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i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. investigators in monterey park, california searching for a motive after a gunman killed ten people and wounded ten more at a dance hall. the gunman later took his own life after a standoff with officers officers. >> before it ended, he did try to target a second dance hall. he was stopped by a bystanders, brandon tsay, who managed to wrestle the gun away from him. >> my first thoughts was i'm going to die here. this was it. when i got the courage, i lunged at him with both of my hands and grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we 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.

>> brandon tsay confronted the gunman. don lemon is on the scene in monterey park, california. don, you're witnessing so much hurt there, i imagine. what are you learning this morning. >> reporter: you could imagine being in that situation with a gunman who is just trying to shoot people and then having to wrestle it away. i mean, it is just unbelievable. that was at the second scene. there are three different scenes. one where the gunman died, took his own life. the one where the young man you saw and another person helped to wrestle it away and then the one here where i'm standing in monterey park, california, where ten people were kill and ten others injured. some still in the hospital. the gunman being identified as huu can tran, 72 years old. didn't even live close to here. traveled here to monterey park, did the shooting and then went to another shooting in alhambra

where the gunman wrestled -- where they wrestled the gun away from him and then found in his white panel van in torrance, california. so three different scenes here. this area has been traumatized. the asian-american community traumatized as they were celebrating the lunar new year. this was supposed to be the new year celebration starting yesterday and now they are in mourning. they are grieving at this hour. we're awaiting word of another press conference, the last one was last night. we're expecting another one today but they haven't givena time. so i want to check in now with the mayor of monterey park. his name is henry lo and good morning to you. >> thank you. >> what a couple of days it has been. really just a matter of one day. they caught the gunman within a matter of 24 hours and here we are this morning. we're getting the identity of the suspect, or of the person who is dead now. also some information about the gun. are there any updates on motive? >> unfortunately, we are still

trying to determine the motive of the reason why the gunman what he did. after speculation, my understanding is that he met his ex-wife at that location many years ago. but again, we don't know why he did what he did. was it an issue of being disgruntled or domestic violence, we don't know unfortunately. >> but he does have in a connection to this community. >> he frequently attended the dance hall. >> but he lived in hemity. >> he lived in hemity. but i probably at one point lived in this area for a while because i was told that in the past he was a frequent attendee of the dance hall. >> and you didn't know information on the gun, because it is believed that the gun is -- you cannot legally purchase it now. but perhaps in the past it was a -- that the gun may have been legal. >> who knows. that is an important question.

how did he maintain this illegal weapon. >> let h's talk about the community now. as i said, traumatized. one of ore correspondents have say communication to the community kyung lah and she and her mother were celebrating the lunar new year and then this happened and it was abruptly stopped. are we learning anything about the victims. do you have names or information about the victims? >> we don't have names of the victims yet. we're awaiting for that from the sheriff's department. but you are right, this has been a devastating tragedy here in monterey park. we held our lunar new year festival after the absence of three years in which we could not hold an event due to the pandemic and what was supposed to be a time of celebration, became a bit of tragedy for our community. >> so nothing about the victims

here? i understand that at least one -- of the names had been released because of someone released it to the press. >> again, there may have been on social media. >> on social media. >> but again that can't be confirmed yet. >> what is the asian-american pacific islander community has gone through so much drama. so much stress. especially coming out of the pandemic and dealing with anti-asian violence. >> right. >> and hate. what do you say to the country regarding that and to the community? >> well, and you actually right. whatever the motive is of the gunman, you know, i think when the news first broke, many did speculate was this an issue of anti-hate because we had a spike in anti-asian hate crimes in the

last few years so understandably communities not just in monterey park but across the country have been on edge. but as far as community of monterey park, we are resilient community, we're a strong community. we during the pandemic had one of the highest rates of vaccinations here in los angeles county. and just tremendous support within our community to helping people out and i believe that although it is going to be a long, hard road for recovery, but we will do it and we will s succeed and over come this crisis. >> mayor henry lo, thank you very much. >> thank you. jim and erica, there are still so many questions to be answered here. we got a lot of information last night during the press conference. we learned about the events that precipitated this and what happened here. but still they don't know. is the gun legal? what is the motivation here? what would cause someone to do something this horrific. still a lot of answers here and people here are just

