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welcome. bianca is off again today. i'm max foster. just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> vibrations in your chest and the ringing of guns going off. it's going and going. >> people are dying. families are suffering. our community is traumatized. >> congress has no right to my testimony. >> the doj is seeking testimony from former vice president mike pence. what does mike pence say when he's in that witness box? does he say, i felt pressured? millions of americans this weekend, there is rain and snow in the forecast across the central u.s. 48.7 million people driving 50 miles or more over the next five days. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo.

>> this thursday, november 24th, 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast where today's thanksgiving holiday is being over shadowed by a dark reality. with more than 600 mass shootings in the country just this year. that's the second highest total ever. we still have more in the month to go. as americans sit down at their dinner tables with families today, there are many who won't see their children, brothers or sisters. the latest mass shooting in ches chesapeake, virginia, has claimed six lafs, all walmart employees gunned down by a co-worker late on tuesday. one of the victims was just 16 years old. police identified the gunman as 31-year-old andre bing. here's one employee's harrowing account at what happened. >> at first it didn't even look real. it didn't register as real.

the only thing that made it real was the vibrations hitting your chest and the ringing from the gun going off. and it just kept going and going and going. and i got under the table. the sound of the droplets, the -- it replays and replays and replays and replays of how much blood was coming off the different chairs. it was making a rhythm and it was one of the most disturbing things. i think we'll never let go of that. >> investigators are digging through evidence of the gunman's background to try to find a motive. cnn's diane gallagher has more. >> little bit of koocoward.

>> reporter: the shooting happened just before the store closed for the night. this video was taken by employee kevin harper. he says the gunman was a store manager. >> just left the break room, [ bleep ] come in there capping people up in there. >> a manager came from around the corner. he never entered the break room. he stood in the doorway and he just opened fire to anyone in the room. he looked at me and he shot near my head. it was about inches away. there were people just dropping to the floor. everybody was screaming, gasping and, yeah, he just walked away after that. >> reporter: the chesapeake police chief provided a time line of what unfolded. >> our 911 dispatch received a call at 10:12 p.m. the first officers arrived on scene in two minutes at 10:14 and entered approximately 10:16. the scope be was declared safe

by 11:20 p.m. >> reporter: police say the gunman was a 31-year-old manager. authorities say he was armed with a handgun and multiple magazines. what remains unclear is why. >> we don't know at this time. the investigation is ongoing. there's no clear motive at this time. >> i am new but i had heard from the very beginning he was one to watch out for. he was really standoffish. he gave a loner vibe. >> two of the victims found in the break room, another near the front of the store. three others died at the hospital. this woman's relative who works at walmart was injured in the shooting moments after he started his shift. >> he went in at 10 p.m. tonight and we received a phone call -- well, his wife received a phone call about 10:18 saying that he had been shot. he clocks in at 10 so he hadn't even been there 10 minutes. >> reporter: walmart released a statement saying it is shocked and it is praying.

this is the second mass shooting in virginia in two weeks. something virginia governor glenn youngkin addressed today. >> this is a horrendous event. it's a horrendous, senseless act of violence. >> reporter: it's also important that we center the victims in this horrific shooting. the six of them ranged in age from 16 to 70 years old. according to walmart, they were all employed by the company. their names are lorenzo gamble, brian pendleton, kelli pyle, randall blevins. tyneka johnson and a 16-year-old boy the city has not released because he is a minor. police say there is still not a motive they know of and it remains under investigation. diane gallagher, cnn, chesapeake, virginia. the virginia walmart shooting is reviving debate of gun control. we spoke with several activists about what can be done. >> so what we really need is a

