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 hiring

accomplices to shoot up the homes of democrats and now investigators want to know if drug sales fuelled his campaign. and elise stephanic is denying she knew anything about george santos' deceptions. she spent a year doing everything in her power to get him elected in that district. cnn is going to take a look at that relationship. it is a busy money morning but first we'll get to this. the nation reeling from the deadliest mass shooting since uvalde. investigators senching for a motive after a gunman massacred ten people and wounded others at a ballroom dance hall here in southern california. police say the gunman shot killed himself when police finally tracked him down after his bloody rampage. cnn is learning he used to be a frequent here at the dance hall he attacked. we're told the shooter went to a

second dance hall after the shooting to kill more victims but the people inside wrestled away his gun before he could hurt anybody and drove off in his van. >> he was disarmed by two community members who i consider to be heroes because they saved lives. this could have been much worse. the weapon that we recovered at that second scene, i'm describing as a magazine-fed semiautomatic all the pistol. not an assault rifle but an assault pistol that had an extended large capacity magazine. >> kyeongh law has been following the story for us. still no motive. >> reporter: you're right. the motive is going to be key today as investigators try to piece together what would drive

a 72-year-old man to turn on his own community, to head into these dance halls, not just one, but two, and attempt to try to attack two different locations. the motivation is going to be key today in trying to piece all of this together. investigators need to figure out how did he obtain the gun in california? was it purchased, was it legally purchased and then altered. so there's a lot of questions about the gun itself. "the new york times" interviewed a man named brandon tsay, what he told "the new york times" is that he actually came face to face with the gunman at the second location and he was able to wrestle the gun away so what is what helped bring investigators to the gun. >> one of two community members

kyung made this tragedy a lot less tragic than it could have been. it is interesting because it is believed, if you're speaking to law enforcement, and we spoke to one member of law enforcement last hour that he was familiar with the community and that he possibly had beef with someone, they don't know, they're investigating but that's one element they have to look at. >> the ex-wife, who cnn spoke with, they divorced many years ago. so what is it that would bring a man, again, 72 years old, to obtain this weapon, to drive -- hemet is not close here. >> hemet is where he lived. he lived in a 55 plus community, living in a trailer home there.

so he was living in hemet and many years after the divorce decided to come back. that's something investigators are going to be looking at. >> thank you we appreciate that. we're going to push now to speak with a representative from california. he is the vice chair of the congressional asian pacific caucus and his district is next to monterey park. we're happy to have you this morning to help us get through this tragic situation representative. thank you so much. have you learned anything new overnight about the investigation or the suspect? >> no. as you know, the investigation is ongoing. i don't have any further information to convey to you about that. >> and nothing about motive, because this is so perplexing, nothing about a motive or the suspect's history, representative? >> no. hemet is not in my district but closer to where i represent in

riverside county. i want to emphasize that i've been to monterey park and the surrounding communities a number of times. it's a vibrant -- they're vibrant communities, asian american communities. this is a tragedy of incomprehensible proportions. my heart goes out to the people of monterey park. and, of course, i'm thinking of my colleague judy chu at this moment. >> if you can explain to our viewers what a celebration of this is like in this area, having so many members of the community fwgather. >> lunar new year, the idea of new year in general in the asian communities is very important. shop owners and people will prepare to the new year by cleaning their homes and straightening their books out.

just to -- the idea of preparing for the new. festivals, it's just a joyous time of year for families to get together and to have a tragedy such as this happen on the eve of the lunar new year, is just -- it's just incredibly sad and tragic. >> as the vice chairman of the asian pacific caucus i want to talk about the violence committed against asian americans, violence increased 177% in california alone. monterey park is about 65% asian american. can the community ever feel safe? will there ever be a since of safety here soon in the near future? >> i want to emphasize to the

community that thanks to the good work of sheriff -- l.a. county sheriff luna and his deputies, the suspect was identified very quickly. we know that the suspect took his own life, so the community can feel safe from that threat. they can also go to the langley senior citizen center, those who maybe have been touched by this violence, set up as a hub. but as the former chairman and current ranking member of the veterans affairs committee i'm familiar with ptsd. it's my responsibility to ensure that veterans and service members who have been exposed to horribly violent experiences get the help they need to heal the unseen wounds, the invisible wounds as well as whatever physical wounds they have.

