Sheriff’s Dept: at least 8 killed in San Jose shooting; Top health experts call for transparent investigation into Wuhan “lab leak” theory on how Covid-19 started; WaPo: NYC Grand Jury convened to consider charges in Trump probe
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Another day, another tragic mass shooting in the United States. |
| 0:05.5 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.7 | At least eight people killed at a California rail yard as police tried to piece together |
| 0:12.8 | what happened. |
| 0:13.8 | They learned a bizarre twist of fire at the shooter's house. |
| 0:17.2 | We're live on the ground with the latest. |
| 0:18.9 | Plus, a lab or a market, the nation's top public health experts weigh in on where COVID |
| 0:24.4 | may have come from originally and it's not what they were saying before and get the |
| 0:29.4 | bleep button ready. |
| 0:30.8 | A new book laying out, President Obama's F-bomb-laden comments about his successor, Donald |
| 0:37.3 | Trump, the author joins me live. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome to the lead-unjake tapper and we start with tragic and common breaking news in |
| 0:51.7 | our national lead. |
| 0:52.7 | Right now, there are multiple active scenes after a mass shooting in San Jose, California. |
| 0:58.7 | We expect to get an update from police and local leaders in just minutes. |
| 1:01.6 | Here is what we know so far. |
| 1:03.5 | The sheriff's department there says that eight people were killed and several others injured |
| 1:08.2 | at the VTA or the Valley Transportation Authority, light rail yard. |
| 1:13.3 | That's a hub that stores trains and is also used for maintenance of those trains. |
| 1:18.2 | Sources have identified the shooter as Sam Cassidy. |
| 1:21.9 | Sam Cassidy was a VTA employee. |
| 1:24.4 | The deputies say he's dead, but they're not sure if he took his own life or if he was |
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