welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we continue to follow breaking news out of the u.s. state of louisiana. i'm george howell. >> hello. i'm lin da kincaid. the shooting took place 7:30 p.m. local time in lafayette, new orleans. two people were killed and the

shooter killed himself. seven are wounded. three are in a critical condition. just last hour, we heard a teacher helped to save some of those lives pulling the fire alarm when the bullets began to fly. >> an amazing story of heroism. we will talk about that i'm sure more during the hour. police say the shooter is a 58-year-old white male and he apparently act alone, shooting people at random. multiple agencies including the fbi, are on the scene at this hour. the bomb squad, right now, is checking the suspect's vehicle. one witness described the screams that she heard coming from the theater. listen to this. >> when ever a whole bunch of girls started screaming, came out of the movie theater saying someone got shot. >> after that what did you do? >> we didn't know what happened yet. so then we -- the guard or something came to us and told

everybody to get out. so we ran outside. and they had aly di right there and she was in a dress and there was blood everywhere and that's when we realized what was going on. >> officials in lafayette held a news conference where they talked about the course of the investigation. >> we learned more about the heroic efforts inside the theater when the shooting took place. have a listen. >> additional information regarding the persons who were injured. we have nine total of nine persons who were injured and transported to various hospitals, and we have two confirmed fatalities and the suspect is a confirmed fatality. earlier, you probably saw a little bit of excitement on the parking lot and people moving back and you guys had to be moved back. we he indicated the suspect vehicle, or what we think is the suspect vehicle. there was a suspicious package

inside. as a result of that we had to stop all processing work and all investigation. we have backed out of the scene. the louisiana state police bomb squad is now in charge of the scene and has a robot out and they are going to deal with that. so for now, our investigation is on hold until we are absolutely sure that the scene, both inside and outside is safe. >> they he indicated a car of the individual, of the alleged shooter who's now deceased at this time. saw some stuff in there. a dog actually hit on three different locations of the car. out of an abonn dance of caution, we brought in the bomb squad. they are at the car now. they see some stuff in there that looks suspicious. that's all it does is look suspicious. also we want to get in to the trunk. what you are going to hear -- and we moved out of abundance of caution we moved people out of

the area to make sure the scene is safe. officer people safety is our biggest concern at this point. we will go to the theater. it is a crime scene. still have bodies in there. the shooter is still in there. and at least one other person. we need to get back in there, make sure that is clear. there are a couple of objects in there. some dogs hit on earlier. we are going to go in there and check those packages out, x-ray them, make sure there is nothing that concerns us in there. once we get that cleared, hopefully that will take an hour or so to do that. but here's the deal as long as it takes it will take because we want to make sure everyone is safe. we are going to do that and once we secure the scene the next step is to bring the crime lab in there. a lot of information there we want to get accurately and we want to make sure we can get the coroner in there to do the job that his office with will need to do.

ottom line. why would we want to put the information out on that individual until we get all the things we need from him. we need to check out his place, talk to his friends. if there are other concerns there all you are doing is put somebody else's life pos my in danger. that's why we want to get accurate information to you. we will release it as soon as we can. we will verify, the information we have, verify deceased names. we are trying to talk to the families now. we owe them that respect. to talk to the families and let them know what happened. let them know what happened and systemically work with the chiefs office and his detectives to find out what happened, what brought the guy in there? why did he go in by himself, why did he go to the theater and decide to pull out a weapon and harm individuals and actually

kill two individuals? we need to find out it. it's going to take time to do. >> let's bring in lanie lee cook a reporter reporting from the scene. we heard some of the press conference talking about the gunman and suspicious vehicle and the package. what can you tell us about the victims? i understand they range in age from teenagers to people in their 60s. >> right. at this point, that's all we know about the victims, except that one of them was the gunman who's dead. the victims, at least two of them were teachers but other than that we have not received confirmation other than speculation throughout social media. we have not received confirmed information about those who are dead besides they range from young to old. nine were injured. last we heard one was in surgery, in very critical condition but we haven't gotten

updates on those victims. >> lanie, are you near and i would imagine you are, but near the suspect's vehicle? we understand from investigators that at some point people nearby should hear some sort of detonation. are you nearby and have you heard anything to that effect? >> actually about 15 minutes ago, they did detonate the suspicious package. we heard a medium explosion. the suspect's vehicle is on the opposite side of the vehicle -- the parking lot, excuse me. and as soon as a police officer found it they shoved the media away from the scene. we are over at a nearby coffee shop now as a precaution. they have since detonated that and from what i understand they halted processing the crime scene until that was done. now we can assume they have returned to processing the crime scene where apparently the bodies of two victims an the shooters are still inside. >> have you heard anything more about what might have been in that vehicle?

