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CNN's Breaking News Coverage of the Fatal Shooting in Minneapolis Involving a Woman Who Was Shot and Killed by ICE Agents. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired January 08, 2026 - 03:00   ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT AND ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to all our viewers joining us here in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade, good to have you with us.

We are following breaking news out of Minnesota where a U.S. citizen was shot by an immigration agent. 11 of the 13 city council members in Minneapolis are demanding the arrest of that ICE agent. The victim is 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good.

The community has gathered for a nighttime vigil at the site, leaving flowers and candles. Before we show you exactly what happened, a warning, the video is graphic and disturbing.

It shows two officials approaching a maroon SUV. The woman inside appears to drive away. A third officer in front of the vehicle opens fire and shoots three times.

Here's the scene from a different angle. The officer is on the right of your screen. Eventually, he backs up a step or two and it appears that the vehicle comes into contact with him as he opens fire.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says the officer acted in self-defense.

The new other video shows the maroon SUV in the upper right of the screen positioned sideways across the street for about three minutes. Other cars are clearly able to drive around it. That's when federal agents approach the vehicle and one opens fire as it drives away.

The Secretary of Homeland Security accused the victim of committing an act of domestic terrorism. Noem says the officer lawfully used deadly force after the driver turned her car into a weapon.

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KRISTI NOEM, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: It's very clear that this individual was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations. Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he's been taught to do in that situation and took actions to defend himself and defend his fellow law enforcement officers.

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KINKADE: State and local officials in Minnesota have dismissed claims from the Trump administration that the ICE agent was acting in self- defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wants ICE out of the city and condemned the agency for sowing chaos and distrust.

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MAYOR JACOB FREY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: I got two eyes. I saw the same videos that you saw and the notion that this is domestic terrorism on the form of the victim is positively ridiculous. The way that ICE is behaving is reckless, not just in this incident but numerous others.

This was clearly not with any sort of intention to run somebody over but to get out of there. You don't need a legal degree to know that that does not authorize the use of deadly force.

PEGGY FLANAGAN, MINNESOTA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: Renee Nicole Good should be alive. She was killed by an ICE agent and the video footage that we have seen with our own eyes was a very different story from what we're hearing from Kristi Noem and Donald Trump. He was a mother of a six-year-old.

She had stuffed animals -- she stuffed animals in her vehicle for her child. This is outrageous and we all should be incredibly upset by what we witnessed today and expect so much more from leaders at the national level like Donald Trump and Kristi Noem.

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KINKADE: CNN's Whitney Wilde has more on the developments from Minneapolis but first a warning that her report contains strong language and disturbing video.

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FREY: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

WHITNEY WILDE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The mayor's strong message to ICE as protests are growing along with outrage following the death of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen named by officials as Renee Nicole Good who was shot in the head by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota Wednesday.

Several shots are heard as she appears to drive away from the middle of the street at the site of an immigration enforcement operation.

TREVOE HEITCAMP, EYEWITNESS TO SHOOTING: I was standing parallel to the car on the sidewalk maybe 10-15 feet away and it was moving slowly and I believe they overreacted in a way that cost somebody their life.

WILDE (voice-over): Minnesota's governor saying he feared recent ICE operations would lead to tragedy.

GOV. TIM WALZ (D-MN): So preventable, so unnecessary, but do you have no decency?

WILDE (voice-over): The Department of Homeland Security says she had tried to use her vehicle as a weapon against officers.

FREY: That is bullshit. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.

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UNKNOWN: They just killed that lady right there in that car, y'all.

WILDE (voice-over): The mayor lashing out at ICE and saying federal units were removed from the scene to create calm after protesters were shoved, sprayed and forcibly knocked to the ground by members of a Border Patrol tactical unit.

FREY: What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.

CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA, MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT: The preliminary information that we have indicates that this woman was in her vehicle and was blocking the roadway. A federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot and the vehicle began to drive off. At least two shots were fired.

WILDE (voice-over): The mayor and police chief's description of the events that led up to the shooting are in stark contrast to the accounts from DHS and Secretary Kristi Noem.

NOEM: She had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day. ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands. She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over.

