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authorities are very sketchy on details. the shooter, you can see on the lower right is all we know. he s been named and identified in other sites. we re not doing that right now. one thing we re trying to find out is how this started. a little after 1:00 p.m. where there was a call out on the campus site that remain sheltered in place, this is an ongoing situation amount suspect at large. please be safe. now the late forecast jonathan hunt who has been following this since it all erupted about three hours ago. jonathan, what can you tell us? neil, good afternoon to you. we re now getting reports via wral, one of the local tv stations there in raleigh, north carolina, that the suspect is in custody. wral quoting police sources saying that they have the suspect and that same station has also shed a photograph of a man apparently handcuffed, sitting on the ground, cross-legged with two officers standing near him. we do not have independent confirmation. we do not have c ....
saying, quote: the fires began on tuesday and are now about 80% contained. the blazes spread quickly, fuelled by strong winds generated by a hurricane over the pacific ocean. thousands are still in emergency shelters. visitors are being evacuated from the island. these are the latest pictures we have smouldering ruins and total devastation. the worst destruction has been on the island of maui, where some beachfront areas have been completely levelled. us presidentjoe biden has now declared the wildfires a major disaster. this triggers the release of federal funds to help recovery efforts. he spoke earlier. we have just approved a major disaster declaration for hawaii, which will get aid into the hands of people who desperately need the help now. they ve lost, anyone who has lost a loved one, whose home has been damaged or destroyed, is going to get help immediately. and i ve directed that we send support to these brave firefighters and first responders and emergency p ....
the white house. general election coverage gets underway today. i m andrea mitchell reporting from washington along with my colleagues. donald trump is the presumptive republican nominee at nikki haley suspended her campaign this morning without endorsing trump. i said i wanted americans to have their voices heard. i have done that. i have no regrets. it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. we will look to exit polling to see where the haley voters are going. donald trump is calling for the republican party to unite behind him before he is officially declared theexpected. he picked up an endorsement from mitch mcconnell in a major sign the party will coalesce behind trump after last night s results and today s announcement from haley. trump insisting they call it super tuesday for a reason when he spoke last night. there s never been one like this. there s never been anything so conclusive. th ....
in recent days, the russian authorities have been strongly hinting they wouldn t continue in the grain deal. just a few days ago, president putin was shown in an interview on russian televion saying enough is enough. he said that russia would suspend its participation in this deal, until its demands are met. what are those demands? russia has been complaining for some time that there are obstacles to the export of its own grain and fertiliser. that is number one. number two, the russians have been demanding that a russian bank that handles agricultural payments should be reconnected to the global swift payment network. these are some russia s demands. what the russians are doing is saying, 0k, we are pulling out and suspending for the moment . but they have left a way open to go back. they are saying, as soon as our demands are met, we will go back to the deal. interestingly, there were also some comments today from president erdogan, the turkish president, also s ....
we can parse it now, but they will view according to prerogative, which is political, the portion aspect. if you are just joining us, this is cnn s breaking news coverage of today s historic u.s. supreme court hearings. the justices seem to be singling that they will not be going with the colorado supreme court reeling the high court s conservative members say they were seeking a way to sign with the former president, most likely based on reasoning that does not address the question of whether or not he is or is not an insurrectionist. let s go back to cnn senior legal analyst elie honig, you are at the legal man magic wall. to the arguments play out the way the you expected them to? i think they do. jake, we identify three key arguments to watch. did he engage in the insurrection or not? we said that it would be unlikely the supreme court would want to be deep into this. in fact, they went into it one time, justice jackson for the very end of just donald ....