>> we have not heard anything more. apparently there were three things the dog touched on. you heard that in the interview, the press conference. we do not know anything more than that. police say they are not going to give another official update until the crime scene is completely processed. so it could be a while. >> we do know the gunman obviously was a 58-year-old white male. police believe they acted alone. do you know what weapon he used? >> we ino he used a handgun. we do not know more information about that whether there was any other weapons found on the scene. we don't know how many shots he fired. although police say they are processing that still. >> okay. lanie lee cook, we appreciate that update live from the scene. we will talk to you soon. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> louisiana's governor bobby jindal rushed to the scene of the shooting. he is of course asking for prayers for the community there.

>> i think for every parent out that wants to go and hug their kids when this seemingly act of random violence, they are doing the investigation and will get to the bottom of this. when these acts of violence happen in a movie theater. when there is no good reason why this evil should intrude on the lives of families who are out for a night of entertainment, i know a lot of us are horrified and shocked. the great thing about america is when any of us suffers whether one family or community we all suffer. this is a time for us to come together. >> when this shooting happened the movie blockbuster "trainwreck" was playing. the movie star has reacted on twitter. >> amy schumer tweeted this a short time ago. she said "my heart is broken and all of my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in louisiana." >> our thoughts are certainly

with those families that are learning tonight they have loved ones who will not be coming home from a movie. you know a place where you go, innocent people to watch a film. >> as the governor said go home and hug your children. bit of a reality check for people. i don't know. something like this happens out of the blue and you go along for something that you think will be a nice night out and then -- >> i'm reminded again, short time ago we were talking about a similar situation in charleston south carolina. people at a bible study. you know, and then someone walked in and opened fire. let's bring in our law enforcement analyst cedric alexander who's been here on set with us discussing the various angles that investigators are looking in to. first thing i want to talk about, cedric is the fact that we hear from lanie cook on the scene that she heard what seemed to be a detonation. again, officers were concerned about that vehicle. talk to us about that.

would you suspect, would you expect that the crime scene will now become active again and they will get back to that search? >> you can't rule out anything this early in an investigation. here you had someone go to a movie theater shoot and kill innocent people and injure innocent people as well too in a vehicle that has been identified possibly his. that may have some suspicious package inside. so therefore, law enforcement have to move carefully, methodically in order to make some real determination as if that vehicle, the package in it could be some threat. >> as george said we saw the shooting recently in the church. we have seen shootings massacres in schools and massacres in cinemas. president obama has said that he struggles with the gun control law unless the u.s. and the fact there are so many unwilling to change those laws. he spoke to the bbc on thursday and admitted this was the most

frustrating part of his job. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> the one area where i feel that i have been most frustrated and most stymied is the fact that the united states of america, is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws. even in the face of repeated mass killings. you know, if you look at the number of american s killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it is less than 100. if you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence it's in the tens of thousands. >> that's right. the tens of thousands. we know that 30,000 americans die from gun violence every year. at least 10,000 are murdered.

others are accidental shootings, suicides. what will it take, do you think for the u.s. to reassess gun control laws. >> let me tell you, being a law enforcement official here in dekalb county georgia where i'm responsible for 700,000 citizens and police officers that go out and do their job every day and certainly we do believe people should have the right to exercise the right to bear arms. as the president has indicated, there needs to be a revisiting of the conversation around gun control laws in this country. not to take away the right of good innocent gun carriers, if you will but how do we begin to look at how do we protect innocent people in this country and keep guns out of the hands of those that should not have it. >> surprises me so many states will sell a gun to someone with no background check whatsoever. >> that maybe the case. maybe some laws need to be fight

tightened but there needs to be conversation on both sides of the aisle on how to address the issue and i think the american people have to stand up and demand more from government in regards of having this conversation. we want the rights of those who carry guns lelly and who exercise that constitutional right that they are born with to be able to have that right but at the same time we have to make sure we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people. here again, this conversation needs to be revisited and it needs to be revisited very soon as well. so the president's frustration is actually the frustration of millions of americans across this country. there just needs to be some conversation on the hill in regards to how we are going to work through this very complex and convoluted issue of gun control. >> as we talked about charleston chattanooga, recently this issue of how to protect these soft targets or these places where innocent

