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1:25I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room.

1:36This is CNN Breaking News. We begin this hour with the breaking news. Police say at least four people were shot this morning in what officials are describing as an active scene right here in the nation's capital. Sources tell CNN the suspect is now barricaded inside an apartment building. The shooting took place in D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood. Police are advising people to stay away from that area. Let's go live now to CNN's Jeff Zelny with the very latest. Jeff, I know this is a very busy area of Washington, D.C. I lived right there. Describe what you're seeing and hearing.

2:14Well, Pamela, as you well know, this is about a mile north of the White House. We're at 16th Street. We can see the White House just down the way here. But the scene is about a block behind me in an apartment building, which sits above a gymnasium in a very residential neighborhood, the Vita Gymnasium. And we were told by witnesses that that is where this apparently happened. Around 8 o 'clock or so this morning, I was walking in the neighborhood myself and saw just dozens and dozens and dozens of law enforcement officials streaming toward downtown Washington. And clearly the scene at the time inside of the gymnasium and the apartment building where officials are still actively surrounded.

2:57Officials do believe that the shooter has not been apprehended or neutralized and they are around that apartment building. But if you listen to the witnesses describe the scene, the panic in the moment was clear in their voice. The alarm started going off in my building, so we go out. I think it's a fire drill. Then I see everyone outside quite shaken up. We're hearing that there was someone who was shot point blank in the Vila of Fitness. At that point that we're all talking, then I eventually, we hear three or four more shots. I think it was on Church Street. That's where it sounded like. From there, we just started sprinting.

3:36So it seems talking to officials and residents and people here in the neighborhood, in the surrounding buildings in a bagel shop, a coffee shop. Others were barricading themselves in place. A shelter in place order went out on everyone's cell phone and that is still in place, we are told. Traffic has started moving a bit, but again, the scene remains as active as it has. There are ambulances with their doors open potentially waiting for victims. We do not know if there are any remaining inside. But Pamela, it does seem that the, just by the activity here, that the shooter is still in that apartment building.

4:11And obviously, police are trying to learn more about who this may be and what may have led to this really chaotic and horrific scene here in Washington. And I talked with someone who was in the gym, and they are okay. They said most others in the gym were okay. But clearly, at least four people were shot this morning, according to the MPD. Yeah, and Jeff, I used to go to that gym. I know in the mornings it would be packed. People would go work out there before going to work. Do we know in terms of where the shooting happened inside the gym, right outside of it? Do we have any more details of that?

4:51I know that oftentimes information is slow to come when you have an active situation. Pamela, it's slow to come. Accurate information is slow to come. And a lot of information and rumors are fast to come, as we well know. Some eyewitnesses have said that the shooting may have happened right inside the gym. But again, we do not have official confirmation of exactly how this played out. There are also reports and pictures we have seen of just a massive law enforcement presence inside the corridor of this apartment building. There's a courtyard, if you will, where apartments look out to one another.

5:30and talking with a few residents inside that building, they were watching all of this happen. So again, it's not exactly clear if the shooting was inside or outside. Witnesses have told us it was inside. But again, we will allow the police to give further information on this. But as we look up the scene here, again, this is still very much an active scene, just about a mile north of the White House. And as you were saying, Pamela, this was a morning where people were going to work. People were coming from the gym. It's started to rain a bit now, but it was a crisp, cool fall morning here that clearly changed so dramatically as every federal law enforcement official and city officials as well descended on the scene here in the Logan Circle neighborhood in downtown Washington.

6:14And we're just getting to new information. You can't check your phone, so I'll read it here. According to multiple sources, a gunman shot one person inside the Vita gym. Then the gunman left the gym and kept shooting while outside, including into a parking garage, these sources tell us. The suspect is a white man with a heavy build who is now barricaded in the building. So still a very active situation there. Jeff Zeleny, thank you so much. Wolf. And as you say, Pamela, you used to live in that neighborhood. I lived right there, yeah. So you know it's a very popular part of Washington, D.C. and northwest Washington.

6:49It is. And it's where a lot of young people live. A lot of young working professionals live there. There's a Whole Foods right there that's really popular. There's the Vita gym right there. There's a lot of different coffee shops and restaurants in that area. And you can imagine if this is happening around 8 a.m., it's a very busy time in that area, as I recall, living there where people were going to work out or heading to work or going to get their morning breakfast. So it's just horrific that this happened here in this area. Now we're learning that one person inside that gym was shot, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

7:25And people who know Northwest Washington, we're at around 15th and P Street Northwest, right? That's right. Yeah, 15th and P. I live right there at 14th and P. It's one of the most sort of popular neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. And again, a lot of young people live in that area. Yeah, I just want them all to be careful and to be very, very obedient to what the local authorities are saying. Basically, stay indoors, at least for now. Yeah, absolutely. All right, we're watching all of this. I want to bring in CNN senior law enforcement analyst Charles Ramsey. He's also the former Washington, D.C.

7:59police chief. It's still early, Chief Ramsey, but what stands out to you right now from the initial information, and we're only getting limited information, what stands out to you? Well, what stands out is basically whether or not this is a barricade situation or not right now. There's so much confusion going on when I look at the scene and I see the various officers standing around. It looks as if you've got an enormous response, but not necessarily one where everybody's been given a specific assignment. There's MPD needs to have a press conference as soon as possible. Some information is better than no information.

8:38Rumors are going to take over if they aren't very careful. We need to know exactly what the situation is right now. They're not going to have a lot of information that they're willing to share, but they'll have enough to be able to dispel some of the rumors. Did it occur inside? Did it occur outside? Do you have any fatalities? How many people shot? I mean, there's certain information that they can provide, and hopefully that happens soon. And they can certainly provide guidance to individuals who are in that area right now and to tell them to stay indoors, go someplace else, just be very, very careful whatever they're doing.

9:12As you know, there's a shelter-in-place order, Chief Ramsey, in effect, in this whole Logan Circle area of northwest Washington. What does that tell you? Well, that the government is still in the area. At least they believe he's still in the area. Now, if it's true that he's barricaded in that same building or another building that is residential, that is a huge issue, a huge problem. How do you locate that individual to know exactly where they are in that building? Did he force his way into someone's apartment? I mean, there are a lot of different possibilities, and it would be very difficult to pinpoint the individual.

9:47So right now, they're doing the best they can to try to identify this individual. They're looking at video. They're interviewing witnesses. They're doing all those kinds of things, but they're also trying to pinpoint exactly where this person is and try to establish some lines of communication with a negotiator, someone who can actually talk to this individual. and hopefully get them to surrender. This area, of course, is not too far from the White House. How does that play into the additional security measures we might see after an incident like this? I don't really think it plays that much into it right now.

10:19But when you look at a response in D.C., and you all know because you're there in D.C. and you've lived in D.C., there are so many different police departments in the city. And if you get something like a call for an active shooter, you're going to get a lot of response. MPD, Metro Transit, Uniform Secret Service. ATF. I mean, they're all going to go to the scene. Now, it's within a mile of the White House, but there's nothing that indicates there's any threat whatsoever to the White House. Obviously, they're on alert, but there's nothing that would indicate that that's a problem. I mean, you're in D.C.

10:50It's hard to not be somewhere close to the White House, quite frankly. So, you know, that's something to consider, but I wouldn't spend a lot of time thinking about that in particular. Right now, the issue is where is the shooter? And if there's a barricade, can we identify them? Can we locate where they are? Can we get negotiators to speak with this individual? Is the person even still alive? It's not uncommon when somebody does something like that, they wind up taking their own life. I mean, we just don't know the answer to any of that right now. You know, we're getting a lot of initial reporting just coming in.

