pointed and powerful coming from jane and her conversation with the boston globe as she told the reporters that that loss it will always be a part of her. she will never stop grieving, but she's ready to start her own story. so those are just the remarkable stories of those people who are left behind many of them still struggling with their the wounds over 200 people. injured that day. today it is a mix of both the papi you certainly have that solemn mood , especially after this weekend when the series of events commemorating the victims those who were lost that day, but there's also a sense of celebration here. a lot of people excited about what today will bring popular. hello thank you were very, very glad. thank you. you're there, everyone, very safe and successful race there. thanks. polo we thank you for watching. we'll see you tomorrow. cnn news. central starts right now.

congress is back in session. but rather than being in washington, house speaker kevin mccarthy is taking his battle to wall street , the list of demands he now has for democrats as the high stakes fight heats up new reporting coming in from the mass shooting at a sweet 16 party in alabama, at least four people killed 28. others, many of them teenagers injured. police are now saying about this investigation. moments from now the most powerful rocket ever built is expected to launch into space. the mission eventually take people to mars. these major stories and more coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with the rocket launch and just about 20 minutes, the spacex starship is set to take

off the rocket is nearly 400 ft . tall and has 33 engines and this launch will mark spacex's first attempt to launch the fully assembled starship vehicle . after years of testing. it's the first step in elon musk's vision to send humans back to the moon and mars. it's also something nasa has gotten pretty excited about as well. cnn's ed lavandera is live near the launch pad on south padre island. he's joining us now and what's the very latest? how's it looking there? well, according to spacex officials. so they say that everything is looking very good. so we are just under 20 minutes away from the launch of the starship rocket, and we are at a vantage point that should be rather amazing here this morning about five miles away from the launch pad of the spacex starbase facility here in south texas. there are thousands of people standing along the southern edge of south south south padre island to get this

vantage point of this historic moment. this is the first fully integrated test of this one crude rocket system, and this is a crucial piece of technology for spacex and elon musk elon musk last night, throwing a lot of cold water on expectations for this rocket launch and the way it's supposed to happen is that here in just under 20 minutes it will launch and this is a flight that is expected to last. if all goes well, about an hour and a half. it will launch and head out east out into the gulf of mexico and that massive booster it's called the heavy boosters you mentioned. 33 engines attached about three minutes into that it will separate and land in the gulf of mexico and then the starship rocket will continue to make almost a complete orbit around the earth, and it will come back into the atmosphere landing in the pacific ocean somewhere near hawaii. so that is if it's all going to plan. but elon musk is saying this could be a success or it could be a catastrophic

failure. epic fireworks show. so anything is possible. exactly how all of this on fold. will be rather dramatic to see here in the coming moment, kate yeah, hearing him say we just want to blow up the launch pad is quite is definitely putting cold water and kind of maybe what to expect today, but we're going to be following it with lavandera is there with us? we're going to be we've got we've got the clock counting down. we're going to be there. we're going to follow this all this morning with ed. thank you so much. john new developments this morning and the mass shooting at a sweet 16 party. this happened in dade ville, alabama. four people were killed. dozens more injured. among the dead are the birthday girl's brother false, devious dowdell, a high school senior who had a football scholarship to attend jackson state university in the fall and high school senior kiki smith. she was the student manager of the track team and look forward to attending the university. of alabama. cnn's isabel rosella is indeed ville alabama for us this morning, isabelle, why don't you bring us up to speed on the

latest reporting? hey john. good morning, we got a chance to take a closer look at this dance studio wants. police took down that police tape that yellow tape and what we saw is that a family member of the owner of this dance studio put up this yellow tape covering of the door . we also counted from the windows to the glass door to this other right window. six. at least six. bullet holes and the latest press conference from the alabama law enforcement agency, which is the lead agency investigating the shooting. they finally put a number to how many people were injured. that is 28 people injured in the shooting, and we know from lake martin community hospital. at least 15 of them are teenagers at least five or in critical condition. now police have said that there is no active concern to the public here, but they have not answered questions about the status of the shooter or shooters. they say that they are

speaking with witnesses that they're gathering information and that this is a fluid situation. they're going to take their time here to getting these answers. we did speak with michael taylor and assistant football coach here at the local high school. who knew phil doubt dowdell pretty closely considered him a son has been coaching him. since nine years of age and says that he was blessed with sports. he was just good at everything track football basketball, and he says he spoke with his grandmother the morning after the shooting. listen. the biggest thing is cheap. i don't understand why wanted to happen. you know, we don't have any enemies. feel just told me. about a month ago. because if anything ever happened to me even when i go to college, touch your sister. i've never dreamed that he was talking about this. obviously such a traumatic s0eople. the