people go and find themselves in these terrible situations from a law enforcement perspective. can you really protect these soft targets? >> certainly is a challenge. i think we have each one of these events we can't continue to talk about them. we have to take some measures some different types of measures in order to protect our citizenry. you take the case more recently here in chattanooga where we had five u.s. servicemen killed and were not able to protect themselves or each other. very soft targets there at the reciting site. here we are looking at another soft target. someone yet to be determined who the individual is what was his reasoning behind it wa we are seeing on a regular basis is the continuing types of gun violence that is -- that is occurring in this country. and it is becoming more and more frequent it appears. each day, each week each month in this continue and that's alarming and we're going to have

to have real serious dialogue and conversation about this. >> explain what the open carry policy is. i understand it exists in louisiana. the same law which exists here in georgia. >> and some other states as well across the country. exactly that t. open gun laws. >> what does it mean for our international viewers. >> you can carry a weapon up on your person openly. virtually in any environment except where it is designated that you cannot. i am not going to contest that law. what i am going to say is we need to have further conversation around gun laws in this country and how do we better protect citizens in this country but also making sure that legal gun owners law-abiding citizens in this country, have an opportunity to exercise their right as well too. >> i'm sure we will continue this conversation. cedric alexander, thank you for

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lafayette, louisiana where two people are dead after a shooting in a movie theater. the gunman killed himself. at least seven wounded. >> investigators are not releasing the name of the shooter, but they say he has a criminal history that dates back several years. louisiana's governor bobby jindal is asking for prayers for the lafayette community. a man wo was inside the building an across the hall from the movie theater where the actual shooting occurred talked to us about exactly what he heard. i want you to listen here. >> we were in a movie and an alarm came on and told us to evacuate to the nearest exit. when we evacuated i saw a woman laying on the cement shot, waiting on the ambulance to get here. then i spoke to another guy who was actually in the movie theater that the shooting happened.

what he said was they were sitting down right before the movie started. it was quiet. no argument, nothing. nothing going on at all and a guy just stood up and opened fire. and everybody scrambled and the guy was just kind of at ease standing there just shooting, never really attempting to leave. >> within the last hour the investigators were focused on the suspect's vehicle. they suspended the investigation until they could determine the nature of a suspicious package in thae that vehicle. we understand that here within the last 30 minutes or so officers detonated that and the investigation continues and we will continue, of course, to follow events in lafayette. other breaking news we are following, turkey's air force has bombed isis targets inside of syria. the turkish official said fighter jets three three isis locations in a village, one kilometer or less than a mile away from the turkey-syria

border. the official says militants have been gathering weapons and explosives in that area. >> the u.s. is close to getting access to new locations within turkey to launch air strikes against isis. senior u.s. officials say discussions have been going on for months than countries just struck a final agreement. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr as the details. >> reporter: u.s. officials say there's now a hand shake agreement between the united states and turkey for the u.s. and the coalition to have access to bases in turkey from which they can launch air strikes against isis in syria and iraq. key on the list is access to insir lickin incirlik air base. they are trying to strike targets in northern syria and isis stronghold. it would be a much shorter flight time than the current one they have to have from iraq or

the persian gulf the only places they can fly these lethal missions from in to targets in southern syria. the deal has to be finalized. both militaries have to work out all of the details, how it will happen what kinds of missions will be flown, whether the u.s. will be able to fly missions in support of the kurds that that consideration troubles the turks quite a bit, we are told. still not a final deal. the ink is not dry on all of this. there could be changes but if it can all be agreed to it is a significant step forward, officials say, for the coaliton effort against isis. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> and now it has been determined that isis is now a bigger threat to the united states than al qaeda. that is according to the fbi director james comey. >> that's right. in an interview with cnn's wolf blitzer, comey compared isis militants to needles in a hay

stack and said the terror group provokes attacks through social media in a way that al qaeda never has. >> is that now a big er threat to the u.s. homeland than al qaeda? >> yes. yeah. the threat that isil presents poses to the united states is very different this kind type degree than al qaeda. isil is not your parents' al qaeda. it is a very different model. by virtue of that model it's currently the threat we are worrying about in the homeland most of all. >> why is isis so powerful? >> well, they have adopted a mod le that takes advantage of social media in a way to crowd source terrorism. they have vested invested pushing a message of poising primarily through twitter but social media that is a siren song with two dimensions. they are preaching to troubled souls, urging them to join their