this is i think the issue that we need to pay attention to for this community, and all communities, just last year there were over 600 instances of gun violence and gun violence being defined as incidents with four or more people killed or injured in a shooting. we've already got 33 of these incidents this year. i'm thinking about literally the thousands of people who are touched by these moments of gun violence, the physical wounds they have to recover from, but ls the invisible wounds, and they're not unlike what our veterans face. the long term support that we need to provide them. >> and we're only three weeks into the year with 33 such incidents so far. congressman, thank you so much. >> you're welcome, thank you.

>> kaitlan? >> don we'll stay with you on the ground. also this morning there's news coming when it comes to the international effort in ukraine, germany said they're to make a decision soon on the tanks potentially going to ukraine. they're designed to compete with the russian t-90 tanks. that's why ukraine is pleading for them. the kremlin is issuing a warning saying ukraine will pay if germany sends tangss there, other weapons fra. frederik pleitgen is there. there was that massive mccarthy meeting in germany on friday with including the pentagon chief. what is the latest on where they stand on countries being able to send the tanks to ukraine? >> reporter: kaitlan, it seems as though it's moving in that

direction but it's unclear how long it is going to take. yesterday the german foreign minister said if poland wants to send the german made battle tanks to ukraine, the germans wouldn't stand in the way. it's not clear if the german foreign minister got ahead of herself because today the germans said they haven't received an official request to send those. meanwhile, poland has been ripping into the germans saying they want to create their own coalition of european countries to send the tanks and wouldn't even ask for permission to send the battle tanks which is usually not in line with the way these things are done. the polls have sent less modern material to ukraine than the germans have. the germans have sent multiple rocket launching systems and fighting vehicles as well. but the main battle tanks are literally the main issue at this point in time.

the germans say they want the u.s. to send abram tanks if the germans are going to send the tanks they make. the u.s. said it won't send abrams. i spoke to an official who said the ukraines need 300 to 400 modern tanks to turn the tide. >> can you explain why germany is reluctant to send these and why they have to sign off for other kcountries to send the tanks. >> because they're german made. if a country is going to export those to another country, that's something that's general practice. if a company buys abrams tanks from the u.s. they can't export them either. the germans have problems, they fear it could escalate the system in ukraine, russians could retaliate against germany but we heard from the kremlin who said it would be the

ukrainians who would bear the brunt of retaliation. but that's something they said with every system delivered to ukraine. they said there would be a massive response and few times has there been a response. the germans have a legacy in this part of the world, they invaded this place, nazi germany did in the 1940s and that's something that weighs heavily. one of the things the germans don't want is the optics of a german tank rolling over a russian position in eastern europe. we'll be joined by the foreign national security adviser in the trump administration, john bolton, to weigh in on this as well. and meantime, pena, from the state of arizona, allegedly hired people to shoot up the

homes of his political adversaries. now there's questions about potentially nefarious questions in funding for his campaign. >> good morning, poppy. the story gets more and more bizarre. cnn has learned that the new mexico attorney general has opened a formal investigation into pena's campaign finances after finding one of the biggest do donors was one of the alleged gunman for hire. >> mr. pena you will be afforded a hearing. >> reporter: that next hearing will happen later this morning where prosecutors are expected to begin unraveling his journey from republican state candidate and election denier to accused master mind behind four politically mote evaluated

drive-by shootings targeting the homes of democrats like debbie o'malley. >> this happened when my husband and i were asleep. my grand kids could have been spending the night. >> reporter: police say pena was fuelled by election lies and drew from his criminal past. he spend years in prison for charges of burglary and larceny. saying jail time changed him. >> i had nothing more than a desire to improve my lot in life. >> reporter: that would lead to politics as a follower of donald trump. video shows him at multiple rallies. and like trump when pena lost his 2022 run for office by landslide he invoked the former president saying i never conceded. >> can i speak with debbie on mali. >> reporter: ring video shows him tracking the homes of those he blames for his loss.