superintendent says that there are counselors available at county schools to help these children really digest and go through and work through what has happened in this community. john young people so much potential such a loss visible rossello's and alabama thank you so much. sarah one shooting to another outrage in kansas city, missouri, and this morning calls for justice after a black teenager was shot in the head when he mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers. the 16 year old ralph. your arl is currently hospitalized. he isn't stable condition. police say his parents asked him to pick up his siblings at an address on 1/15 tariffs. but he accidentally went to 1/15 street. and when he rang that doorbell, the homeowner shot him. the homeowner was taken into custody and after a 24 hour period was released pending further investigation. authorities so far have released very few

details in the case, but the team's family says they want police to identify the homeowner who shot their child. cnn's camilo bernal is following all this for us, camilla, can you first of all, tell us how the young man is doing? hey sarah. will the family says that he's doing okay? physically but what they're saying now is that there is a long road ahead emotionally and mentally for this 16 year old look, they are describing him as friendly, well mannered someone who loved music. they say he always has an instrument in hand and he was dreaming about graduating and going to west africa. all of this is going to be a lot harder now because he's simply went to the wrong address you mentioned this . he went to 115th street instead of 115th terrorists. he was just a block away from where his brothers were the moment he got shot this neighbor called police. the homeowner is arrested and this 24 hour hold

period, according to state law says you can hold this person for 24 hours. but after those 24 hours, you either have to charge him or release him and authorities here are saying look , we need to investigate this further. they want more evidence , and that's why this homeowner was released and there's so much outrage and people are just frustrated about what has happened here. the chief of police in kansas city, saying she understands that frustration here she is. i want everything you want to know that i'm listening. and i understand the concern that we are receiving from the community. the information that we have now it does not say that that is racially motivated. that's still an active investigation. but as a chief of police, i do recognize the racial components of this case. i do recognize and understand, um, the community's concern. and civil rights attorneys li mary and ben crump are representing the family.

they want swift action. they say this was horrendous and unjustifiably, sarah. certainly the family saying unjustifiable all he was doing was trying to help them out by picking up his younger brother's camilla. burnell thank you so much live there from los angeles for us, john. alright sarah happening right now we are watching wilmington's delaware were at this very moment. a judge is scheduled to explain why he issued a delay. in the most important defamation trial in generations. overnight the judge announced he would be delaying the case against fox by dominion for 24 hours now the wall street journal, which is owned by fox corporation chairman rupert murdoch, is reporting the network made a push to settle now neither dominion nor fox nor the judge until now have commented on this, although, as i said, the judge should be speaking literally right now on this so we could get details any second. dominion is suing fox over false claims that its voting machines rigged the 2020 election dominion is seeking $1.6 billion in damages. fox has

denied wrongdoing. cnn senior legal analyst holding joins us now in ellie once again the disclaimer stuff is going on at this second, we'll update it as we get it in if the judge is delaying to allow settlement talks for 24 hours explain to me exactly what's happening behind the scenes on trial can be the ultimate wake up call for any party in any case, because the stakes are so high. the outcomes can be so dramatic and the outcome is inherently uncertain . i have seen it is not uncommon for cases to settle on the eve of trial on the morning of child, even during trial that actually happens sometimes so if they're in last minute settlement negotiations, i think they're both in bunker mode, and they're likely going back and forth. with not just numbers. but other conditions that may apply alright, let's break this down. why would fox settle? i think two big reasons. number one. they run the risk of getting hammered with a verdict here. let's remember dominion seeking $1.6 billion only in compensatory damages. that means

how much you have to pay to make us whole could be punitive damages on top of that, and second of all, i think fox has to be concerned about the possibility that the certainty that many of its top personalities, anchors reporters , even executives up to, including rupert murdoch will have to take the witness stand. they will not be in control of the questioning. they will be at the mercy of the judge. and the lawyers here and that could create a nightmare scenario for fox, right. why would dominion settle and i think a lot of people are asking this especially since so much of the news about this until this point has seemed so positive for dominion trying to put myself in dominions perspective here on the on the one hand, this is not a big company. this is a fairly small to medium sized company 250 or so employees. and they need to remain solvent. and so if they get a big enough number on the table, they may well want to take that the other thing is no outcome is assured, and if they go to trial, they may not win and let's remember if they're trying to make a point here, and i think they've already done that quite powerfully. they gotta finding