so-called call fate in syria or iraq and if you can't join kill where you are and twitter is a valuable enterprise because it works to sell shoes or ideas, it works to sell this message to troubled souls. if you had to consume their propaganda you had to find it somewhere on the web with read their magazine. if you wanted to talk to a terrorist you may send an e-mail in to their magazine and hope somebody answers you. isil changed that model entirely because isil is buzzing on your hip. that message is being pushed all day long. if you want to talk to a terrorist, they are right there on twitter direct messaging for you to communicate. >> still to come screams were heard coming from a louisiana movie theater when a gunman opened fire on thursday night. >> we will have more information, more details from the shooting in lafayette, louisiana. the breaking news as this broadcast continues worldwide on cnn international and cnn usa. i heard i could call angie's list if i needed work done around my house at a fair price.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we continue to follow the breaking news out of the u.s. state of louisiana. a shooting inside of a movie theater where three are dead including the gunman. police say he died from a self-inflicked gunshot wound. >> they say the shooter was a 58-year-old white male and they plooef he acted alone. at this stage they are not releasing more details. a bomb squad and k-9 unit have been searching his car and have detonated a suspicious package. seven moviegoers are wounded and are at the hospital. the first call came in 7:30 p.m.

local time. the shooter is identified as a 58-year-old white male. seven are injured, three are dead including the gunman. >> police say the shooter died of a self inflicted gunshot wound. we are hearing three of the victims are in critical condition. governor of louisiana bobby jindal spoke earlier about the people taking cover during the shooting and he met with some of them at the hospital. have a listen. >> today is a day that not only angers but saddens all of us. this never imagine would happen anyone. never imagined would happen in louisiana or lafayette.

m, an example of fwhapd the theater. i was visiting with several family members and friends. a couple of teachers in the theater tonight. one was shot and one released tonight. her friend literally jumped over her. in her account actually saved her life. if she hadn't done that her friend got shot the fellow teacher got shot she believed the bullet would have hit her in the head. the second one, whose life was saved even though shot she had the presence of mind to full the fire alarm to help save other lives. as we learn more about the details tonight we will hear about acting of selfless heroism people trying to help each other and save other lives. these are two teachers to watch a movie during the last few days of summer we'll be right back, getting ready for the new semester they never imagined their outing would be interrupted by this senseless act of violence.

this awful tragedy. say saw family members hoping for the best. they were waiting for information on their loved ones. they believed they would be able to make recoveries. right now they want to know and they are waiting for the doctors to tell them that. they are praying, fearful, anxious. the best thing we have heard from folks all over the country, literally all over the country, now is a great time to send your thoughts, prayers and love. this is a resilient community, lafayette will come together. i can't name every individual and folks here but we have been joined by federal, state, local folks and i want to close by thanking our law enforcement officials. you heard me say this earlier tonight. they ran toward danger, not away from it. the first officers could hear gunshots and still ran toward that theater. they do an amazing job protecting us every day. i'm grateful for their heroism in this. i think we will hear other stories from folks inside the theater as those details come out. keep those family members in your thoughts and prayers. i know there is a lot of anxiety in the emergency room and a lot of folks waiting to hear good news about their loved ones.

>> this night we are hearing about a shooting inside of a movie theater and the governor there describing these acts of heroism. that played out. keep in mind we have heard this before. almost three years ago to the day, a similar deadly shootinged in of a movie theater in aurora colorado. >> back then 12 were killed 70 wounded when a gunman opened fire at a crowded screening of the batman movie "the dark knight rises." we spoke to brian stelter about reaction to the new shooting. >> obviously whenever something like this happens at a movie theater it does affect the industry and creates concern in the industry. questions about security. you were describing aurora three years ago. it has become one of those atrocities are you just say it with one word aurora. it really shocked the conscious of the country three years ago because so many were killed in

such a usually happy, you know entertaining place. i think that is what so unique about a crime that is committed in a movie theater. people go there implicitly believing they are safe enough to sit in a dark theater with strangers to be entertained. to in some cases see violence on the screen but know they are safe there. i think once again, people will in the coming hours and days wonder if they are safe when they go to the movie theater. the short answer is yes. obviously for the most part when we see crimes like this, they are obviously the exception, not the rule. certainly in the aftermath of the aurora massacre, we did not see a big downturn in ticket sales or a dramatic change in people's movie-going habits. there were changes in security in the wake of aurora and maybe we will hear about that again in in the wake of this mass shooting in louisiana. for example, there were more guards in some cases, more security checks at theaters, but we have not seen a real change in the way movie theaters

operate. many of the security measures that were implemented were implemented quietly. there wasn't a lot of publicity around them. movie theaters didn't want to publicize them. at the moment, i have a feeling we will see the same reaction to this most recent tragedy. >> at this hour this investigation continues. investigators taking inventory of the crime scene. and tonight making death notifications. >> we know that local police state police fbi are at the scene and will continue to work through the night combing that crime scene. we understand two of the victims plus the gunman's body is still inside the movie theater. >> it's an active scene for sure. we will bring you details as we get them. we'll be right back after this.