federal law that really regulates guns in this country, and it has to be based on the states that have the strongest gun laws not states that have the weakest gun laws. so until we have that and we get that accomplished, we're going to continue to see these mass shootings that take the lives of children and young people and adults and your mother, your father, your daughter, your son. the it will just continue. and if it hasn't come to your door yet, you've been lucky, but it will. the way we're going, it will come to your door. so you better start speaking up and doing something about it now before you -- it's too late. >> i think people are at the point where they're going to march somewhere to make sure that legislators understand they're sick and tired of this. they're not going to put up with it anymore. i think a lot of it is going to be felt at the polls coming up at subsequent elections because people understand now we have got to elect people who care

about whether or not our constituents live or die. >> the suspect in the mass shooting at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado is being held without bond. the ruling came down during wednesday's court hearing. cnn's nick watt is in colorado with new details. we are learning about the suspect now. >> reporter: well, the suspect made a first appearance in court wednesday by video link from this jail house behind me. the suspect was seated throughout, slumped. two lawyers standing. the suspect wearing an orange jump suit and also heavy bruising around the head. remember that the suspect was taken down in that club by a patron. two other people, a young naval officer and a trans woman were then kicking the suspect in the head. heavy, heavy bruising. the suspect slurring words. didn't say much. just confirmed name, said yes when asked if they had seen the video detailing rights and no when asked if they had any

further questions. now the suspect's lawyers have said in court papers that the suspect now identifies as nonbinary, using they/them pronounce. during this hearing the judge did not use they/them pronounce. the da asked will this non-binary have any impact. a categorical no. the da said this is a defendant, nonbinary, binary, no impact whatsoever. we also spoke today to a neighbor of the suspect. not just a neighbor, a friend. they bonded over video games, played together for hours. this young man xavier crass said the suspect never once, never once mentioned being nonbinary. on occasion he would have outbursts he said from a place of anger. once at least an outburst was directed towards the gay community. apparently the suspect said they hated gay people and used a slur

to describe them but krause said more often than not these outbursts were directed at other races. now crass told us the suspect appeared very, very proud of the weapons, the firearms, showed them to crass and crass said weapons like these make me a little uncomfortable at which point he said, bro, it's not the guns, it's the people you've got to be scared of. back to you. today's thanksgiving day holiday in the u.s. 55 million people are braving packed airports and highway traffic crisscrossing the country. one tradition is the macy's thanksgiving day parade in new york, of course. officials are making a safe celebration their top priority. >> at this time i will tell you there are no credible or specific threats to new york city, to the thanksgiving day holiday or any of the surrounding events. i want to thank our civilians

and uniformed officers in the nypd for what they do every single day, particularly now around the holidays where they are away from their own families. members of the nypd work deli gently so that everyone who lives in, works in, and visits this city can enjoy events like this and feel safe in this city. >> big parade features marching bands, majorettes, balloons. mayor eric adams says it's about tourism urging people to do a lot of shopping. he referred to the balloons as the only kind of inflation we like. for those of you still traveling today, cnn meteorologist derek van dam will have the forecast for you. here at chicago's o'hare airport, officials are expecting this year to be busier than last year. that falls in line with what

we're seeing across the country. already millions have passed through tsa checkpoints up from the same few days over 2021 but down just slightly at the very least comparable from the pre-pandemic levels of 2019. that said, the vast majority of people will be driving. around 49 million projected by aaa, which is slightly above last year, slightly below pre-pandemic levels of 2019. when you look at specifically flying, we're expecting air travel to meet up 8% compared to last year. over the next few days aaa is estimating that this is going to be the third busiest thanksgiving travel period and transportation secretary pete buttigieg was at o'hare a little bit earlier and he said he was cautiously optimistic about how things were going to go over the course of this week. while we expect some weather to trip things up, so far so

goomptd omar jimenez, chicago o'hare international airport. max, we have plenty to be thankful for this holiday weekend. that also includes the weather. at least if you're on the east coast our major i-95 corridor from boston, new york, d.c. all looking pleasant. as you are hitting the road to see grandma, grandpa, the family, no real travel concerns. you can see precipitation forming across the central portions of the u.s. that could cause travel delays across the deep south especially when you consider the high volume of people traveling. 55 million americans expected to hit the roads and skies. atlanta hartsfield, they're anticipating 2.5 million travelers this weekend. so many gather around to watch the macy's thanksgiving day parade and the weather forecast couldn't be more perfect. temperatures in the middle 40s. it's the wind so crucial considering there are so many floats and balloons that would be impacted by a strong gust.

