thing every year so sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don t. coming up, we ll have the latest weather forecast with what you you can expect today during your celebrations. we re going to start with two u.s. cities responding to a series of mass shootings last night that left a combined eight people dead in fort worth, texas then in philadelphia. in fort worth, three are dead and more than a dozen injured after two separate shootings. while in philadelphia, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an ar type rifle killed five people and injured two. a toddler and a 13-year-old boy. at least one man is now in custody and officials there are set to give a press conference at the top of the next hour. we ll cover that for you live. in a statement, president biden responded to the violence writing quote, today, jill and i grieve for those who have lost their lives and as our nation celebrates independence day, we pray for the day when our communities will be fre
Between the two. israel and palestine. and there s no outside dialogue going on in terms of diplomacy. i think this is where egypt, perhaps uae, they have a relationship with the israelis and palestinians. i think we need to start some kind of diplomatic relationship going to where we can get some type of third party to come in and help out here because i see this as spiraling out of control at this point. typically we know the third party is the united states or the u.k. how is the current potture compared to previous administrations facing this dynamic? i m sure that both u.k. and our government, they re putting together their strategy now. to go in and try and simmer things down here. i have to suspect that the state
Administration in those last days. what are you learning. i talked with a obama official who essentially said they handled the trump transition team cautiously because of some of these concerns as they relate to michael flynn. this official bchld confirmed the account of handing over that profile of sergey kislyak. but that they gave the income trump team a heads up by a matter of hours not days because they didn t want them to in any way tip off the russians. i think that s striking. it underscores the fact not only were there tensions as the transition was underway but there were concerns early in this presidency. i remember talking to you about the way the president-elect was dissing the intel community. can you go back to sort of the potture that everyone was in at
i remember talking to you about the way the president-elect was dissing the intel community. can you go back to sort of the potture that everyone was in at the time and make expand upon how how weird it is in a flynn was viewed with suspicion from within the trump transition? that to me seems to be the real blockbuster revelation in both the post and ap reporting and in what kristen is talking about tonight. yeah, i mean, in some respects, again, all the professionals were leined up wih grave concern with what russia was doing in our election and in elections around the world. and here we had the leader of the transition from aational secuty perspective mike flynn and hboss the commander in chie. on january 5th which he 17 intelligence entities including 16 agencies and the director of