11:22We're waiting for a news conference. We hope that'll happen soon, get some more official response. But there is a very, very heavy law enforcement presence around this June near Logan Circle, U.S. Park Service Police, D.C. Metropolitan Police, FBI, ATF, and U.S. Marshals Service. They're all assisting right now. They brought in everyone for all practical purposes to investigate and to try to find this individual. He's described the suspect as a white man with a heavy build and is now barricaded in a building near Logan Circle. Well, you know, one thing I think is important to remember, too, MPD would be the lead agency in something like this.

12:03I mean, it's a shooting that occurred inside of the district. There's no connection to anything in terms of federal property or anything like that. So MPD would be the agency in charge. But all these other agencies respond and they all assist and they play different roles. ATF, for an example, will be there if there's any ballistic evidence that can be recovered. FBI is always there to help process the scene. I mean, so you have a lot of different agencies that will be there. But right now, they're there to try to contain the area more than anything. I saw some National Guard people. They come in handy for traffic control and other types of things.

12:37So you're going to have a variety of agencies there. But MPD is the agency in charge. That's where the information ought to be coming from. And U.S. Marshals are involved right now in this investigation. What does that say to you, Chief Ramsey? Because I know a lot of members of Congress presumably live not too far away from this Logan Circle area. That could be a particular issue. Again, you know, I don't know. I think the marshals would respond to something like this just to make sure that there's no threat to anyone else that might be a member of Congress or anything else. But again, until we hear from MPD, we don't know if there's anything involved other than a shooting that occurred in or around the gym at that particular site.

13:21And that's all we have right now. And I wouldn't speculate on anything else at this point in time. And again, you have so many agencies in the mere fact that an agency showed up doesn't necessarily mean anything other than they're there to assist. All right, Chief Ramsey, as usual, thank you very, very much, MPT, Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. Yeah, a lot of news happening today. Still ahead, we're following a number of other breaking news stories, including a new interim CEO at NVIDIA after Jensen Wong's resignation and reaction on Wall Street. Plus, desperate search and rescue efforts in New York after a building collapse kills at least eight people.

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15:25This is CNN Breaking News. All right. We are waiting for a press conference after this shooting in Washington, D.C., around 15th and P. This is where Vita Jim is. It's not too far from the White House. At least four people were hurt. This is still an active situation. Police say that the shooter in this case, a white male, is barricaded inside an apartment. Police also tell us, law enforcement sources tell us that the gunman actually shot someone inside Vita Jim. So we're hoping for more information and we're also hearing from witnesses including one man who was on the treadmill when the shooting broke out.

16:05Let's hear what he had to say. This is like also near the, so once you scan in, you have to go down the area because like this speed is like kind of underground. So it's like near that area and I don't know, I just heard a loud bang and he was around that vicinity. Did you talk to anyone who saw what happened? No, I didn't. I did not talk. I think the people who saw it just ran because they knew what was happening. Like everyone else, like 90 percent, 95 percent of people didn't know what was happening. They just heard a loud bang. Maybe they thought like a bouncy ball popped or like it was a gunshot, you know, like the gunshot is like the middle of my list.

16:37You know, it's not the bottom, but it's the middle. Like I would think like something else, like a painting fell down or something. So you were inside the gym? I was on the treadmill when it happened. You saw someone you guys thought was dead already? Someone told me he was dead and I saw someone laying at first and someone said he's dead. I'm like, really? And then I take a peek and he's not moving at all. So then I took it for face alley that he was dead. And then the people on the cardio floor or area, they have to kind of like jump, not jump over him, but walk over him. And he wasn't moving at all.

17:12So I assume he was there. Can you take it from the top, what you heard and what you saw, where you were at this point? So I was at the treadmill at the Vita and five minutes in I hear a loud bang and I'm thinking like a bouncy ball popped or a painting fell on the floor. And then I see I go towards like the commotion area, which is like right as soon as you go down the stairs. That's like where the incident happened. The dude was on the floor and someone says like who's closer to the body. He's like, oh, he's dead. I'm like, what were you talking about? So then like I'm connecting the dots like a loud bang.

17:42I'm thinking gunshot. And then I see blood on the floor. So I'm like connecting the dots. So then, like, two minutes later, like, there's a fire alarm. People start evacuating. I assume the shooter just ran out. I assume so. And then we're all outside the front entrance of the Vita, and then police officers are running inside, and then another police officer is trying to get the description of the guy who killed the guy. And then while he's describing him, one of the people who's inside the Vita, we hear five gunshots or so, and then we all just start running, and people are scattering everywhere.

18:18Did you hear the description? I did not hear the description. I was, like, still in shock. I was really not paying attention. And this is the Vita? On 14th Street, like, near the Whole Foods. And how are you feeling now? Like, what happened after? Did you run? Because it's been a couple hours since it. Yeah, I mean, I ran, and I just wanted to take shelter, so I went to a coffee shop, and I didn't move to, like, I think he's barricaded right now, but who knows? It's not confirmed yet fully. Did you see the gunman? I don't know. I saw people run upstairs. I don't know if that was someone who saw the incident happen and you're going to start running and you see someone with a gun or if that was the shooter.

18:58But my mind wasn't really focused because I didn't think it was a gunman at first. If I knew it was a gunman, I'm going to be laser locked like, who is this guy? But I wasn't really focused on it. The body that was on the ground, was it a younger person? Like a middle-aged dude, yeah. How many people? And he was standing. Like, people, I saw somewhere online that he was, like, sitting down on the couch or something. Like, he was, like, standing, and he wasn't, like, near, like, the couch area. So, I don't know. I don't know. That's a little. How are you feeling now? It's, like, surreal, honestly, that I'm a part of this.

19:28Like, this happened. You know, I'm sure my family, like, is, like, in shock that, like, I sent a text, like, oh, like, this happened at my gym, and this is where I'm at. I'm safe. Like, when they first saw that, I'm sure they were surprised. Where in the gym did you see the picture? neighborhood so i was on the treadmill and like i'm kind of like facing that vicinity that area of like where the victim's at but i can really see because there's a lot of treadmills in the way so then like i'm trying to figure out what the commotion was and i just see a dude laying on the ground after the police ran in the door you heard more gunfire correct outside outside yeah like a street away i don't know somewhere somewhere around the vicinity outside did you hear the shots inside?

20:07I did not hear any more shots inside the gym. We all evacuated. Did you hear the initial shot? I did hear, yeah. What was your name again, hon? Anthony. Anthony, Anthony, can you spell that for us? And then your last name? A-N-T-H-O-N-Y, Morones, M-I-R-O-N-E-S. Thank you for talking to us, Anthony. Yeah, I'm so sorry. Thank you. Thank you.

20:31So there he is, an eyewitness who was in the gym. As he pointed out himself, he was on the treadmill when all of a sudden he starts hearing these gunshots inside the gym, the Vita gym. A gym you know well. Yeah, I used to go to that gym. It was very packed in the mornings. A lot of young working professionals would go there before work. And you can imagine how terrifying this is, being on the treadmill, hearing these bangs, not knowing exactly what it is at first, and then going to see what's going on and seeing someone lying on the ground, seeing blood, trying to sort out what's going on in the chaos and realizing that this is an active shooter situation.

21:06And now we are learning more. Police are confirming, Wolf, that the gunman shot one person inside the gym. And there were several others who were shot as well, according to police who we're expecting to hear from in moments from now. The suspect in this case, a white male with a larger build, is now barricaded inside an apartment. We know that right above the gym is a condominium building, an apartment building. So this is still a very active situation. And at last check, Wolf, there is still a shelter in place for anyone in this very busy, very popular area. Just to paint a picture for our audience, you have Vita Gym.