that is not the case today. high pressure in control of the weather. that's going to allow for tranquil conditions. there's the possibility of rainfall across the deep south and picking up moisture in the form of snow throughout the rockies. eventually from friday to saturday, we have a winter storm watch from eastern portions of new mexico and into the texas panhandle. the snow showers ongoing in and around denver. this is more substantial being rainfall. even a few embedded thunderstorms from dallas, houston, oklahoma city. you can see the moisture picking up through the course of the day through the deep south. that moisture will spread eastward for the day on friday. if you are traveling home for ma'amly and friends. you'll want to get out the door. along the east coast as well, we'll have some precipitation move through. you'll see this developing a secondary cold front and pressure will bring heavier rainfall across the east coast. more for the sunday and monday time frame. here's the forecast accumulation

and a small chance of some flash flooding as well. here's the forecast weather. travel delays anticipated across the east coast. be prepared for that, max. back to you. >> thank you. thank you to derek. now cnn projects alaska democrat mary paltola will hang onto the u.s. house seat she won a few months ago in a special election after once again repeating republican sarah pal lynn and nick baga. the palin was strike a political comeback. u.s. justice department wants mike pence to testify about his former boss. sources tell cnn they're asking the former vice president to provide information on donald trump's efforts to prevent the transfer of power after the 2020 election and the transfer of

power. caitlyn palance has the details. >> reporter: justice department prosecutors have reached out to former vice president mike pence seeking to now make him a possible key witness in this ongoing criminal investigation around january 6th and the 2020 election p related to donald trump, his white house and top circles. this is an important step that prosecutors took several weeks ago. we don't know what the outcome of this will be, but our reporting, evan perez and i have confirmed, a "new york times" story and on our own believe that pence is now open to discussing a possible agreement with the fbi, with the justice department to be able to give some sort of testimony. fl so this is a really significant step that builds on quite a few things that have been happening in this justice department in the investigation in recent weeks. we know that pence's deputies, marc short and grigg jacob, who

are compelled to testify before a grand jury, they have shared what was happening in the west wing and in their offices around that point in time, january 6th, the capitol riot, and we also know that pence in recent weeks has put out a book that divulges some particular conversations he had directly with donald trump. those are the sorts of things we have not spoken about before. he had not been willing to testify in the house select committee's investigation, speak to congress about what his side of the story was, what he witnessed those days but as he was in his book tour writing an op ed for "the wall street journal," in talking about those things, those are the types of anecdotes that the justice department may be seeking to have -- to hear from him directly himself. so we're going to have to see how much the new special counsel jack smith is going to be pushing forward on this. right now we're seeing a very aggressive step by prosecutors out of washington.

caitlyn polantz, cnn. can donald trump exert executive privilege to keep mike pence from testifying? is a cnn analyst explains why it might not be possible. >> it's a stronger case of executive privilege when you are dealing with two different branches. congress trying to get information versus the justice department, which is part of the executive branch, conducting a criminal investigation and then using the court system to facilitate that investigation. so there's a huge difference there in terms of the ability to use executive privilege. the fact that the former vice president has also written about the things that he might talk about in an interview or testimony in his book would even make arguments that he made on behalf of the former president even harder because if it's already out there, if he's already communicated that publicly, then if he were to receive a subpoena to testify and then were to challenge it

and use executive privilege, the fact that he's already put some of the information out in the public would make that an even weaker case. that's not getting into the fact executive privilege is in the domain of the current president. now a new warning about a possible rail strike that could have a domino effect across the u.s. economy. experts say there will be a huge price to say if freight workers walk off their jobs. police are promising justice in the unsolved murders of the four college students in idaho. japan had never beaten germany before until history was made on wednesday at the world cup. ahead, the stunning comeback plus the wonderful act of human decency by the japanese fan. >> reporter: another day, another former world champion.

