and harris county, with the city of houston agency and with houston county's nrg park. and so perhaps the plans were inadequate with. perhaps the plan froms were good, but they weren't followed. perhaps it was something else entirely. the families of those to who died and everybody affected deserve answers as to what took place last night, and that's why i'm calling for an objective, end dependent investigation -- independent investigation as to what went on and how it could have been prevented or how -- or if this was a particular situation that was simply out of everybody's hands. and i have directed county agencies to, as soon as we get that underway, cooperate, and i expect and hope the same for everybody else involved. as you all are are aware, there was a similar incident in 2019 with astroworld. there was a breaching of barricades. there were some issues with crowd control. actions were taken after that experience. there were stronger fencing, more and more robust barricades, more personnel and more security personnel. you guys heard that the increase in the offi

>>> the missed warning signs are piling up after the tragedy in houston. "the lead" starts right now. breaking today, the first lawsuit filed after fans were crushed and trampled and eight killed at a concert in houston. one survivor saying they were thrown into a ball of violence. how do we make sure this doesn't happen again? >>> and a new low for president biden's approval rating in a new cnn poll. what americans say he's not focusing on enough. >>> plus, everyone from big bird to first lady jill biden out working hard to get america's kids vaccinated. what parents need to know as more shots go into little arms. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. our national lead, the horrific deadly tragedy in texas over the weekend. houston's mayor telling cnn it could take weeks if not months to get answers into what unfolded at the multi-day music festival where eight people were killed and dozens injured over the weekend. the crowd of 50,000 packed so tightly that when rapper travis scott took the stage, concertgoers were crushed and trampled as waves of

the support the houston police department. the houston fire department. as they were providing the security for the event, as they were helping and leading the response. we have been at the reunification center, our institute of forensic sciences is responsible for identifying the victims. i was in touch with dr. sanchez there and they are working as quickly as they can on those autopsies so they can release the bodies to the family and get some answers as to ultimately the cause of these deaths. throughout the morning, i and my team have also been on the phone with all of the relevant county agencies trying to untangle as much as we can about what may have led to this. the roles in particular that live nation, that the city of houston, and that harris county had in any of this. it may well be that this tragedy is a result of unpredictable events, circumstances coming together that couldn't possibly have been avoided. but until we determine that, i will ask the tough questions and that's what i've spent the morning doing. what i know so far is that live n

the houston fire department, houston police department deployed resources as a precaution. i mean, we had 50,000 people there. and, you know, certainly i'm glad we did because we were able to quickly mobilize and muster the required resources to be able to transport those that were critically injured. and the event was stopped as soons the crowd became -- you know, the situation got to the point where it was overwhelming the resources there. the police department in conjunction with the promoter's security were able to stop the event and begin to de-escalate. look, the damage had been done. >> fire chief samuel pena, we know it's been a long night for you and we're so grateful you and all of your officials there, we know you're doing the best you can. thank you for taking the time to update us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. you all be safe. >> you as well. >> thanks, chief. >>> we're also tracking this moment a major moment for the biden presidency. after months of painstaking negotiation and hours of delays friday night, a record for the longest ongoing vote in the histo

this is following the night of the world festival in houston, texas. first responders that you were injured after the crowd started pushing toward the stage and panic and sued. there were more than 50,000 the cho moving is a handful. no kidding! fortunately, xfinity makes moving easy. easy? -easy? switch your xfinity services to your new address online in about a minute. that was easy. i know, right? and even save with special offers just for movers. really? yep! so while you handle that, you can keep your internet and all those shows you love, and save money while you're at it with special offers just for movers at xfinity.com/moving. >> fox news alert. tweet people dead and scores people hurt when the crowd surged during the first night of travis scott's afterworld festival in houston. first responders say they were injured after the crowd started crashing toward the stage and panic into. 50,000 in attendance, 20 patients transported to the hospital. 11 were in cardiac arrest. >> this is a tragic night. what we are going to do is give some informatio

cbs' lilia luciano is in houston tonight with the very latest. lilia. >> reporter: jamie, authorities say this is now a criminal investigation involving both the narcotics and the homicide divisions with the mayor adding that houston has never experienced anything of this magnitude. death and disaster in houston last night at travis scott's sold-out music festival. 50,000 fans were in attendance. >> we had to walk over people's bodies. >> reporter: panic rippled through the crowd, causing many to surge toward the stage. emergency crews struggled to deliver help. the hip hop star stopped performing several times during the show, seeing the situation was increasingly dangerous. >> we need somebody to help. somebody passed out right here. >> reporter: witnesses say what happened next was horrifying. people were so packed, they passed out. some suffered cardiac arrest. >> everybody just going down. >> reporter: the chaos unfolded after 9:00 p.m. but there were early signs of trouble as aeddum fans rushed past ticket checkpoints. tonight, police say t

