of that very same judge, i don't know that it chills the the circumstances are very unique. this is a how do you have this case with a sitting president when altonaga wasn't going to stray from the trial order, the scheduling order, and they were going to trial in april? um, there could be some fear about what happens should he get elected. um, you know, there was not enough discovery for us to get information like we got in dominion fox. so i don't really know, you know, and i don't know about the chilling. i do know this. he's aggressive, but he's also attacked more than many politicians have ever been attacked. so, you know, you've got to have some strategy to deal with it. and there's no way to deal with it. but the courts, that's the only way to regulate it. >> well, we'll see if the chill in the we'll see if the chill remains in the air. as you mentioned, brian, based on what has happened here. a lot to be seen here. brian kent, thank you so much. and thank you all for watching this evening. our coverage continues

in. >> a second grade, student called 911 to report a shooting at school. >> if it can happen here, it can literally happen anywhere. >> i was really scared and i was really sad. >> i think they'd be better off saying what it is our military knows and our our president knows. >> we have not identified anything anomalous or any national security or public safety risk. >> it's not just that this story is a lie and that it's not true. >> it's provably, demonstrably false. this never happened. live from london. >> this is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i'm max foster. we'll get to those stories in just a moment. but

first we begin with breaking this news this hour in moscow, where russian authorities say a senior russian general has been killed by a bomb. lieutenant general igor kirillov was the chief of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops. he was killed outside an apartment building just seven kilometers. that's four miles from the kremlin. this footage shows the site of the explosion with blast marks to the entrance of the building. there. russia's investigative committee says the bomb was hidden in an electric scooter. fred pleitgen joins us from moscow. what more do we know, fred? >> hi there. max. yeah, we are actually at the scene of where this explosion took place. and the russians are saying this happened in the early morning hours of today, as the general and an aide to the general were leaving that building. i'm going to get out of your way. and you can see the actual scene of where all of this took place. and you already mentioned that the entrance to that building where all this happened is the second entrance down from here was badly

damaged in that explosion. and the russians are indeed saying that they believe that the explosive device was hidden in an electric scooter parked right outside that building, and that there were about 300g of tnt inside that explosive device. they have already said that they found remnants of that explosive device. in. one of the other things that they said as well is that they believe that it was detonated remotely. now, we do know at this point in time, max, that the ukrainian security services have claimed responsibility for this. a source saying that to cnn that ukrainian security services were behind this, the explosion, despite the fact that 300g of tnt might not sound like very much, seems to have been substantial, we can see that there's a lot of workers here on the ground. investigative committee of the russian federation on the ground. some others have cordoned off the area. but one of the other things that we're seeing as well, max, if we pan over to the other side, is that the explosion was so strong that it damaged the building on the other side of the road. you can see there that windows have been smashed by this explosion

that took place. there was an eyewitness report that we have seen some of them on russian media are saying that they thought that maybe some sort of cement truck had unloaded a lot of cement or with something very heavy had fallen down on the ground. so clearly the people who live in this area very much heard this explosion as it took place. of course, at the beginning, not exactly clear of what it might have been. the russians have launched a criminal investigation into all of this. you can see the investigators and we've seen the investigators on the ground here, not just civilian investigators or from the police authorities, but also military investigators as well. of course, lieutenant general igor kirillov, very important for the russian military, very high up in the russian military. he was the head of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces and the ukrainians had actually indicted him in absentia just yesterday. the ukrainian security services, accusing the russians of using weaponized chemicals in the war in

ukraine. erik kurilla, for his part in the past had accused the ukrainians of doing the exact same thing. so certainly someone who was on the forefront as far as that conflict between ukraine and russia is concerned, and someone who the russians, of course, for their military was extremely important. >> max pleitgen, back with you when we get more. thank you. new details emerging about america's latest deadly school shooting in madison, wisconsin. the suspected shooter, surprisingly, was a 15 year old female student. police say natalie rupnow shot herself and then died en route to the hospital. she's accused of fatally shooting two people, a teacher and a student at the abundant life christian school. no word yet on a motive. six people were wounded in the mass shooting, and two remain in critical condition with life threatening injuries. >> at 10:57 a.m.. a second grade student called 911 to

report a shooting had occurred at school. don't let that soak in for a minute a second grade student called 911 at 10:57 a.m. to report a shooting at school. >> after getting the all clear. terrified parents ran to retrieve their children. young students who heard the gunfire shared what happened during those scary moments? >> did you hear gunshots? yeah, i heard them. tell me what happened. >> we heard them and then some people started crying. >> and then we just waited till the police came. >> and then they escorted us out. i was scared. why did they do that? >> why? i was getting ready for lunch, so it was basically lunch time. and then i just heard sobbing and there was a teacher and she was screaming like, oh, my leg! help, help!

