parts of the northeast for new york. haven't seen snow yet. haven't seen anything really measurable there. this could be the first one. then all of a sudden, what happens? the rain comes through and it gets all washed away. yes, we are going to see it, but it won't last very long. tomorrow could be a train day for you. >> okay. >> here are still the power outages and they're not going away any time soon. crews having a hard time getting one branch off another. >> january, here it is. >> we'll take it. >> chad, thank you. nice to see you this morning. thanks for joining me. i'm christine romans. "cnn this morning" starts right now. come here, come here! hands up! [ sirens ]

>> hands up. and here we go again. welcome to "cnn this morning." good morning, everyone. you see poppy there. kaitlan is on assignment and i'm don lemon. an american crisis. california suffer egg its third mass shooting in just three days. the nation as whole up to nearly 40 mass shootings in 2023. this year is just over three weeks' old right now. look at this map. nearly 70 people killed already in mat shootings. 70 people living new year's day along side friends and family no longer here. this deadly month coming after america suffer ed 670 shootings last year, a significant jump from five or six years ago. one includes fourth graders inside their classroom. there are nearly 400 million privately-owned firearms in the u.s. that's 120 guns for every 100

americans. no other nation has more civilian guns than people. in 2019 the number of americans who died from gun violence was 1 times than developed countries. the u.s. is only develop the nation to have mass shootings every single year for the past two decades, and remember last year alone, 647. objectivy, soberly, tragically, this is an american crisis and nothing -- ever -- changes. >> that's right. don mentioned, last night a gunman killed at least seven at two different locations a farm and in the small city of half moon bay in northern california. the sheriff deputy found the suspect sitting in his car at a police substation. dramatic arrest. happened right in front of news ca

cameras. 67-year-old chunli zhao, authorities say he is cooperating. at this hour we begin with a tragedy yet again. when i saw the news cross, all i could think was don just left a mass shooting in california to come back here and now another mass shooting in california. >> reporter: poppy, it's absolutely devastating not only for this community and the state. as you mentioned, this country. the half moon bay shooting specifically, those two shooting locations were less than a mile apart at that first location, sheriff's deputies arrived and found four bodies and a fifth critically injured. less than a mile away they found three other bodies. all of those victims died from gunshot injuries. they say the gunman, 67-year-old chunli zhao was acting alone and say they found him, authorities say they found him at a police substation in his car and able

to take him into custody relatively without incident. here's what authorities had to say about the arrest. >> at 4:40 p.m. zhao was located in his vehicle in the parking loss of the sheriff's substation here in half moon bay, by a sheriff's deputy. zhao was taken into custody without incident and a semiautomatic handgun was located in his vehicle. zhao is believed to have acted alone and there is no further threat to this community. >> reporter: those seven victims have not yet been identified but believed to be farm workers. no motive now. that's still unclear. poppy? >> thank you for the reporting. bring in now mayor of half moon bay deborah pinrose. mayor, thank you for joining us. we're so sorry you're going through this but appreciate you giving us information on this.

yesterday we heard the latest, saw what happened yesterday in california, covering that, and then we heard this latest shooting now. can you give us the latest on the investigation? >> at this stage we don't know a whole lot more. we have been working to provide some release to the families of the victims. it's been our job to get our -- our human services agencies and our fire protection and emergency medical services onboard and together to support the families of these victims. >> i wonder what it was like for you, mayor to hear about this mass shooting in your community just after the mass shooting in california the day prior that don was covering? >> yeah. i'm still in shock.

i think all of us are in shock. it was a horrific event. it shocked us. our hearts are -- are torn out of our chests for all these individuals and families. our neighbors, our friends, the people that work in our community, and live in our community. we're a small agricultural coast-side town, and we have never experienced anything like this. >> can you give us an update on the -- do you know anything about the suspect, about the investigation, about the motive, mayor? >> no, we don't. we don't have anymore information than we did a few hours ago. the -- the -- only thing we do know is that some of the victims were chinese. that the, the perpetrator was chinese, and that this was an

agricultural community. they were agricultural workers. >> mayor, thank you for your time. very early this morning. we say it every time. we are so terribly, terribly sorry and we're thinking about every in your community today. >> thank you. >> well, thank you very much. take a look at this now. these side-by-side videos we'll show you as police were investigating the massacre in northern california there was a vigil in southern california for another victim that died in the hospital bringing to 11 the number of people killed there. cnn obtained surveillance video of the monterey park gunman entering the second hall where it was believed he was going to carry out another attack. video is choppy you see a young man brandont say tsay, forcing gunman to run away. here's what he told our anderson

