it is the right time to leave. don t wait. get our economy going, that is what i m focused on. we aim at lowering the cost of gas. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, september 8, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. and we begin with breaking news. four people are dead after a 19-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in memphis, tennessee. police say 19-year-old ezekiel kelly was arrested following a high speed chase and is being transported to the shelby county jail. here is more from memphis police chief. so first, i want to reassure the community that 19-year-old ezekiel kelly is in fin fact in custody. this has been a mhorrific week for the city of memphis and the memphis police department. we extend our seincere condolences to all the victims who have been affected in this sequence of violent acts today. the shooting rampage is believed to have stretched across eight crime scenes and lasted nearly 2
this is no way for us to live, and it is not acceptable. police say they arrested 19-year-old ezekiel kelly after a high-speed chase. the memphis mayor says the suspect was previously charged with criminal attempted first-degree murder, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated assault in april of 2021. he was sentenced to three years, but only served 11 months in prison before being released in march. let s go to cnn s gary tuchman live in memphis, tennessee, with the latest. gary, what can you tell us? reporter: well, brianna, and john, it was a night that terrorized and paralyzed the people who live here in the city of memphis and the surrounding area. the 19-year-old ezekiel kelly is in this jail behind me in downtown memphis. we are actually standing on street doing live reports about another story we were here for, a teacher who was kidnapped on friday, her body was found monday, and we saw police cars racing up and down the street with lights and we reali
we have extensive live coverage up. there you see the president of the united states, president biden is at the british embassy right now paying his respects. he s signing the book of condolences at the british embassy in washington. you see him there with the british ambassador to the united states, karen peterson, the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden as well. we ll monitor what the president is doing at the british embassy. we anticipate he ll be seeing something about queen elizabeth, expressing condolences, paying his respects to the united kingdom, to the british monarchy. live coverage coming up. i want to bring in max foster who is at buckingham palace watching all the history unfold for us. max, truly, truly significant moments unfolding. the longest serving head of state in the world, longest serving monarch in british history, something people are struggling to take in even though we knew the inevitable would be coming at some point. the crowds behi
during today s event, the former president echoed the point he made back in 2012, that presidents are renters at the white house, and that their time there is temporary. i ve always described the presidency as ays relay race, y take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle theit runners in thatth race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer toy its highest aspirations. now the reason this event was heldth today and not during trump s term in office, the reason it hasp been a decade since we ve seen one of these unveilings is because for the first time in u.s. history, the incumbent president refused to honor his predecessor with this rite of passage. trump never scheduled the ceremony and given the content, it might have been awkward for trump given his intention of not leaving t
queen elizabeth ii dead. her son, prince charles, is now king charles iii, officially. we learned queen elizabeth s doctors were quote, concerned about her health this morning. it was at the time, an extraordinary statement from a notoriously private buckingham palace. those words sent news outlets like ours into rolling wait and see coverage and thousands of well wishers to buckingham palace itself, watching those railings. that fencing. where all the royals most significant news is so often posted. from the birth of an heir to the death of a monarch. the queen did not pass at buckingham. she passed in scotland at the family s summer vacation home. balmoral castle. here is a post on that gate. you re seeing it here. the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. as the word broke about her health troubles, her family rushed up there. all of her children are at balmoral. prince william is also there, seen driving his uncles through the gates. prince harry is on his way