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cnn's rosa flores is in houston for us. today, we know that the family of one of the victims spoke to cnn about the heroism of their brother. >> reporter: victor, this is just absolutely heartbreaking. this is 27-year-old donnish. he lost his life during this tragedy, and his family telling cnn that he was trying to save his fiancee at the moment when he died. his fiancee was being stomped on and they say that he was just an incredible human being and that he should not have died this way. take a listen. >> i love my brother, danesh. i'm the older brother but he was the older brother to me. he led this family in a direction that i couldn't have done in any other way, and he used to pull -- he's everything of our family and that person's not there anymore. to wake up and not be able to hear his voice, to touch him, to kiss him, to tell him how much we love him, it's not going to happen anymore. >> reporter: it's absolutely heartbreaking. eight people died in this tragedy. they've all been identified, according to the medical

as you know, judge, the houston police chief, your police chief in houston, met with travis scott before the concert to share his concerns about public safety. scott has a history of riling up his crowd as you know, and this concert went on even after it was declared a mass casualty event. so who bears responsibility for ignoring the warning signs? >> i've been asking those questions since that night. when i was out there speaking to different folks, you know, midnight, 1:00 in the morning, and what's evident is there is a complicated web of different entities. for my part harris county, there is the venue that belongs to harris county. it's one of the county parks, the police presence, police houston department, fire, that's separate from the county. then there is the private security. the medical services. many were private, then of course, live nation. astro world. now, those questions are exactly the ones we're answering. yes, there was a breach at the beginning. we've heard from some of the security experts saying those are somewhat typical. at the same time, live nation has a histo

but it also occurred inside the city of houston. so, we will look in depth at the collaboration between the two entities. in terms of personnel, the chief can go into this even more, but let me say preliminarily, we know there were about 528 hpd officers that provided security for the event and an additional 755 persons representing private security that livenation had that was providing security at this particular facility. so, there are a lot of -- let me just say to you, there are a lot of unanswered, a lot of unanswered questions. and over the next several days, several weeks, could be even longer, we'll take an in-depth look at everything that took place, why it took place, how we can -- what steps we can do moving forward to mitigate an incident of this kind from taking place at any other point in time. now there are a lot of rumors on social media. let me caution people not to buy into the rumors, okay? because there are a lot of rumors. but nothing is off the table in terms of persons who were there, people may have fainted

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we appreciate it. >>> cnn's rosa flores is in houston for us tonight. what have eyewitnesses been telling you, rosa? >> reporter: you know, pam, a lot of troubling details. some of the eyewitnesses both adults an teens and children say they were very concerned and there were very tense moments. some of them telling me that pending on how tall they were, that is about how much oxygen they were able to get. now when you think of the children, they're obviously going to be shorter than adults. so those are very, very troubling details. i talked to one father who was there with his 9-year-old son who was very concerned, counting his blessings this morning. he was actually in a vip section. so he had a different advantage point. here is what he saw. take a listen. >> the whole crowd just was pulsating. this weird vibe was going on and then it just -- it was the biggest mash pit ever. people were pushing and pop were jumping bearricades to get out and i was sheltering my son from seeing any of that. here, look over here. i'm just glad my son is okay, to be ho

so nasa hernia is live in our newsroom tonight with the very latest on this pam and ken houston. police say their investigation will likely take weeks if not longer to determine if anyone can be held criminally liable for what happened. >> now. people who are at the concert say the trouble started right away, but no one including travis scott's would stop the show. 50,000 people attended the sold-out astroworld festival 8 people were killed. hundreds were hurt and more than a dozen are still hospitalized. houston police and fire investigators are trying to figure out what happened, why the crowd rushed toward the stage. >> and whether the design of safety barriers and the use of crowd control is fatally flawed. they're also reviewing cell phone videos, social media posts and people. >> who survived the chaos and now there's videos resurfacing from 2015 in chicago when scott reportedly told fans to jump the barricade. now, this was at the music festival. lollapalooza. you can hear them chanting. we want rage authorities in houston are now trying to determine if anyone, including t