from a judge that fox lied. the question is whether fox lied intentionally, but they already have it on record. fox lied and they've already exposed and shown us the contradictory texts from hannity and tucker carlson . others behind the scenes, so i think in their own mind, they can say we've already made our point. let's make our money. even if they do win it. it could be a while before they see anything because of all the appeals. if there is a settlement, and we don't know for sure, by the way, how serious these talks are, at least not yet. how much will we ever learn about the settlement , so it's interesting usually we would not learn the amount of the settlement, but the parties can negotiate that. but typically, parties will agree to a confidential number. now reporters may be able to unearth it, but if it's confidential, we're not going to see it in any court papers. there also could be keep in mind some sort of condition of an acknowledgement by fox and acknowledgment of wrongdoing and apology or retraction. so that could be in play here. you could ask for anything. absolutely terms of the money. what are we talking? a lot of money is a lot of money, and people have to remember that we're talking about any company or individual

involved in a lawsuit and we have uneven bargaining power here because let's say $1 million itself is going to be a lot a lot more than that. but a million dollars means a lot more to dominion, which is a much smaller company than fox, but it's important to keep in mind. that $1.6 billion figure that's what dominion is asking for, and it's papers. that is a high number. i mean, this is a company that, by its own estimate is not even worth. it's a good it's a well company. that's well running profitable, but they're not even worth $100 million. so they're asking for more than 10 times their value. it's unlikely they would get that. if there is a settlement, it could be quite quite rich. they're gonna make it hurt. i think that's true. we're watching this closely again. we'll bring everyone updates. if we get information about what the judges saying kate, as i said, the most important defamation trial in generations . it's absolutely huge. no matter what happens here. thanks guys coming up for us. the clock is ticking. we're weeks away from the country defaulting on its debt, and unless then an hour. house speaker kevin mccarthy is going to be making a pitch with his for his plan for

spending cuts from the new york stock exchange, really an opening salvo in what is now going to be very much heated up negotiations if they're even talking, but is it a plan? wall street or the white house is going to get behind much more on that. next plus, parts of the sudan are on fire. nearly 100 civilians are dead as a violent , violent power struggle plays out. in that country, and what supreme court justice clarence thomas is promising to do after propublica investigation revealed he did not disclose gifts and real estate deal that he made with republican a republican donor 10 years ago, and this just in, we're going to show you live pictures of the spacex launch pad spacex starship. we've just learned that they are scrapping the launch for today. we're going to bring you the details and an update on why that's next. my future is here. creating it for more than 100 years from the most advanced technology to the

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just learned that the that spacex has scrapped the launch for today of their starship rocket this morning. we're getting just new details coming in as we speak right now, let's get back over to cnn's ed lavandera, who's live near the launch pad in south padre island . i feel like ed, is it something i said? what happened? i think we messed it up. it's got to be our fault to just moments after we finished talking a little while ago, spacex officials started announcing that they had pressuring pressurization issues on the booster. and this is that massive booster that 230 ft. tall heavy booster at the bottom of this rocket ship with 33 engines, and because of that, they will have to scrap the launch for today. they do have windows where they can relaunch here in the next 24 to 48 hours. but we'll have to wait for official word from spacex on exactly how all of this will be handled, but clearly a great disappointment for the thousands of people have been turned out here this morning to be able to witness this rocket ship launch,

but this comes and they will continue to go through the process of appearing as if they will launch. in fact, they will not stop this launch officially until t minus 10 seconds, so they're going to continue going through the process. as if this were this rocket. we're going to launch and they will stop at just 10 seconds before it was scheduled to launch. but right now, all of this coming to a dramatic halt here this morning on south padre island, as we were anticipating the launch of this spacex starship rocket, we will work together more information on exactly what the pressurization issues were. and if this rocket will be able to take off in the next couple of days, okay? yeah i mean, this is bigger, faster, stronger, more capacity than rockets past. there is a lot of people, including nasa that are very excited on seeing if this works and how it works. we're gonna get back to bed. lavandera with this as it develops continuing this morning. thank you, sarah. alright. next. our house speaker kevin mccarthy is expected to give a speech at the new york stock exchange to outline the republican proposal. as a debt

