york city. they've gone 318 days since the last time they had measurable snow. that's actually the fourth longest consecutive set of days where they haven't had measurable snow. for those wondering, the record is 332 days. so it is very possible if we go all the way to february 5th, we could potentially break that record. and they're not going to get any more snow today. but here is the interesting thing, christine, you actually have some southern cities that picked up more snow than new york including atlanta, nashville and memphis. >> wow. that's crazy. all right, nice to see you, allison chinchar. thank you so much. thanks for joining me. i'm christine romans. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ ♪ the look in the eyes of the homicide investigators and all

of their staff, you could just tell they were going to get this guy. >> good morning, everyone. i am live this morning in monterey park, california. the scene of the latest deadly mass shooting. police say the gunman is dead after a s.w.a.t. standoff and man musthunt. plus the fbi has searched president biden's private home over the weekend, finding more classified documents inside. could additional searches be on the way? and -- ♪ amazing grace ♪ ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> that is graceland bidding a final farewell to lisa marie presley. we'll get to all of those stories in a moment. we'll begin with the mass

shooting here in southern california. invest investigators say the gunman shot and killed himself in this cargo van you're looking at, when caught up with him hours after the rampage. police identified him as 74-year-old huu can tran. we're told he went to a second dance hall in a nearby city, alhambra where bystanders took his gun. the gun is a semiautomatic missal that are illegal here in california.

the suspect was a regular at the dance studio where the attack took place. this is a very disturbing story. no rimhyme or reason, three different locations. >> very difficult to understand. this is the first lunar new year celebration, the festival for the city, the first one since covid. a chance for this community to reconnect and reengage after all of this anti-asian racism only to have one of their own commit this heinous crime. >> what i want to do here is to say to the community, feel safe. you are no longer in danger. >> the monterey park shooting suspect is dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. law enforcement tracked a white

car go van that fit the description of the vehicle of interest. for hours s.w.a.t. officers tried to get the suspect to surrender. >> homicide detectives are, working around the clock gathering additional information and working on determining the motive behind this extremely tragic event. >> law enforcement sources tell cnn the suspect may have caught medical treatment shortly before the standoff. >> it is unbelievable. this is terrible. >> to see this happen in this place is shattering. >> reporter: the 72-year-old alleged shooter opened fire at a dance studio where the city's large asian american community was celebrating the lunar new year's saturday night. the gunman then left the scene and targeted another neighboring dance studio with a semiautomatic weapon but it was wrestled from him. >> the suspect went to the alhambra location after he

conducted the shooting and he was disarmed by two community members who i consider to be heroes, because they saved lives. >> reporter: the alleged shooter is asian american and believed to have acted alone. a regular patron of the star ballroom dance studio, even meeting his ex-wife there. >> we will get over this crisis because we must. and we will only do so if we do it together as a community. >> reporter: ten people were pronounced dead at the scene, making this mass shooting the deadliest since the uvalde elementary school shooting last may. the sheriff described many of the victims as being in their 50s, 60s or older. >> gun violence needs to stop, and i hope that this tragedy doesn't go on a list of many others that we don't even talk about until the next one comes

up. >> we are getting a stunning eyewitness view from that second dance studio, the one in alhambra, just near this monterey park location. branson say, tells "the new york times," quote, he was looking at me and looking around, not hiding that he was trying to do harm. his eyes were menacing from his body language, his facial expression, his eyes. he was looking for people. and that gun, done is what got police tracking -- unraveling this entire case. >> it's interesting because they say the gun is what got it unraveling it. but they're saying the gun was illegal here in california, but i wonder if it was modified and how they were able to identify him through the gun if it was illegal.