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welcome back. u.s. president barack obama is on his way to a country eager to

welcome home its so-called son. he is traveling to kenya, his father's homeland where he still has family. >> he will be speaking at the global entrepreneurship summit. although he has been there several times before this is his first trip as the president of the united states. >> excitement for this historic visit can be seen just about everywhere. shops are filled with colorful t-shirts the picture of the president can be found just about ever where the capital. joining us now is jeffrey smith an advocacy officer with the rfk partners for human rights. thank you for taking time with us. >> of course. >> as president obama visits this country, talk to us first of all, as he arrives in kenya, there's concern about his security and we know there are many things in place. what do you make of this? >> that is certainly a concern when that news broke that the president's travel plan had been leaked and was open to the

public particularly given the precarious security environment that is in kenya. we are familiar with the westgate mall attack which the mall just recently reopened in the past week. the attack at the university. cause for concern. >> at the same time the president's officials are saying they are not concerned or changing their plans. >> i don't think there is reason for serious concern. i think the president's entourage has everything under control. i don't think there is any cause for serious concern about the president's safety. i think he will be safe. >> it's obviously -- this is a country that's dealing with al shabaab just across the border. in the name of terror tracking down on terror you see what many say is a crackdown on civil liberties. >> yeah absolutely. there's been a massive crackdown, particularly over the past year under the guise of the

war on terror in kenya. that's indisputable. for instance, the government recently deregistered 500 non-government organizations in the country. they have frozen the bank accounts for instance of two prominent human rights organizations, muslims for human rights and hockey africa. two organizations with an impeccable standing that have no ties whatsoever to terrorism. also you have you know impunity for much of the crimes that have been committed by the security forces. impunity prevails. there's no independent oversight mechanism in the country to deal with that. and yeah it's serious concern. it is also not entirely surprising if we harken back to the speechs on the stuch. he signalled this and said there would be a crackdown on civil society and followed through on

that. donald trump predicts he's going to win the latino vote in the 2016 election. he visited laredo texas at the u.s. mexico border on thursday. >> his trip follows controversial comments. sporting a white cap emblazoned with make america great again, the u.s. tycoon insisted hispanics, "are going to love trump." >> i think i will win the hispanic vote. i have thousands of mexicans and hispanics. and i don't know if you saw the poll but they just did a big poll in nevada the state of nevada. i'm way ahead. more importantly as far as i'm concerned, i'm way, way ahead with the hispanics, well in to the 30s and i think second is like 11. i have a great relationship. over the years, thousands and thousands of hispanics have worked for me and now work for

me and the relationship is very good. >> despite that prediction candidate trump is not sitting so well with some mexican-americans in laredo. >> as gary tuchman discovered the outspoken, controversial tycoon encountered plenty of critics during his four-hour border visit. >> when donald trump walked through the airport at laredo texas, there were supporters but also many detractors. the city after all, is 95% hispanic. many came to the airport chanting in spanish, the people united can never be defeated. >> what did you tell mr. trump when he was here standing in front of me and i said look i have a lot of chosen words for the man but cannot say them on camera. but one thing i would tell him is get the hell out of here. >> the republican presidential candidate hung around visiting the nearby mexican border a few weeks after offending many with

his broad statement about undocumented immigrants being rapists and criminals. >> we will not tolerate offensive remarks that trump has made. >> reporter: this woman is the - texas director of the league of united latin-american citizens. >> i think he needs to apologize or withdrawal his nomination as president. >> reporter: many protesters wanted to demonstrate at the border where trump was paying his visit. the signs say open but it is not open. look at the road. it has been shut down to traffic because of donald trump's visit. that security move stopped demonstrators from showing up and further angered some of them. meanwhile, although they are in the minority there are mexican-americans here who support donald trump. >> you tell me -- >> the woman in this white who got in to arguments with others today is rosa. >> i like what he is doing, i love what he will be doing. i hope he gets his intentions.

i'm praying for all of his intentions. what he is talking about, of what he is going to do. i hope they go through. >> you like donald trump? >> yes, sir, i do. >> you are mexican-american. >> yes, i'm mexican-american. >> which when he talks about undocumented immigrants being rapists and criminals. >> not at all. he is talking about the truth. >> in over parts of laredo like this restaurant which is very well known in town it's hard to find similar sentiments. >> that's what people are upset. he is trying to get support. he came to the wrong place. >> cnn, laredo texas. >> you are watching cnn newsroom. earth is a little less lonely. we will tell you why nasa researchers are saying that. just ahead, stick with us here at cnn.

