i'm isha sesay in cnn los angeles. and i'm john vause in roseburg, oregon, where we're having our breaking news coverage here on cnn. it's just after 9:00 p.m. here, and investigators are still searching far motive. why would a 26-year-old man open fire on the campus of this community college, killing ten people and wounding seven others. law enforcement sources have told us his name is christopher harper mercer. he was heavily armed, three handguns and an assault rifle. he also had a lot of ammunition, we're told. enough for a prolonged gun bat. he also had body armor. he eventually died in a shootout with police. those two police officers who engaged the gunman are being called heros this evening. we're told they probably saved lives here this evening. we have team coverage on all of what happened here over the last 12 hours or so. we will begin outside of m mercer's apartment about five blocks from here. have they found anything inside that apartment? >> the law enforcement authorities are being very quiet. they're

i'm isha sesay in cnn los angeles. and i'm john vause in roseburg, oregon, where we're having our breaking news coverage here on cnn.

but for now, back to isha sesay in los angeles. >> thank you. we'll be back with you shortly. >>> kurdish protesters clash with police in turkey monday over the deadly bombings that took place over the weekend. police used water cannon and tear gas against the protesters. some demonstrators hailed stones at officers. 97 people killed when two bombs exploded at a peace rally in ankara saturday. hundreds of others were wounded. >>> the prime minister said several people have been detained in connection to the blast. investigation revealed two suicide bombers carried out the attack using bombs containing about 11 pounds or five kilograms of explosives. no group has claimed responsibility. the government says isis is the prime suspect. >>> meanwhile, russia's military says it's launching air strikes against isis in syria. but observer group says the air strikes are mostly meant to bolster syrian leader bashar al-assad's regime. cnn correspondent barbara starr has the details. >> reporter: it was all caught on camera. bombs killing at least 97 people

i'm isha sesay. >> and i'm john vause. >>' we begin this hour with turmoil abowith the republicans congress. >> kevin mccarthy dropped out of the race. dana bash begins our coverage. >> there's congressional chaos and then there's this. a republican meeting to vote for a new speaker ending abruptly after the front-runner, kevin mccarthy shocked everyone. suddenly dropping out of the race. >> stun popped. >> you were behind him. are you stunned? >> totally stunned. >> what happened? >> kevin mccarthy, just like john boehner did, put the country and the congress and the conference before his own interest interests. it was a very honorable thing to do. he recognized and shared with the congress his candidacy might further divide his caucus and further divide the party across the country. >> behind closed doors, that's exactly what kevin mccarthy told his colleagues. >> i think i shocked some of you, huh? >> and what he told reporters after the news got out. >> if we're going to be united and strong, we need a new face to help do that. so nothing more than that. >> that and raw numbers. despite

. >> and i'm isha sesay. "newsroom l.a." starts right now. >> hours and hours and hours of questions, criticisms and rebuttals. hillary clinton's congressional hearings ended just a short time ago. >> the marathon hearing was to investigate clinton's actions before, during and after the attack on a diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya. the u.s. ambassador and three other americans were killed in the september 1 1, 2012 attack. >> the former secretary of state took responsibility for the deaths, but forcibly denied she was to blame for any lapse in security. here are some of the more heated and interesting moments from the hearing. >> that final definitive accounting of what happened in benghazi. we would like to do it with your help and help with our democrat colleague, but make no mistake we are going to do it nonetheless. >> last weekend, the chairman told the republican colleagues to shut up and stop talking about the select committee. what i want to do is this, and this is a key question -- why tell the republicans to s