cooper last night. >> and how long was this struggle for? >> i would say the struggle lasted 40 seconds, but it felt like way longer. felt like an eternity with adrenaline and my thoughts. i was always thinking about, if i let go of this gun what would happen to me, the people around me, my friends, my family. >> cnn's reporter following the shooting from the very start. good morning. here we are covering another shooting and yesterday we talked about, sometimes we go to the scenes. the same scenes, similar scenes, or the same circumstances, similar states, and what are investigators finding inside the gunman's home this time jp what do you know? >> reporter: we're learning they've been able to get more of the evidence to understand how

bad this could have been. what investigators have done and they've gone into the gunman's found. they found a rifle. hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and evidence he was building firearm suppressors. those attachments that are homemade. so that is disturbing, but then here at the dance studio what investigators have been able to find arecasings, a large capacity rifle and additional ammunition in the van. what we don't have more clarity on, stuck on, what is the motive? a clear motive. a shooter with a mental history and a lot of confusion why this place and right now, though he did have connection to the studio, don. >> how are people going about their lives now while facing this tragedy? >> reporter: you know, i think it's hard to talk about monterey park without talking about half moon bay.

this community is a majority asian american community. it prize itself in being the very first suburb that is asian majority. so they feel they've built this very special place, but in the context of what happened just last night, it feels like a lot of wash, rinse and repeat. that after so much devastation from covid as well as anti-asian racism, that this community feels shell shocked. it's not a new feeling. it's just new to this community in particular, and something else, don. you and i chatted about this yesterday. it's very confusing that the profile of the shooter, a 72-year-old man, and then what happened in half moon bay, a man in his late 60s. that's something that the asian american community is very alarmed by, and very confused by. >> yeah. >> and just to add to that i was really struck watching the two of you from here yesterday when you brought that point up, and

you said, there are real questions that we need to be asking within the asian community, and i think you know, now the issue, a shooting overnight by an elderly asian man as well. >> and if we could talk about this. there was a study that showed that asian americans, many elderly asian americans, they don't feel safe in america. they don't feel safe here. they feel safer other places. you saw that study. right? >> reporter: i absolutely did, and i relate to that, because my mother was here. she lives just north of where i'm standing, and it's a, a feeling of isolation. when you see news like -- english language news, like cnn, you get bits and pieces, and you -- you hold on to some of the most alarming bits of news. yeah, it hits a non-english-speaking community or a limited-english-speaking

community in a day way. >> thank you. and if you can believe another shooting in iowa. a deadly shooting at a center for at-risk youth. a man in custody charged with two counts of attempted murder and criminal gang participation. a shooting, shot and killed two teenagers from a rival gang. the founder of the educational program was also left seriously injured. the shooting infuriated him. >> we make this program for you kids, and like you got it going on. studio and everything in there for them kids. for them to come in there and act like that. >> the police arrested the suspect following a traffic stop. this happened minutes after the shooting. they say he jumped out of the car and started running before they caught him. >> i look out the window and i actually saw some policemen and a german shepherd running along

the back and i thought, oh, what's happening? >> we have also learned he consult off a court-ordered gps ankle monitor about 16 minutes before that shooting. russia's reinforcing its front lines in ukraine. a senior mill official says tens of thousands of troops sent to the front lines but made little difference because they're arriving ill equipped and ill trained. 300,000 new personnel in october. general mark milley says russians suffered well over 100,000 casualties since the war began nearly a year ago. new this morning. u.s. officials believe russian intelligence agents ordered a white supremacist group to carry out a letter bombing campaign last year that terrified the city of madrid. the group targeted spain's prime minister, the american and ukrainie ian embassies and the

spanish defense minister. what have you learned? >> reporter: late last year, a terrifying set of incidents that happened in spain. as you said, these letter bombs were targeting the spanish prime minister, the ukrainian and american embassies in spain as well as the spanish defense ministry and we're learning that u.s. officials believe that russian intelligence officers directed a russian white supremacist group, the mrussian impreer movement to carry out that campaign and deemed to be a terrorist group by the united states. that designation was given in 2020, but there is still sort of some questions about the direction and the operation that carry out this campaign and the direct ties to russian intelligence. so the details here are still a little bit fuzzy. u.s. officials are still really looking into this, and, of course, spanish authorities are also investigating the matter. the other question here is whether or not the kremlin and president putin had knowledge