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>> the second half, two quick goals. japan deserved it. >> we under estimate japan. you win. congratulations. good luck. >> german fans in shock as the blue trailed after the first half, scored twice in the second. meanwhile, we're minutes away from today's first match between switzerland and cameroon. they're waiting portugal's game with christian reinaldo. we are live from doha and a close look at japan's unexpected

upset. what's so gripping about this tournament so far, there are so many surprises. >> reporter: yeah, max. another day. another couple of games and results that tickle the taste buds ahead of thanksgiving for anybody that's celebrating. japan's takuna asuna, the jaguar as he's known, described it as the dream come true as he scored that goal that saw his team come from behind and beat germany, the four-time world champions, for the first time. they thoroughly, as those fans say, thoroughly deserved the victory as well. at times this felt like a japan home game. they had such a strong showing of support inside the stadium. and the fans were a great deal of support around the world where we saw the tradition nal picking up of the bin bag and clearing the ground of the

letter rather than heading straight out here to celebrate. there was a little win for germany of the fifa world cup governing body. so upset, they've opted not to punish germany for the showing, that emotive showing of them covering their mouths before the match having not been allowed without punishment to wear the love arm bands. they took that emotive stance to promote diversity and inclusion. they will not be psy lepsed, but from a footballing perspective they are now really facing a lot of work to do if they want to avoid a second straight embarrassing group stage exit, particularly because their next match is against a spanish side who were in the seventh heaven last night quite literally with a thumping victory over costa

rica. the ominous for the rest. speaking of ominous, well, brazil. many people pre-tournament favorite kick off their world cup campaign a little bit later today looking for that what would be record sixth world cup victory. they're on a run. they've only been beaten once in 29 matches and the brazilian fans who are here even more excited than they were because of that defeat by argentina. there have been some renditions of ciao, messi. they take on serbia. the game we are heading to, that one you mentioned, portugal against ghana. all eyes on one man, cristiano reinaldo to see what kind of form he'll be in, what kind of disruption that acrimonious departure from manchester united would have caused within the trp

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killing six people including a 16-year-old boy. the u.s. justice department is seeking testimony from former vice president mike pence. sources say pence may be open to providing testimony. more on that ahead in "early start." most of the ukrainian capitol is still without power after russia launched a large scale assault on the country's critical infrastructure. ukraine says russian forces lau launched 70 missiles. 41 were intercepted. those that hit knocked out water and power. russian strikes also slammed into hospital -- a hospital maternity ward killing a newborn baby. the international rescue committee has condemned that attack in the zaporizhzhia region saying women and children continue to pay a high price. following the strikes ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy

urged an emergency meeting to support the ukrainian peace formula saying there should be no room for terror in the world. cnn correspondents are tracking all of these developments. fred pleitgen is standing by in moscow. selma is live in london. fred, what is the motivation for this latest round of attacks? >> reporter: hi there, max. it clearly is part of russia's war effort in ukraine. it was interesting because at that u.n. security council meeting we were showing on our screens, the russian representative said those attacks, as he put it, will continue until, as he said, ukraine adopts a more realistic stance. he accused the west of fueling the conflict by providing weapons to ukraine and said the russians are going to continue to strike ukraine's critical infrastructure as long as the support continues. the russians believe this is part of their wider strategy. a lot of it, max, is for domestic consumption. in russia the attacks are