and then writing, they certified it, they sold us out to the highest bidper p prosecutors allege pena paid this man who carry out the shootings. things fell apart when officers caught him driving this car, containing fentanyl and guns. the car, registered to pena, according to a law enforcement source. the leo county commissioner was also targeted, four bullets ripped through her home into the room she had just been playing with her granddaughter. >> it makes he angry that one person -- we have a former president and current elected officials in highest level of government that think it's okay to invoke violence in these situations. so yeah, a range of emotions, anger, sad, disappointment. >> reporter: police are also investigating whether drug money

was laundered into the race for office. his defense attorney telling cnn this accusation is still under investigation. urged the public to avoid a rush to judgment. >> thank you very much for the reporting for us. also this morning the problem surrounding george santos and the lies he told about his background are putting key house members, house leaders in the spotlight. cnn's anchor and chief investigative correspondent pamela brown is with us now. the question here that you've been looking at is elise stephanic's role in this. she's a new york republican and worked hard to get george santos el ele el elected. what has she said. >> reporter: one of his cheerleaders was elise at the f f fannic, the number four republican in the house. and a senior republican official

told me quote stephanic's team was focused on electing george santos to congress more than any other race in the country. now stephanic says she didn't know about the pattern of deception until "the new york times" revealed he made up the stories about his past, including lies about his jobs, school, and family history but throughout the campaign, she was a significant reporter and we talked to several people who donated to santos' campaign, including one man who gave tens of thousands of dollars stay se f stephanic's endorsement encouraged him to donate. and she later tweeted that a lunch event raised over 100,000 to help george flip new york

district three. one donor at that lunch told cnn the only reason they donated was because of stephanic. santos understood the power of her endorsement as well. using a photo of the two of them up until last week. republican consultants said they heard of his issues the summer of 2022, but it's unclear how many let it slip through the crack and we know that republicans needed that district, kevin mccarthy did to get the vote to be speaker. he did an event we should note, october 3rd, just before the election in support of santos. he said he knew there were issues with his resume. >> what issues? if you knew what issues, the fact that "the new york times" revealed this weekend, the report that was done that a lot of people from his campaign knew about a lot of these vulnerabilities, some of them quit because of it, even raises

the bar in terms of answering those questions about what did powerful republicans who got behind him know or not. and in terms of elise stephanic, she endorses a lot of folks, right, so what makes this different potentially? >> what makes this different here is that she didn't just endorse and help fund raise for santos. according to multiple sources one of her top aides was advising santos' campaign. no record it was in an official capacity. we're told he helped cans to hire people. when we asked for comment her spokesman said no one from her team worked for or advised santos. they sent a statement reading in part, she supported all gop just like every other new york republican e official and the entire house republican leadership team. >> just fascinating reporteding to look at and examine that,

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this morning the supreme court is set to release its first batch of rulings for this term. about three months into the term. it marks the first time in the high court's history that the justices have waited this long to release an opinion in a case. joan, it's not just the length. they're going to get back to reading the opinions from the benching, not the dissents.

things feel different. >> it is different. it's great to have them back all up there. first of all, it's noteworthy because it's the longest time since they started in october that they've been able to announce the resolution of one of their cases. they heard cases in october, november, december, and early january. and it's a real mystery what has caused the delay. it could be that, you know, many of the divisions that we saw at the end of last term in the abortion rights case still linger. certainly signs of nap the justices have also started new security protocols for how they handle drafts and deliberations as they try to come up with a ruling that has at least five votes on it. and we have a new justice, ketanji brown jackson who's been active during oral arguments and she might be writing more or wanting more time for deliberations behind the scenes.

but then the other piece of history today is that they will actually be there to read the excerpts of their opinion from the bench. that hasn't happened since early 2020 when everything broke for covid. they came back in 2021, but were releasing their opinions only electronically. it's exciting to see them up there on that bench. >> yeah. getting back to the way it was. thanks very much. we'll wait for those opinions at 10:00 a.m. such a different context with the investigation and everything. >> given no result in the leak investigation that's incredible. >> and it's deepened the mistrust there. >> absolutely. we are three weeks into this year, 2023, the monterey park was the 33rd mass shooting in the u.s. another weekend in this country underscored with gun violence.