WILDE (voice-over): The deadly conflict comes one day after around 2000 federal agents, including DHS Secretary Noem, descended on the Minneapolis area Tuesday in an immigration crackdown in the city. Noem blamed protesters for the violence.

NOEM: These vehicle rammings are domestic acts of terrorism.

WILDE (voice-over): The scene of the shooting, now filled with protesters, is just four blocks from where George Floyd was killed in 2020. Very little is known about the victim.

O'HARA: She appears to be a middle-aged white woman. There is nothing to indicate that this woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation.

WILDE (voice-over): Local law enforcement is now calling for full transparency and the governor has put the Minnesota National Guard on alert.

WILDE: And let me leave you with the most striking scene we've seen all day here. This is where that woman lost her life. This started with a small vigil, just a few flowers.

Then we have seen it grow and we now see dozens of candles, dozens of bouquets of flowers, and we're seeing at least a hundred people or more come out to pay their respects to a woman they very likely did not even know.

Whitney Wilde, CNN, Minneapolis.

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KINKADE: CNN's Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller says the Department of Homeland Security policy dictates that officers should get out of the way if they're confronted by a moving vehicle. And they're prohibited from discharging their firearm at the driver of a moving vehicle.

Miller spoke to CNN earlier and he described how the shooting incident unfolded based on the videos recorded from those various angles. Take a listen.

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JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: When you look at the videos, you see different versions from different angles, which is important. But in this one, you see she waves through by sticking her hand out the window and waving through the first ICE vehicles that go by, two SUVs.

And then this third vehicle shows up and stops. And then in that video, they get out of the car, they approach her. This agent here puts his hands on the door and on the door handle and says, get out of the car.

She starts to back up, tilts the wheels to the right, and appears to understand she's about to be arrested and is attempting, it appears, to get away. Now, at this point, there's an agent positioned in front of the car. We just see him drawing his gun at a certain point right there.

And as the car proceeds forward with the other agent still making contact with his hands with the door, and that vehicle comes towards him, we hear those three shots.

Now we can go to another angle. And this angle shows the shooting and what appears where the car makes contact with the agent who fires the shot, who is either the car's making contact with him or he's pushing off the car, having fired those three shots.

KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT AND ANCHOR OF "THE SOURCE WITH KAITLAN COLLINS": Yes, and John, when you look at that, because you can't see it from the two different angles, and we're showing people all of them, we've seen, you know, the President shared this second one that we just are letting people see here. What questions do you still have this evening?

MILLER: Well, the first question is, it appears when the vehicle and the agent make contact, he has already opened fire on the vehicle and the vehicle's attempting to escape. There's a bunch of issues here.

One is, it is against pretty much all tactical policy of major law enforcement agencies to place yourself in front of a moving vehicle and draw your weapon.

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The DHS policy is not to shoot at a moving vehicle. It limits what can be done about shooting at fleeing felons because it endangers the other people around. Something that jumps out at me, and Chuck Ramsey brought this up earlier, the former police commissioner, that as he's firing at the woman who is in the driver's seat, he's firing literally a little more than a foot away from two of his partners who are standing in that same place in that line of fire.

So it raises a number of tactical concerns, and that's how it's going to be looked at. What were the tactical issues here? What were the policy issues here? But most important, what were the legal issues here? Was that agent legally justified? How will he articulate why he thought he was legally justified?

And key to that, Kaitlan, is how will that be measured against what a reasonable agent with similar training would have done in the same circumstance? So is the car coming towards him to run him over or to escape? Should he have stepped aside to get off the X and de-escalate the situation in that they could arrest that person later? Or should he be fired at a fleeing felon? And if so, what was the felony?

So far, the woman who ended up being killed in this had not committed a specific crime other than interfering with the agents by having her car in the street. So a lot of questions that are going to be needed to be answered.

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KINKADE: Well, the video taken right after the shooting shows outraged residents confronting law enforcement. Take a look.

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UNKNOWN: Can I go check a pole?

UNKNOWN: No. Back up. Now.

UNKNOWN: I'm a physician.

UNKNOWN: I don't care.