>> this is at least the 83rd school shooting in the us this year alone, which is the most in any single year since 2008, when cnn started keeping those records. cnn's whitney wild has more details on this tragedy today is a sad, sad day, not only for madison, but for our entire country. >> in madison, wisconsin, two people are dead. a teenage student and a teacher. >> abundant life christian church, 4901 franklin, five, and medic five for a shooter. >> six other people were injured. two students are now in critical condition in the hospital, and these injuries are considered life threatening. >> two other victims are being treated for non-life threatening injuries. the madison chief says multiple shots were fired. calls coming in at 10:57 a.m. at the k through 12 abundant life christian school in madison, just hours after the school day began. >> when officers arrived, they found multiple victims

suffering from gunshot wounds. >> ambulance. ambulance. squad car. fire engine. >> madison police officers were on scene within minutes. >> officers located a juvenile who they believe was responsible for this. deceased in the building. >> the suspect, according to a law enforcement source, was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound using a nine millimeter pistol. >> pd is saying anybody can come in. all ems can come in. shooters down. >> many of you have asked me about the why of this. why did this happen? what do we know? what was the motivation? i do not know. but i will tell you this. our detectives are working hard in the investigative process to find out as many answers as we can so that we can further prevent these things from happening. >> some medics responding directly from their training to reports of shots fired at the school. >> the protocols are simple stop the killing. stop the dying. find out who's doing

this. the officers did that. >> the officers did not fire any shots. according to the police chief. instead, they assisted injured staff and students. the shooting in madison is the third at a small private christian school. in recent years. the second took place in oroville, california, less than two weeks ago. >> i think we can all agree that enough is enough, and we have to come together to do everything we can. >> i think we need to do better in our country and our community to prevent gun violence. >> the madison school, on its website asking for prayers today, while frantic parents waited to hear if their kids were safe. >> i pray with my kids every morning that this won't happen and it's the world like that we live in. >> whitney wild, cnn, madison, wisconsin. >> the fbi is working to prevent these many dozens of school shootings. cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller, spoke about the level of planning that goes into these attacks. and the red

flags to look out for. >> we have this narrative that the that a child or a person was having problems at school or at work, and they just snapped and they came in and shot everybody that day. not how it works, not how it works. people don't snap. these things build and they plan, they prepare, they arm, they go through many steps, and they also have many tools, if you will. and one of the things the fbi has been working on is literally a campaign to get this out. and they say some of the indicators that you'll see in people and this will be detectable by friends, classmates, a guidance counselor, a boyfriend or girlfriend, a brother or sister, parents significantly reduced ability to cope with stress or setbacks, expressions of hopelessness, helplessness, lack of nonviolent options for solving problems, persistent fantasies about violence. now that's a core group. but

there's 15 categories that they say, and you may not see all of them. you may see a cluster of them. and what they're saying is, this is the time when you go, you go to someone you trust, and all of this is available, by the way, on fbi.gov. slash prevent. and there's tools and brochures and lists. but this is, this is, this is going to be how we're going to prevent it the biden administration is seeking to reassure americans as conspiracy theories continue to swirl over the mysterious drone sightings across several states. >> the fbi is now urging the public not to fire at aircraft, fearing some might try to take down a drone themselves. but whilst the white house insists the sightings don't pose a threat, it's done little to ease the growing concerns and confusion. as cnn's pete muntean reports drone hysteria is soaring as federal authorities are scrambling to tamp down false alarms,