traumatized. they cannot believe that this happened in their community. >> and the big question, why it happens so often in so many communities, so many different ones in this country. d don lemon, thank you so much. and also joining us, the mayor of torrance, california, about 30 miles southwest of monterey park where the suspect was located. mayor, good to have you with us this morning. i wonder if we could pick up where your fellow mayor just left off. when we talk about the community, you know, this is the first time in three years that people were able to come together and celebrate. the codirector of stop asian hate was on cnn and is he shed it was a time to put things behind you but instead this morning there is so much fear and so much trepidation. your cities now, monterey park and torrance are forever linked. what is your message to both of those community this is morning. >> first of all, i start with

this, thank you for having me. and on behalf of my council, myself and the entire city of torrance, our hearts, condolences and prior to all of the victims and their families for this incident. our hearts go out to you. i think we just don't know what to say at this moment. because so many things are -- so many questions are going there you our heads right now. we in the city of torrance are very, very fortunate that we have a strong presence in terms of public safety. we worked very well with the sheriffs' deputies yesterday. it just so happened, we don't know why the person that came roughly 30 miles south here and we're just very happy that our police department and the sheriff were right on and that we could put an end to this -- this event.

but we are definitely -- our hearts go out to the community. we're not even sure that everyone who was killed at the dance hall were residents of monterey park. we just want to make sure that our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims and those who are still in the hospital. >> understandably. are you concerned and as we just noted, as don just noted with the mayor of monterey park, we don't yet know the identities of the victims. they haven't been released. but to your point, they may not all be from monterey park. are you concerned there could be some of your residents abemong those who were killed or injured. >> that is actual possible. because my understanding is not ome the monterey park one, and the alhambra one, there are very popular dance halls and we don't have that kind of dance halls here that -- in a mass asian community would gather. so, yes, absolutely, there are a lot of questions out there. >> and as we look at -- you noted the quick response for

when this van happened to -- ended up in your city. when were you first made aware that the man who believed to be the suspect at the time was in your city? >> i was made aware very late morning sunday. that is when i was made aware by our city staff. that the event is happening. because i was -- i was at an event saturday night and sunday i was already at church. so, i was not dialed into any news or social media until the city manager contacted me. >> and so when you got that call, what was your reaction? >> first reaction was a bit of a state of shock. but at the same time, didn't want to jump into any conclusions because i know that the situation still might have been live and the worst thing that i believe i could do as a leader in the city is to start jumping into different

conclusions that is not based on facts. i just want to maintain that, yes, i'm here. and keep me updated so that we don't get rumor on top of rumor. a very bad case at a time like this. >> yeah. understandably. we just heard from the mayor, there was early speculation and concern based on what the asian-american and pacific islander community in this country has been faced with in e terms of anti-asian hate. and we saw and heard about increased in security in those hours after this shooting. is there increased security this morning in torrance moving forward for any celebrations? >> as far as i know, there is -- the security is just as high as ever in the city of torrance. and it is one of the things that my colleagues and i emphasize, that the city of torrance is the safest. the city is very large.

21 square miles. so we want to make sure that we judicially have our police department spread all over the place and we encourage our residents to keep their eyes and ears open as additional sensors for our police department, in terms of the details of how much and where the increased security are, i don't know specifics. but we're at higheeightened awareness. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. joining us now is cnn law enforcement contributor and retired fbi supervisor steve moore. good to have you on this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> so many questions unanswered. it is early in the investigation. so setting aside those. let's look at some of the things that we do know. one, we know that the weapon wrestled away from the suspect, the shooter at a second location he attempted to go into.

m-11, 9 millimeter semi-automatic with an extended magazine. we often see semi-automatic used in shootings like with extended magazines sometimes long rifles, in this case a handgun. you could describe what difference that makes in terms of allowing a gunman to kill more people, right, or shoot more people in a short period of time? >> well, what that means is that every time you pull the trigger, the round goes out the barrel. it is not fully automatic where you pull it have an unending stream. but when you have 30 rounds, you've got 30 potential targets before you -- before you have to reload. and by the way, the minute in california that 30-round magazine went into that gun, it was illegal. so, to answer that question. whether the gun was legal beforehand or after, when a 30-round magazine goes in, it is