21:44There's a very popular Whole Foods right there, lots of coffee shops and restaurants. And you can imagine around the time that this shooting, there are a lot of people around that area. Even our Jeff Zeleny, who has been reporting there from the scene. He happened to be walking by. He happened to be walking by here in Logan Circle. It's a trendy neighborhood of Washington, D.C., not too far away from the White House. And we know that there's a lot of law enforcement agencies that are responding to this beyond the MPD. You have federal agencies as well. But MPD is taking the lead right now, particularly on this barricade situation.

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22:56All right, we're standing by for the start of this news conference. some Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. Police officers will be briefing us on what exactly happened around 8 a.m. this morning when there was this individual walked into a gym, started firing a weapon, shooting at least one person inside the gym, but maybe a bunch of others outside the gym as well. Yeah, according to law enforcement sources we're talking to, one person was shot inside the gym. I've several others apparently were shot outside. At least four people were shot. We're still waiting to learn more about what their status is.

23:35The suspect is a white man with a heavy build. He is now barricaded in a building. We know right above that gym is an apartment complex. So we're waiting to learn more about what the latest is with this barricade situation. We heard there from that witness. There's a map right there. Logan Circle is the neighborhood where this shooting happened. And this is a very sort of popular, trendy part of Washington, D.C. There's a lot of young professionals that live and work in that area. A lot of activity around 8 a.m. in the morning. There's a popular Whole Foods right next door. So we are here. You're looking at some pictures from our affiliate WJLA as we await for this press conference from Metropolitan Police.

24:19They are leading this investigation. There were several federal agencies who also came to respond to this, and we are watching them walk up right now to the microphone. So let's listen in.

24:38Good morning. I'm Jeff Carroll, interim chief of the police, Metropolitan Police Department. I'm here to provide an update regarding the shooting that occurred in the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest this morning. I want to start out by saying this is very preliminary information. the scene is continuing to unfold. We want to provide you an update with the information that we have so far to this point. So what we know is just before 8 o 'clock this morning, a call came in for the report of a shooting in the 1500 block of 15th Street inside of a gym. Officers immediately were dispatched to this area.

25:07They were on scene within 30 seconds. Once they arrived on the scene, they did locate an adult male that had been shot. However, multiple other calls came out for additional gunshots and victims. At this time, we have located a total of four individuals that were shot here on the scene and transported, and one individual who was deceased here on the scene. When officers got on the scene, again, they began canvassing, attempting to locate the suspect in this case. While they were on the scene, they were able to begin to, of course, clear the building where the shootings occurred. They also began to clear an apartment building in the 1500 block of 15th Street.

25:44While clearing that building, gunshots rang out on the seventh floor, and since that time, we have determined the suspect had barricaded themselves in an apartment on the seventh floor of that building. NPD's emergency response team responded to the scene, as well as additional resources from many federal partners, our patrol officers here, to coordinate amongst the different agencies and to deploy resources here. Our negotiators with their emergency response team were also able to make contact with the suspect inside of the apartment. They've been talking him for over the past hour again attempting to try to resolve the situation.

26:18Just moments ago while communicating with that individual officers heard a gunshot as a response to that. Officer sports entry into the apartment. When they did that, they located the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound. At this time, the scene is still fluid with that. They're still evaluating that to make sure we clear the entire building. We do believe that the suspect is now contained in that location and of course emergency services will be rendered as appropriate to that. With that again this is very preliminary in the investigation. We know that there was a lot of people that were out here this morning when this came out.

26:53Our detectives have been interviewing individuals who may have seen or witnessed this. We would ask anyone who did potentially in the area may have fled the area to ensure they contact NPD. You can reach us at 202-727-9099 so we can follow with you and interview you. Obviously there's a lot to this because there are multiple different scenes. What I mean by that is there are different locations where people were shot. I have to say that DC Fire and EMS was on the scene right away. We were able to coordinate with them to get medical treatment to the victims, get them off the scene where they've all been transported to local hospitals.

27:26Of those victims, the four that are surviving, one is determined to be in critical condition. At this point, the other three do not appear to be, they appear to have non life threatening injuries. So with that, I'll take it up to any questions that you may have. Mark Stone from Sky News. Can you tell us any more about the gunman? Was he known to you? Age, ethnicity? And can you give us any sense of what the motive might have been at this stage? Sure. As I said, we're very early in the investigation here. We do know based on the lookouts, it's a white male. We do have an idea who he is. We believe there was some sort of a conflict with the apartment building, but we don't have much more than that.

28:03That will be part of the continuing investigation. Yes, ma 'am.

28:21Sure. Again, we're very early in the investigation. We do know there was a conflict between him and the homeowners association of that building. But at this point, we're continuing to look into that. Yes, ma 'am. There are videos circulating online of a fire outside the building. Was a fire set in the building at any point? Can you give a note to that? Sure. So we do believe at some point there was a fire that was set. The fire alarm went off in the building. The sprinklers in the building did go off. There is a large amount of water inside of that location. So we do believe at some point there was a fire in the building.

28:50It has been contained and put out this time. Do you believe the suspect set the fire? We don't know that for sure. Obviously, we would kind of expect that would be it, but we can't say for sure at this point. Do you believe that the apartment was... Do you know if there was any connection between him and the actual victims that were shot? Or was this just a set of the conflict instead of shooting him? Again, we're very early in the investigation. We're not sure what the relationship may or may not be. Do you know just a couple of the five victims that were shot, we have a witness who said one was deceased inside the gym.

29:18Where were the other four? That is correct. There is one person that was shot and deceased inside the gym. We have some other individuals that were actually across the street working on a construction site. We have the report of another individual who was inside the lobby area or in the alley area. As you can imagine, we're not only investigating, but we're also interviewing those witnesses as they went to different hospitals. So we have officers there. Some are able to be interviewed right away. Some, based on their medical treatment, it's going to take more time to interview to get more details on that.

29:45You said he barricaded himself inside of a unit. Is that a residential unit? Was it his own, or was there anyone else inside the unit when he barricaded himself inside it? Sure. So right now, officers are still clearing the actual unit, but we do believe it was his unit inside of there. He did fire through the door at officers, at least on two occasions, while he was barricading inside. Chief Carol, Torian with CBS News, based on the level of response we've seen from law enforcement, is this because of the proximity to the White House? Is this the typical response or a shooting like this? This is because it came out as an active shooter.

30:17We have people that were actively being killed, so any law enforcement that would be in the area, we would expect them to come to stop that threat immediately. Were those government buildings put on lockdown during this time? Yeah, I don't have any idea specifically about the government buildings. We did push out messaging to the community to avoid this area. We also pushed out a wireless emergency alert to, again, avoid this area while there was an active threat. And then, of course, once it transitioned into a barricade situation, we pushed that out as well. Matt, can we get your thoughts? My name is Abdul Bardisi from RBTV.

30:44So the shooting happened inside the gym or inside the gym and outside the gym as well? That's what we believe right now. But, again, we're very early in the investigation, so an exact timeline and exact locations are still part of the investigation.

31:00So the initial call for service that we had, the first shooting was inside of the gym. That's the first call. The motivation, we don't know. Again, we're two hours into the situation. We can't say the exact motivation. That's all part of the investigation. Mayor Bowser, can we get your sense? You said the suspect was suffering from a gunshot. Just a few minutes before we walked up here, it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As I mentioned, our negotiators were talking to him on the phone, at which time they heard a gunshot and he stopped communicating with them. At this point, again, we're out here.

31:28I'm not sure what his exact situation is. Medical services, of course, responded to try to treat him, but we don't have that information at this time. I'm not going to get into specific locations, but he did shoot himself. He shot himself? Again, from what we know right now, I don't want to get into too much information because the investigation is ongoing. We know at least at one point in time he had a handgun. We don't know if there's other weapons that are involved or not. Again, that'll be part of the investigation, of course, and what we find inside of his apartment. Have you confirmed if he was a member of the jail?