that this campaign was being planned and carried out. we don't yet know that. so there is still some questions here but it's highly significant. i talked to a u.s. official that said biden administration official believe russia would look for proxy groups in europe to try to carry out campaigns of terror as they're faltering on the battlefield. >> reporting from the state department. thank you. and we have learned that a former top fbi counterintelligence official is under arrest here in new york for allegedly trying to help get a russian oligarch off the sanctions ls list and dig up di on his opponent. he pleaded not guilty. we're joined now to talk about this. interesting, he used to supervise investigations into russian oligarchs then went to allegedly work for and get paid a lot of money by oleg der

deripaska. >> he is charged with money laundering and sanctions laws because of work he did once he left the bureau. started working or a sanctioned russian oligarch because of his close ties to russian president vladimir putin. what authorities say is that as you said. he was -- he supervised investigations into oligarchs and immediately went and started working for him after retiring. he was hired to dig up dirt and hid this relationship by using a shell company and forging signaturing to try to keep the path ewa from him so no one could detect this. that wasn't just it. also charged by prosecutors in washington, d.c. with failing to disclose $225,000 payments he received from a former employee of an albanian intelligence agency, and that payment was

while he was still in that top post at the bureau. >> wow. >> while he was still doing this work. >> he was still in charge of counterintel, received this tamt and also, according to the indictment, failed to disclose trips he took to you're with this individual who was a former intel official in albanian and failed to disclose meetings with the albanian politicians and others overseas prior to retiring, particularly with that type of clearance. >> pleaded not guilty but could be facing if convicted what? >> of the most serious could face a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison. >> thank you for the reporting. the fulton county special grand jury in georgia investigating donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in that state has written their final report. hours from now a judge is going to decide whether you, the public, gets to see it. and former governor ron desantis, his decision to block an african american studies course from being taught in

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this judge is going to weigh that with other concerns. right? >> reporter: that's right. i think the thing everyone really wants to know is whether donald trump and whether any of his associates are potentially going to face criminal charges. so we are going to be watching closely during this hearing for any inkling of what the grand jury's put in their report and especially whether they recommended indictments for anyone. with a special grand jury's final report now in the hands of prosecutors -- >> my job is to make sure that we get the evidence that gives us the truth. >> reporter: today a judge in atlanta is set to holding hearing whether that report should be made public expected to include recommendations whether donald trump or his allies should face criminal charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. >> a rarity and interesting to see how this plays out. >> good morning. >> reporter: puthe fulton count attorney released this shortly

aftered call to brad raffensperger. >> i only need 11,000 votes. give me a break. you know? we have that in spades all right. >> reporter: for seven months the special grand jury called witnesses like raffensperger, south carolina senator lindsey graham and former trump attorney rudy giuliani. in a probe that steadily expanded to include false election, fraud claims, threats and harassment ghent election workers and efforts by unauthorized individuals to access voting machines. barring indictments the panel release as final report with recommendations to issue indictments. >> give you bullet points it's going to be a narrative. >> reporter: robert james was a district attorney in dekalb county when a detailed report was released on public corruption and issued one for indictment and a dozen others for investigation.

the report only made public after a fight. >> an issue i was involved in, kind of tied up, a big wrestling match and ultimately released. >> reporter: up to the judge to weigh the interests or disparaging individuals not charged. >> what you don't want is an opportunity for a grand jury to make some allegation of criminal conduct that later on either can't be proven or is unsubstantiated. >> reporter: whether anyone faces charges is a decision that rests with fulton county district attorney fani willis. >> a criminal investigation. we're not here playing a game. >> reporter: now, we could hear from a number of parties in court today, but who we're not going to hear from is donald trump and his attorneys putting out a statement saying trump was never subpoenaed a part of this matter and assume the grand jury did their job looked at facts and law as we did and concluded no violations by the law by

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welcome back to "cnn this morning." dumbing up hours from now congress will grill the head of ticketmaster following the taylor swift ticket fiasco. what to expect on the hill. plus the culture war in florida heating up. governor desantis is blocking an advanced court on african american studies, sand a new study shows one type of active protects the brain more than others. which help and which hurt your brain. >> can't wait to see all of those stories answers talk about it. ron desantis, ban baldwin? we'll talk. get into it.