breeding conspiracy theories online, fanning the latest fears. >> reports of unmanned aerial systems over secure wright-patterson air force base near dayton, ohio. all aircraft use extreme caution. patterson class delta is now closed for heavy uas activity. pentagon officials now say the ohio case is not connected to possible drone sightings in a half dozen states. even still, president elect donald trump at mar a lago doubled down on conspiracy theories after alex jones and joe rogan amplified claims that drones over new jersey are looking for a stolen dirty bomb. >> something strange is going on. for some reason, they don't want to tell the people. >> federal aviation rules allow drones to fly legally, so long as they stay below 400ft and away from airports, airplanes and stadiums. biden administration officials tell cnn that of the almost 1 million drones registered in the u.s., 8000 might be flying at any one given time. and, quote, we haven't seen evidence of anything

non-compliant, but that has not stopped lawmakers from demanding new technology to help detect hostile drones. defense officials now confirmed to cnn that the government is sending drone tracking systems to a pair of military installations in new jersey. >> if the technology exists for a drone to make it up into the sky, there certainly is the technology that can track the craft with precision and determine what the heck is going on. >> new jersey governor phil murphy says he's been briefed by the fbi now that it and the department of homeland security say most cases of possible drones are, in fact manned aircraft. science writer mick west is debunking purported drone videos online. new jersey airspace is some of the busiest in the country, with videos surfacing from under newark, teterboro and new york flight paths. >> you get the details, the date, the time and the location. you can actually look up what was in the sky at that point and look at what direction they were looking in. and you can see that it was

actually just a plane. >> the fbi says it has taken in about 5000 tips of purported drone sightings since this frenzy began, but has deemed only about 100 of those legitimate, enough for any follow up. this fixation on drones is also causing a concern for commercial flights. there's video surfacing online of flights being hit by laser pointers from the ground. that can temporarily blind pilots and can lead to a massive fine from the faa. the faa says it's investigating such incidents in new jersey, new york and pennsylvania. pete muntean, cnn, washington. >> donald trump's transition team is blasting a ruling that his hush money case should not be dismissed because of presidential immunity. new york judge juan merchan says evidence that led to trump's conviction wasn't related to his official conduct as president. the u.s. supreme court ruled in july that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts. a jury found trump guilty of 34 felony counts back in may

for falsifying business records to cover up payments to adult film star stormy daniels. trump has still not been sentenced. in that case, his legal team is expected to appeal the judge's latest decision. trump promising once again to push for a deal to end the war in ukraine in his first news conference since his election, trump wouldn't say if he expects ukraine to give up territory in exchange for peace. he did say parts of ukraine have been reduced to rubble and there are no cities left for displaced people to return to. trump also repeated a warning that all hostages held in gaza must be released before his inauguration on january the 20th, as you know, i gave warning that if these hostages aren't back home by that date, all hell is going to break out well, the president elect met with tiktok ceo on monday after suggesting earlier he might reverse course on banning the social media app, and he threatened defamation lawsuits against several media

outlets, which she accused of election interference. >> we have to straighten out the press. our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections. >> well, trump also talked about vaccines and his controversial pick to lead the department of health and human services, robert f kennedy kennedy jr., now says he's all for the polio vaccine. cnn's tom foreman has more on that story. >> i think you're going to find that bobby is much. he's a very rational guy. i found him to be very rational. you're not going to lose the the polio vaccine. >> the president elect is playing defense amid new reports that a lawyer tied to robert f kennedy jr.. petitioned the government to revoke approval of the polio vaccine, a move kennedy himself could approve if confirmed, to lead the department of health and human services. >> i'm not going to take away anybody's vaccines. and i've never been anti vaccine. >> kennedy is trying to calm fears about his views and

goals, but his statements over the years have raised alarms. >> it would be against mandates at all for any vaccines, for any vaccine. >> he's pushed unproven claims that vaccines cause autism. he's compared u.s. vaccine policies to those in a totalitarian state like nazi germany, for which he later apologized. and he's disparaged then-president donald trump's handling of the covid pandemic. >> we had the worst record of any country in the world. >> that's not true, say top medical researchers. but vaccines aren't the only issue he faces with republican senators. he must win over. kennedy has insisted on inauguration day, the trump white house will advise all u.s. water systems to remove fluoride from public water, which trump said sounds okay despite decades of evidence showing fluoride radically lowers tooth decay. kennedy has made false claims about the ingredients in froot loops and calls a lot of american foods

poisonous, and many abortion rights opponents simply don't trust him, including former vice president mike pence, who says kennedy's nomination is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning. but the kennedy pedigree still has power. and even with all the concerns about the nominee, some of his complaints about the quality of food and the policies behind food safety standards are resonating with democrats. >> is rfk right about a lot of the challenges? yeah, i've heard him say a lot of things that are absolutely right. >> during the campaign, trump said he would let kennedy go wild on health care policy if he won the election. now, that may not be helping kennedy very much, as he faces a lot of senators who are afraid he could do just that. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> we're following developments in vanuatu after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit just a few hours ago. the us geological survey says it