31:56We do believe he was a member of the jail. Mayor, can we get your thoughts on this? What does this say about gun crime in Washington, D.C.? Well, first of all, let me just say this. We're devastated. One of someone was killed in our city this morning, a senseless act of gun violence. I am very grateful to MPD and Fire and EMS who responded immediately, quickly and contained this situation. I know many D.C. residents were awakened to this news and were very scared and listened to all of the directors that MPD provided. So we're grateful to them as well. And MPD will continue to investigate this situation.

32:41but this lone gunman has been contained. Did you read the White House about the incident? The White House has been briefed, as is my process. Yes. You praised President Trump for bringing down crime in the city. What does this say? Actually, I praise MPD for bringing down crime in the city, and I praise our prosecutors, and I am grateful. As you can see, the question was asked, is this a typical response? It's not typical to have an active shooter that guns down people in the city. And so all of law enforcement, our federal partners, our local MPD, our Fire and EMS, our HCMA, our 911 have all responded in a way that's professional, that got this situation under control.

33:26Can Chief Donnelly talk about the treatment of the four bullets, please? Yeah, good morning. I'm John Donnelly, Chief of DC Fire and EMS. Fire and EMS responded immediately with the police department. Our first units made contact with the first victim that they encountered at about three minutes after the initial dispatch. It's an active, very confused scene. Ultimately, we transported four patients. Some of them were able to come to us. Some of them were brought to us by law enforcement in order to make the scene work. Three of those patients have non-life-threatening injuries, and there's one serious injury.

34:07Thank you.

34:36Then he inflicts a self-inflicted gunshot wound into himself. Looks like he was trying to kill himself. He is now contained, and the police are trying to find out if there was a motive, some sort of motive involved in all of this. Four people were shot. Three of them are in non-life-threatening condition right now. One is very seriously in a serious critical condition right now, so we're watching it. But it looks like, Pamela, for now, this situation has been contained with the shooter now shooting himself. Right, and he is getting medical care. The shooter did not survive that self-inflicted gunshot wound.

35:20And we heard there from the interim police chief that there was some sort of conflict between the gunman and the building with the homeowners association. We don't know if that was the motive behind this. The police chief also said that he's believed to be a member of the gym or that one person was shot and killed an adult male. And right now this is contained. But, of course, a really frightening situation for everyone in that area. And one person lost their life, a senseless loss of life there in Washington, D.C., in this very popular, trendy neighborhood of Logan Circle. I want to bring in CNN senior law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe.

36:02What do you make of this new information coming out, Andrew? Yeah, Pam, well, first of all, an incredibly professional and informative briefing from the interim chief of police, Chief Carroll there. We really learned a lot. So obviously just before 8 a.m. they received the first call, which we know came from someone in or who had who had seen the shooting actually take place inside the gym. um officers responded within 30 seconds which is about as fast as you could possibly hope for in any large metropolitan area so that's an incredible response there they immediately located someone likely the gym victim uh who'd been shot on scene uh they made efforts to clear the uh to clear the gym and the building and ultimately identified four other uh individuals individuals um and then of course they heard a shot take a a shot take place on the seventh floor uh which drew their attention to the seventh floor of the apartment building which is apparently connected to the gym uh and that's when they uh ultimately made contact with the subject who is inside his residence on the seventh floor uh negotiators made contact negotiators spoke to the subject for an hour, which is really pretty good work done very quickly.

37:26And then at the end of that period, while on the phone connected with the negotiators, they heard another gunshot. And that's when the tactical team made entry into the residence and found the subject with the self inflicted gunshot wound. So a very scary kind of terrifying situation, I'm sure for all the folks in that neighborhood. As you mentioned, it's one of the best neighborhoods in D.C., a place that's got lots of people on the street at all times. We know also from the chief that some of those other gunshot victims were located in the lobby of the building and also at a construction site across the street, which is really very scary.

38:07So we know that that shooting activity took place not just in the gym, but really in that area. And I'm sure most of the folks who were over there in Logan Circle were probably terrified and rightly so about what's happening. It does show you though that these sorts of violent episodes triggered by what we don't know at this point. We have very little information about motive or what this person was trying to accomplish, but it can happen anywhere. It's not just in parts of the city that suffered from greater crime rates. It can really happen anywhere at any time. So terrifying situation, but it does seem to be under control at the moment.

38:44And we're showing our viewers a picture of these officers, armed officers, standing on top of a rooftop in the D.C. area around Logan Circle, near where this gunman was barricaded inside that apartment building. Law enforcement officials were working to try to contain that gunman, and they were on the phone with him as he was in that room, but then eventually he inflicted a gunshot wound into himself, and that ended this crisis, at least for now. Yeah, and the fact that they were talking to him for about an hour and that the gunman shot at police through the door at least twice, according to the police chief.

39:26So I want to bring in our chief law enforcement intelligence analyst, John Miller. You've been talking to your sources. What else are you learning, John? Well, we're looking at what is behind this incident, and so far authorities don't know. What they're doing is they are looking into, A, what they could glean from the suspect while he was on the phone with them in terms of what brought you to this point today, what was behind this, although most of those conversations were focused on trying to get him to surrender unarmed and come out of the apartment. They're also involved in the victimology, which is, okay, can they establish if there was an intended original victim in that gym when he walked in and opened fire, who that person is and if that person or the people around him or her can shed light on what the motive is.

40:22But what you saw here, and Chief Carroll did a good job on this and Andy McCabe as well, Well, you saw the speed and power in the nation's capital of the kind of response you get for an active shooter within sight of the White House and the Washington Monument. As these things unfold, you don't know, are they terrorism? Are they political violence? So what you see is DC Metro, in their active shooter protocol, goes right into the location when they find that the gunman fled into the apartment building. They chased that lead through the apartment building. The idea is to get to the threat, neutralize the threat.

41:04But once they learned he was contained in that seventh floor apartment, and if you go back to those pictures we looked at a minute ago of all those officers on the roof and the adjoining terraces, that's the top floor of that building. We're going to presume for the moment that that apartment was the shooter's residence, and that is where he fled to and that allowed them to slow the incident down. Now you have containment, right? He's on the top floor of that building. You've got officers on the adjacent terraces and the rooftop. That gives them options to deploy drones and other things where they can see inside, figure out is he by himself?

41:47Is he holding anybody else? Does he have the weapon in his hand and use some of that technology, but also to keep eyes on what effectively is the back door of that residence, even though it's going to be a window or a terrace on the seventh floor. And they use that time and that containment to establish that dialogue because he was behind a locked door, they were outside, and to have that conversation. But as we have seen in these past cases, as they're going through that dialogue, that suspect was probably doing the mental math of, I shot a bunch of people, I probably killed somebody, and that may or may not have been an impulsive act, but going forward, the outcome for me is going to be very bad.

42:37When they heard that single gunshot, they decided after not being able to establish what had happened, but that the dialogue had ended to make entry into that apartment and found him deceased. So right now, what they are in, and you can see people packing up, putting their gear away. Right now, what they're in is they've got a complicated crime scene at multiple locations across the street, inside the gym, in the alley behind the gym, where other people were hit by this gunfire. It appears he may have fired a great deal of shots from this weapon. John, just to jump in really quick. I don't know if I misheard you, but according to the interim police chief, he was not deceased.

43:24I don't know if that's what the information you just said. He shot himself. He shot himself, but the interim police chief did say that he is getting medical care. So if he was trying to kill himself, the interim police chief said he was not successful in that. And so the question is, on that note, how does that change things in terms of the investigation? Well, it gives them additional information, basically what they can get from him, assuming that he continues to communicate with them about motive. It also gives them a suspect to charge. And it also makes all of that evidence collection important because now they don't just have a scene to document, they have a prosecution to build.

