This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Jake Tapper, and we are standing by for an update from the FBI on the attack at a Michigan synagogue and preschool.

We're going to bring that to you live when it starts.

Until then, a CNN investigation is revealing more about the suspect in yesterday's attack.

41-year-old Amon Muhammad Ghazali had previously been flagged in U.S. government databases

for connections with suspected members of Hezbollah.

Hasbola, of course, is the Iranian-supported group that the U.S. considers to be terrorists.

All of this, according to law enforcement officials.

Though we should know, Ghazali was not believed to be a member of Hezbollah himself,

but several days before he drove a vehicle filled with explosives into Temple Israel,

with dozens of children inside, some of Gazali's family members had been killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon

in Israel's war with Hezbollah. Gazali's two brothers were told, and two of their children,

were killed on March 5th, according to the mayor of their village in Lebanon. That tragedy,

that act of war, that, whatever it was, apparently led him to seek to

mass murder dozens of Jewish Americans in his terrorist attack. His car caught fire. He was killed,

and one security officer was injured, although that security officer is expected to recover.

In a press conference this morning, Democratic Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer,

laid out what she saw as the clear motive.

Yesterday's attack was anti-Semitism.

It was hate, plain and simple.

Now, Temple, Israel, as have many synagogues in this country, had prepared

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