newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington and at any moment we re expecting a news briefing from law enforcement officials and dave ville, alabama, the sad sight of last night s horrifying mass shooting. we are hoping to learn more about a suspect or possible motive in that shooting rampage in this tiny alabama town. this is a look at a vigil that s about to get underway. at any moment. these are live pictures that you re looking at right now of this vigil that is about to take place in memory of the children. teenagers many of them who were lost in this mass shooting. here s what we know right now about this tragedy for people are confirmed dead, spokeswoman for one local hospital says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients. the attack apparently happened at a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. one of those killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her 16th birthday. there you see
never again. that s the plea of the people who survived one of the darkest moments in history, the holocaust. during world war two german murdered countless people. including six million jewish men, women and children. it s easy to think of the holocaust as a relic of the past . but the few remaining survivors of the holocaust still live with the horrors of the holocaust remains one of the greatest crimes against humanity in europe. set out to kill as many jews as possible. they murdered all four of my grandparents. and forced my parents into slave labor and extermination camps, miraculously, my parents survived. hate ignited the holocaust. ignorance fueled it. eight decades later, it s horrifying to see a rise in anti semitism and holocaust denial around the world and here in this country. we want to take you on a tour of the united states holocaust memorial museum here in washington, d. c. more than 45 million people have visited this museum since it opened back in 1993. th
perry s attorneys are calling for a new trial, saying they want to introduce evidence that foster repeatedly instigated confrontations and was the quote first aggressor. when the murder happened on july 25th 2020 perry, now a 35 year old army sergeant. worked as a rideshare driver and had just dropped off a passenger near a blm protest. prosecutors say perry drove into the protest and instigated a confrontation. perry s attorneys say foster, a 28 year old air force veteran motion to perry as protesters were beating on his car practice something some of them right legally carrying an assault style weapon. that night . perry had a handgun in his car and at some point in the exchange. he fired multiple times, killing foster. during the police interrogation. perry gave several versions of the position of foster s gun was going in there. they want to, you know, also told police he did not try to kill foster honestly did not want to want him to die. i wanted to do was capacity him.
catch the new episode of eva longoria searching for mexico tomorrow night at nine p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with new details in the case against the 21 year old air national guardsman he s accused of leaking top secret pentagon information. jack to share a appeared in court yesterday and was charged under the espionage act. his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source. of the online leak of secret documents to share a held a top secret security clearance and is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence the u. s has on both close allies and adversaries. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is joining us live from washington right now, alice , what more are you learning about how to share? and uh, you know, learning about him and then how he was able to print off these documents there, fredricka? well, the qu
updates by whisker priscilla alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with major damage control underway inside the u. s intelligence community right now , the pentagon is trying to assess the fallout of leaked classified documents. 21 year old jack tachira and air national guardsman is in custody and charged under the espionage act. the documents he is accused of leaking are considered highly classified and include eavesdropping on adversaries and allies alike. cnn s jeremy diamond joins us now over at the white house, jeremy, what more? are we learning about this damage assessment that s underway. well, jim, we re talking about dozens of highly classified documents that were leaked online allegedly by this 21 year old airman jack teixeira . and now the pentagon is working to assess exactly what the damage to u. s national security will be of some of these documents. and if you look at the brea