ticketmaster's grip on the entertainment industry facing increased scrutiny at a senate hearing later this month. the committee's goal promote competition and protect consumers in the live entertainment market. serious issues came to light last year during a taylor swift ticket meltdown. ticket sales meltdown, that infuriated hundreds of thousands of fans. jason carroll is here with a preview. you don't want to tick off swifties or the beyhive or who else? >> let's get to this. this is going to be a public shaming. no doubt about it. get ready for that. it isn't the first time ticketmaster has been taken to task for its business practices, and this time, though, so many people have spoken out about it, they're asking congress to get in there and do something about it. ♪ shake it off, shake it off ♪

>> reporter: scores of taylor swift fans still haven't shaken off the bitter feeling being shut out of the pop star's upcoming tour this march. >> ticketmasters takes the $490 out of my account, but -- it, like, crashed. >> reporter: all that ire directed at ticketmaster when b bungled ticket sales so badly, it led to a crashing site and an artist beside herself over what fans dealt with. swit teated, it really pisses me off they went through bear attacks to get them. ship paid thousands just to get a seat to see swift. now ticketmaster is in the hot seat. its parent company, live nation entertainment's president and cfo joe birchtold will have to

answer to a senate judiciary committee about claims the swift fallout is the result of anti-competitive fallout from the a company with too much influence. >> called for years for a change and maybe taylor swift fans will finally put it over the edge. >> reporter: first scheduled to testify tuesday, part of planned testimony reads in hindsight there are several things we could have done better. we apologize to many disappointed fans as well as to ms. swift. antitrust experts say the real issue before congress is whether relife entertainment is a monopoly created in 2010 at a merger. ♪ i'm getting sick of the ♪ >> reporter: the senate hearing welcomed news to clive lawrence penned an op-ed following the swift fee auvg oh fiasco on liv. his 2021 song titled "false

alarms" included thick lyric ♪ live nation is a monopoly ♪ >> he will testify in front of congress. >> isn't getting a big enough piece of pie going to a concert. the general point we're driving home ♪ o'thiit's i'm to take some lessons ♪ >> reporter: how much a hearing is likely to change things, some question, and others whether the swift movement has already had an impact. >> the first meeting the senate is holding and showing folks on the judiciary committee and there are problems with the live nation/ticketmaster merger. >> reporter: it should also be noted the justice department is also investigating ticketmaster. a company that has control of some 70% -- 70% -- of all major tickets that are sold to concert venues. 70%. >> interesting.

because so many antitrust concerns and probes and action on big tech companies, looking at wall street carefully but not really this sector. >> and broadcasting. >> telecoms. >> reporter: end of the day, how much change is actually done? >> swifties have power. just saying. >> reporter: we'll see. >> great reporting. governor ron desantis speaking out on why he is blocking an ap african american studies program from being taught in florida high schools and why he claims the objective is on the wrong side of florida standards. what exactly does that mean?

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placement course on african american studies. he says some of the lessons in the course go too far and are a violation of state law. >> we want education not indoctrination. this course on black history, what's one of the lessons about? queer theory. now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? that is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids. so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that a political agenda. we're on, that's the wrong side of the line for florida standards. >> the objections from the desantis administration center around the writings in the coursework associated with a number of topics including black queer studies, you heard there, heard from him in that sound bite right there. the movement for black lives and reparations as well. now, florida under desantis

banned instruction at schools that suggest anyone is privileged or oppressed based on their race or skin color. college board is currently piloting the ap course and 60 schools across the country and plans to make it available nationwide. we discuss now. cnn anchor and correspondent and host of the cnn podcast "the assignment with audie cornish." aldi cornish is here. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so crt, what's going on here? >> already i'm seeing activists call this, "don't say black." the idea he's, going to -- like the "don't say gay bill," that you were sometime draw lines in the classroom. one of the important things he said. the idea it's on our side, our standards, our side of the line. what is that line? who's going to draw it, and if ron desantis runs for president does he plan on drawing those lines nationwide? in classrooms nationwide?