>> i'm isha sesay in los angeles. >> i'm john vause in roseburg, oregon. we begin this hour with disturbing new details about the mass shooting here on the campus of umpqua community college. the father of one of the wounded students said the gunman was targeting christians. he said his daughter told him the gunman walked into her classroom, shot her teacher point blank. he then ordered students to stand up if they were christians and he then shot them. when it was all over, ten people were dead, seven others wounded. police say the shooter was 26 years old carrying body armor with enough ammunition for a prolonged gun fight. he was killed in a shootout with police. >> i will not give the name of the person who perpetrated this cowardly act. the media will confirm the name in time, but you will never hear it from me. >> you're hearing some harrowing accounts from those who survived this mass shooting here. >> this is coming from the father and the brother of a woman who was insigh this classroom. an 18-year-old student anna boylin. she was in her fourth da

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i'm isha sesay. i'm john vause. "newsroom l.a." begins right now. >>> our top story this hour, recovery efforts under way in south carolina after days of unrelenting rain across the state. historic flooding caused 11 deaths. two others were killed in north carolina. >> at least one dam has overflowed leading to mandatory evacuation. officials say so far 18 dams have breached or failed. cnn's martin savidge reports. >> reporter: desperate days. a man in columbia clings to a tree as floodwaters rip at his waist and threaten to wash him away. in south carolina, the rain may be easing but not the danger. in many areas the water continues to rise. and so does the death toll. many of those who have been killed died trying to cross through rushing water. >> he just made a mistake. >> this man nearly made the same fate when racing waters threatened to carry him and his truck away. it would become one of many dramatic res xups just outside charleston a mother and her 15-month-old baby had to be rescued by a coast guard helicopter after floo

i'm isha sesay. >> i'm john vause. time to check the headline.ple have been taken to hospital after a shooting on the main campus of tennessee state university. the university is located in the state's capital of nashville. no word right now on the condition of the victims. >> hur pain patricia is now a powerful category five storm. it's expected to make land fall friday afternoon along the west coast. mexicans are bracing for heavy rain and strong winds across the country. >> u.s. republicans grilled former secretary of state hillary clinton during an 11-hour hearing of the 2012 benghazi attacks. clinton took responsibility for the deaths of the u.s. ambassador and three other americans but said she is not to blame for security lapses before the attack. >> well, as you can imagine, there was a fair amount of shouting, interrupting and finger pointing thursday's hearing. >> politicians on both sides of the aisle had a lot to see while hillary clinton remaned mostly calm. take a look. >> we are going to write that final definitive accounting of wh

i'm isha sesay. >> "newsroom l.a." begins right now. >> the command process is coming under view as well as the long-range plans for u.s. troops there. >> an in depth traininger nord to review all of our op sagsal authorities and rules of engagement. >> that order and acknowledgment that something went wrong. rules of engagement spell out when and how thest military can conduct air strikes with the ac-130 gun ships that hit the hospital. doctors without borders say the u.s. knew it was a hospital. they were under attack for 30 minutes. it could not have been a mistake. >> until we're told otherwise, until we see an independent investigation, we'll presume that this was, in fact, a war crime. >> did this violate u.s. military rules? >> even though the afghans request that support, it still has to go through a rigorous u.s. procedure. >> there was no air controllers, american forward air controllers on the ground. >> we had a special operations unit that was in close vicinity that was talking to the aircraft to deliver t

. >> i'm isha sesay. "newsroom l.a." starts right now. >> russia is stepping up its military campaign in syria to a new level. russian ships in the kas peian sea shoot dozens of missiles on what it calls isis and other terrorist targets on wednesday. >> translator: we are aware of how difficult such ansi terrorist operations are. and, of course, it's too early to discuss the results, but the things that have been done so far deserve a high positive mark. >> well, syrian rebels say the russian strikes are not targeting isis. one u.s.-backed group posted video online of a weapons depot outside of alepo that it says was hit by russian jets. cnn cannot independently verify the claim. >> and take a look at this map, most of the russian air strikes have hit russian syria. that's where rebel forces are fighting the government and a few strikes have hit isis-controlled areas. >> the strikes that we've seen them take today have not been against isil or al qaeda affiliated terrorists. they've been largely against opposition groups

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