deadly surge at a houston concert a week ago today. the minute-by-minute logs show by 9:23 a.m. crowds had breached the main gates, nearly 40 minutes before the festival was set to open. by 9:48 the first patient had been transported to a hospital and by 10:02 a firefighter noting fences had been damaged and there was no control of participants. >> from the beginning it was not going well. >> reporter: by 1:21 p.m., eight hours before travis scott took the stage, all five ambulances on site will taking patients to hospitals, and just before 5:00 p.m. police reporting dangerous crowd conditions inside the venue and at 9:18, the first report of a crush injury, a chilling sign of things to come. >> i want my baby back, you know? i won't be able to live without her. >> reporter: this morning the mother of 22-year-old bharti shahani breaking down after announcing her daughter's death. shahani went to the music festival in houston one week ago with her sister and cousin but lost each other in the deadly crowd surge. >> i was holding her hand

. >> we have more developments from houston >> at the venue sunday, we saw people coming to retrieve items they left behind as they were rushed from the venue as this unfolded we've seen folks coming to lay flowers and candles and putting up pictures to remember them investigators say the central question for them is what caused the surge or the crowd to move forward. they are reviewing surveillance footage to see if they can come up with some sort of time line to explain why the crowd surged and these eight lives were tragically lost. they are promising a robust investigation into the cite plan, were the rules adhered to but it could be weeks or months before they have answers >>> global coronavirus cases surging to 250 million global cases have fallen by 36% over the last three months the u.s. lifts a nearly 20-month pandemic national travel plan. we go live to moscow good morning >> good morning. i think this is a welcome development for foreign citizens who have been separated from friends and family in the united states or vice versa there are still important restrictions let's

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elena rodrÍguez de 16 aÑos, john de 14 aÑos, atleta en una preparatoria de houston. este hombre de 27 aÑos muriÓ al salvar a su novia del concierto. axel acosta, estudiante universitario que es la vÍctima. su padre habÍa pedido informaciÓn. >> fuera del estadio colocan flores. tambiÉn describen el trauma que vivieron. >> sÓlo querÍa respirar y no podÍa. >> ellos mismos han llegado a honrar la memoria de los desaparecidos. fÉlix: un corresponsal hablÓ con el padre de un joven que perdiÓ la vida. pasamos con david. >> eran como las dos de la tarde houston y me contestÓ muy alegre. este pasÁndola bien, este es un momento que estuvimos esperando por mucho tiempo. yo ya estaba durmiendo y me ha esposa me habla desesperada. nos acaban de hablar del hospital. ella llora y llora. me dijo el doctor que acababa de fallecer, yo no lo habÍa encontrado en las noticias, me dijeron que lo contra no ya sin vida. reportero: por ahora solamente esperan respuesta por parte de las autoridades de houston. falta minutos para que se abra la frontera con mÉxico y canadÁ. an

and we know houston can obviously play defense. cincinnati can't turn the ball over the way they did tonight or they will find themselves playing catchup to houston. that's going to be a tough, tough football game. but with it being in cincinnati, you favor the bearcats. they turn it over, houston comes after them, they can score with anybody. they can run the football, with mccaskill healthy. he's a dimension at running back for houston they didn't have earlier in the season. it will be a tough one for cincinnati. >> jason: cincinnati will go into that 12-0. luke fickell, we asked him a number of times, are you enjoying it? he said i can enjoy it more. he will enjoy a 12-0 regular season for cincinnati. number four wins again. the bearcats douse their coach. he will be freezing on the bus. for paul carcaterra, andre ware, for our beautiful crew, i'm jason benetti. so long from greenville, north carolina. cincinnati wins. >> building a better bay area. moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> that's all i can do is

deadly surge at a houston concert a week ago today. the minute-by-minute logs show by 9:23 a.m. crowds had breached the main gates, nearly 40 minutes before the festival was set to open. by 9:48 the first patient had been transported to a hospital and by 10:02 a firefighter noting fences had been damaged and there was no control of participants. >> from the beginning it was not going well. >> reporter: by 1:21 p.m., eight hours before travis scott took the stage, all five ambulances on site will taking patients to hospitals, and just before 5:00 p.m. police reporting dangerous crowd conditions inside the venue and at 9:18, the first report of a crush injury, a chilling sign of things to come. >> i want my baby back, you know? i won't be able to live without her. >> reporter: this morning the mother of 22-year-old bharti shahani breaking down after announcing her daughter's death. shahani went to the music festival in awi hounut in th d rg >> i was holding her hand, and once that happened, the next time i saw her, she was in the er unco