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welcome back, everyone to "cnn this morning." coming to you live from monterey park, california. this is the scene of america's latest mass shooting. h here's what we know right now, the gunman who took his own life has been identified as 72-year-old huu can tran. tran opened fire saturday night at a ballroom dance studio killing ten people, wounding ten others. we also learned that he used to be a regular patron at the dance hall and he then went to another dance hall in a nearby city by by standers discharged him. he escaped in his van. the sheriff said the gun he used

was a semiautomatic assault pi pistol, illegal in california. and a 26-year-old man is dead after police say he shot a georgia officer and the officer returned fire. i want to go to ryan young now live for us in atlanta with more. ryan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, don. that shooting led to protests over that shooting of the 26-year-old. people walking down peach tree street here in atlanta and at some point the protests turned violent, set fire to a police car down the street here. you can see the damage left behind by the protesters as they went after the atm, busted out windows along downtown and the mayor and police were not happy about the incidents here in the city. another violent weekend across the country leaves communities and victims reeling.

in downtown atlanta six people arrested saturday night after protesters erupted in response to the fatal police shooting of 26-year-old manuel piaz tehran earlier in the week. police say she was shot near a training facility dubbed cop city. police were implementing a clearing operation to identify trespassers when they say tehran opened fire on them. the fellow demonstrators and his mother say he was a known pacifist. the georgia bureau of investigators said tehran was in possession of the fairearm used to shoot a state trooper. police say protesters marched peacefully until a group began breaking business windows and set fire to a police cruisers. >> they were pulling up in u

hauls and the glass breaker that taps the glass and it shatters, i was dumbfounded. >> these individuals meant harm to people and property. to the people of atlanta, i said from the beginning of my administration that keeping our city streets safe is my top priority and we will continue to leverage all the city's resources to make it happen. >> the elevation had to be stopped quickly by the police, which happened and i think it is telling that most of these people are not from atlanta. >> on the west side of atlanta, a 13-year-old boy found dead with multiple gun shot wounds according to police. investigators have not released information on a motive or suspect. >> to those who seek to continue this criminal behavior, we will find you, arrest you, and you will be held accountable. >> reporter: a tragic scene in

baton rouge, 12 people shot at the bar and lounge and left three people in critical condition early sunday morning. >> at this point we can say that it is believed to be a targeted attack. and that no, this was not just a random act. >> there's someone who knows something. do the right thing. >> according to the gun violence archive, there have been more than 30 mass shootings in the u.s. so far this year. leaving over 50 individuals dead and 125 injured. >> all of us in this room and in our country understand this violence must stop. >> reporter: now, you can see the signsover violence left behind as some of the businesses had to start cleaning up today. so many hotels nearby, people visiting the city who were also scared. think about the gun violence

this weekend, so many questions and unanswered points whether or not there will be any arrests in any of the cases we mentioned. >> 33 in three weeks. just unacceptable. ryan young, thank you very much i appreciate that. we're learning more about what's happening. hearing from a young man who said he wrestled the gun from the california mass shooter. listen to an interview he did a short time ago from robyn roberts on abc. >> it was chinese new years, we were hosting a social dance party. i was in the lobby. it was late into the evening. most of our customers already left. i wasn't paying attention to the front door. i was looking into the dance ballroom, the dance floor. and this is when i heard the sound of the front door clicking closed and instantly followed by the sound of metal object

clinking together as if it was rubbing and that's when i turned around and saw there was an asian man holding a gun. my first thoughts was i was going to die here. this was it. >> did you recognize him at all? >> but then -- no, i did not recognize him. this is somebody i have never seen before. he didn't seem like he was here for any money. he wasn't here rob us. when he was looking around the room it seemed like he was looking for targets people to harm. something came over me, i realized i needed to get this weapon away from him. take this weapon, disarm him or everyone else would have died. when i got the courage, i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon and we had a

struggle. struggled into the lobby trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, bashing the back of my head. i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, creating some distance. finally at one point i was able to pull the gun away from him, shove him aside, create distance, point the gun at him, intimidate him, shout and say get out of here, i'll shoot. get away. go. and at this point i thought he would run away, but he was just standing there contemplating whether to fight or to run away. i really thought i would have to shoot him, he came at me. this is when he turned around and walked out the door, jogged back to his fan. i immediately called police with the gun still in my hand.