i want to bring in retired lapd sergeant, cheryl dorsey. we're going to talk about the law enforcement response to this. make sense of this. is there any way to make sense of three different locations? was there anger? was there hate? what is going on here because he is an asian american. >> my gut tells me he had beef with that particular community. we understand all the victims were basically his contemporaries, people in their 50s, 60s, 70s. before i knew he was a frequent visitor at the particular dance hall, he had a relationship, his ex-wife, having met him there, i knew there was something personal about those two locations he went to monterey park first, did what he did there, and tried to duplicate that in alhambra, but for the people who took the gun away from him, prevented another

tragedy from occurring there. we have to find out the why. that's the thing everyone wants to know, why he acted out the way he did. >> let's talk about the weapon, a semiautomatic pistol, the sheriff, richard luna, saying it was illegal here in california. can you help us put it together. >> if it's an illegal gun, that makes me think he possessed it illegally, obtain it illegally. then there wouldn't be a real registered owner we could track as if the gun had been purchased legally. so i'm curious as to how they were able to reconcile the two. >> everything is close together. if you look at where the police station, city hall is, we're standing in front of the star dance studio here in monterey park. police were here within three minutes. what do you think of their

response? >> obviously, l.a. county sheriff is a large agency. officers are trained, and we saw saw when the s.w.a.t.s officer engaged the suspect in torrance. the officers were able to ascertain what they needed in terms of identifying the vehicle that the person was in, getting pictures and putting that out there so that everyone within southern los angeles could be on the lookout for this van and suspect. >> they were able to apprehend him, less than 24 hours. it's interesting to me as well that the l.a. county sheriff, the lunar park officer said these were young officers. >> most of the sheriffs start off in the jails. you start off working as a detention officer, in the jail, then after so many years you get your stripes and you come to the

streets and work patrol. so it's not uncommon to encounter a deputy who doesn't have a lot of street experience but yet the officers were clearly well trained and relied on the training and knew what to do in this instance, they didn't hesitate for a moment and save lives. >> one of the words he used was they were not prepared for the carnage they saw and that was exte extensive. >> how can you? even a veteran officer would have been shaken to their core to see the death and destruction that went on in that dance hall. so the fact that these officers were young on the job certainly doesn't speak to their inexp inexperience, you know, they knew what to do, they were well trained and acted on that. >> it speaks to the trauma the community is feeling here, and police are victimized as well by this. you're part of the asian american community, a personal story because you're familiar with the story, your mother was prepared to go to some of these

lunar new year celebrations. >> we were here this weekend, saturday, the day before the shooting. my mother lives 5, 10 minutes from monterey park, these are the restaurants, my grocery store is here, the costco has asian american items all over the place. here in monterey park, it is as if the entire asian community is connected and moving together. you can eat in one block a chinese meal, korean meal, japanese meal, you can shop, and everyone is insulated. i'm guilty of this, too, when you are here among your own people you let down your guard. so were there signs? did people see something? did they know what they were? we talk about looking for the signs of a mass shooter in our elementary schools did anyone see anything, know how to communicate it to the police? we were chatting if you don't know how to talk to the police,

they don't speak your language, talk to your kids. >> all the city leaders here, including the sheriff, saying that people should feel safe because the person who committed this is no longer with us but there's no longer a sense of celebration that had just been in place here over the weekend. thank you both. poppy and kaitlan, we're standing in front of where this happened and there's a makeshift memorial you can see people have been coming by and paying respects. everyone trying to figure out why, no answers. another bloodstained weekend in america. in atlanta a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed on the city's west side. that city has seen a spike in deadly shootings involving children under the age of 16. no information on a suspect or suspects. domestic disputes involving guns

are also on the rise in at lan tap p and louisiana, three people under the age of 10 in a driveway by shooting. two of the victim's injuries are critical. suspects fired 40 times into a home and a motive for that shooting is unknown. 12 people were hurt in a mass shooting early sunday at a nightclub in baton rouge, louisiana. police say they believe it was a targeted attack. witnesses say a fight broke out between two groups and people pulled out guns and started shooting. the police chief saying it could have been much worse. >> there were officers outside in the parking lot who immediately responded to the shooting incident. those police officers immediately responded to the threat. and we believe their immediate response prevented further injuries. >> right now police do not have

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morning." this morning the investigation into president biden's handling of classified documents has escalated after the fbi discovered another batch of documents marked classified at the president's home on friday. this is the fourth time that classified documents have been found at a private address of biden's since november. paula reid joins us now with more. this was a significant development. yes, there was complete cooperation by the biden team and lawyers, but the fbi was in the current president's private home and found classified documents, more of them. >> extraordinary. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president for nearly 13 hours and the president's attorneys say during the search, six additional items were uncovered. it was unclear what they miean y item. we're hearing that investigators are still coming through everything they took.