. >>> chilling new images of the deadly chaos at that concert in houston. screaming fans trapped. tonight, what the fire chief is now saying. >>> also tonight, new drone video revealed for the first time at the kyle rittenhouse trial in kenosha, wisconsin. what prosecutors say it shows. what the medical naexaminer sai in court today about the gunshot and what it could show. and what the m.e. said when pressed by the defense. >>> news tonight in the january 6th investigation. that select committee with ten new subpoenas, closing in on former president trump's inner circle. who is on the list and will they cooperate? jonathan karl standing by. >>> we're tracking a new coast to coast storm tonight. from the northwest to the rockies and this system then headed to the northeast by thursday night into friday and we'll time it out. >>> your money tonight and your car. used cars in high demand. prices soaring 25% in a year. dealers running out of vehicles. could your car suddenly be worth more than it was a year or two ago? the number they said you could buy it for. what to look for tonig

he was a 9th grader at memorial high school in houston. now, this investigation continues as the family of all of those who died will want answers. rosa flores, cnn, houston. >>> and the sold-out astroworld festival was so tightly packed that when audience members were pushed toward the stage, some say they were crushed to the point that they couldn't breathe. here's how they're describing the terrifying experience. >> oh definitely, was traumatizing. i've never been in such chaos, like so unorganized and just so many people, like, slamming into me. like, there was -- it was just -- it was -- it was really hell. it was really hell. >> you could feel, like, everybody pushing up behind you. like, you couldn't move your arms. you couldn't breathe. like, you couldn't see anything. it was like you were seeing the back of, like, really tall people's heads so like when everybody was moving, there was like 15, like 20 minutes where we weren't in control of our bodies. like, we were literally moving with like the wave of like the people and it was

he's in houston. i know things have been rapidly unfolding for you, mayor, since this tragedy happened. if you could, bring us up to date with the latest of what we know, how did this happen? >> well, that's the question that we're working feverishly to determine. we want to look at every single detail, looking at the site plans, the security plans, talking with the producers of this concert, live nation. we want to visit with as many witnesses or if people have any information, please call that information in to the houston police department. we are waiting for the medical examiner's report, but that is a question. we want to know what happened, how it happened, and to make sure we have all of the details such that this will not happen again. right now, we're focussing on the families, as you indicated. eight persons lost their lives, so we're praying for their family members, there are still two individuals who are critical, in critical condition in our hospitals. so we're prayer for all of them. >>

griff: garrett tenney live in houston, thank you. for more on this tragedy in houston, let's turn to fox news contributor, civil rights attorney and former d.c. police detective ted williams. ted the, what do you make of what has happened? you heard there from garrett tenney reporting that the authorities are asking for these videos, asking for any inpulmoput on what happened. -- input on what happened. >> yeah, griff, this is certainly a sad turn of events at an enjoyable festival there in houston. first, i would like to offer my condolences to the families of the eight that have died or that have been confirmed as being dead there in houston. but i would have to believe, griff, that they're going to have to treat this as a criminal investigation. from what we've been told, there were 50,000 people in this venue. and you have to ask yourself the question, how -- what kind of security did they have in place. were there fire marshals involved. there are just so many question marks that have to be asked and answered in regards to this

part of that festival scene in houston. it is not the deadly crush of the crowd but a few hours before as people started to enter the park. this is a mob of people crushing and crashing their way through the entrances. destroying the metal detectors, destroying the barricades. totally ignoring people posted there. >> we were heading in through the vip security area, and we saw the crowds running across the pedestrian bridge from nlt rg stadium parking lot to the other side of kirby. the security guards who were checking our bags knew what was coming and pulled all of us to the side. seconds later you see in this video what happened. hundreds of people rushed through the checkpoint, t trampling one another. they tore down the metal detectors, they were stomping each other. one told the security officer that he really just wanted to be inside this festival so bad, which led me to believe that many of those people did not have tickets. tickets to astroworld sold out within an hour of going on sale several months ago, and that'

