney is expected to go before the grand jury next week, presenting her case against former president trump, his allies, and their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. donald trump potentially facing his fourth criminal indictment. jonathan karl standing by. for the first time since the 1950s, a confirmed shark attack off new york city. a swimmer bitten on the leg and seriously injured. beaches closed, police and dr drones patrolling the water, looking for sharks. trevor ault at new york s rockaway beach. new charges and several warrants is
watch cnn s fourth in america. it starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. thanks so much for joining inside politics. cnn s news central starts right now. gunfire interrupting holiday festivities, with dozens of victims across the country and children among the dead. as the nation marks 247 years of independence, we re also marking this tragic number of mass shootings. 345 so far this year, in just over six months. plus, new bloodshed in the middle east. the israeli military is extending an operation in the west bank for another day. new violence erupting as far away as tel aviv. what will it take for this stop? can it? and a new lawsuit on affirmative action. a civil rights group is trying to stop harvard from making it harder of sons and daughters of alumni to join the ivy league. we re following all of these stories coming in right here to cnn news central. on this fourth of july holiday, police are investigating two mass shootings in the span of 24 h
hours ago. just days after the downing of the chinese spy balloon. another classified document is found in the possession of former vice president mike pence. the fbi removing the material from pence s indepeiana home. the hunt for survivors in the earthquake soon zone with a rescuer on the ground. we are getting accounts of people found alive. the death poll toll rises higher and higher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the us military shooting down a high altitude object a little while ago after tracking it over alaska for 24 hours. we have a team of correspondents and experts stand big as we break down what we know and what we don t know about this object and how it compares to the chinese spy balloon shot down nearly a week ago. first, jim sciutto. what are your sources telling you about this object that was shot down over alaska? the details
we like the no tie. different vibe from him. somebody stole all my ties. it s not a fashion choice. tie left. i like you re calling it an experiment. you should be in a white lab coat starting on monday. the waist down, i am. disturbing. this just came a little real just now. wonderful. nice to see you, jake. thanks, jake. have a good weekend. everyone, we re keeping the conversation going tonight not about the lab coat and jake tapper but here we are. i am laura coates in washington d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we have a team here in new york with me. and the other team here in washington d.c. so we re going to kick it off with the herschel walker raphael warnock senate debate. it just wrapped up a little while ago in georgia. we ll talk to the panelists, but wow. have you seen some of these clips? yeah, i was trying to watch it while prepping. it was a very high stakes debate because it s the only one until election day
Away, another candidate announced he ll be on the stage. former vice president mike pe pence, also likely to be a witness against trump in the special counsel s january 6th case. pence s campaign tonight saying, hopefully former president trump has the courage to show up. mary: jon joins us now. and this campaign calendar is shaping up to be very compli complicated for trump, with that fourth indictment in georgia now possible, and still, that looming question tonight, will we see him on that debate stage? reporter: look, it s anybody s guess whether or not donald trump bothers to show up at that first debate in milwaukee. today, he asked the crowd, as he often does, whether they thought he should go. the crowd of his supporters seemed to say that they did think he should attend the debate, but if he does, mary, he will find himself on stage with at least one potential star witness in the special counsel s case against him, mike pence. mary: unprecedented sight to be sure.