44:09There was also some suggestion that this white male, as he was described, with a heavy build, apparently was in conflict with the homeowners association in that building where he was holed up in that apartment. He was living there, but he had a problem with the homeowners Association. John, what does that say to you? Well, that is one of those things where, Wolf, how many times have we been through this where somebody goes in and opens fire on some location, including maybe somebody who was targeted and maybe people who had nothing to do with their problem, and you peel back the layers and you find out what was this all about.

44:52And when you learn what the dispute was about, sometimes it can be some long, frustrating thing involving property owners or something else. It never makes sense proportionately to the outcome. It doesn't appear that this incident is going to be very different in that regard. And just to note, you know, the interim police chief said that the government was getting medical care. We don't know how serious his injuries were and if he has deceased since then. So just to provide that important context. Of course, if he did survive, that would lend itself to a prosecution. If he did not, obviously that part of the investigation would be over.

45:31So we're just waiting to learn more on that note. But usually if someone in that situation, John, you painted where this gunman, this white male, is in this apartment building talking to police for an hour thinking to himself, I just may have killed someone. The outcome for this person is not going to be a very good one. And it is no surprise in a sense that he shot himself. No, and I mean, we see that in there's three outcomes in these active shooter cases. One, they're confronted by police and either shot by police or taken into custody. Two, they take their own lives. Or three, they're arrested without incident.

46:15And, you know, that this is not an atypical outcome. I assume, John, they have the identity, the name of this shooter, and they're doing a complete background check, social media, and speaking to family, friends, others about him to try to determine some sort of motive. What was going on? Why would an individual with a gun go into a gym in this Logan Circle area, a very popular part of Washington, D.C., northwest Washington, and go and shoot someone and then go outside and shoot some other individuals, then barricade himself in an apartment right there on the scene and spend an hour talking to police before shooting himself.

47:00They're going to try to figure out what was going on in this individual's mind. That's an important part of this investigation to determine potentially some sort of motive, right? Well, that's right. They're going to try to piece all this together. The backstory, what brought him here, what was the, what they call the stressor that broke the camel's back that made him wake up this morning and decide he was going to go down and open fire either on someone or some people. It seems like a lot of these people, particularly the ones outside across the street, may not have been intended victims, may have been from bullets flying from the shots fired in and around the gym.

47:43So they're going to have to piece a lot of that together. But building that story, what was behind this? What was the last stressor that caused this? and of course a lot of that depends on whether or not he survives that gunshot wound or not how much of that they can get from him but they did identify him they were able to isolate him to that apartment which we believe was his apartment yes according to the chief they were able to get him on the phone which means they had his identity and a way to reach him and start that dialogue and they'll be peeling back right now through his social media his background and so on including and up to was that gun possessed legally.

48:27The laws in Washington changed recently, but they're still very strict and so on. Yeah. And the interim police chief at the news conference said that the victims who were shot and one individual who was killed in the process, that they're not sure of the connection, what the connection may have been to the shooter. But he kept saying, the interim police chief, they are very, very early in this investigation. And there's an enormous amount of work that still needs to be done to get some serious answers. And presumably in the course of the next hours and days, we'll learn a lot more about what happened.

49:03And you do have to wonder, as you pointed out, John, you know, if this hadn't happened in Washington, D.C., where there was so much law enforcement around federal, local, National Guard, how much worse this could have been potentially? Well, yeah, and you heard Chief Carroll say they were on the scene within 30 seconds, and right behind them was the fire department for the fire that apparently set off the sprinklers in the gym. And at the same time, you had a very organized reaction from the city's EMS, Emergency Medical Service, where they set up an entire staging area, not knowing how many victims they were going to get, had numerous ambulances on the scene standing by, and then were able to immediately transport the patients that they found upon arrival that police brought to them, and then other patients that turned up as they started to discover these additional victims.

50:02And as you pointed out, one deceased, one critical, and three who are suffering from gunshot wounds that are non-life-threatening injuries. And we don't know among those where the suspect fits in in terms of condition. Yeah, the police chief indicated at that point when he held the press conference that he was still alive. But of course, it's fluid. That status could have changed. We're just waiting to get some more information on his status. John Miller, thank you so much. Our breaking news coverage continues after a short break.

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51:48After that, gunman opened fire this morning just before 8 a.m. in a popular neighborhood in Washington, D.C., of Logan Circle. What we're learning about what may have led to the attack. And other important news we're following, more breaking news. NVIDIA's CEO resigns. What happens now to the world's second largest company after an explosive spy scandal? led to a shocking fall from grace for Jensen Wang. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room.

52:27This is CNN Breaking News. Happening now, breaking news. Police say a gunman killed at least one person, shot four others. here in Washington, D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood. Police say the suspect then barricaded himself and fired at police officers before apparently shooting himself. And law enforcement sources are now telling CNN the suspect is dead. Our negotiators with their emergency response team were also able to make contact with the suspect inside of the apartment. They've been talking to him for over the past hour, again attempting to try to resolve the situation. Just moments ago, while communicating with that individual, officers heard a gunshot.

53:10As a response to that, officers forced entry into the apartment. When they did that, they located the suspect suffering from a gunshot wound. At this time, the scene is still fluid with that. They're still evaluating that to make sure we clear the entire building. We do believe that the suspect is now contained in that location. And, of course, emergency services will be rendered as appropriate to that. So since then, we have now learned that the suspect has died. Officials say that he walked into a local gym, shot one person inside that gym, and then shot at least four others outside the building.

53:45CNN correspondent Brian Todd is on the scene for us over there at Logan Circles. Brian, what more are you learning this morning? Well, Wolf, we've been talking to witnesses and others who are near the scene and people who lived in the building. I'm going to get to that in just a moment, but let me at least set the scene for you right now. We're at the corner of 16th Street and P Street's northwest, and you can see the ambulances there, heavy police presence, multiple law enforcement agencies on hand, of course, including D.C. police, U.S. Marshals, Park Police, and FBI agents have been converging on this scene for hours and shutting off the streets here.

54:22As Wolf and Pamela just reported, the latest from the D.C. police is that one person has died in this incident. Four others were injured. One of them is in critical condition. The other three with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooter, according to police, is dead after firing at officers and turning a gun on himself. There was a barricade situation that was going on there for at least an hour or more where police were there and in a standoff with the suspect. We were told that the suspect did fire at officers at various times. And then when they forced their way into the apartment, they did find him, in fact, at least injured.

55:01And then we later learned that he did succumb to his injuries. So, in addition, we have been talking to witnesses who were at the Vita Gym. The shooting started, according to law enforcement sources, inside the Vita Gym, which is in the basement of the building where the suspect apparently lived. We're told by sources that the suspect may have had some kind of a dispute with the building in question. But according to law enforcement sources, he shot at least one person inside the Vita gym, then moved outside and shot at other people, including firing into a local parking garage. One witness who I talked to, a young lady named Victoria Stafford, just told me just moments ago she was inside the Vita gym at a yoga class when the shooting occurred.

55:48They started to herd people out, she said, to other floors. There are several floors of this gym. She was in the basement at a yoga class. They herded her and people in the class to another floor where she actually did see a victim on the ground in a pool of blood. And then she took shelter with several other people in a laundry room area until it was cleared. And she came out and talked to us about just how harrowing that experience was. In addition, guys, I talked to a person who says that he lives in the same building as the suspect. This person named Cole Brennan lives on the fourth floor.

56:20He said the suspect lives on the seventh floor. Here is what he was able to tell us a short time ago about what he knows about the suspect. I'm a resident on the fourth floor in the Metropole condominiums, the Vita Jim's in our basement. And the person is on the seventh floor, or the person we believe to be the shooter is on the seventh floor. He's had like a long standing dispute against the building. I've only met him a handful of times, but he's made it very clear like the building gives him headaches. as nice as the building manager is don't trust him he's not to be trusted but that's my only interactions with the the gentleman so did he mention the gym at all like why like we're trying to get it maybe why he would target the gym I believe from what I've been told from neighbors that our building manager would frequent the gym every morning so I guess he must have I don't know known that he goes there and then whatever happened today occurred.