. >>> chilling new images of the deadly chaos at that concert in houston. screaming fans trapped. tonight, what the fire chief is now saying. >>> also tonight, new drone video revealed for the first time at the kyle rittenhouse trial in kenosha, wisconsin. what prosecutors say it shows. they say it includes the moment he shoots and kills a police protester. what the medical examiner said in court today about the gunshot and what it could show. and then, what the m.e. said when pressed by the defense. >>> news tonight in the january 6th investigation. that select committee with ten new subpoenas, closing in on former president trump's inner circle. who is on the list and will they cooperate? jonathan karl standing by. >>> we're tracking a new coast to coast storm tonight. rain, snow and winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour from the northwest to the rockies. and this system then headed to the northeast by thursday night into friday and we'll time it out. >>> your money tonight and your car. used cars in high demand. prices soaring 25% in a year. dealers running out of vehicles. cou

three terms on the houston city council. he was elected by his peers in 2010 to serve as vice mayor pro tem helping to manage the workforce of the city of houston. as share of harris county and is a city council member he has spearheaded innovative efforts to expand social services in order to reduce arrests, different crime, and improve public safety. welcome, sheriff gonzalez. you may proceed with your opening remarks. >> chairman peters, ranking member portman distinguished members of this committee, i am honored to appear before you to discuss my nomination to lead u.s. immigration and customs enforcement, i.c.e. i want to thank president biden for nominating me, secretary mayorkas for his confidence in me, and this committee for considering my nomination. i also want to express my love and gratitude to my parents come both hard-working children of immigrants. my father was a self-taught welder. you never finished school or learned how to read or write. he made up for it by outworkings competition, and he raised me to va

astroworld was founded by travis scott, who is from houston. he is the partner of kyliejenner, one of the world's highest paid social media influencers. in a statement, travis scott said he's absolutely devastated about what's happened. he thanked the emergency services for their response in helping everyone affected and said he is committed to working with officials to find out what went wrong. nomia iqbal, bbc news, north america. let's get some of the day s other news. police in southern germany say three people have been seriously wounded in a knife attack on a high speed train. a man has been detained, and police believe there's no further danger to the public. the train was travelling between the bavarian cities of raygensburg and nuremberg. russia has registered its worst daily figure for coronavirus infections — surpassing 41,000 for the first time. moscow remains the epicenter of the pandemic in the country — and most public places are now disinfected every day. the rise in cases comes at the end of an eight day nationwide paid hol

jorge: pasamos a la tragedia ocurrida en houston el fin de semana. cuatro de los ocho muertos eran hispanos. vamos a ver el testimonio de uno de los padres de uno de los fallecidos. reportero: edgar acosta era padre de uno de los fallecidos en la tragedia de houston. >> me siento devastado por la pÉrdida de mi hijo. el abogado dice que debemos esperar que su vida cambie las cosas de cÓmo se hacen los eventos. reportero: axel acosta tenÍa 21 aÑos y estudiaba en una universidad de washington. la familia costa se uniÓ a otras familias para demandar a los organizadores del evento. >> esto pasÓ por negligencia. reportero: las muestras de luto han convocado a los residentes de houston. reportero: el jefe de la policÍa dice que se reuniÓ con travis scott antes de que comenzara el concierto. el jefe de bomberos dice que estaba preocupado por la seguridad. >> todas esas compaÑÍas estÁn bajo los promotores y es lo que vamos a investigar. reportero: la familia acosta llegÓ al monumento dedicado a las vÍctimas. ilia: vamos a nicaragua, en donde el d

>>> right now on "america this morning," the deadly concert stampede in houston. but the first lawsuits are now claiming as we learn more about the eight people killed, ranging from 14 to 27 years old. witnesses tribe what they saw, plus the troubling past of one of the performers on stage. >>> caught on camera, pastor to the rescue. a man pulls a gun during a church service in tennessee. the quick action the pastor took to prevent bloodshed. >>> $4 a gallon? what the biden administration is now saying about gas prices. >>> putting younger teens to work. the debate over changing child labor laws to alleviate the shortage across america. >>> the teenager rescued after making a hand gesture made popular on social media. >>> and from an 83-year-old hiker's towering achievement to a discovery from ancient rome to a fox wreaking havoc at this game, it's monday, november 8th. >>> good monday morning, everyone. we begin with new details about that concert stampede in houston. eight people were killed. hundreds were injured. >> the first lawsuits have been if i would, tar