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about 100,000 undocumented migrants, many feared dead. french president emmanuel macron says he'll visit the island in the coming days, and officials have already pledged resources to assist. there. >> it is clear that the island is totally devastated. >> we are thinking of all these families who are severely affected, but also to show all the people of mayotte that the government is by their side with the helping hand. >> these images show some of the neighborhoods both before and after the storm. the cyclone knocked out the electrical grid and disrupted internet services, making it difficult for families to check on their loved ones. now, a woman who stowed away on an international flight last month has been arrested yet again. svetlana dali was caught on monday trying to sneak into canada from the u.s. by bus. law enforcement sources tell cnn that she had cut off her ankle monitor, which she'd been ordered to wear after her arrest last month. dali had

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they're calling a, quote, terrorist attack. lieutenant general igor kirillov was killed outside an apartment building some seven kilometers. that's about four miles southeast of the kremlin. his aide was also killed in the blast. russian officials have opened a criminal investigation. kirillov's death comes a day after ukrainian prosecutors charged the general in absentia with the use of banned chemical weapons in the war in ukraine, a source with knowledge of the operation told cnn that ukraine's security services were behind kirillov's assassination. a christian school in madison, wisconsin, that was preparing for christmas activities is now grappling with gun violence. police say a 15 year old female student shot and killed another student and a teacher before killing herself. the uncle of a survivor spoke about the community's shattered sense of security. >> it just hits home, right? >> you see it. you know it's happening. there's protocols. it's not new, right? but, you know, i'm sitting at work and

somebody says, oh, there was a school shooting. and i'm like, oh, jeez, another one. well, in madison. oh, really? well, now i have kids that go on the west side. my my kids and obviously my nephew here. and i said, well where at? well, abundant life what? that's it. i packed my stuff and i drove over here. it still hasn't hit home until i see him. right? you know, i my sister's a mess on the phone. you know? um, and, uh, you know, we we've joked around about how safe a 400 student bodied school christian private school is, right. if it can happen here, it can literally happen anywhere. >> 2024 has been a record setting year for school shootings, with 83 so far. cnn's veronica miracle picks up that story. >> i would have never thought it would have happened in madison, let alone at our school here. alcs. so it's shocking. it's a strange world we live in at a small christian

school in madison, wisconsin, just before christmas break, a horrific tragedy, something that you you pray. >> i mean, i pray with my kids every morning that this won't happen. >> it was just before lunchtime when a female student opened fire at abundant life christian school. it's a k through 12 program with just a few hundred children and about 50 staff, police, fire and medics were dispatched to the school at 10:57 a.m. local time. >> a call coming in at abundant life christian church, 4901 for nine five, medic five for a shooter. the advising someone was shot. >> police say that call came from someone inside the school and officers entered the school three minutes later at 11 a.m., the shooter was dead. >> upon our arrival. police department arrival and no officers fired their weapons. >> less than ten minutes from when police responded to the scene, radio traffic from the madison fire department said the shooter was down and called

for medics to enter the scene. >> pd is saying everybody can come in, all ems can come in, shooters down. >> medics were at a facility just three miles from the school at the time of the shooting, when officials say a training day turned into a real life scenario. >> within a course of 15 minutes from the first transport to the last transport, all the patients were on their way to the hospital. >> the injuries were contained to one area of the school. that's according to the madison police chief. sources tell cnn the shooter used a nine millimeter pistol. >> when officers arrive on the on the scene, they immediately go in, which we did in this case, stop the threat, stop the killing, find the killer. that's how we train. that's exactly what we did today. >> police have been in contact with the shooter's family, and they are cooperating. >> as difficult as today is, that's still someone's child that's gone. that's still someone that has to deal with

what happened today. and so we want to make sure that we can ensure as much cooperation as we can. >> the shooting at abundant life christian school marks the 83rd school shooting of 2024, the most of any year since cnn began tracking school shootings. it's the third recent shooting at a christian school. >> i think we can all agree that enough is enough and we have to come together to do everything we can to support our students to prevent press conferences like these from happening again and again and again. >> veronica miracle, cnn, los angeles. >> a shocking political blow for canadian prime minister justin trudeau after his finance minister suddenly quit on monday. chrystia freeland's resignation came after weeks of disagreement with the pm over the best way to prepare for donald trump's promised tariff hike. the us president elect has threatened to implement 25%

