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Family: Toddler Orphaned by Shooting, Was Shielded by His Father; Daughter Had to Keep Running from Gunfire After Seeing Mom Killed; Autopsy Reveals Jayland Walker Was Handcuffed When Body Arrived at Medical Examiner's Office; UK PM Johnson Vows to Stay as Cabinet Resignations Mount; North Korean Hackers Hit U.S. Health Services with Ransomware. Aired 2:30-3p ET
Aired July 06, 2022 - 14:30 ET
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ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN HOST: We now know the names of all seven people killed at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade. The victims include grandfathers, Steven Strauss, Nicholas Toledo and Eduardo Uvaldo, and educator.
And the parent of a 2 and 1/2-year-old boy named Aiden. The son of Irina and Kevin McCarthy was found walking the street alone before being taken to his grandparents. A GoFundMe for Aiden has now surpassed $2 million.
CNN's Ed Lavandera is in Highland Park for us.
Ed, Aiden's story is obviously just one of the heartbreaking stories of this shooting.
So tell us what you're learning about the other victims.
ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Alisyn, it's all so heartbreaking. The seventh victim has now been identified. He is 69- year-old Eduardo Uvaldo.
His family tells CNN the 69-year-old didn't like crowds, but he would make an exception to attend the Highland Park Fourth of July parade because he enjoyed the experience so much. He was killed in this attack.
His family tells us he had been on life support for some hours after the attack, but that, at some point, doctors told them there was nothing else that could be done to save his life.
He was at the parade with his wife and son. They were both wounded by gunfire as well in the attack. They both survived.
And a family member of Uvaldo and his wife had just celebrated their wedding anniversary a few months ago.
One of the other victims was Katherine Goldstein. She was at the parade with her daughter.
When the shooting erupted they started running away from the scene side by side. Her husband tells us that a bullet pierced Katherine in the chest, and she collapsed.
Her daughter described what it was like in those final moments.
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CASSIE GOLDSTEIN, MOTHER KATHERINE WAS KILLED IN PARADE SHOOTING: I looked up and I saw the shooter shooting down at the kids. And I told her that it was a shooter and that she had to run, so I started running with her, and we were next to each other.
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And he shot her in the chest, and she fell down and I knew she was dead. So I just told her that I loved her. But I couldn't stop because he was still shooting everyone next to me.
She was just a good mom. And I got 22 years with her. And I got to have 22 years with the best mom in the world.
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LAVANDERA: Katherine Goldstein is the mother of two daughters. Her husband tells CNN that -- described her as selfless, kind, loving and, Alisyn, that he couldn't imagine a better mother in the world -- Alisyn?
CAMEROTA: Ed, that's gut wrenching. It's gut wrenching to hear what she just had to live through and witness with her mom.
Ed, thank you very much for reporting on the victims for us.
Now to this. An autopsy reveals that Jayland Walker, the black man shot by police during a traffic stop, was handcuffed when his body arrived at the medical examiner's office. More on this ahead.
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CAMEROTA: The autopsy report for an unarmed black man shot and killed by Akron police reveals that he was handcuffed, his arms behind his back, when his body arrived at the coroner's office.
Investigators say Jayland Walker suffered 60 gunshot wounds after eight officers opened fire last week following a traffic stop, altercation, and police chase.
Protests over his death led to a citywide curfew that has now been lifted.
CNN's Polo Sandoval is in Akron.
So, Polo, CNN was allowed to review the autopsy report. What did you find?
POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT; Alisyn, Ohio state law allowed us that opportunity to actually review that preliminary autopsy report recently.
And it did confirm much of what we have heard from authorities here at Akron about the circumstances of the shooting and the multiple times that Jayland Walker was struck by gunfire.
The number of wounds simply too many to count. But it also showed Walker's hands were restrained behind his back with handcuffs, not only at the sight of the shooting last Monday, but also at the medical examiner's office.
The forensic examination began that is certainly difficult for so many people to fathom, especially the community that has been angry and calling for accountability.
We should also remember those kinds of steps need not be as unusual as one might think. We have seen law enforcement officers in separate shootings take similar actions, especially after those officers determined that an individual is a threat.
That is because, as I heard from one law enforcement expert a short while ago, they have to work under the assumption that a person is still alive until medical personnel could arrive on the scene.
And that's why they would have to potentially restrain somebody until they would understand that that threat is gone.
Now, that being said, they're also under the obligation to provide immediate medical care. And in those autopsy photographs that I saw, you could see evidence of that that there were these efforts to try to save the 25-year-old.
Now, in terms of those images, that will all go into the big mountains of evidence that will be presented to the attorney general's office who would present it to a grand jury and they would determine perhaps weeks or month from now whether or not criminal charges would be filed.
In the meantime, you have the Walker family, who for over a week now has been struggling to deal with their loss, not only calling for peaceful demonstrations but also choosing not to see that police body camera video that was released just this past weekend.
On "Good Morning, America" this morning, Walker's own sister said her family is still puzzled by their loved one's behavior last week.
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JADA WALKER, SISTER OF JAYLAND WALKER: Just not imagine the person that I know because he's not into that, and that's not him. That's not Jayland. And I can't accept that at all.
And I don't -- I shouldn't say I don't want to, but I just can't fathom to see any sort of video of him being gunned down that amount of times, you know, as if he was just -- just like aim practice.
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SANDOVAL: We're now three days since that body camera video was released. A representative of the family said Walker's mother has not seen that video and wishes to never lay eyes on that footage that shows the police shooting death of her own only son -- Alisyn?