an illegal weapon in california. >> there are also questions about the -- looking into how and when the gun was acquired. but also about the motive here. which raises so many questions. so the few bits that we've all been able to piece together are details that come from his ex-wife about her temperament, from a long time friend. it doesn't seem that either was in recent contact with this man. and so trying to piece together what may have happened in the years in between, where will they start? and we hear a lot about social media, but this may be different given that we're dealing with a 72-year-old man, not a teenager who may have left as big of a footprint. >> right. but there will be some kind of trail. you know, before the internet, we used to work on crimes like this and figure out what the person was like. and it is going to be more shoe leather than it is going to be computer keys. and you're going to be talking

to people who knew him. he had to frequent stores. he to get food. i mean even if he was a hermit, people saw him and encountered him. and so they're going to try to build basically a biography of him really started at birth. but coming down especially the last few years. because no background look at somebody is a snapshot. it is a video because people change. and he seemed to be going downhill. >> steve moore, always appreciate your insight. good to see you this morning. thank you. >> thank you. sad to cover something like that again. still to come, the supreme court is issuing the first opinion of the new term. and also resuming the pre-pandemic tradition of announcing opinions in person from the bench. we're going to have the details just ahead. plus the doj has seized nan additional batch of classified documents during another search of president biden's home in wilmington. and right now jury selection underway in the double murder

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gold bond. champion your skin. this morning, the u.s. supreme court issued the first opinions for this term. and while doing so resumed the long standing pre-pandemic tradition after announcing opinions in person from the bench. >> it has been three years almost, jessica schneider joins us now. ma particularly good news when they like to hear it from themselves, in our own voice. >> this is a bit of return to normalcy that has been unsettled, after the leak.

now they are back on the bench and announcing these opinions. and just for viewers at home, for past three years now when these opinions have been auns noed, the justices haven't taken the bench as they previously did throughout supreme court history because of covid. they were not in the courtroom. they were only released electronically. but today for the first time the justices were back on the bench announcing two opinions sort of under the radar cases. one was a dismissal, one involved veterans disability benefits. but amy coney barrett abdid tak to the bench to read part of what was a unanimous majority opinion in the veterans disability case. what is interesting here, jim, is this is the longest in supreme court history it has taken the court to actually release an opinion for the first time in its term. >> interesting. >> and there is a lot of questions as to why that happened. we don't know it could be potential think was a new justice on the court, ketanji brown jackson and the increased security measures that they

instituted after the leak. but it is notable that it is taken so long to get -- >> that last point is interesting. it could have been concerned about word getting out before they were ready. >> well they've said they are looking to change the security protocols at the court in the wake of that leak. that is something that was recommended by the marshal of the court, also michael chertoff who reviewed this investigation. so potentially they changed some of the ways that they work because of the leak. we don't know what those ways are. they're not releasing that publicly. but that could contribute to the fact that the opinions are taking so long to get out there to the public. >> they have a lot of other opinions to announce this term as well. thank you so much. new this morning, house oversight chairman james comer calling on the justice department to expand the probe into joe biden's handling of classified documents. any premises is where the president has spent any amount of time now need to be searched.

>> and this followed the voluntary fbi search on friday where more classified material was discovered. paula reid joining us now. so monday morning, get us up to speed here, paula. >> reporter: this is truly extraordinary. the fib searched the home of a sitting president for nearly 13 hours on friday. and biden's legal team issued a statement revealing that investigators retrieved what they describe as six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials. but it is unclear exactly what that means. if they were pages, documents, a box. we know from our reporting that investigators are still combing through what they retrieved. but the president's lawyers actually received an inventory, a receipt of what was taken. now the previous search of this wilmington home was conducted by the president's personal attorneys and they're emphasize here how they are cooperating and they offer to allowed the fbi to search the premises here.

of course they're doing that to try to draw a contrast between this case and the ongoing investigation into former president trump's retention of classified documents as well as his efforts to obstruct that investigation. now what is interesting, is this search on friday was not overseen by the soon to be special council robert hur. he's not yet on the job. so it is notable that really the full blown criminal investigation hasn't even started. but we're already seeing the biden team kind of switch up their approach. over the past two months what has transpired has generated a lot of questions about why the biden team took so long, weeks and weeks to search his resident and why they weren't more transparent and they were trying to be more cooperative, allowing the fbi to do this search and move faster and released a statement within 24 hours, providing some details about what exactly happened, not as many as we like and we expect there could be more searches of additional locations.