i think that is a question for every voter, every person who's kind of watching what's going on in florida. what does it mean when politicians think you can reach all the way into the classroom and tell people what is and what is not okay. >> could we just pull up, because it's not just, you know, he mentioned black course studies but intersectionality and activism. the alignment movement, black lit really thought, the reparation movement? black study and black struggle in the 21st century are all things they're objecting to in this course. >> yeah. i mean, i think the reason i don't want to engage on this subject matter is because i don't think ron desantis is qualified to make those judgments. every black movement, every political movement in this country is a part of our history including the modern political movements, which is why this is being piloted in and advanced placement course for kids

willing to take on more challenging topics, and i don't know where he wants to draw the line. slavery was political at one point. martin luther king obviously, republicans love to talk about, you know, every january. this was a political movement. and no one wanted to learn about that then either. if that's the kind of lineage he wants to join you know, people who are saying, don't talk about the political thinking of marginalized groups he's welcome to do it. >> slavery became illegal. now illegal to teach slavery in schools. >> where's he drawing the line? somewhere between abolition and now? i don't know where ron desantis considers the history versus the now. >> isn't education all about critical thinking? i mean you just verbalized what i was thinking. there's going to come a point we are going to teach kids about the maga movement. that wasn't comfortable for a lot of people. teach kids about the oath keeper, teach kids what happened on january 6th. all of these things is going to be part of our history.

are you going to ban that because it's not happy, you don't like it, because it makes the maga movement look bad? do you understand wa i'm saying? >> when i was studying the school board activist movement of which desantis is very much the face of, these are the exact ka conversations decade after decade. people of the moment say don't talk about x, too political. get it out of the classroom a big fight ensues. what our kids learn helps shape us as society. control over that is more high stakes than people give it credit for. >> when you look at this thing talking about black queer studies, the course of the civil rights movement we knew black queer people had a big part to do with that, if you look at james baldwin, black queer people helped with the civil rights movement and the basically written out of it. if you look what happened with the gay movement, it was black queer people who helped start the -- >> the movement.

>> and the trans movement. >> stonewall uprising and learned from the civil rights movement. so it's -- >> i admire what you're doing, engaging him on the substance, not what he's doing. he's using a, i would say, kind of like a culture wars patoi. queer theory, bad, black lives matter, that's bad. key words that are things, i guess in the political parelage red meat for a voter. he's saying, look at me. florida is where woke goes to die. anything that fits under that breakdown, those terms to fire people up is what you're going to hear. i think the question people will have for him is, okay where do you stop? what's the next class or course you'll ban? >> a federal judge came in blocked part of what became known at the stop woke act. remember? about diversity training in workplaces. this is different. it wouldn't come under purview of a judge. >> right. a destination showing he's fighting, how he's trying to

show he's a political figure. >> not a lot of recourse here if this gets blocked. >> listen, i think parents should have some say what their kids are taught. right? but leez going so far not to give parents even the opportunity or the option to be able to say, i would like for this to be taught. >> i don't want to get on the wrong side of gen z i think this is putting him on a path there. >> thank you. see you later in the show. this morning, a multiday severe weather threat is beginning as a cross-country storm is said to bring snow possibly tornadoes from new mexico to maine. our meteorologist chad myers is joining us now. yikes! new mexico to maine. >> all the way, even parts of ontario, poppy. yes, severe weather to the south, rain to the north and there's that heavy, heavy snow already beginning at this hour into parts of west texas. heavy rain showers across the hill country. the bill threat today is south of there along the gulf coast. there is that swath of heavy snow, winter storm warnings in effect through here, and this is the area that will see potential

for tornadoes. those wintertime tornados. right through this area again in the same area. not maybe as far north as we had a couple tornadoes, a couple weeks ago, but this is going to be another storm that runs along the gulf coast. uses the gulf of mexico moisture and makes significant thunderstorms possible. even potential for a little bit of light snow into new york city. yes. the first possible chance for snow in new york city is coming. for this year. now, it's going to be warming up from where we are now all the way back up into the 40s, but enjoy a flurry or two, poppy. i know you had some up in vermont when you went skiing this weekend. >> i went skiing in vermont this weekend. >> i love that, you -- up on the screen. seven day? that's really cool. i like this. >> looks good, chad. we'll take the snow. that's my perspective. thanks, friend. a new study out that looks at which daily activities are good for memory and problem-solves skills. what you can do to protect your brain, next. honey.

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activity or sedentary activity to moderate or vigorous ak vivty even by six to nine minutes you improved cognition. both memory and executive functions, we call it. plan, think, make decisions. converse also true. if you shifted, downshifted from moderate or vigorous activity towards more sleep, sedentary behavior or low activity lost 1% to 2% of cognitive act. asked about sleep. sleep more improve cognition, they did not assess sleep quality which we know is really important. my favorite pastime. love it. psychological benefits? >> yes. >> there's psychological -- okay. are there limitations to the study? >> mostly a white population. couldn't rule out other health behaviors. those more moderately had other healthy behaviors that helped.

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