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we learned houston prestige delivery did tell personnel to shop the show. do you have an idea of where the failure or failures were here? because travis scott's position appears to be he didn't know about these fatalities until well after the concert ended. >> well, listen the in the public safety realm and what we do, seconds matter, communications matter. you have heard that through a couple of people who said many statements. tragedies are not always something you can prevent. sometimes you actually can prevent them. we will get to the bottom of exactly what happened and why. where we come in, as the houston firefighters, is that we want to ensure that in an emergency, in a tragedy, we can provide the necessary resources, the logistics to get to the people that are injured or hurt. our job is to save lives. what i can tell you from our perspective is that the houston fire department, the firefighters and the paramedics and third largest municipal fire department had no presence on the inside of the venue. that is absolutely a problem in my opinion. and w

people to vote and make sure that the people who do vote have their votes counted. >> reporter: but houston's democratic mayor sylvester turner could not disagree more >> reporter: you called it jim crow 2.0. >> right. underscore, underlined, put quotations around it and then circle it because it's serious. >> reporter: so who is right? >> we have actually added days to early voting and more hours on those days. >> reporter: he is right about that there is already a

houston's fire chief says rapper travis scott bears some responsibility. the family of one victim speaks to cnn about their grief and loss. >>> pain at the pump. americans are paying more for gas just as new estimates are released of how many people are getting ready to travel for thanksgiving. >>> and the biden problem. the president's sinking poll numbers and their very real impact far beyond the white house. are republicans taking note? >>> thanks for being here. let's start with new developments out of houston where eight people were killed and hundreds more hurt as a massive crowd rushed and surged towards the stage at travis

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cnn's rosa flores is there in houston. first, tell us what the police chief, if we know, discussed with travis scott before the concert. >> reporter: you know, we do. hpd sends out a tweet expressing that, that the meeting was brief and respectful. here's what he said, he said quote i met with travis scott and his set of security for a few moments prior to the main event. i expressed my concerns regarding public safety and that in my 31 years of law enforcement experience i have never seen a time with more challenges facing citizens of all ages to include a global pandemic and social tensions throughout the nation. i asked travis scott and his team to work with hpd for all events over the weekend, and to be mindful of his team's social media messaging on any unscheduled events. the meeting was brief and respectful and a chance for me to share my public safety concerns as chief of police. again, this is from the chief of police here of the houston police department. he went on to say that all of this is under investigation,

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cnn's rosa flores is in houston for us. what are investigators locking at as part of this criminal probe now, rosa in. >> fred, as you mentioned, it involves both narcotics and the homicide divisions of hpd. now we learned about that yesterday when the houston police chief mentioned that there was a secure officer who reported that he got pricked on the neck. he was treated with narcan and revived and that other individuals at this location were also treated with narcan and revived and so that escalated the situation and the investigation in this case because of that mr. account from a security officer. now other points of the investigation involve crowd control, what was done, how many

our abc station in houston said, following the concert, scott was at a party. he was unaware of the fatalities of his concert. >> i'm devastated. >> reporter: questions remain about why he kept performing for 40 minutes after officials declared a mass casualty incident. the houston firefighters union said it had trouble communicating with medics at the scene. they could only communicate by cell phone. >>> hundreds gathered in iowa to remember a high school spanish teacher killed allegedly by two students. the service was held and today would have been her 67th birthday. she was reported missing. her body was found in a park. two 16-year-old boys are being held in the case. great britainer was a mexico native. but police say they do not believe the killing was racially motivated. >>> the defense is presenting its case in the kyle rittenhouse trial. the footage shows rittenhouse in a face-to-face encounter with joseph rosenbaum and later ritter. rittenhouse claims self-defense. two offered accounts of how he acted after the shootings. >> how does he look to you?