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well, right now alex murdaugh is in court. attorneys beginning jury selection in his double murder trial, the disgraced and disbarred south carolina attorney is charged with two counts of murder and possession of a deadly weapon for the death of his wife and son. they say he killed them at his family's hunting property in 2021 and in court documents they reveal what they say it a kees piece of evidence. a snapchat video which paul sent to friends just about an hour before the window would open in which they -- the window of time in which it is believed that they were killed. so there is so much talk this morning about this. snapchat evidence and what it could ultimately reveal. there is also a chance that it is not admitted. >> absolutely. so right now, all we know is

that the prosecutors are seeking to get this into evidence. in order to do so, they have to do what is called laying the foundation. first, showing that this evidence is relevant. the second part showing that it is authentic and that is why we see this decision allowing a representative from snapchat to come in. they're going to talk about has this been altered. where did it come from and when it was posted and we still don't really know what the content of the snapchat is. is it something that paul said? is it something that could be seen in the background of the video? all of that is going to be relevant ultimately whether it gets admitted. but step one, authenticating that document with the representative. >> it is interesting, because the prosecution said this is critical. so now the only evident they're looking at, there is also financial evidence. because this is part of the prosecution's whole case as to why they say alex murdaugh murdered his wife and son. >> this is fascinating to see what plays out at trial. there is 100 criminal charges waiting for him on the other

side relating to financial crimes. there are civil lawsuits and allegations of drug problems. all of this would normally not could in. and it would not come in for the purpose of proving the underlying case which is the murder of paul and maggie. however, prosecutors can get it in for another purpose and i think there will be -- there is definitely going to be a fiery courtroom argument between the defense and prosecution because this is the prosecutor's theory for motive. that alex murdaugh wanted to distract and preserve his reputation and his way of doing that was to murder his wife and child. that is going to be the prosecution's theory. so we're definitely going to see that play out in the courtroom. we may see a situation where some is admit and some is not. but there is definitely an opening to get at least some of those financial crimes into the courtroom and before the jury. >> there are so many parts of this story and this case that we were talking about in the break and a lot of people have been

talking about if they followed a small portion of the story. that just seems unbelievable that you would end up with all of these twists and turns. but there is such a long history with the murdaugh family in this particular county in south carolina. especially in terms of being prosecutors. the judge in this case had one order, he ordered that a portrait of murdaugh's grandfather be removed from the courtroom which is fascinating. and also raises the question of, are they going to be able to find a jury in a place where everybody seems to know at least one of the murdaughs? >> this is a great question. and the removal the portrait, if i were the prosecutors, i would want that out of the courtroom because, remember, this family has such a long history within the community. they're well-known. this goes back generations and generations. so they don't want a situation where there could be prejudice or that the jury is tainted, whatever it might be. but to your question about getting a fair jury, you're not going to find jurors who have never heard of this case. and that is not the goal of either side.

what they want to do is seat jurors who, despite having knowledge of the case, can put those preconceived notions aside and focus on what is happening in the courtroom and that is going to be the inquiry here. there were jury questionnaires that came up beforehand. the judge is conducting voir dire which is asking jurors questions. in order to make that assessment, it is a difficult situation when you're in this tight knit community with a high-profile individual. >> we'll watch it, expected to last a couple of days. so i have a feeling we'll be talking about it again. >> nice to see you. the city of atlanta saw a weekend filled with violence. a 13-year-old boy shot and killed on saturday night. police say there has been a spike in fatal shootings involving children specifically under the age of 16 in that city. >> now on that same night, six people were arrested downtown when protests against a propose the police training facility named cop city turned violent. cnn's ryan young is in atlanta.

so ryan, these protests coming just days after the fatal shooting death of a demonstrator who plolice say fired on law enforcement officers. what is happening on the ground there today? >> reporter: absolutely. i've been talking to my sources who say that officer is still recovering at a hospital that was shot last week. but so much of this has sort of wrangled up the entire community when it comes to what will happen in terms of how cop city will move forward. the street behind me right here, that is peachtree street and where the cop car was set on fire. then protesters started running down the street with heavy rocks and danging things like this wells fargo location. you could see the screens have been smashed out and all of the boards have been set up because the windows have been busted out. those people are protesting cop city which is a $90 million facility to train police and fire. and there are some folks who don't believe that land should be touched. but right now what city has been focused on is the fact that the

