responding did not exchanged gunfire. the sheriff said the suspect appears to have shot himself when officers confronted him. again, he died along with eight other victims. seven victims died at the scene and eight at the hospital. there s still another being shot in critical condition. we still don t know the identities of the victims. authorities are still in the process of contacting victims families after the shooting happens. a bomb squad was also going room to room at the rail yard after bomb sniffing dogs apparently indicated that they detected the presence of explosives. that s another bizarre and terrible element to this latest mass shooting. the possibility of explosive devices being investigated. also apparently a length fire at about the same time the shooting started, a fire was reported the shooter s home just about ten miles away from the shootings happened. authorities are investigating whether the gunman set his house on fire before setting out on this shooti
families. a bomb squad was also going room to room after bomb sniffing dogs indicated that they detected the presence of explosives. also a linked fire at the gunman s home. authorities are investigating whether the gunman set his house on fire and if so why and how dangerous is that scene now. multiple guns used in the shooting. the shooter is 57-year-old man named samuel cassidy, an eight-year veteran of the association and all of the victims are his co-workers. president biden has ordered flags to behalf staff and he noted that this is the fifth time he s had to order the flags. as i mentioned. it is a complex story with multiple moving elements. we ll keep you updated as we learn more. as we continue to watch that, there is a whole bunch of stuff coming down the pike in terms of news. one of the things we are expecting tomorrow is president biden s nominee to run the post office. in previous times, you don t have to think too much about the post office. it was only in the
party endorsed mob violence for political ends. that s why there were riots in kenosha that night, because people like kamala harris supported the riots. more than a year later as rittenhouse stood trial for murder, the same people implied there would be more violence if he was acquitted. so imagine being a juror on that case. imagine the pressure and the fear? it would take enormous moral courage for any juror to ignore the threats and take the evidence to the logical conclusion. so much courage at times we thought it would be impossible in a country politicized as ours now is. we learned today, it is still possible, thank god. this afternoon, the jury acquitted rittenhouse on all charges, the jury affirmed what was obvious from the beginning, he acted in self-defense. it was a wonderful moment. anyone who believes in impartial justice was vindicated. this is what the moment looked like. we the jury find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse not guilty. as to the second count
a ziplock baggy filled with cocaine found just steps from the west wing where guests are often ushered through the white house. now the question who dropped it, setting off sunday s hazmat evacuation. then, the phenomenon unique to the united states, gun violence in america reaching a new level of horror. 356 mass shootings so far this year. a stunning 15 of them just this past holiday weekend. coming up, why these tragic shootings always seem to spike in the summer months and what can be done about it. plus, a federal judge slapping the biden administration with new restrictions on social media saying the biden administration cannot decide what is and is not misinformation. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with something of a mystery in our political lead. who left a baggy of coke at the white house? there was a brief evacuation sunday night after the powdery substance was found in an area of the west wing that is accessible to some tour groups. this
tankers. what can you tell us? reporter: this played out several hours in international waters off the coast of oman. much of the world s oil passes through there. according to the u.s. navy about 1:00 in the morning local time, a vessel approached a commercial oil tanker. as it got close, the u.s. navy saw this coming and deployed. here it is, video you see the second incident. only several hours later where another one approached another oil tanker, getting even closer. that oil tanker sent out a hailing for help, a call for distress. the same u.s. navy destroyer approached. before it got there, according to the u.s. navy, personnel on board that vessel opened fire with small arms striking the oil tanker and hitting it several times, in fact. according to the u.s. navy, nobody on board the oil tanker was injured but there was damage to the hull including very close to where the crew lived. the navy put out images of fragments of the shell and images like the one you see t