here, phil promises. stay with us, cnn news central starts now. new details this morning about the victims after at least eight people were murdered at a mall in texas. officials are focused on right wing extremism as a possible motive. right now an investigation is under way in brownsville, texas, after an suv slammed into a bus stop killing several people. ahead what we re learning about that driver. this is the week title 42 ends. cnn is at the border as the biden administration and the cities on the front lines prepare for an expected surge of migrants now. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. this morning cnn has learned the name of at least two victims murdered at the mass shooting at the mall in allen, texas. family members say christian lacore was a sweet caring young man, he is on the left there. we re told the man on the right was an engineer living in mckinney, texas. they were two of at least eight people who were ki
right now we re watching the manhattan d.a. s office where we believe a grand jury will hear today from robert costello, a former legal adviser to michael cohen, and heightening the interest today, he s potentially the final act before a decision is made about whether to issue an indictment against donald trump. costello was called in at the request of trump s attorneys, leading many to believe his testimony will be aimed at undermining cohen s credibility. cohen himself is also there, he says, as a rebuttal witness. i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake outside the d.a. s office. legal analyst glenn kirschner joins us as well. garrett, what have you seen or heard today, if anything, of the comings and goings? what s the very latest? reporter: chris, we re all operating on the same scraps of information. no signs of costello or cohen yet. that shouldn t be a surprise. the grand jury typically meets in the afternoon. we would expect to potentially see them sometime here in
literal smoking gun in the murder of his wife and son? welcome on to our viewers around the world. i m christine romans. the search and rescue operation grows more grim in turkey and syria, more than 16,000 people have died in the earthquake there and hope is fading that rescuers will find survivors beneath the mountain of rubble. remarkably two women in turkey were found alive wednesday after 62 hours buried under a collapsed building. and in syria, a newborn baby was pulled from the rubble, her mother is believed to have died after giving birth. international search and rescue teams continue to arrive including some from the united states. salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul for us. there has been anger over the turkish government s response to the disaster. what are they saying now? reporter: we re now entering the fourth day after this powerful earthquake one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike this region in a century hit. and that means that window, that glimme
organizations experienced in dealing with exactly this kind of material. the timeline here, the waste removal was paused over the weekend following complaints from texas and michigan officials who said they didn t know the waste would come to their jurisdictions. why didn t they know what was coming their way? i don t know all the details of the environmental cleanup process. what i know is that there are ways that are set up for states to communicate with each other about this. and there is often a private sector role as contractors who have that extremely rigorous epa certifica certif certify step up to do that challenging work. this is both in responding to disasters like this and in routine operations. it happens a lot, which is why it is regulated so tightly, so carefully and closely. and epa has taken over the process originally led by norfolk southern to make sure that it s going to be handled well. of course, every situation, politics playing a role in this. som
all right. just revealed this morning, argentine soccer star lionel messi will earn between $50 million and $60 million a year when he joins miami according to the club s part owner. the lower of those figures would make messi the highest paid player in major league soccer by more than 40 million soond. messi also has the guarantee of being part of the club s ownership once he retires and gets a cut from the mls broadcasting deal with apple tv. cristiano ronaldo has a $75 million salary playing for the saudi pro league. now for your morning moment. taylor swift reacting swiftly after you see what we did there after an apparent stage malfunction during her eras tour stop in cincinnati. here is a look.