57:28So this is what this person called Brennan who lives in that same building told us about the alleged suspect and what the kind of dispute that he may have had with the building but we are not necessarily able to report the the identity of the deceased victim at this time or confirm whether that was the building manager or someone else but again we can confirm one person dead four injured uh one victim in critical condition the other three with non-life-threatening injuries at this time wolf pamela and we hope they're going to be okay brian todd on the scene for us we'll stay in close touch with you pamela all right cnn senior justice correspondent edward perez is here with us in the situation room and cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe is also standing by so first to you we're now hearing that the suspect is dead after suffering from a gunshot wound.

58:15Officials say he - Self-inflicted gunshot. A self-inflicted gunshot wound. It appeared initially, maybe he didn't die right away. He was given some medical care. He is dead now. What more can you tell us about the suspect? Well, one of the things that the investigators are focusing on is this dispute with the homeowners association. It appears that he's been having some kind of a leak issue that he was upset about. And sort of the way this goes down this morning is that the first victim apparently of the shooting is someone who was shot in the back according to a source that I've talked to. And so again, all of that is being put together as a way to try to explain what happened and why this suspect decided to go on this rampage.

59:02But again, the focus here is to determine whether that's what animated, whether the person he shot was somebody he was familiar with, was it someone who was associated with that dispute that is now the focus of things. It does appear that he managed to leave the gym, got back to his apartment building, was able to shoot another person, and then went up to the seventh floor and was firing outside of the building, according to the witnesses and according to law enforcement. And that's when, obviously, he barricaded himself. One of the first things they did, because there was concern that he was trying to perhaps blow the place up, they turned off gas and they turned off the water supply to the building.

59:48Again, all of these things were precautionary because— Well, he set a fire, potentially, right? Right, a fire that was set that they believe may have been set to try to set off the sprinkler systems. So all of this is, of course, now being put together by the investigators. But as of this moment, it is clear that law enforcement believes that this is over. There's no further danger, at least at this point, to the community. They're going to have to go through that building to make sure that there's no devices, that there's nothing else. And then they'll try to put together the aspects of this dispute, whether this was a triggering point for this rampage this morning.

1:00:28Again, Pamela, as you know, this is a very densely populated neighborhood. This is a popular area because of the Vita Gym that is at that corner, and of course the Whole Foods across the street. So at that hour, there were so many people. So this could have been, obviously, a very much bigger scene and a lot more victims if, you know, obviously the worst had happened here. So at this point, again, the focus is on this dispute and whether that was a precipitating factor in causing this rampage. Here in northwest Washington, D.C., Logan Circle, as you correctly point out, very trendy, popular area, a lot of restaurants, a lot of activity, especially for young people who live in that area.

1:01:10Very disturbing indeed. And, of course, when there's a shooting in Washington, the first thing that goes through my mind, God forbid, was it terror-related. Right. Apparently there's no indication at all this had anything to do with terrorism. No, there's no indication of that right now. This appears to be a very random dispute that this person may have been having with others in his own homeowners association and possibly with a person who he attacked in the gym. Again, we don't know all of the details right now. We know that there's been, again, some legal issues that have been connected to this dispute with the homeowners association.

1:01:48And so that's where investigators are focused on at this moment. Yeah, it's a horrible situation under any circumstances indeed, Evan. Stand by. Our senior law enforcement analyst, Andrew McCabe, is also with us. Andy, we've seen this massive response to this incident here in the nation's capital. Officials say they were on the scene extremely quickly, which is true. What do you make of the response to this incident, at least so far? Yeah, well, from my perspective, everything about this response is textbook. You heard the chief tell us that they had officers on the scene within 30 seconds, which is remarkable, particularly in a large metropolitan city, you dealing with traffic issues and congestion, like many, many places around the country.

1:02:33And it wasn't just officers. You see massive response from EMTs. You're also seeing here you have National Guard troops who are who are probably in the area conducting those patrols that they're still doing. We've seen a number of different vehicles with FBI tactical personnel who are also on the scene. So really large multi-agency response, which, to be honest, in my experience, running the FBI's Washington field office for some period of time, the cooperation and coordination between law enforcement elements across the city is more complicated in D.C. than any other place in the country and also probably more successful.

1:03:15These different entities do this sort of work together all the time, day in and day out. And so this very rapid, very complete, large response is exactly what I would expect to see here. And you definitely saw that today. And nothing is going to call that out in quite the same level of intensity as an active shooter, because law enforcement sees that as we need to flood the zone with personnel who can stop the carnage, if at all possible. That's clearly what they did here. Bringing the negotiators in right away is always the absolute best thing you can do with a barricaded subject. Keeping the tactical response there, present, ready to go, but secondary to the negotiated efforts.

1:03:56And so, you know, all these are kind of waypoints that you look at after the fact and say, you know, these folks really did their job today. The National Guard troops we've seen patrolling the streets during this incident, but indeed over these past few weeks in Washington, these were the National Guard troops that were ordered to the nation's capital by President Trump. Is that right? Yeah, Wolf, that's correct. So they're there. They've been a presence in the city since the beginning of the year, whenever that deployment commenced. Quite frankly, they're in a bit of a tough spot because legally they don't have law enforcement authority.

1:04:38So they can't instinctively get involved, take people into custody, things of that nature. most of what they're doing is kind of adding a presence, an armed presence in the city that hopefully will discourage people from committing crimes and doing bad things. We know that the National Guard has been targeted themselves, right? We had a National Guard member murdered by someone who had come to the city to act out, you know, in accordance with their own grievances, This was a separate topic. But so it's, you know, it's a tough thing that we're asking them to do. Their hands are tied to some extent because they don't have traditional law enforcement authorities.

1:05:23So it's not surprising to see them in the area. But I doubt they probably had much to do with the response of law enforcement today. Yeah, good point. All right, Andrew McCabe, don't go too far away. We'll stay in very close touch with you, Pamela. All right, still ahead here in this situation. A lot of situation room, a lot of other news to get to. Rescuers are searching through the rubble right now. Rescuers, they're trying to find the survivors after a deadly building collapse in New York. We'll be right back.

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1:06:27Officials say at least eight people are dead. Nineteen others are injured, including three firefighters after a three-story building collapsed in Brooklyn yesterday. Investigators are now looking into what caused the building to cave in. Rescue crews worked through the night, carefully digging through the rubble, searching for victims. Here's a look at the immediate aftermath. Watch this. The building just fell. Oh my God. People, I think people are injured. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. There were at least seven children impacted. It's not clear if any children were among those killed. One person who was pulled out of the rubble alive included a pregnant woman.

1:07:11Here's her husband's emotional reaction. She is alive. She is still alive. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I thank all of you guys. What's up, she is? Take your time. Take your time. Take your time.

1:07:36CNN correspondent Bryn Gingrass is joining us from the scene right now. Bryn, what are you seeing? What are you hearing this morning? Yeah, well, right now we're inside a church that sits just across the site from that big pit that's still being worked on at this hour. We're starting to get the first drops of that storm that's expected to roll through this area and could certainly damper some of the efforts from these firefighters. But as we zoom in, you can see they're still at it. They're still using now these excavators to sort of claw away a lot of the debris that fell in that collapse yesterday.

1:08:10Wolf, I can tell you, it's just been a heartbreaking scene here all throughout the morning. We've been here since very early this morning where we were here when bodies were actually being taken out of the rubble. I, in fact, saw one body being taken from an OCME tent into the back of a van and then taken away. We've met families who have just learned the fact that their loved one had passed away. We witnessed a woman just screaming, wailing for her husband, calling out his name after she learned that he is among those eight confirmed dead. We've also met many people here who have come to pray with others.

