36 mass shootings already in 2023 in the United States, and we're not even a full month

into the year.

The lead starts right now.

11 victims now dead with the latest update from the hospital from the massacre in Monterey

Park, California.

Today, what we're learning about the victims, all in their 50, 60s and 70s, and what we're

trying to piece together about the 72-year-old gunman's motive, he's been described as

quick to anger.

Plus, a high-ranking FBI official, now in federal custody, arrested after his plane

returned from Sri Lanka, and now he's facing money laundering charges and questions about

his connections to a sanctioned Russian billionaire.

Plus, the bizarre defense in court for the January 6th rider who kicked up his feet on a desk

and speaker Pelosi's office and posed for a photo how a stun gun in his pants ended

up as key testimony in the case.

Welcome to the lead object tap, where we start today with our national lead and a search

for answers in Monterey, Bay, California, what started out as a festive lunar New Year

celebration in the town outside Los Angeles became a nightmare on Saturday, when a 72-year-old

Asian man opened fire inside a dance studio in a predominantly Asian-American neighborhood.

This afternoon we learned the death toll has risen to 11, with at least 10 other innocents

injured, and the shooter apparently moved on to a second location where he could have

potentially taken even more lives if a man named Brandon Say had not fought him off.

Something came over me, I realized I needed to get the weapon away from him, I needed to

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