and a burned cargo ship near th sri lankan coast and will cause an environmental disaster. at the site of one of the bloodiest chapters in u.s. history, president joe biden has done what none of his predecessors have done before. he is the first sitting u.s. president to pay tribute in person to the victims of the tulsa race massacre. one of the worst acts of racial violence in american history. tulsa s greenwood district encompassed 35 blocks of entirely black owned businesses. and became known as black wall street. on may 31st, 1921, tension neighboring white residents boiled over and neighborhood was burned to the ground. president biden said literal hell was unleashed. during the night, into the morning, the mob terrorized greenwood, tortures and guns and shooting at will. a mob tieded a black man by the waist to the back of their truck with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off. a murdered black family draped over the fence of their home outside. and
block it as a personal favor to him. a new warning tonight from the department of homeland security that white supremacists may try to target events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the tulsa, oklahoma, race massacre. president joe biden set to visit tulsa to honor the victims. and qanon congresswoman marjorie taylor greene off the rails tonight at a rally, hitting a brand-new low, comparing democrats to nazis. let s get right to capitol hill, cnn s ryan noble joins us now. good evening to you. we re waiting on that vote. what s going on? what is the holdup? what s happening? reporter: well, the holdup has nothing to do with the 1/6 commission, don. this is actually the bill that came before it on the legislative calendar, which is a bill they ve called the endless frontiers act, which is actually a bipartisan piece of legislation designed to make the united states more competitive with china. but it is a massive bill, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars,
this is cnn newsroom. a key u.s. senate vote that would establish a commission to investigate the january 6th capitol insurrection appears to be just hours away. the vote was expected to be held thursday night, but has been delayed until sometime later today. senate republicans are expected to block the measure underscoring the deep partisan divide that has emerged sips the riot. just a few months ago some republicans were adamant that a 9/11-style commission into the capitol security was needed, now they argue that it wouldn t bring any new information about the insurrection and could turn into a partisan dispute. the democrats say american people need to know the truth about what happened. five people were killed and about 140 police officers were injured during the attack. for many of the police officers who defended the capitol that day the memories and emotions are still very raw. now they re pushing for the january 6th commission, along with the mother of the late
policing changes since the end of the obama administration. what did that require? tell us, what did you think of that? consent decree is necessary. what happened is the department of justice, the obama administration, when i came into office, they had already begun an investigation and decided that newark needed to be under consent decree police department. an tease are things that have been happening around the country and needs to continue. so we had to work with the justice department. we didn t the first thing that worked is we didn t push it away. we weren t aggressive in saying we didn t want this consent decree. we embraced it and said let s work together and believed that we needed it. that was the first step. we began to change policies and practices by bringing the community and changing use of force policy. changing policies around stop and frisk, changing policies around de-escalation. all of those things are important. we have new policies, over a dozen new
grow lowered, another prominent group of doctors in japan are echoing the message. and this time in the fight between oil giants and climate activists, saving planet earth wins. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. our top story this hour is a tragically familiar one, a deadly mass shooting in the united states. just moments ago we learned that a ninth victim has died. this time it was in san jose, california, silicon valley s largest city, it was the 232nd mass shooting in the u.s. this year. maintenance workers at a commuter rail facility were getting the fleet ready on wednesday morning when one of their co-workers opened fire. police say the gunman took his own life as officers arrived. nine people were killed. the mayor said all of the victims worked with the gunman and knew him well. a memorial event a planned for thursday night. now, at about the same time firefighters were being called to a two-alarm fire at the house believed to belong to the gunman. no one wa