something that's prominently played here on russian state tv. also playing clips from ukrainian television talking about the fact that there is no power, there is no water, that people are very cold and essentially trying to say that russia -- that it shows that russia is maded headway in what is called the special military operations. this is also, max, one of the ways in public opinion the russians have managed to put the defeat in kherson by showing they are striking that infrastructure. one of the interesting things that we've heard was from vladimir putin's spokesman. he late last night was in armenia for a summit there. there dmitry peskov said the special military operations will continue, meaning the war in ukraine. that its success is not in doubt. that's clearly one of the things the russians are trying to show with the attacks. they are clearly part of the strategy that russia has in ukraine as well, max. >> selma, zelenskyy going to the

u.n. security council. russia sits on the u.n. security council. they're not going to give him the decision he wants. >> throughout the conflict his one and most important goal has been to be loud. we hear from him every single day whether he's directly addressing his people or whether he's speaking to a parliament in europe or the u.n. security council. yesterday was the day for him to voice his anger, voice his opposition. let's just take stock of what happened. over 70 missiles. over 70 missiles fired by russia towards ukraine. many of those, as you mentioned, were struck down. those that did hit their targets, that meant every ukrainian was cut off from power in the capitol kyiv that meant the same people didn't have running water. we're not just talking about people's homes. in transportation, think what keeps a country running which is water and power.

that's why president zelenskyy was at the u.n. security council accusing russia again of crimes against its people. >> translator: energy terrorism is comparable to the use of weapons of mass destruction. when we have the temperature below zero and scores of millions of people without energy supplies, without heating, without water, this is an obvious crime against humanity. >> reporter: now repairs were going on all through the night. some of those services have been destroyed. >> amazing, isn't it. >> amazing and these workers have to work 24 hours in the cold with little lighting, in the darkness. remember, this infrastructure now, it's so precarious. it's so weak. it's sustained weeks of attacks. it is ever more difficult to repair every time. that's why president zelenskyy is saying bring me generators and transmitters. it's about infrastructure support for ukraine as they bolster themselves. >> selma, thank you.

also fred in moscow. there are no changes yet in the deadly backpack explosion in jerusalem. authorities say two explosions went off less than 30 minutes apart thursday killing a teenager and wounding 18 other people. hours after the attack hundreds attended the funeral for the 15-year-old who was killed. the prime minister said the bombings were more sophisticated than usual. there's a concern this could be a prelude to more similar attacks to come. rescuers in indonesia pulled a 6-year-old boy alive from monday's earthquake. his parents and grandmother are among the 271 people though who were killed. the boy survived unhurt protected whiby a mattress. a woman who started having contractions during the earthquake has given birth to a son. she was evacuated. the baby's father said he's feeling overjoyed and blessed.

a week and a half after four college students were found brutally stabbed to death in idaho, police still have no suspects. the university's security forth have been urged to stay vigilant. police are determined to give the victim's justice. >> we continue moving forward to understand why this occurred in our community and seek answers to bring justice for the victims and their loved ones because they deserve it. i personally want you to know we care and we will continue to work hard to get these answers for these individuals. >> in some ways this took our innocence. i would tell students that you need to stay with a friend. i know that the university staff is looking at different options to increase some of the safety on campus and providing certain options to students. so, yeah, going forward there's

a lot of things maybe we wish we would have done before but we need to start doing now. >> investigators continue to search the crime scene and will be working through the thanksgiving holiday. they're also yet to find the murder weapon. just ahead iphone maker backs down after violent be worker protests at a raucous chinese facility. we'll have a live report ahead. the controversies are coming pretty much every day at twitter. we'll tell you about elon musk's latest mocking tweet and his now deleted follow-up.