astroworld was founded by travis scott, who is from houston. he is the partner of kyliejenner, one of the world's highest paid social media influencers. in a statement, travis scott said he's absolutely devastated about what's happened. he thanked the emergency services for their response in helping everyone affected and said he is committed to working with officials to find out what went wrong. nomia iqbal, bbc news, north america. earlier, i spoke tojoey guerra, who's a music critic for the houston chronicle. joey was in the crowd during travis scott's performance and gave us his witness account. i was near the back. i wasn't in the thick of where all this was happening. this was from my perspective in a very contained place at the front of the stage. i was kind of behind the bulk of that, watching the concert and everything unfold. music festivals often are very high energy generally, especially performances from someone like travis scott. was it immediately apparent what was happening and how serious it was? it was not, no. i was not aware

according, also, to "the houston chronicle." at 9:30 p.m., a female officer was heard over the radio, don't have the audio, but i have a quote from the audio, i'm at the medical tent, there is a lot of people trampled and passed out at the front stage. the chronicle reporting her callout prompted the fire department to self-dispatch first responders. i wonder if that officer's quick thinking might have saved lives given how quickly that warning came. >> right, well, look, we know we had a presence there, the houston fire department, that was outside the established plans. we had an operations center located in the footprint, away from the venue. and we were in constant communication with police department monitoring those communications. again, i think that the quick actions of everybody involved there, you know, once this issue became to the point where it was overwhelming the medical staff, and the venue, may have saved lives. >> yeah. >> final question, and, again, to be fair, i know there is still a lot of questions to be an

david goodman, the times now reporting travis scott got a warning ahead of time from the houston police chief. can you tell us about this? >> yes, so travis scott is a national name in rap, musician known around the world, excuse me. but he's also a big hometown hero in houston and deep ties to the community and in fact the police chief personally knows travis as does the mayor and so as i understand, the police chief went to visit scott in his trailer during the day on friday as it was clear that the crowd there was getting rowdy but earlier in the day, not when the stampedes were occurring. reminded travis scott at 2019 an issue at his concert, stampeding and some people injured. as a mentor, went to talk to the younger man and say this is the kinds of fans you have, very devoted and just to be aware of that. >> is there a sense of what kind of impact that had? i wonder because noted in the report, your report is that yes, chief finer knows travis scott, he also likes him. he sees him as this hometown boy who is there doing something that's really good for the community, for the econo

. >> and we are going to start with that mystery right now in houston, police are launching a criminal investigation now, into that deadly in incident that claimed the lives of eight concert goers in houston, including two teens. officials say some people were trampled, but that security guard and possibly others may have been jabs with syringes during the astroworld festival. >> the scene of the tragedy transforming overnight into a makeshift memorial, the headliner and creator of the festival, travis scott, speaking out for the first time. >> we are actually working right now, to identify the families, so we can help assist them through this tough time. you know my fans, my fans like, my fans really mean the world to me, and i always just really want to leave them with a positive experience. >> travis scott's from houston, so you can imagine he's hit hard by all of this. -- is in houston, keeping track of a lot of developments in the story, katie good morning to you, what more are we learning? >> good morning, the central question at the heart of all of this. why did the crowd surged

heights high school here in houston. john hillgert, 14 years of age, a ninth grader at memorial homeland security. 27-year-old niecea vague. 23-year-old madison dubbinski and 21-year-old axel acosta. and alisyn and victor, getting answers for all of the families are that are now mourning loves oned and for the ones that remain in the hospital. at last check, at least six individuals still remain in the hospital. five of them in the icu. >> rosa flores, thank you for those updates and those names. the youngest victim there 14 years old in the ninth grade. thank you for that. >>> we have new developments coming in. cnn is just learning there was a detailed operations plan for the astro world music festival but it did not include a contingency for a surging crowd incident. although three people were trampled and hospitalized at the same festival in 2019. let's bring in now attorney steve aidleman, vice president of event safety alliance and the principle author on what is considered the industry rule book for crowd manageme

cnn newsroom," a criminal investigation is underway and now a lawsuit after a deadly crowd surge at a houston music festival. we'll have the latest details on the ground. >>> with the stroke of a pen, president biden will sign into law his infrastructure plan, but the heavy lifting of passing his largest social spending bill is right around the corner. >>> plus, in the coming hours the u.s. will open its borders to vaccinated international travelers. we're live at london's gatwick airport. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with rosemary church. >>> and we begin with new fallout from the music festival in houston, texas, that turned deadly. a concert goer that says he was injured at the event has filed a lawsuit against rapper travis scott, entertainment company live nation and the concert promoter. it seeks more than $1 million in damages to be determined by a jury. authorities, meanwhile, have launched a criminal investigation. thousands of fans were pressing towards the stage and we're now learning that scott continued to perform for nearly 40 minutes after the firs

