hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around world. i m rosemary church. just ahead, investigators announce a reward for information leading to the arrest the mass shooting suspect in texas. details, plus hear from the family of the victims left behind. regulators weigh bids for first republic as they try to avoid what would be the second biggest bank failure in u.s. history. plus, the crisis in sudan. the first u.s. evacuation ship is expected to arrive at a saudi arabian port very soon. and a live report on the fighting and dire humanitarian crisis in and around khartoum. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. a small texas town is in mourning and on edge after a deadly shooting in which 5 people were killed. this man least his wife and 9-year-old son in the shooting. meanwhile, more than 200 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in the manhunt for the
it s done. dana: a big tease for quite a while. president biden made the announcement in a video released early this morning and some of the slogans from his last campaign and attacked so-called maga republicans and implores voters to help him finish the job. president biden: when i ran for president four years ago i said we re in the battle for the soul of america. we still are. the question we re facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer. this is not a time to be complacent and why i m running for re-election. around the country maga extremist are lining up to cut social security that you paid for your entire life while culting taxes for the wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women can make. banning books and telling people who they can love all while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. this is our moment. bill: it s part of the 3:02 release today. the president going ahead with his campa
the following images disturbing. it happened during the distribution of charity for ramadan. this is video footage from almasirah, a tv station linked to the houthi rebel group, which controls sanaa. the video was picked up by various news agencies and it purports to show the incident in the the city. it s an apparent crush of people, many of whom look to be in distress. our correspondent simonjones joins us from the newsroom. what more can you tell us? ? what more can you tell us? hundreds of people had gathered at a school where they were handing out aid, they were being given the equivalent of $9 each, but so many people arrived that houthi rebels in charge in the city started firing into the air to try to control the crowd. eyewitnesses say one of the bullets hit an electrical cable, that caused an explosion, that led to panic, led to a stampede, led to a crush. we know that dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more have been taken to hospital, some of those in
anderson: two years ago, the former president left washington and president biden took over. the midway point of first term, question is two fold, what is he doing and what is he doing about a second term, former president declared he s running president biden could soon do the same, he s started framing his how does the president feel about the first half of his term. i spend the last five day speaking to half dozen of his closest advisors and the most striking ask two-fold, they deeply president biden is in the best position boy far he s been in since he took office two years ago tonight. second they don t believe the ongoing special counsel investigation is really many people outside of washington actually care about, they take it seriously not dismissing it but they believe the issues what the president ran on and they think has deliver on is what matters most it s not just the advisors they think you have the have a window into the president s view when he was to
serve, allowing mr assange to return to australia, his home country. i mjoined by return to australia, his home country. i m joined by our north american correspondence. looks like this long running saga could be coming to conclusion. us more. we received conclusion. us more. we received the conclusion. us more. - received the breaking news in the last couple of hours and there are so many layers to the julian assange story. to recap what you said there, it looks like he will be a free man at some point this week, striking a plea deal with the us. he spent the last five years in a high security prison, belmarsh prison, in the uk. remember, he has been long accused by the us of exposing sensitive secrets about the war in iraq and afghanistan through the wikileaks website, the whistleblowing website. and they claim it put american operatives in danger. and almost all the charges he faced, by the way, 18 charges, were under the 1917 espionage act. but he, now, this plea deal