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massive iphone factory located in the central chinese city. you have fox con workers fed up and furious with their pay, with covid-19 restrictions and the sanitary conditions inside this factory. fox con earlier today announced it's willing to offer 1400 u.s. dollars to recent hires if they quit and leave the facility immediately. now 1400 u.s. is roughly equivalent to two months' salary for the workers. even the term fox con is heavily sensored online. in china right now the dramatic online videos have been circulating. in them we see the tense standoff between the fox con workers against the hazmat suit clad security forces. you see the workers tear down barriers and hurl them and in live streams that have since been taken down you can hear the workers describe and complain about the conditions they're up against inside the closed loop system inside the factory, the

facility there in zhengzhou. they say taking care of the health and safety of employees is the primary operating principle the group has always adhered to. we understand the concerns of some of the employees about possible changes and the policy. our team has been looking into the matter, unquote. now cnn has also learned that apple has staff on the ground in zhengzhou at the fox con factory. they are saying we are reviewing the situation and working closely with foxconn to ensure their employees' concerns are addressed, unquote. max, we will continue to monitor the city in zhengzhou will succeed in quelling the angry protests there. back to you. >> keep an eye on it. thank you. elon musk is stirring the

social media pot. he posted a video of the stay woke t-shirt. jack dorsey wore that over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. musk has since deleted a follow-up tweet where he claimed hands up don't shoot was made up and the whole thing was a fiction. elon musk's tantrums and antics have twitter users trying to find other platforms. the latest to gain mainstream momentum is high social. this week high social has nearly 900,000 downloads and more than 1/3 happened in the last week alone. now next on "cnn newsroom," the rocket man helps ring in a holiday tradition at saks fifth avenue all for a good cause.

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fifth avenue window unveiling. he gave a surprise performance hit "your song." ♪ hope you don't mind, hope you don't mind that i put down in words ♪ ♪ how wonderful life is while you're in the world ♪ >> it includes a million dollar donation to the rocket fund as well as a line of merchandise. new data out of the university of michigan shows u.s. consumers still aren't confident about the economy. will it affect their holiday shopping patterns? cnn spoke with shopper about stretching their holiday deals. >> reporter: on this year's holiday shopping menu, more sales but with a healthy side of inflation. >> i love your circulation. >> going crazy. >> reporter: denise celetti is

in the middle of the holiday shopping. >> this is for my mom. then i got stuff for my kids and my niece and oh, my god. >> reporter: this year the wish list is looking a little different. last month inflation cooled but was still running hot at 7.7% year over year. >> i've had to cut back my shopping because things are too expensive. i do have three girls. they do understand that, you know, times are hard right now and it's just me being a single mom. >> reporter: despite high inflation the national retail federation estimates that nearly 8 million more people will shop between black friday and cyber monday and spend up to 8% more this year than they did last year. >> reporter: looking at records in all categories. it is remarkable in the face of cost and price pressures that consumers are still finding a way to increase their spending, power the economy, drive economic activity. >> reporter: last month retail

sales beat expectations. up 1.3% in october. but this month consumer sentiment fell. still, higher prices haven't stopped some people from shopping. >> reporter: has that impacted the way you're going to shop this holiday season? >> for me, not really because i try not to overspend anyways so even before this was going on i try not to exceed what i can do. >> reporter: and according to the national retail federation, while online sales are expected to increase this year, the return to in-store shopping will make up a larger portion of all holiday sales. >> i kind of like in person more. >> reporter: you do. why is that? >> i don't know. it's more of the feel of being able to touch it, being able to see it, try it on with the stores that you are allowed to. then being amongst everybody else. >> reporter: it's that holiday nostalgia that they say will help this year's holiday season

return to pre-pandemic expectations. do you anticipate inflation will play a role in how people shop, people coming to the mall? >> i think people are planning better in terms of what their spend's going to be. i think they budgeted. >> i don't come back in christmas -- >> reporter: how many more stores are you going to? >> five more. >> reporter: wayne, new jersey. >> keep going. this is not a fish tail. check this out. a carp weighing 67 pounds or 30 kilograms is the second largest fish of its kind ever caught. the giant has been nick named the carrot because of its orange color resembles a goldfish. it took no less than 25 minutes to reel in the. the carrot was released back into the water. thanks for joining me on "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster in london. "early start" is next here on

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