i was shook. i was shaking all night. i couldn't believe what happened. after waking up i noticed there was bruising all over my body. my face has a bruise across the nose and the back of my head has some bruising. i can't believe that this could happen. >> and it was because of that young man that a horrible situation wasn't -- didn't get worse. and anyone who's involved in any similar situation when there's violence and something breaks out, people often freeze. and he assessed that situation and jumped in, and police are crediting him and another individual with not making the situation -- helping to make the situation not as bad as it could have been. ten people are dead but there could have been more people. three different crime scenes here. the one behind me, the one in alhambra and one in torrance,

california where the gunman eventually killed himself. can you imagine confronting someone or being in a situation like this. the people behind me, kaitlan and poppy, in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond. some even 90 years old. and they were just sort of sitting targets for this man who came out of nowhere with this semiautomatic pistol, killed ten people, and put ten in the hospital. >> at 26 years old to jump into action like that and not try to flee, to have that be your immediate response that says so much. >> his grandparents founded that ballroom, he runs that ticket booth a few days a week. he told "the new york times" he had never seen a real gun before. and for him to confront the man. i have chills listening to him, so grateful for his heroic actions. don, we're going to check back in with you this morning as this

is going to. thank you for being on the ground for us. in washington the debt ceiling debate is ongoing. there's a warning about harm. that's coming from the treasury secretary over what could happen and how a potential default could affect you and your wallet. >> and mike pompeo alleging john b bolton should be prosecuted for leaking classified information in his new book. well, john bolton is here he'll respond to that t this morning. get ready to say those five little words.

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welcome back. in money this morning, the debt ceiling debate continues in washington amid a warning of irreparable harm, coming from the treasury secretary, if they do not raise the debt ceiling. that's not all we're watching. christine romans is here with us to talk about more. that's not the only crisis. >> that's right. look, we're looking at a fed -- treasury chief who's warning us about what could be a real problem in the american economy if you don't raise that debt ceiling. at the same time, we could get evidence this week that the u.s.

economy ended the year strongly, big economic calendar to start the week, parsing this information for what the fed will do when it next meets january 1st but i'm looking at this gpd ndp number on thursday. a lot of economists are saying they think it might be closer to 3%, which would signify we ended last year strongly. a couple other things, a lot of housing news this week, port moe rates appears to have peaked but we'll see. that's because signs of slowing inflation. all of these things we're taking together here as we wait for the fed to meet and watch washington to see if they can get their act

together. >> hope they do. >> never count on that. >> wise words. thank you. also this morning on the ukraine front, poland is stepping in as pressure grows on german to supply crane with the battle tanks. other countries have them and want to send them but germany must sign off for them to be transferred to ukraine. despite the pressure, berlin has resisted doing so. but they do expect a decision soon. president zelenskyy said it's urgent. >> translator: this is no time for bargaining. this is a time for survival. we need to survive. >> poland's prime minister said germany is wasting time and untrustwor and, quote, we will not passive watch ukraine bleed to death. joining us is john bolton. the first question here, do you believe germany should sign off on this, on them sending the tanks and other countries

sending them as well? >> i think they should sign off. i think germany's performance throughout the war has been disappointing despite the chancellor's statement near the beginning there would be a sea change in germany's defensive policies. it hasn't happened yet, it has to happen. >> do you agree that this deliberation the last several weeks is, in the end, >> of course it is. if they don't have the capability to respond to long-rumored, impending russian offenses, that's bad for the ukraine, bad for the west as a whole. it plays into the kremlin strategy to win politically what they can't win on the battlefield by splitting nato. >> the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, michael mccaul said yesterday he believes the united states should send an abrams tank, just one, all that it would need to

green light germany spending the leopard tanks. should the biden administration take that step in your view? >> well, i think we should do it anyway because i think that's right for ukraine. if that brings the germans along, that's great. let's be clear. we need to have a conversation with germany sooner rather than later. they need to step up to their role appropriate to their size economically. japan announced it's going to double its defense budget in the next five years. where is germany? >> are you concerned what is playing out here with this decision makes nato looks fractured? >> well, i think nato is a lot more fractured than some of its political leaders would like to let on. there's been a lot of patting ourselves on the back. let's not forget putin thinks he knows the germans well. he was stationed there in the kgb, and i think he sees germany as the weak point in the alliance. >> i want to move to the

