injured, one person suffering minor injuries and was treated at the scene. three others taken to the hospital. live pictures right now of timber view high school. this is where that shooting took place on the second floor of this sprawling campus just after 9:00 a.m. local time, central time there. we know the fbi and the atf are on scene assisting with the investigation, and we ve been watching now for a while as these students are leaving the school, which indicates typically that that lockdown has been lifted, obviously, and that the building has been secured and there s no additional threat there to students on scene. let s go live to that high school with cnn s ed lavandera who is there for us. what more do we know about this suspect and what happened, ed? reporter: well, that suspect is an 18-year-old male by the name of timothy george simpkins, and the moments after the shooting, that suspect was able to get out of the school, and that is why authorities and investig
ed lavandera is in arlington, texas. has everything been evacuated from the school? it looks like investigators an police here at the scene at the school, which is part of the mansfield independent school district, but inside the city of arlington, in that process is beginning to unfold. you can see there in the distance behind these police vehicles and s.w.a.t. vehicles, there s a fleet of yellow schoolbuses here. what we were told is that as investigators and first responders here have been going through the school securing the scene, making sure no one else was involved in the shooting and searching the school, that those students would begin the process of being escorted out of the building. they re going to be put on those schoolbuses, taken to a nearby performing arts center and then they can reunite with family members. that s where they ve asked parents and family to wait for these students to be cleared from the school, but as you mentioned, the search for 18-year-
scheduled to vote on a bill that would suspend the debt ceiling. republicans have vowed to block this measure, saying the democrats have to figure out how to pay the country s debt on its own, though much of the debt was racked up by president trump. we now know that minority leader mitch mcconnell will discuss two proposals with majority leader chuck schumer for a possible short-term suspension. he s concerned that moderate democrats, senators joe manchin, and kyrsten sinema might gut the filibuster if there s no deal on the debt ceiling. joining us now, cnn chief congressional correspondent, manu raju, and white house correspondent jeremy diamond. first, the potential for this deal, walk us through it. we ll see what happens, in fact, there s a bit of uncertainty at the moment about whether this vote is expected to take place in a matter of minutes actually will take place in the after math of mitch mcconnell making a proposal here to try to stave off a default just for
that is according to a problem legal analysts say whistle-blowers did to hunter biden and the biden family. kevin is live in the capital with more on the hearing and what is next. gary shapley testifying today that the u.s. attorney for d.c., who was a appointed by the president had to file to say whether charges would be filed against hunter biden. based on my experience, the u.s. department s office and handling the investigation was different from any other case in my 14 years. at every stage, decisions were made. according to the national review, his wife, a liberal activist, has visited the white house at least 28 times since biden took office, including ten times in the first three months of this year alone. the identity of a second irs whistle-blower was revealed today. he explained he is not partisan. he says he is a democrat who wants to do the right thing. they were recommending for approval, felony and misdemeanor charges. that did not happen here and i am
think that this is exactly what it is. it s an indictment of 12 russians, which is a very good development. it means they are making progress on the real rush investigation, nothing to do with collusion, there s nothing politicized about it. it s finding people who did try to interfere with our election and hopefully go after them. brian: the president is about to meet with vladimir putin and we know the mueller probe is getting more unpopular. does not have anything to do with the fact that we got this press conference? charles krauthammer used to say you can almost never be too cynical when it comes to things happening in washington but i hope not. this is important stuff. the indictment, what rod rosenstein laid out today reveals they did some very good
alter the results of the election and there is still absolutely zero evidence of that whatsoever and it is bogging down our political process. brian: there s a big call among some leadership on the democratic side to not mee