ceiling crisis looms. congress by the way, is back today after a two week recess in a tweet, mccarthy says he will focus on the urgent need for a responsible debt ceiling increase. this could set the stage for a fresh round of talks between house republicans and the white house, the gop what major spending cuts in exchange for a debt limit increase. democrats say that's a nonstarter. this was a huge point of contention for mccarthy . back in january, he was forced to promise no debt ceiling increase without steep spending cuts, or he may have lost his bid for speaker of the house. cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is up on capitol hill with the very latest lauren, can you give us a sense of how far apart these two parties are on this right now? yes sir. i mean , they haven't even agreed whether or not spending cuts should be part of this debt ceiling. increase or not. the white house's position has been no negotiations as part of a standard increase against the country's borrowing limit. they argue that these are debts that

the us has already incurred. meanwhile, house republicans and kevin mccarthy or arguing that this has to include spending cuts. we expect that in upcoming days they're going to unveil with legislative text their plan to increase the debt ceiling for one year. but mccarthy's speech today in new york is really about trying to pressure the white house to come to the negotiating table. kevin mccarthy has not spoken to the president about this issue since they met. several weeks ago. this also comes as there is no certainty about what that drop dead deadline is for a debt ceiling increase up here on capitol hill. so a lot of moving parts here, but this is really setting the stage for mccarthy to try to pressure his conference to get behind. one plan to increase the debt ceiling while also trying to prove to the white house. we have a republican plan. now mr president. what is your plan going to be sarah? alright lauren fox there for us on capitol hill. this economists say it is a big freaking deal

because it could mean the loss of jobs if they don't sort this out the technical economic term for it, actually freaking deal. don't look. you know we're talking about lauren was talking about the politics here. this is the dollars and cents, chief business correspondent christine romans here with me if they don't make a deal over there just bad in so many ways really , really bad and they all know it. that's all politics. that's all politics. the practical matter is here. you have the united states that could default on its good credit rating and have a downgrade and all kinds of terrible $31.6 trillion in debt. it's been raised three times under president trump eight times under president obama. they've done it before, right. they've done it before, and now they're fighting about it. here. here are the consequences likely recession that's pretty much guaranteed a credit downgrade would awful that would cause stacks to plunge a spike in interest rates. a jobless spike, you could see a recession with an awful lot of people out of work. and here's what's the real practical thing. i think you

could feel very, very quickly if they don't raise the debt ceiling. are members of the military will have to take an iou for their pay social security recipients. you will get an iou for your they're going to send you a little note in the mail. or maybe even just an email that says, listen, we don't have the money to pay you. we can't borrow any more money because we hit that $31.6 trillion mark already this year, and so we would have to ask american citizens to take an iou from the u. s government, the largest economy in the world. it's just embarrassing and avoidable. a lot of stuff would happen all of it bad. correct very bad to remind people this debt ceiling has been around for a while, and it has been raised before. how did they get through those past moments? sometimes they go to the spring manship and there's some horse trading, but they're really three ways to resolve this for finally, for good one. you just raise the debt ceiling clean as they say, that's what the vitamin astray shin has so far said you raise it with conditions. that's what mccarthy is trying to get some, you know, plan together for or

you get rid of the thing. and that's what a lot of economists think. you know the spending restraint and the tax restraint happens in the budget process. it happens in the appropriation press. it shouldn't happen after you've already spent the money. congress already spent all this money and now saying what we want to do over, we want to spend it differently in the future. that's a failure on congress and the people who pay the price if they don't figure it out soon would be the american people. i mean, i can't imagine giving an iou to somebody who's serving actively the united states military. it's just it's abominable. what most people most economists and business leaders will tell you is congress. you are not helping here. christine romans. thank you very much, kate. defense ministry is saying about reports about its military readiness and it is speaking out also about its ability to respond to air threats from the chinese military. we have more on that coming up, and there were some of the world's greatest it is one of the world's greatest athletic competitions. the boston marathon is officially underway this morning how the

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behind the scenes now to get their caucus to rally behind a plan. that would raise the debt ceiling for one year and also come with a bunch of strings attached. also the high stakes and wildly expensive trial between dominion voting systems and fox news is being delayed the trial, which was supposed to start this morning has been pushed off until tomorrow. the reason why still officially unclear. the wall street journal, though, which is owned by fox news parent, the fox news parent company. is reporting that fox has made a last minute push to settle the defamation case out of court, sarah burning buildings and gunfire echo through the capital of sudan this morning. there is worry the country may dissolve into civil war as two rival military generals fight for control of that country. take a look at the video here. it appears to show a military headquarters up in flames. another shows fighter jets flying over the capital city of khartoum, and today, residents woke up to the sound of more artillery fire. more