we know the president's attorneys received a receipt, an accounting of everything that was taken. previously the house has been searched by the president's personal attorneys and they are emphasizing their cooperation in the matter as a way to differentiate this case from the ongoing investigation into former president trump. while the white house is trying to down play this, this discovery, once again, raises questions about why there was classified material from biden's time as vice president, possibly from the time he was in the senate, in his house and how secure has it been while sitting there. >> the senate part is unique and different because he was chair, for part of his time, as the senate foreign relations committee. do we know what time period the documents were found from his time as senator or we don't know? >> no. the way the statement is designed, it's unclear if there was classified information or additional supporting information that was scooped up. it was interesting that we are

seeing a difference in the approach here, because they have faced a lot of questions about why it took so long to search the houses, why they were letting personal attorneys do it and why they weren't more transparent. here in the statement while not everything was crystal clear they said they wanted to move the search along as quickly as possible, mindful of the upcoming campaign season. it was late on a saturday but they did release a statement within 24 hours, but the nature of the case has changed. it's a criminal investigation to be overseen by robert hur, not on the job yet but we're told he's about to onboard soon. >> just amazing, back-to-back presidents, two special counsels. thank you. the context there is so important for the next story. this morning as president biden is entering the critical new phase of his presidency, he has a new challenge on the horizon

in a republican controlled house of representatives and that expected 2024 campaign launch that paula mentioned there, president biden's long-time ch chief of staff ron kline is stepping down from his role. arlette science is live in delaware where president biden is this morning. this is a big changing of the guard, maybe one of the most significant staffing changes we've seen in the biden administration. it's coming at a criminal time for the president. >>. >> reporter: good morning, kaitlan. it is. j jeffzinz may not be a known name but he was one most of the powerful soon. he led the covid-19 response until last spring and was brought in to help senior staff

come into the white house should there be turnover. so far we've seen little turnover within the administration. president biden landed on zients because it became clear that ron klain favored him. it comes at a criminal period with what the president is trying to implement. one thing will be implementing laws that president biden got passed on capitol hill and when you talk to people at the white house, sources, zients is known as a man to get things done. back in 2013 he was brought in to fix the obamacare web launch. but this is a criminal time for president biden as he faces the special counsel. >> always a difficult job but more so now.

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and would get upset if she made a mistake when they danced because he thought it made him look bad. a lot to discuss with josh campbell. good morning to you. let ap talk about the timeline here. we have three different scenes, we have police managing to get the suspect within less than 24 hours but he made his way around the community causing carnage. >> he did. this starts saturday evening, 10:22 p.m., a 911 call comes in of shots fired. 2 this was a scene of chaos, people coming out screaming, authorities trying to identify where the shooter was. they knew he wasn't on location, he traveled to alhambra, to another dance studio and according to police, it was the brave people inside that location that were able to disarm him. he flees, the gun is left behind and authorities gather

intelligence from the gun. it wasn't until sunday that authorities pushed out the information across the area, looking for a white cargo van, i was a law enforcement here in l.a., the agencies are fused together regularly sharing information. it was an officer in the city of torrance, sees the vehicle tries to execute a traffic stop, officers hear one shot, they back up, and then we see the standoff. we saw the video of the tactical vehicles coming in, they hem in the van and the on scene co commcom commcom commander makes the decision to get in the stack and go to the window. and they find him dead. >> we're told last night there were different plates on the van, so they weren't sure it was him. this was a traffic stop and they were trying to make sure it was him because they were looking for a white cargo van.