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for the princely sum of $4.5 billion. now he made his money in energy, but he has a few uk interests already. he owns a 27% stake in the west ham united football club, and a 10% stake in the british supermarket chain sainsbury's. his mysterious personality and reluctance to talk about business dealings earned him the nickname of the czech sphinx. in 2019. now he won't be able to do anything he likes with royal mail. this takeover comes with strings attached. royal mail will still have to deliver letters six days a week, monday through saturday, and parcels monday through friday, and the uk government will hold a so-called golden share in the company because this is vital. british infrastructure. so they'll get final approval on things like a change in ownership of the company, a change in headquarter location or tax residency. this takeover is expected to complete next year. >> now an alleged chinese spy who's banned from the uk and

has links to prince andrew, has been named by a british judge. the man yang zheng bo was publicly identified after the judge ruled his anonymity should be removed. yang was authorized to act on prince andrew's behalf during business meetings with potential chinese investors in the u.k. he was also invited to andrew's 60th birthday party in 2020. yang said in a statement he had done nothing wrong or unlawful, and that the widespread description of him as a spy is entirely untrue. four major political parties have already announced their candidates for chancellor. when germany goes to early elections next year. olaf scholz will stand again, but his political career may never recover from the defeat that he suffered on monday. cnn's sebastian shukla has that story from berlin. >> reporter the german chancellor, olaf scholz, lost a vote of confidence that he called in himself. >> on monday, he lost that vote by 394 votes against him versus the 207 votes in favor of him.

what that means is that germany is now almost certainly headed towards a federal election, the date most likely to be the 23rd of february. now, the vote today came about because olaf scholz is bickering. government collapsed back in november when he fired his finance minister, christian lindner. the two had been bickering for some time over a financial mechanism and germany's economy. but what resulted in this was scholz leading a minority government. that meant he had very few other options left to him, apart from calling this confidence vote. what the opposition party saw, though, in schultz's weakness, was the ability to force him to make the call on having the confidence vote and the election earlier than he had originally wished. that animosity was very clear to see on the floor of the bundestag today, with all parties leveling accusations at one another. schulz took another opportunity to remind the german people that the reason this government collapsed in his mind was because the

liberal partners in his coalition were not prepared to agree with his policies and timetables. the cdu, the former party of angela merkel, now led by friedrich merz and one of the front runners to be the next chancellor, also took his opportunity to blame olaf schultz. >> you are asking about confidence today. mr. chancellor, you had your chance. you did not take this opportunity and it applies to today as well as to february 23rd, 2025, the expected date of the bundestag elections. you, mr. schulz, have not earned any trust. >> but forming coalitions is a key part of any german government and is often the way governments are formed. whilst the outcome of the election is difficult to predict right now, all signs are pointing towards friedrich merz and the cdu becoming germany's largest party and therefore keys to the chancellery. and as one person said to me today, it will almost certainly spell the end of olaf schultz's political career. sebastian shukla, cnn,

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that he and dozens of strangers he recruited online could rape her. prosecutors are asking for the maximum 20 year prison sentence the trial has triggered protest rallies in support of gisele pellico and prompted calls for an update to france's rape law. jay-z's attorney says the sexual assault claim against the hip hop mogul is false. a woman has accused him of raping her at an after party for the 2000 mtv video music awards when she was just 13. cnn's elizabeth wagmeister has that story jay-z's attorney is doubling down on a denial that his client ever raped a 13 year old girl. >> now, jay-z has already fiercely denied these accusations, and his legal team has already asked the court to dismiss this case entirely. but now, for the first time, speaking to reporters since these accusations came out jay-z's attorney alex spiro,

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