1:08:46We've also met people who have come here to try to figure out what happened to their loved one. Remember at one point the FDNY said they weren't quite sure exactly how many people could have been inside this site that they're still working on. And I want you to hear from one woman who came here with her sisters looking for her brother. I caught up with her as she was racing to the hospital hoping to find him. Do you guys live there? Yeah, they were living with the pregnant lady. The same building. The same apartment. Same apartment as the pregnant woman. They were roommates. They were roommates.

1:09:18You have no idea how your brother is doing? Nope. And what did they tell you? When we came, we gave them the information that we had about them. And just like a few, like one hour ago, they asked us about their pictures. And now they tell us to go to the hospital. So they asked you for pictures, you gave them pictures, and now they're telling you to go to the hospital? Yep. So you don't really even know the condition of your brother? We don't know. and well if I just checked back in with her through text message that she still does not know so you can imagine the angst the anxiety some of these people are feeling as they're still trying to get confirmation of what happened with their loved ones as far as the site we still don't know exactly what caused this collapse yesterday we have definitely seen a transformation though from firefighters inside that pit using buckets to get debris out being very methodical to now these excavators.

1:10:14We've also seen a lot of equipment leave this area, so it does feel like it's transitioning into more of an effort to remove the debris from this site, though that's one of the questions that we are still posing to the FCNY is what stage of this are they at? But certainly a lot of heartbreak here, a lot of questions, and hopefully we'll get some more answers when the mayor holds a news conference within the next hour or so. So, of course, we're going to continue to update you, Wolf. And we'll have live coverage of that to be sure. Brynn, what have we heard from officials there in New York, in Brooklyn, about any investigation?

1:10:46Yeah, so, you know, just from my site, we were seeing a lot of investigators up on the roofs, on actually the roof of next to the building that collapsed, taking pictures. There's definitely a full investigation happening ongoing, of course, as you can imagine. Well, what we do know is that this was a construction site. An excavation was actually happening at this construction site next to this apartment building. We know that it was cited and it was told to stop with the excavation earlier just a few months ago, but then it was resumed just last month and the owner of this building, of this construction company rather, had to pay a fine.

1:11:22But certainly there's still so many questions as to exactly what the process was with this construction site, if that contributed to this collapse. And this is something that you can imagine so many of these families who you can't see them below me where I am right now, but standing along the sidelines trying to figure out how this could have happened. It's not just people who lost someone or who knew someone in this neighborhood, but people who live around here want answers as well. Bryn Gingrass reporting for us. Bryn, thank you very, very much. Just heartbreaking for all of those families. Up next, Jensen Wong resigns.

1:11:55NVIDIA's CEO is out. So who replaces him and what happens to the investigation into his reported affair with an alleged spy?

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1:13:24It is hard to just overstate the importance here of Wang's leadership in the AI industry. and what this resignation means. NVIDIA's stock immediately plunged about 10 % on word of his departure, though it has rebounded a bit. We're following all the angles of this breaking news story. CNN's Christy Lu Stout is in Hong Kong. For us, Kevin Liptak is over at the White House. Christy, Jensen Wang was under blistering scrutiny, as all of us know, and CNN learned that his board met last night to discuss his future. What can you tell us? Well, we have witnessed the downfall of a tech titan. The board of NVIDIA has weighed in on the fate of Jensen Huang.

1:14:09And Jensen Huang, as we all know now, he has resigned after being at the helm of a company that he has led for decades, a company that he founded back in 1993. Now, we know that the CFO of NVIDIA, her name is Colette Kress, she's stepping in as the interim CEO. She's been at the company since 2013. She is said to have an influential voice inside the company. She was previously CFO at Cisco. She's also said to be a frontrunner, to be the next permanent CEO of the company. But shares of NVIDIA continue to be under pressure, especially in light of those blockbuster reports of the affairs, not just one, but two.

1:14:46linking Jensen Huang with the Chinese businesswoman, Alice Huang, who U.S. government officials say is believed to be an intelligence asset for Beijing, as well as a top executive inside NVIDIA. Her name is Kimberly Powell. Now, since news of the resignation of Jensen Huang, we know shares in the company have tumbled some 10 percent. And the company in the last few days of loan has lost about$300 billion worth of market value. This is massive. I mean, NVIDIA is one of the largest companies on the S &P 500. This is a company that is core to our retirement plan. So if you have an IRA, if you have a 401k, you have been exposed to the fallout at NVIDIA and the downfall at Jensen Huang.

1:15:31Wolf, back to you. That's one way to put it. Thank you so much. I want to go to Kevin. We know now that there have been these cabinet level concerns about potential national security threats and this dispute between Treasury Secretary Besant and Commerce Secretary Lutnik. What can you tell us about that? Yeah, and the dispute seems to rest on this question of why the Commerce Department has not yet put Megaspeed, which is the company run by the alleged mistress of Jensing Wan, Alice Wong, on a Commerce Department blacklist that would prevent the sale of some of these high-powered NVIDIA chips to those companies.

1:16:10The company is not yet placed on that list, but you hear starting to bubble up inside the administration questions of why that hasn't happened yet. Of course, Jensen Huang had an enormous amount of influence on President Trump and on his approach to AI. The two men were incredibly close. They talked on the phone frequently. You know, I've talked to people who have been with President Trump and seen Jensen Wang's name pop up on President Trump's phone as he was calling. I went back and did a little analysis and I counted up more than a dozen times that the two men were seen together or appeared together over the last two years.

1:16:47And that did extend to influence in how the president was approaching these very thorny questions of chip sales to China, you know, whether or not Nvidia could sell some of its most advanced AI chips to Beijing. Jensen Wang had been lobbying the administration to allow that. President Trump eventually backed off restrictions on some of those chips, although the most advanced chips still cannot go to China. And so you do see how that influence ran very, very deep inside the administration and with President Trump himself. Now, Trump this morning is weighing in on the resignation of Jensen Wang.

1:17:27He says that now that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take his place. Tim Cook of Apple, a legend, replaces a legend. Of course, Tim Cook was the CEO of Apple until about two months ago. He's still the executive chairman, still very heavily involved in that company, so not likely that he would take over. Apple and NVIDIA have traded spots as the most valuable companies in the entire world. And so it seems clear that President Trump wants someone who could potentially stabilize this company that has such an effect on American markets.

1:18:04Americans, 401ks, the president, I think, still absorbing the resignation of someone he is very, very close to. And Jensen Wang, Kevin, just a reminder of yours, he gave, what, about$25 million to help build Trump's ballroom in the East Wing of the White House. Is that right? Yeah, that is reporting that I've had from people familiar with the matter. The actual donors to the Ballroom Project remain shrouded in secrecy. But people have told me that Jensen Wong and his wife did donate that amount of money to the Ballroom Project. They actually first sort of encountered President Trump at a dinner that they attended in April 2025 down at Mar-a-Lago.

1:18:49It was a million-dollar-a-plate dinner. And that is where the president, I'm told, first really got to know Jensen Wang, became very impressed with him, impressed with his wealth, impressed with his knowledge of the AI industry. And the relationship, I think, just grew deeper and deeper over time. But certainly it was a reciprocal one on both sides. All right. Kevin Liptak doing excellent reporting as usual. Christy Lustout, thanks to you as well. And just ahead, we'll be talking live to Representative Seth Moulton about all of this. He sits on a key congressional committee involving China. We'll be right back.

