peril. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin in ukraine which has just cleared the first hurdle on the path to join the european union. eu and ukrainian flags flew side by side in kyiv on friday after the european commission recommended that ukraine should be given candidate status. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which could be years away, but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the commission s leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us, the european dream. now, the british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since the war began. he offered ukraine a major military training program that he said would, quote, fundamentally change the equation of the war. new videos meanwhile appear to show two u.s. military volunteers wh
he was in the building 40 minutes for an hour barricaded in two classrooms before he was shot and killed by border patrol agent. we re learning about the li lives of the 19 children and 2 teachers one is a wife and mother of four and. died shielding students from gunfire. irma garcia. garza was just 10 years old he talked about how he learned was never going to come home from school i got confirmation that she was trying to call authorities and i guess he just shot her. how do you look at this girl and shoot her? oh, my baby. i miss my baby. all of the dead were in the same fourth grade classroom all 19 young lives described as precious, their teachers dedicated and carrying. more now reporter: 21 lives brutally cut short and 21 family shattered by act of violence all too common in the united states. 19 thank gone just days before the start of the summer break, none yet out of 4th grade, like 10-year-old uzia garcia who s uncle called him a great kid and full of life
he took the lead for the first time tonight around a half hour ago. okay. and the big dynamic here is kathy barnette had been eating into what might have been a clear win for him. david mccormick coming up the middle as the more moderate, traditional republican candidate, ie not election denying. look, this thing is still tight. it s a o1.1 race. bucks county are coming in with a slight edge to oz right now. but this thing is well within recount territory. this isn t going away. what do row think is happening that there is a slight inch for him? i think trump s endorsement is making a difference. oz doing really well in coal country. something to really pay attention to. mccormick s strength is the suburbs in pittsburgh, where he grew up. but right now you see oz just edging ahead. but this isn t going to be over. this is going to be days. this is in recount territory. every ballot counts right now. 851. did you say days? possibly. we thought hours, maybe. hou
well, this is the biggest election night of the u.s. so far this year. these five states are holding primaries, some of which have been filled with twists and turns and the results of these elections will decide who appears on state ballots and that will determine whether democrats lose their slim majority. the lingering power of former president donald trump. the marquee race of the night, the republican senate showdown in the swing state of penn which is going down to the wire. trump s pick, mehmet oz was deemed the front runner in a three-way contest and now is neck and neck with dave mccormick and the race is too close to call. john fetterman will get the nomination sdiet being in the hospital. he had a stroke and underwent surgery to install a pacemaker with a defibulator but the expensive senate showdown capturing the attention in pennsylvania. take a listen. unfortunately we are not going to have resolution tonight but we can see the path ahead and victory ahead. it
and what it means for global capitalism. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. the u.s. president will travel to buffalo, new york in the coming hours to meet with families and victims of the latest shooting, the 18-year-old accused of the attack. the gunman opened fire in a super market killing ten people, traveled 200 miles to a a black neighborhood two months ago. he was there carrying out the event. he was heavily armed and wearing tactical gear and a camera live streaming his rampage. authorities say the super market was not his only target. had he not been stopped, the tragedy would have been much worse. many more people would have been killed or eniinjured if th buffalo police did not get to scene as quickly. they were able to subdue him and take him into custody without incident and protect the surrounding neighborhood. the scene of the massacre has the highest population. before he set out, he posted a statement online descr