>> that's right. officers obviously will -- they will react based on what a suspect does. if this person tries to flee, even if they don't know this is a suspect from the shooting they're going to try to take that suspect into custody. they have the van, a person not communicating with them, they're starting to realize -- law enforcement source told me yesterday this was believed to be related to this incident, so they knew quickly this was likely the person they were dealing with. >> let's talk about the gun. because it was a semiautomatic pistol that had a cartridge in it so it could fire quickly without changing it. we were told they were able to identify the suspect through the gun but yet the gun was illegal here in california. can you explain that to us? how does that work. >> we've been asking law enforcement about that weapon, when it was registered, purchased. we don't know the details. this shooter, compared to many

of the cases you and i have covered is his age. this is an elderly man. so it could be he obtained the weapon prior to california's assault weapons ban going into effect. but that was key to helping him track down who the person was. >> josh campbell, thank you very much as it's coming up on daybreak here in a while here in california people are going to be waking up again to a horrific event. real, traumatic, for everyone involved here, members of the community and law enforcement, poppy and kaitlan. >> you can see why. this is supposed to be a moment of celebration for them and now it's turned into the moment of tragedy. we'll stay with you on the ground there. also this morning a new warning from russia about what they claim will happen if the west does send offensive weapons and tanks to ukraine. the end of the road this season for buffalo bills.

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damar hamlin even making an appearance. it was hard to see damar hamlin damar hamlin through the snow. it was a game that left some disappointed bills fans in the end. >> reporter: a bit of a roller coaster, first excitement and anticipation of the night and then disbelief with the way things played out on the field. one young fan crying his eyes out told me i love this team so much. the buffalo bills became america's team through. the team and damar hamlin uniting so many people on the way. >> damar hamlin's first public appearance since suffering cardiac arrest on the field since these two teams played each other 20 days prior. hamlin in a suite with his family during the game. holding up his heart hands which

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squeeze and shame. that is how the white house is planning to target 18 house republicans from districts where voters supported president biden over former president trump in 2020. for biden and house democratic leaders they believe this is the pathway to a majority in 2024. isaac joins us with this reporting. what did you find talking to these biden allies, white house officials, planning to get the district blue again. >> this is thinking forward to november and how they can offer car carrots. invitations to the president's box or the kennedy center. and sticks, flying the president on air force one, all of this with the idea there's a slim majority in the house for republicans, thinking in the 18

districts biden did better in 2020, represented by the house republicans now, that's the way to the majority -- back to the majority for democrats in november of next year. but it's also maybe a way to squeeze those republicans, thinking about their concerns to work with the white house in the way they want to do some governing in between now and then. >> i thought the quote you have in your story from mike lawler, that republican here in new york, he said speaking about the efforts from the white house, aren't they going to work to get us to lose next november no matter what? how is the white house viewing that? >> reporter: this is politics, what it is. it's trying to figure out where the breaking point is, essentially, how far people like mike lawler can be pushed. lawler is in a district that supported biden by a heavy margin compared to the other republicans in the biden districts. you have five other republicans in new york, six in california, that the white house and house

democrats -- of course one of those seats is george santos' district. that district went for biden by the highest margin of one represented by a republican. and there's a sense that race could be coming up soon if there's a special election for his seat if something happens there. we don't know where that's going at this point. >> we'll see how the map is playing out. great reporting, isaac. thank you. senior biden administration officials are addressing the grim reality of the deadliest drug epidemic in american history. >> number one killer of americans between the age of 18 and 49. fentanyl. last year we lost more than 100,000 americans due to drug overdoses 70% were from synt synthetic opioids. >> the dea seized 10,000 points of fentanyl. that much can kill every single

american. >> more than 107,000 deaths from fentanyl last year, about two thirds involve synthetic fentanyl. they are friends, loved ones, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters. president biden recently signed into two pieces of legislation trying to deal with this. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you so much. >> i saw your tweet last week about this and appreciate you getting up early to join us. i think this is not talked about nearly enough and it is a crisis. fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin, as we know. you have spent so much time with parents grieving the loss of their children, one of your pieces of legislation was named after a victim of this crisis, that is summer baro. how can this change things

dealing with the deadliest drug epidemic in american rhistory. >> it's important you spoke to how potent fentanyl is. in virginia more than 75% of overdoses were overdosed related to fentanyl in 2021. there's two elements to this. one is fighting the substance use disorder epidemic. helping those facing drug addiction and themn helping the throw their recovery. but we have to stop the fentanyl coming across our borders, entering at points of enter, right, and it's concealed, hidden in trucks and shipments coming across the southern border. the challenge is because of its potency, it is able to be concealed relatively easily compared to other drugs that our dhs officials have been prepared

