Mass shootings mar July 4th celebrations

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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A pair of mass shootings interrupt the festivities in two major US cities. A gunman in Philadelphia is accused of killing five and injuring two children, one of the victims just 2 years old. Just hours later in Texas, three people were shot and killed in a fort worth parking lot. We bring you the latest on the investigations. Plus, in Israel, eight people are injured after a man rams a pickup truck into a crowd of people gathered near a Tel Aviv shopping center. Police say the man then jumped out of his vehicle and began stabbing people before being killed by an armed civilian. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happening now we are standing by for President Joe Biden to address active duty
0:06.8	military families gathered at the White House for a holiday barbecue ahead of
0:10.8	tonight's July 4th celebrations here in the nation's capital.
0:14.3	We will go there live.
0:15.9	Also tonight a pair of mass shootings interrupting the festivities in two major U.S. cities,
0:21.2	a gunman in Philadelphia accused of killing five and injuring two
0:24.9	children, one of the victims just two years old. And just hours later in Texas, three
0:30.0	people were shot and killed in a Fort Worth parking lot
0:33.2	will get the latest on the investigations.
0:35.4	Plus, in Israel, eight people are injured
0:38.0	after a man rammed a pickup truck
0:40.0	into a crowd of people gathered near a Tel Aviv shopping center.
0:43.2	Police say the man then jumped out of his vehicle and began stabbing people
0:47.6	before being killed by an armed civilian.
0:50.5	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world.
0:53.2	Wolf Litzers off today, I'm Alex Marquard and this is a Situation Room special report. We are standing by to hear from President Biden at the White House. He is scheduled to speak at any moment now
1:14.6	as he and the First Lady host military families
1:17.2	for July 4th barbecue.
1:18.5	We will be bringing you his remarks as soon as they begin.
1:22.0	But as we wait, let's bring in CNN's Jeremy Diamond who is live
1:24.8	for us at the White House. So Jeremy, what are we expecting from the President's
1:28.1	remarks? Well, Alex, President Biden and the First Lady hosting a barbecue for military families here
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