protests have turned violent. listen to the mayor of the city talk about what happened saturday night. >> make no mistake about it. these individuals meant harm to people and to property and we continue to protect the right to peacefully protest. we will not tolerate violence or property destruction. my message is simple to those who seek to continue this type of criminal behavior. we will find you, and we will arrest you and you will be held accountable. >> reporter: now something that we want to show you, we'll show you the pictures of the the people arrested. five of the six were from out of town. this cop city has been spreading, the protests has been spreading across the internet so they do believe that people have come from out of town to be part of the protests. you see the pictures, they have been charged with four felony charges, domestic terrorism and arson in the first-degree and criminal damage. so you could understand they do face a litany of charges but there is so much conversation in

the city about how to move forward because the protests haven't stopped in terms of how they've organized and shown up at that site to a point where they're not even sure whether they could clear the area to start construction on what is being called cop city. guys. >> ryan young, thank you so much. overseas now. poland said it is ready to send leopard tanks, you see one there, to ukraine. but only if other nato allies join in. russia's warning if that happens. ukraine will pay. we're going to discuss the importance of these tanks, there is some disagreement over that. that is all coming up. oh ms flores. you're the leader of many and pet wrangler, too. so becoming a student again might seem impossible. national university is here support all of you. national university.

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this morning some are pressing germany to authorize the delivery of leopard battle tanks to ukraine. this is the nato ally poland said it will only do so if a small coalition of other countries will also send tanks. let's get some perspective from mark hertling. >> great to be with you, jim. >> there is no alternative to battle tanks like this but there is a school of thought including on the u.s. side that tanks are not what ukraine needs right now. and that their whole host of challenges standing in the way of them being a true game-changer on the ground. so what is your view? >> jim, i think we have to go back to what the goal has been

from various allies and which has been led by secretary austin. the goal to provide ukraine with the ability they could immediately use and easily sustain. all three of those factors are really dynamic in terms of decision-making on what equipment that they need. now when you talk about tanks, that requires sovereign decisions on the part of the western alliance like we're seeing with germany right now. but there is say lot of complexity behind decision-making process. the availability of the ammo and the parts and fuel and training requirements and the ability of the gaming unit to sustain the vehicles on a highly mobile and high op tempo and dynamic battlefield interconnectedness with other allies and the milt goals of the operation. we could discuss those ad nauseam. but fact of the matter is, to answer your question, yes, it would be great to give ukraine

tanks and have them fall into battle positions without a need to train or sustain the ukrainian army, but that is not going to happen really soon. other nations donated a whole lot of combat vehicles that i think will contribute significantly to the kind of operations ukraine is going to be conducting in the very near future. >> that is point i've heard. they've had success with small unit forces highly nimble, right, in terms attacking russian armor which is frankly mar for numerous there. is there something else, then, that you believe ukraine needs more of and quickly. i know there has been a constant frustration from the ukrainian side, thank you for all you're giving us, but wee need it mor and faster. >> when the announcement was made for the bradleys an the strykers, i thought that was a good vehicle. they want to move fast without a long and dynamic supply line.

and they want to have a lot of tank killing capability. both of those vehicles, if you put a ten soldiers in the back of a stryker with a javelin, you could really get behind enemy lines very quickly and get through the front. it is an infantry bus. it doesn't have a lot of weapons on the vehicle itself. but what is in the back of the vehicle is critically important. same thing tor the bradley. they have toe killers and a lot of infantry men at that. >> that is right. you menged the javelin. and th and the tank killer. you could give us a sense of where this war stands? it has been a brutal battle. i lot of folks at home don't know the level of casualties that are happening on a daily basis on this eastern front. you heard of death tolls amounting in the dozens every single day. have we reached something of awar of attrition there in the east? >> it has been a war of attrition since about april, jim. but the attrition truthfully and i watched this battle every day,

very closely. what you're seeing is not dozens of casualties on the front lines, you're seeing hundreds. gem milley said the other day that russia has sustained close to 100,000 casualties. that is unfathomable and that is lower than what ukraine is suggesting they've suffered. they're putting the numbers up to about 120,000 in 11 months of war. of course, ukraine, we don't know how many casualties they've suffered. but i would suggest it is an awful lot. this is a world war 2 battlefield and it is just unbelievably dramatic and challenging and what we're seeing right now is not a stalemate, there are a lot of battles going on as you've reported multiple times in the east and the southeast. russia is trying to get more mobilized soldiers, unfortunately those soldiers are not trained. so they're more cannon fodder or meat as they say in russia. to the front line. and ukraine is trying to get moving and conduct operations that are offensive in nature.

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