us now is houston's fire chief samuel pena. chief pena, appreciate you being with us. what is the latest on the investigation into this? >> anderson, thank you. and first of all, i want to extend condolences to the families of the deceased and -- and our prayers are with them and the injured that are still in the hospital. um, anderson, the -- the investigation is still in its infancy. the houston police department is going to be the primary agency that's -- that's leading that investigation. and we're contributing to that -- to those documents as far as what our role was in providing permits for that operation. and our permits were limited to the -- the fire code items. namely, you know, propane gas that was used for the mobile-food trucks, tents. the pyrotechnics that were deployed at the -- at the concert. and maintaining the means of -- the doors in and out of that -- of that venue. that venue is -- is -- is a county facility. so, it's a -- it was a -- a -- a county-sanctioned event. and our role in that was to provide thos

. >> houston smith, we will be back. ♪ >> we're talking to doctor houston smith. you have led us through growing up in rural china and suddenly you landed back in missouri. you made an intellectual decision and then you spent your life in academia. from central missouri, where did you go? >> i went to the university of chicago and began, i did my graduate work in contemporary philosophy. but then, it was only after i got sprung from there, had my degree in hand that i realized that in my teaching, i loved teaching about these world's great religions and in comparison, modern philosophy seemed pretty tame and almost like a cage because it had been infected by the scientific outlook and when i say infected, i don't mean to say anything disrespectful towards science. i had prostate cancer five years ago and without radiation, we wouldn't be here talking, so i'm not going to badmouth science as such. but, science congeal, to put it simply, only the facts. it cannot deal with values. and human life is a mix of facts and values and so, what i believe, and what has been

let's go back to marcus moore in houston. good morning again, marcus. >> reporter: juju, good morning again. yes, officials said yesterday that this is not only a criminal investigation, but also a narcotics investigation after eight people were killed at this this venue, including two high school students, and this morning, more than a dozen people are in the hospital recovering from their injuries. we know that a crowd of about 50,000 people were here for this concert, and at some point on friday night, that crowd began to surge the stage. this morning, investigators are investigating or looking into why that happened, and witnesses are describing an absolute scene of terror and chaos to abc news saying that they were gasping for air as they were being crushed by the crowd. one woman said that it was like she was drowning as the crowd was crushing them. people were unconscious and at the same time, others were calling for help. now, authorities say it took about 40 minutes to stop the concert from the time of the first repo

homicide and narcotics teams from houston p.d. are leading a criminal investigation. this is an astroworld festival action plan. 56 pages of protocols for all types of emergencies -- active shooters, bomb threats, evacuations, but nothing about a crowd surge even those paragraph -- even though travis scott was twice arrested for scott who was twice arrested for urging crowds to stampede barricades. in this 2019 netflix documentary, scott's security team details the kind of panic crush that this time turned deadly. >> you see kids trying to get to safety because they can't breathe because it's so compact. >> reporter: in this closeup video, trampled fans are aitthow. for add a breakdown in communication with fire and police unable to communicate with private medics hired for the event. investigators are combing through the concert site examining fences aimed at crowd control which as the crowd surged became deathtraps. there are calls for an independent investigation into what went wrong. given houston's pd involvement in providing security and what many are calling a

look, we had issues with his concerts in the past in houston. there's been issues with his concerts in other cities. and quite honestly, when you look at the number of officers that were present i think some questions have to be asked. where were the officers? were there officers in front of the stage? were there officers deployed in the crowd? how was their response? where was command and control? so, i know the chief. i know him well. i expect him, love that man, and i know how deeply this is impacting him and his city so i can assure you that whatever the lessons are, the good, the bad, and the ugly, he is going to uncover them. he is not going to hide them. he is not going to run away from them and the truth will come out in the upcoming weeks and months. >> all right. chief, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >>> and next, the comments made by republican chris christie have set trump off. >> we can no longer talk about the past. and the past elections. >>> plus, a new poll has president biden at a new low. so, what do american