CAMEROTA: Understandable.
Polo Sandoval, thank you very much for all of that reporting.
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Now to this. A defiant Boris Johnson says he's not going anywhere despite a wave of resignations, so we are live from London with the latest, next.
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CAMEROTA: The mass exodus happening inside the British government is not slowing down. Key members of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's inner circle are bolting. More than 30 resignations so far.
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CAMEROTA: OK. That's the greeting that Johnson received as he entered parliament this morning.
He listened to member after member grill him and ridicule him, but he vowed he will not walk away.
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BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: The job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances when he's been handed a mandate is to keep going, and that's what I'm going to do.
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CAMEROTA: CNN international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, is outside of the prime minister's office in London.
Nic, how did it g so bad for Boris Johnson?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, it got bad because of a litany of missteps and mistakes and mishandling the press. But finally mishandling the press message, mishandling of his own cabinet members to the point that many of them now feel that they can't really trust him.
The most recent thing was a senior party member Chris Pincher accused of sexual misconduct. The prime minister not handling it particularly well, at all well, by first saying that he wasn't aware that there were previous allegations when he had been briefed about it, and that came out.
And it was a drip, drip on top of everything else that has happened in the past that's undermined his credibility that led to these resignations.
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And I think the most recent things that have been going on behind me in Number 10 are some of Boris Johnson's closest cabinet members, Michael Gove, a long-time friend and frenemy, telling him it was time to go.
And we understand the Home Secretary, a very important position here in the U.K., Patel, according to the press association here in the U.K., has said the same thing.
The understanding is other cabinet members have told the prime minister, this the moment to step down. Save your credibility, save your dignity, such that's left of it, and save the country from this mess.
The barrage of criticism that the prime minister faced today came from the opposition and even came from his own party.
Just listen to what they had to say earlier.
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IAN BLACKFORD, LEADER, SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: A few weeks ago, I compared the prime minister to Monty Python Night. Actually, at times, I was wrong. He's actually the dead parrot.
SAJID JAVID, FORMER BRITISH HEALTH SECRETARY: We have reason to question the truth and integrity of what we all have been told. And at some point, we have to conclude that enough is enough.
KEIR STARMER, U.K. OPPOSITION LEADER: He's only in power because he's been propped up for months by a corrupted party defending the indefensible.
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ROBERTSON: And that was the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, a lawyer by training and previous profession, landing some of the heaviest punches landing on the prime minister.
And that wasn't over for the prime minister then. He then left for a more sedate setting, a committee setting. Two hours of questioning by one of the most powerful committees here in parliamentary committees here in London. And they very clearly questioned him on his ability to lead the country at this time. And again, he fought back saying he is not going to quit. e's got a mandate from the people to carry on.
And that's right where it stands at the moment.
CAMEROTA: What happens then, Nic? I mean, if he does just dig in and refuse to quit, what are their options?
ROBERTSON: So there's a powerful committee of back-bench M.P.s in his party, the 1922 committee. Now, they voted, took a vote of no confidence in the prime minister just about a month ago.
By their own rules, they can't have another vote like that for 12 months. But they're just going through the process of electing a new executive committee. That will happen on Monday.
And the indications are that committee could scrap the previous roles and quickly call for a vote of confidence or no confidence in the prime minister early next week.
And we understand that that message is being signaled very clearly to the prime minister. And he will understand from that, that while he may hold on over the weekend, there is, in that sense, a vote that would be a potential big ticking time bomb waiting for him.
CAMEROTA: Nic Robertson, thank you for explaining all of that.
We have chilling details from the first court appearance of the alleged Highland Park shooter, including that he was seriously considering another attack. New details ahead.
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CAMEROTA: President Biden and Vice President Harris have spoken with Charelle Griner, the wife of Brittney Griner. The WNBA star has been wrongfully detained in Russia for four months.
Earlier this week, Britney sent a handwritten letter to the president asking the U.S. to do more to get her out.
The president told Charelle he is working to secure her release as soon as possible, as well as Paul Whelan and other U.S. nationals who are wrongly detained or held hostage in Russia.
A new warning from the FBI and other U.S. agencies. Government-backed hackers in North Korea have been targeting multiple U.S. health organizations with ransomware. In some cases, disrupting services for prolonged periods.
CNN cybersecurity reporter, Sean Lyngaas, has more.
What have you learned about this? SEAN LYNGAAS, CNN CYBERSECURITY REPORTER: Alisyn, this is the latest
incident during the pandemic which obviously has strained hospitals to the max in terms of resources of hacker disrupting services.
Now often when we talk about ransomware, we're talking about cyber criminals and non-state sponsored actors. But in the case of North Korea, it often dabble in cybercrimes.
We don't know a whole lot about the particular incidents. Like you said, in some cases, they disrupted services, electronic health records, imaging devices that, kind of thing.
We know this is a persistent threat facing the health sector. It's been, you know, a reoccurring theme throughout the pandemic.
And the FBI and others are warning health sectors to step up their defenses so it doesn't continue to be a problem.
CAMEROTA: Yes, that's really worrisome.
Tell us about the new warnings and how they come at the same time that Apple is preparing to release a new feature this fall to protect what they say are their high-risk users.
LYNGAAS: Yes, this is the second big cybersecurity story of the day, where Apple, which is obviously one of the most influential tech companies in the world.
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They are taking this unprecedented step of offering in the forthcoming release of the iPhone and software that powers Macs, the ability for certain users, if they want to, to kind of lock down their phone, turn it into this hardened mode where it makes it much for difficult for hackers to access.