than 100. civilians are dead. behind the chaos. these two men, sudan's army chief general abdel fattah alberton, and mohammed hamdan, dag low, the commander of the rapid support forces of paramilitary group. now they gain power during the bloody conflict in darfur nearly two decades ago. but in 2019, both of the men worked with the army to overthrow sudanese president omar al bashir. who was the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes by the international court, and just two years ago, they both played a crucial role in another military coup that ended with what was supposed to be a power sharing deal between the military and civilian groups. but just last week, violence broke out after a disagreement over how the paramilitary and the military i would integrate creating the violence that we are seeing unfolding now. john violence with the scene much too much of over the last several decades and civilians always caught in the middle, sarah, the violence center to sarah said in

the capital city of khartoum, or smoke and flames have been seen near the presidential palace, the army headquarters and the airport. this is some of the gunfire that has forced residents to take shelter. civilians there have had to deal with severe water shortage. power outages. it's been a serious mess there a life threatening messina's name. al bolger is with us now. naomi, you've done so much reporting on this war torn region. we're hearing what now the hospitals are being targeted. bring us up to speed on the latest we've been able to verify testimony given to us by eyewitnesses regarding the deliberate targeting of hospitals. i want you to take a listen to what we got from a doctor inside a hospital, john hmm. we were living in a real battle. can you believe that? we left the hospital and left behind

children in incubators and patients in intensive care without any medical personnel. i can't believe that i survived dying at the hospital where the smell of death is everywhere. the hospital. she was in the hospital she was in was receiving wounded soldiers from the from the sudanese armed forces. and so this deliberate targeting appears to be part of the rapid support forces attempts to gain the upper hand inside the capital. of course, john it is a war would constitute a war crime, and it is absolutely a violation. of international law, and this comes as doctors tell us that they are able to reach patients and they aren't able to help people bury their dead. trying to get the upper hand on the backs of the sick and the infirm, normal barker. thank you so much for your reporting. please keep us posted katelyn polantz. disputing washington post report that claims leaked us intelligence

documents show that they would not be able to fend off airstrikes coming from china. the findings are part of the dozens of highly classified documents that were leaked online, allegedly by massachusetts air national guardsman. doc jack teixeira. this latest intelligence assessment comes as tensions are at an all time high, of course, and just a week after china conducted three straight days of military drills near taiwan, cnn's ivan watson is joining us now to looking into this report. what we know what we don't and also ivan, how taiwan is responding to all of this. right well read off the bat. the defense ministry of taiwan, kate, they've come out with this statement saying quote. we respect outside opinion on our national defense, but a foreign media cited unidentified documents and the content was obviously not factual and then went on to go went on to say that that taiwan's military is prepared to defend taiwan's airspace in the event of an attack from mainland china. now

let's backtrack to the actual reporting by the washington post . cnn has not seen the actual document that they're referring to the leaked document, and we've requested comment from the pentagon still waiting for an answer on that. the washington post says that that there is a pretty grim assessment, arguing that there's a lack of coordination within taiwanese air defense that its defenses would be easily overwhelmed that they don't have the right radios for communication. and be able to coordinate attacks on different targets and that barely half of the aircraft in taiwan's air force is fully operational right now. so so it's pretty grim stuff and this comes again after, uh, the tensions last week where china conducted these exercises all around taiwan. this was partially in protest of the president of taiwan. visiting the u. s. meeting with the house

speaker going to latin america as well. i do need to point out that a us guided missile destroyer that's the uss millions conducted what the u. s navy calls freedom of navigation operation transiting the taiwan strait on sunday. trying to show that the us will. navy will sail anywhere it deems to be international waters, much to the chagrin of beijing, just an ongoing sign of the ongoing tensions in that contentious region, okay? absolutely ivan. good to see you. thank you. sarah alright. supreme court justice clarence thomas is making some changes to his financial disclosure forms after a real estate deal with the gop mega donor came to life and the los angeles district attorney is reviewing allegations of sexual assault against actor armie hammer. the only thing i r regrt about my life was hiring local

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march, and fetterman was being treated for clinical depression. sarah. alright sources tell cnn that supreme court justice clarence thomas will amend his financial disclosure forms to include a 2014 real estate deal he made with a gop mega donor. justice thomas has been under intense scrutiny since propublica first reported he failed to disclose several luxury trips he took with that donor as well as the real estate transaction. cnn supreme court reporter larrionda. vogue joins us now live. ariana can you tell us what we know and why justice thomas failed to disclose this this real estate deal with the gop mega donor. right so we know that now, according to my source, he is going to amend his financial disclosures to reflect the sale of these three properties he owned with family members. one of them is a house where his mother still lives today, and that sale was to this top mega dorner harlan crow.

