. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. . president biden will address the nation about the gun violence epidemic in america. as we are getting new details about yesterday s shooting in tulsa, oklahoma. police say a gunman killed four people, injured nearly a dozen others at a hospital. they say he killed his orthopedic surgeon, another doctor, a receptionist and a patient. we have also found a letter on the suspect which made it clear that he came in with the intent to kill dr. philips and anyone who got in his way. he blamed dr. philips for the ongoing pain following the surgery. the shooter brought the rifle at 2:00 p.m. yesterday. three hours before he went on his shooting rampage. that doctor s office massacre is only one of 233 mass shootings this year. a mass shooting is defined as an event where a gunman shoots and kills and injuries four people or more. in the eight days since the uvalde elementary school massacre, there have been at least 20 mass shoot
Hello, everyone. Good morning. It is saturday, september 30th. Im amara walker. And im omar jimenez. Youre in the cnn newsroom. The government is barrelling towards a shutdown with no solution in sight. Today is the last day for congress to pass a funding bill to keep the government open. You see the count down. Now the clock is ticking. Right now House Republicans are in a closed door meeting to try and come up with a last minute solution. But just last night House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy once again failed to pass a Stop Gap Bill in his chamber and now he is warning that the senate bill wont pass either, calling their bipartisan bill Dead On Arrival. But Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell says there is only one path forward. The choice facing congress is pretty straightforward. We can take the Standard Approach and fund the government for six weeks at the current rate of operations, or we can shut the government down in exchange for zero meaningful progress on policy. Our team is o
And 11 00 and 2 00 they will be scattered around. Not everybody will see them all day long. Keep an umbrella handy today. Tomorrow, heat and humidity. Got a look at the weekend forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, Jessica Boyington is tracking how this wet weather is affecting the roads. Jessica . We are seeing slippery conditions and ponding in some spaces. Were starting off first out in mt. Laurel new jersey in 295. Traffic moving along nicely. Southbound is typically where we see the volume for the morning. Right now about a 13minute drive time headed southbound from 38 up towards the black horse pike. Northbound moving along just fine as well. Pa turnpike, earlier we saw rain actively falling. Not anymore. Westbound, eastbound 22 minutes at the most from route 1 up towards valley forge. Slippery conditions also come with several accidents. A few out in Montgomery County one in shelton ham cheltenham and cheltenham avenue. Well check in with more wet cameras and more
Santa cruz mountains. At one point, it even shut down the highway yesterday for about 5 hours. This is the biggest one definitely, um, theres a quite a bit more earth about half the mountainside came down into the roads. Reporter mudslide crews are stretched thin so contractors are bringing them in to clean up the mess. The northbound lanes remain closed because of this massive mudslide. And im dennis odonnell. They are hoping for later today or even tomorrow morning. We have more heavy rain coming in fact its here right now. We continue to see waves of Atmospheric River move into the bay area. Screen is lit up with pockets of moderate to heavy rainfall especially in the north bay. And i wanted to zero in on this particular area right there because if you look very carefully, look at the heavy rain now occurring in guerneville. This morning before receding later on this afternoon. Then we hop to the east bay. Moraga, danville, you, too with the raindrops on the rooftops. Then we spread