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News Wrap: FBI director says Trump gunman researched JFK assassination

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, FBI director Chris Wray said the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump looked up the assassination of John F. Kennedy a week earlier, climate scientists say this past Monday was Earth's hottest day ever, a plane crashed after taking off from Kathmandu airport in Nepal and cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike is blaming a bug in an update for last week's global tech outage. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Capitol Hill is also where we start our other headlines of the day.

0:05.0

FBI Director Christopher Ray revealed during congressional testimony today that the

0:09.1

gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, searched for information on the killing

0:14.3

of President John F. Kennedy a week earlier. Ray was speaking during a House Judiciary Committee

0:19.3

hearing as lawmakers from both parties pressed for answers on why the July 13th shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania

0:26.4

had not been prevented. He said the timing of the suspect's online search was significant. Analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter reveals that on July 6th, he did a Google search for quote how far away was

0:47.3

Oswald from Kennedy.

0:49.5

That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally.

0:57.0

New body cam footage from the aftermath of the shooting shows law enforcement on the

1:02.3

roof where the 20 year old gunman was

1:04.4

killed by a sniper. FBI director Ray said the Bureau believes he acted alone and

1:09.9

while his motive is unclear Ray says the gunman was interested in public figures more broadly.

1:16.0

Climate scientists say this past Monday was Earth's hottest day ever,

1:20.0

breaking the record set just a day earlier.

1:23.0

According to the European Climate Service Copernicus,

1:25.8

the global average temperature on Monday was 62.87

1:29.6

Fahrenheit.

1:31.4

That was 0.1 degree higher than Sunday.

1:34.2

Scientists say the timing of these records is especially troubling given that the

1:38.6

El Nino climate pattern which warms the Central Pacific Ocean

1:42.6

and it earlier this year.

1:44.6

We've seen the signal come back to neutral

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