1:19:32Dinson Wong is out as CEO of NVIDIA, but lawmakers still have questions for the former chipmaker. And top Republican lawmakers say Wong could testify in a closed-door briefing as soon as next week. Let's bring in Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton from Massachusetts. He's a veteran who serves on the House Armed Services and Select Committee on strategic competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party. Congressman, thanks for being here with us. Let's start with this big news about Jensen Wang's resignation from NVIDIA. I mean, this is massive. What is your reaction? I mean, it's huge.

1:20:07And there are a lot of questions that this raises because obviously we are in a very serious strategic competition with China. And both Jensen and President Trump have been doing things over the last several months, selling a lot of chips to China that arguably are very much in Beijing's interest and against the interests of the United States of America, against the intent of Congress that has tried to restrict the sale of these chips. So we don't know, for example, whether Jensen knew that this woman, his mistress, was a Chinese spy. We do know that Trump knew that, though, and he chose to do nothing.

1:20:44So that's where the questions should begin. Do you think the Commerce Department should have done more regarding the longstanding concerns of selling these chips from NVIDIA to China? We know that President Trump is standing by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, but how are you seeing this? I'm seeing it that the president has a lot of investments in NVIDIA and wants them to sell a lot of chips. And I recognize that I'm making an assumption there that Trump is someone who cares a lot about his personal wealth, maybe even more than our national security. And you may not agree with that assumption.

1:21:21You maybe have spent the last 10 years in a coma. But the reality here is that President Trump very often acts in his own financial interests. And I think we should be asking questions about that as well. When did the president purchase this stock? Did that influence his decisions to do nothing about stopping NVIDIA from selling chips or even recognizing that ensnaring the CEO publicly in this scandal could result in a dramatic brownfall of the stock? I mean, frankly, we should be asking what members of Congress have been investing in NVIDIA as well. And we know the president has made billions since going into office.

1:21:56He has responded to this by saying that he has nothing to do with the stock trades, that someone else does that for him, that his sons run the businesses and so forth. But we are learning that he was made aware of these concerns about this alleged affair with a Chinese spy and Wong on his trip to China that Wong eventually joined. Here is what President Trump said when asked about that trip on Monday. When you went to China earlier this year in May, did you know about these alleged ties with the Chinese by then? No, I didn't hear about it then. But a lot of people have heard about it, and Jensen totally denies that.

1:22:38The New York Times reports it was the Secretary of State Marco Rubio who briefed Trump just before they arrived in China. What do you make of that? I mean, Trump is both a liar and in his old age, he's quite forgetful. So I guess we don't know whether he just can't remember the briefing or whether he's lying about it, but both are quite plausible. And the bottom line is that when he was briefed, when he was briefed by his own Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, he chose to do nothing. He chose to do nothing in the name of our national security against our most existential adversary.

1:23:17He chose to do nothing because I would assume it might affect his own personal wealth or stock dealings. We don't know exactly why, but we've got to find out. And it's time for members of Congress to be asking these tough questions. Several House Republicans are pushing for Wong to testify as soon as next week. What questions would you want to ask him? Well, first of all, I want to just fundamentally understand why he wants to support China so much, why he wants to sell the most advanced chips in the world to an adversary that's trying to beat us in an AI race, to an adversary that every time you look at the classified intelligence is doing very dangerous things against us and our allies and is increasingly relying on AI to do so.

1:24:02I mean, China, for example, remember, has embedded cyber tools, cyber offensive weapons in our own infrastructure. I mean, they have the ability to shut off our water supply in different cities across the United States. They're increasingly doing this with the aid of AI, and they're developing advanced AI with the help of chips from the best AI chip maker in the world, NVIDIA. So we need to really get to the bottom of what the connection between NVIDIA and China really is. Before we go, I want to get your reaction to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth awarding the soldier who reprimanded him and others at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at this joint service.

1:24:43He was awarded this medal, a Joint Service Commendation Medal. What do you think about this?

1:24:52Well, look, I mean, the soldier was just doing his job. You don't usually get an award for doing his job, for doing your job. But I think Hegseth obviously gave him the award to distract attention from the fact that Pete Hegseth is someone who is fundamentally disrespectful of the troops and our military. And everything that Hegseth is doing, you know, he says he's trying to take politics out of the military, but he's politicizing the military more than anyone in history. He says he respects the troops and yet he fires people who don't agree with him or who just look differently than him because they're women or because they're black.

1:25:28This is someone who fires generals who disagree with him because he cannot take criticism. He can't take disagreement. And this is someone who's gotten dozens of Americans already killed in a war that did not need to be fought. So Hegseth has no respect for our troops. And this incident ought to drive that home, regardless of who he's handing out medals to. Do you think he'll be impeached next year when Democrats have control of Congress? You do. Yes, I do. I think he'll be impeached. And I don't think there's ever been anyone more deserving. OK, we'll leave it there. Congressman Seth Moulton, thank you.

1:26:00More news when we come back.

1:26:07Breaking news in just a few minutes. New York City Mayor Zoram Amdani and Fire Department officials will give an update on that horrific building collapse there. At least eight people have died and 19 people were injured. The cause of the collapse is under investigation right now. So a lot to learn. CNN, of course, will bring that to you live when he speaks. And CNN is projecting that Democrat Scott Colombe will win the Mississippi Senate race, a defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith after more than a week of ballot counting. Colombe becomes the state's first black person elected to statewide office since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

1:26:47It's not something that I did, y 'all. It's something that we did.

1:26:58All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this. I had the courage to understand that we could show the country that Mississippi matters. Colombs' win further extends Democrats' majority in the Senate, marking the eighth Senate seat Democrats have flipped in this current election. Let's go live right now to CNN's senior political analyst Mark Preston. And Mark, just how significant is this victory for Cologne and for the Democrats? Well, we'll talk about it historically in a moment, but let's just talk about how he got there, Wolf. He got there basically on his own. He didn't have help from the National Party until the very end.

1:27:38We saw Barack Obama come in and did an ad in the final couple of weeks. That may have helped to get off some of the voters. But basically, Cologne ran this campaign by himself until the very end. This is a state, as you and I both know, that is incredibly Republican. Nobody ever thought that this seat would even be even considered to be even competitive. And in fact, it was now Cologne. He is going to come in and he will serve six years. That means that Republicans will have a reliably Republican seat or has been historically off of the sidelines. They won't be able to count on that vote. That vote will now go to Democrats.

1:28:16Historically, if you look at this overall, come January, he will just be one of 16 black Americans who have ever served in the United States Senate, which is an absurd number. It is so low. But in fact, he has made history. He'll come in as well with the Illinois senator as well, who will come in as well. Juliana Stratton, who will knock the numbers up to 16. Right now, 14 African-Americans serving have served in the United States Senate. And what is really crazy about this, Wolf, is that you and I only have to go back to the 70s when we saw our Massachusetts senator. Edward Brooke was the first African-American who was ever elected to the United States Senate.

1:28:56And that was in the 70s. So we've come a long way, but certainly not far enough. Certainly have. What does Cologne's win, Mark, indicate about voters in Mississippi? And what resonated in this campaign? Well, a couple of things. One is he was authentic. He really just he was very straightforward with what his message was. He talked about tabletop issues, right? He talked about the economy. He talked about gas prices, but he talked about Mississippi. That's what he did. He spent his whole time talking about what he was going to do to try to make Mississippi a better place. How he won is he didn't just win with Democrats coming across.

1:29:31Republicans had to cross party lines to come and support him. And we saw that happen. And we also have seen, and I would say that this will be a good indication of what we'll see in the future, is that voting trends that we're used to previously, that's all gone now. That has entirely changed. And we'll see that moving forward. All right, Mark Preston, thank you very, very much. And to our viewers, thanks very much for joining us this morning. You can always keep up with us on social media at Wolf Blitzer and at Pamela Brown CNN. Very busy news day here in the Situation Room. and we'll see you back here tomorrow morning and every weekday morning at 10 Eastern for two hours.

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