announcement that the fbi searched president biden's home, which the white house says was done in coordination with his attorneys, not done with a search warrant. it is concerning to see the fbi going into the home of a sitting president to search that. what does that say to you about the seriousness of the investigation into the classified documents that were taken? >> i think it's going to get a lot more serious for biden, the fact that apparently some of these classified documents go all the way back to his senate days and yet have traveled around with him. it's an incredible gift to donald trump that in many people's minds, not the least of which are senator dick durbin, senator joe manchin, two democrats who said yesterday they thought the administration had been damaged. we need to do a lot more in the transition process to make sure these classified documents go where they're supposed to go at the end of an administration. >> trump has argued that the justice department is treating

biden differently than they're treating him. is trump wrong about that in your view. >> well, they are treating biden differently because trump treated the justice department differently, and the two are not equal, that's for sure. i think politically biden's self-inflicted wounds have pretty much absolve trump from the prospect of prosecution. it's hard to prosecute a former president to begin with. i think biden's errors here make it almost impossible. >> you think trump won't be prosecuted because of what's happened with biden? >> not on the documents. now, the january 6th prosecution, the georgia investigation, those are different. but on the documents front, i think he's skipped free again. >> not even on the obstruction front? that is what the white house has drawn as the distinction, saying we're cooperating with the archives and the justice department. trump fought them for a year and a half that led to the search of trump's home. >> here is key point. we all say and it's right to say

everybody is under the same rule of law. nobody is treated differently, but i will say this. if the justice department indicts a former president and fails to get a conviction, the political firestorm that would ensue would tarnish the department for years. you have to weigh that in the balance. you can't just be sure that you think you can prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. you better do it. if you fail, trump could ride that to the white house i'm afraid. >> secretary pompeo who you served with has written a new book, memoir, who is down right scathing of his assessment of you. he writes john bolton should be in jail for spilling classified information. i hope i can one day testify at a criminal trial as a witness for the prosecution. he says yourself-serving stories contained classified info and deeply sensitive details involving a sitting

commander-in-chief. what's your response to secretary pompeo? >> well, what he knows in fact or should know is my book went through a four-month-long pre publication review process precisely to make sure there was no classified information in the book. it was arduous at times i can tell you. the national security council senior director responsible for that review cleared the book, and inside the white house, because donald trump didn't want the book published before the election, he fired the senior director, a career employee of the national archives from her job and tried to get another review going. an interesting point here, and this is critical, before the justice department was ordered to bring the suit to stop publication of my book, they interviewed the senior director ellen knight for 18 hours over five days in the white house. they must have forgotten the thumb screws and the rubber

hoses to get her to change her story, and she wouldn't. the book was cleared, and i think if there's an investigative reporter that has spare time, they ought to look at who in the whaus and elsewhere in the administration, in the counsel's office, the top political levels at the justice department followed trump's orders to try to suppress the book. i'm not talking about the line attorneys at the department of justice, but trump's top advisers who were content to try and suppress it. >> you're implying that something illegal happened? what are you saying there? >> well, reporters shelter under the first amendment frequently. i'm sure that's much on your mind. this is a classic effort by trump at prior restraint. in fact, i was told that a very top justice department official on hearing that the book had been cleared said, and i quote, roughly, i don't give a blank about the facts, i want the case brought. i think there's a lot there. this is entirely consistent with

trump behavior, trying to suppress other books. that's what happened here. i think pompeo knows or should have known about it. if he didn't know about it, it's incompetence in writing the book for not checking out the facts before he put it down on paper. if he did know about it, that's malicious and well beyond reckless to say things like that. >> ambassador john bolton, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. a mass shooting in monterey park has left ten people dead. the suspected gunman now also found dead. we'll talk to the california assemblyman who represents monterey park. that's next. don is livive on the ground. rge. soso every day, you can say... ♪ y youuu did it! ♪ with centrum silver.

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