for and able to intradikt. securing america's borders against fentanyl act does a couple really straightforward things. we know that if we're going to get at fentanyl once it's in our country we have to stop it from coming in, so my law would require that dhs develop new technologies and strategies to detect fentanyl. recognizing the uniqueness of it, small quantities can go a long way, be deadly, but also easy to conceal. so our call to dhs is to get serious about this and we appropriated dollars for them to take on this action. >> i'm glad you pointed out much of this is crossing through legal points of entry. i think "the washington post" did an extraordinary job in their deep dive in getting through the failures from both

parties, not to mention the dea is understaffed by 800 people. here's what official told "the washington post." law enforcement did the best it could, we can only do so much. in washington they have been slow to respond to this and now we are at a confluence at paralysis. do you agree that washington has failed america largely, in both parties, on this crisis? >> i think if we're talking about what congress has done. there are so many more things we have done. i'm going to be an optimist about this. there's a lot of opportunity, but when it comes to immigration reform, to a broken immigration system that day after day creates flash points at the border and overstresses an understaffed border patrol, yes, we have to do more. when it comes to the fact that many of our officers are using antiquated equipment that cannot begin to find well concealed

drugs, particularly those in small small quantities like feintanyl coming across the border yes, we need to do more. we understand the reality of the threat, we hear colleagues of mine in congress politicizing the issue. it's a complicated issue but it only gets fixed when we're real about the threat. large organizations, cartels, are trafficking drugs across the southern border through points of entry and they are eluding and e evaluating detection and ensuring that cvp officers have the ability to introdig drugs in the way they're coming through. so this legislation is about recognizing the reality of the threat and having the equipment they need on the ground in order to do their job. >> something needs to change

because it is wiping away so much children in this country, in particular. i want too turn to the classified documents found, more of them on friday, in biden's home. on thursday addressing a question he said there's no there there and he has no regrets. you're a former cia officer. you know what it means to handle classified documents. i wonder if you're concerned about now four different discoveries of classified documents held outside of where they should have been by this president? >> absolutely i'm concerned by any appearance of classified documents outside of a secured, compartmented facility known as a skiff. i used to handle classified documents every day, used to collect the information put into classified documents. so i know the sources of those classified materials at times can be individuals who are risking their lives to provide

available information to inform lawmakers, the president, our military and diplomatic leaders and safeguarding those documents is safeguarding our nation's secretaries. so i think it's important that the attorney general has appointed a special counsel that will be an important step moving forward, answering the question how these documents got out of secured spaces how long they've been in uncontrolled spaces and ideally ensuring this never happened again. it's an important step. >> you have called our national debt a long term threat to our economic stability. the white house position is still they will not negotiate at all with republicans on the debt ceiling. do you think that's a mistake by the white house not to negotiate at all? >> i think there are two parallel conversations. i think the bigger threat than

our existing debt is the strategic threat of a potential fault on our nation's debt. the catastrophic national security implications of defaulting on our nation's debt, putting the full faith and credit of the united states in danger, that is an absolute crisis of our own making if we go down that path. i think we can have two dependent conversations. one the united states of america must pay its debts, we need to be a reliable borrower on the international stage and then separately have the conversation about the financial choices we are making, how much we are borrowing, who we are borrowing it from and long term plans to get our spending in a place where it is -- insert your adjective -- sustainable, less or better than it is now. but i think holding the full faith and credit hostage and

potentially risking or being willing to risk a default on our nation's debt for negotiations those things, that's not atenable threat that some of my republican colleagues are making. but i agree we should be having conversations about our nation's fiscal status. >> we must. it's been a quarter century since the government has spent less than we've taken in. thank you very much. >> thank you. we'll take you back to monterey park, california. don is there live on the scene of the ground. our special coverage continues next. rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® introducucing the new sleep number climate360 smart bed. the only smart bed in the world that actively cools, warms

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we see elders walking around all the time. this has been a safe neighborhood for them to walk around. so to see this happen in this place is shattering. good morning, everyone. it is monday, january 23rd. i'm don lemon. you see poppy and kaitlan there in new york. i am live in california. a gunman found dead after killing ten people here in monterey park. the massacre shattering this largely asian american community. we have the latest on the gunman, who he is and what may have driven him to kill. >> the failed republican candidate accused of