remember crow? as you said, he's the same man who paid for those lavish trips for the virginia and clarence thomas took regarding the trips. clarence thomas put out a statement and he said, i did not have to disclose those because of the rules that were in place at the time, but here this is something different. and he said he is going to amend. i was told the reason he thought at first he didn't have to disclose it was because he and his wife put in about 50 to $70,000 to improve this house before the sale, and when the sale went through his portion, he only made $44,000 so he fills out his financial disclosure by himself and with his aides. he looked at the section that's called investments. he thought i didn't make any money here, so this does not have to be disclosed. but that's not true. that section of those forms clearly shows that if you have a transaction, you do have to put it there in those financial disclosure forms. this is making

a lot of people question the supreme court as a whole, and that's been something that has broken down for a bit of time, learning more about each of the justices. i do want to ask you a question about whether or not the supreme court finally has some ethics rules in place that apply to all of these justices. that's a good point because they do not. and they have been under a lot of heat from critics from congress who say look, you have got to have ethics. um rules that are directed just at you. the justices have declined to do so. they say they use other rules as guidance. but this is another example. like, for instance, one new detail we learned here is that that house where his mother lives, she's living there now rent free. that was the deal when the sale went through. all she has to do is pay for tax. aces and insurance . so these kinds of disclosures that's kind of a drip drip drip , and it may cause the supreme court to finally take that step. but so far, they haven't alright

. we will keep watching this are end of over there live for us from washington, john new this morning. the los angeles district attorney's office says it is reviewing claims of sexual assault against actor armie hammer. hammer has faced a series of troubling allegations over the last few years. cnn's chloe melas is with us now. and chloe, you were just telling me as we were coming to air. this is significant. why significant john because the los angeles police department has been conducting an investigation for nearly two years when cnn first confirmed that this stemmed from allegations from 2017. so let me back up for a second in 2021, a young woman by the name of f came forward in a press conference with famous lawyer gloria allred, and she claimed that she met armie hammer on facebook that they had an on and off again relationship for several years and that it turned violent allegedly and that he allegedly raped her in 2021. i

mean in 2017, the lapd opens an investigation. here we are now the pd has turned over their investigation to the los angeles district attorney's office, and they are looking into this, so it's unclear if they are going to bring charges. we have reached out to army hamer's team for comment, but i want to tell you previously what armie hammer said airmail. so he did an interview in february, and it was the first time that he had spoken out about these allegations personally, not through an attorney and john, he said, quote. i had a very intense in extreme lifestyle, a whirlwind of track. gavel and sex and drugs and big emotions. now, he you know, stands adamantly by the fact that he did not do anything that was not consensual. now just a little bit ago. we got a statement from that woman to cnn and i'd like to read you what she is telling us, she says, quote. i am severely traumatized by army. i feel disgusted that he is not

taking accountability for what he did to me and that he has resorted to attacking me. army has no remorse. continues to cause pain, and i don't think he's changed at all. so obviously we've reached out to armies, attorneys and his publicist for further comment, but this is a story that so many people have been watching for years to see. what is going to come of this is now in the district attorney's hands. so the next step we will see could be a minute loss. thank you very much for that kate are off nearly 30,000 athletes from more than 100 countries are racing in the boston marathon this morning up next, we're going to go live to boston on today's big race and also how they are marking 10 years since the deadly twin bombings there. we'll be right back. hey the update. we just made knowledge data centers are stores are having a payment issusue. it's hot issue. customs can't make payments. that's a hot issue. how long to roll back

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sandoval is in boston for us. he's joining us now. paula what are you hearing from officials about security at this year's race? okay, you will find signs of security just about everywhere along this massive marathon course. here. we're actually just west of boston proper. you have volunteers. and then as the very steady hands of our colleague bob crowley will show you. you also see boston's finest there and then this left turn that will take runners kate , the four mile stretch ahead of that. i iconic finish line you make we make it lucky we may potentially see the wheelchair participants. speed bias here in a few moments, see, elites wave actually took off here about maybe 20 minutes ago or so we are expecting for the rest of the wave to make its way out in the next five or 10 minutes or so, but i have to tell you, it is just drizzly and overcast. but boston is shining bright today there is no better way to really celebrate the memory. of

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