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welcome back. we want to update you on a shooting inside of a movie theater in lafayette, louisiana. officials say three are dead including the gunman. police say he died from a self-inflict ed gunshot wound. >> they say the shooter was a

58-year-old white male. they believe he acted alone. seven moviegoers we understand at least seven, are wounded at a hospital. a bomb squad and the k-9 unit have been searching the suspect's car and have detonated a suspicious package. we will have more on this breaking news story next hour. nasa's space observatory has spotted what it calls earth's bigger oldest kouzen. >> the first planet that's about the size of earth, found inhabitable zone in a star similar to our sun and for more on this interstellar discovery here's joel -- >> reporter: hello, earth. this is your long lost cousin in a search for a world like ours a breakthrough from a galaxy far far away. this is kepler 452-b. not the spitting image of planet earth, though. this distance relative larger, 60% bigger to be exact and more

than a billion years older. but it's the distinct similarities between the planets which have nasa scientists extremely excited. it's located within the so-called habitable zone. just like our planet kepler 452 b sits in an area around a sun-like star where water can exist on a planet's surface. the year 385 days long e and nasa says there's every chance its surface is rocky. all of these qualities adding up to a potential recipe to broad life. >> 20, 30 years from now we will tell signatures of life and atmospheres of these planets. >> as for getting anywhere near this potential earth 2.0, probably not in our lifetime. 452b is 1400 lightyears away and while the kepler project discovered some 1,000 planets so

far it is coming at a cost of $600 million. for the time being this discovery may very well be just like the long lost cousin who lives a little too far away from everyone else. cnn. >> he put it bests, just a little too far away. for more on this we will bring in derek van dam. how far away is the planet? could we visit soon? >> i don't think it will happen anytime soon. you heard joel say it was 1400 light years away. this is the distance that light travels in one year. which is roughly 6 trillion miles. if you times that by 1400 it's just too far. >> but we did. >> one day. >> lynda and george, we had a lot of fun. the producer and i doing these mathematical cuelations. we love to do this stuff. we are scientists. we took what is the average

male let's call him frank. here he is on the screen. he weighs about 175 pounds or 80 kilograms. we determined on kepler 452b, the new, quote unquote habitle plan fete he would weigh roughly two times what he would weigh here on earth because gravity is about two times as strong. with all of that gravity weighing down on him it won't take long for him to walk around the planet and shed that weight osks. this particular planet is fascinating because it's so far away. but it's also met unique criteria being similar to earth. that is it is similar to earth's size. it rotates around a sun-like star and it's located in what is known as the habitable zone the, well, the sweet spot we'll call it in n. the nasa world they call it the goldilocks zone. it is around a sun or star like

in our solar system that is just right for us to have what is life-giving substance, that being water on the surface of the planet. earth fits that if we are too close to the sun it is uninhabitable or too far away it is simply too hot. you can see why it is so important to have that perfect distance from light radiate aring source that being the sun. we found several other earth-sized planets outside of the within the solar system. kepler has been successful in doing this. this particular one has been unique. to put it in to context for you we have had roughly four planets within our galaxy here. that's our quote unquote are habitable. it is how do we get there when they are so far away? 1400 trillion mile -- 1400 light years away. >> do we want to get there?

we weigh twice as a much right? >> there's a lot of problems on this planet. we might need a back up option. >> kepler 452b, that's where i will meet you guys next. >> fascinating. >> thank you, derek. >> thank you for watching cnn i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. ♪ how's it progressing with the prisoner? he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. as you were... where were we?

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. welcome to us in is u.s. and from around the world. we continue on a story of a shooting rampage in louisiana. >> this took place inside a movie theater. it happened around 7:30 central time 8:30 eastern time in the city of lafayette near new orleans. >> two people were killed then the shooter turned the gun on himself. others remain in the hospital in critical condition. a teacher help had save some of the lives by pulling the fire alarm when the