UNKNOWN: Hey, listen, I understand. We got EMS coming. I get it.

Just give us a second. We have medics on scene. We have our own medics. UNKNOWN: Where are they? Where are they? How can I relax?

You just killed my (expletive) neighbor. You caught her in the (expletive) face. You killed my (expletive) neighbor.

How do you show up to work every day? How the (expletive) do you do this every day? You're killing my neighbor.

You're killing my neighbors, you're stealing my neighbors. What the (expletive), man?

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KINKADE: The woman who recorded that video says it took at least 15 minutes before an ambulance showed up. She says paramedics had to carry the victim's body on foot because the street was clogged by ice vehicles. This is how she described the situation to CNN's Erin Burnett.

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EMMY HELLER, WITNESS: I hadn't even gotten dressed. I was making breakfast. I came, I went out.

I heard the commotion. I heard whistles, which is a common sign of ICE is nearby and I went out onto my front porch. I didn't even have shoes on and within 60 seconds everything had already gone down.

But there was an ice convoy that seemed to be stuck and then there was a protester who was blocking traffic so they couldn't progress. She was totally peaceful, and ICE it seemed, completely unorganized. They didn't really know what they were doing.

They were screaming at her to move. And then they approached her vehicle aggressively and tried to open her door. And then that's when she got spooked and she reversed her vehicle to turn her wheels to try to escape.

And that's when an ICE agent stepped in front of her vehicle and said stop. And then, I mean she was already moving, and then point blank shot her through her windshield in the face. My life is forever changed from having witnessed this and I'm -- I just can't let this narrative that it was self-defense go any further because it's absolutely not what it was.

And yes, my neighborhood, my neighbors, we're all going to be pretty traumatized from this for a long time.

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KINKADE: Well, the U.S. uses two oil tankers linked to Venezuela, one of them apparently under Russian protection. We'll have the details in a moment.

Plus, a day after lawmakers were briefed on the Venezuelan operation, they're now set to vote on a resolution to potentially limit President Trump's power in the country. Stay with us.

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KINKADE: The U.S. has captured a Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuela after following it for weeks. The U.S. seized the ship south of Iceland and sources say Navy SEALs were part of the operation.

We're told British armed forces were also involved, but they did not board the ship. Russia claimed the tanker was under its protection, even sending a submarine and other naval assets to defend it, according to one official.

CNN's Nada Bashir is following this live for us from London. Good to have you with us, Nada.

So, the U.S. had been tracking this tanker for days, even after it rebranded. Can you walk us through how this interception unfolded and was the tanker carrying Venezuelan oil?

NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Lynda, we have been learning more details about how the actual seizure of this tanker took place on Wednesday. It's understood that the tanker was seized roughly 190 miles off the southern coast of Iceland on Wednesday. That's according to Marine Traffic Tracking website.

That tracking website also shows that the tanker took a sharp turn south, and around the time, it is reported that the tanker was actually seized. Now, we have heard from the Russian Transport Ministry, it says that it lost contact with the tanker at around 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, when the tanker is believed to have been boarded by U.S. forces.

And we've been hearing from two people briefed on the operation who have said that the U.S. Navy SEALs were among the forces who boarded the vessel as part of that operation to seize it.

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They are said to have been transported to the ship by the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, also known as the Night Stalkers.

Now, as you mentioned, Lynda, it is understood that the U.K. has also assisted in this operation. We've heard from the U.K.'s Defense Ministry saying that it did provide support following a U.S. request for assistance.

It's understood as well that the U.S. had actually repositioned its own military assets around the U.K. in the days leading up to the seizing of this tanker. At this stage, it's understood that the U.S. repositioned including a V-22 Osprey aircraft as well as two gunships as well around U.K. bases. So we are learning more details around the U.K.'s involvement at this

stage. No further information has been provided by the U.K.'s Defense Ministry.

And of course, there are questions around at this stage, of course, the links with Venezuelan oil. It's understood at this stage, according to one analytics firm, that the vessel itself was not carrying oil at the time that it was seized.

However, there have been connections made with Venezuelan oil. And as you mentioned, Lynda, of course, Russia has said that the vessel itself was under Russian protection at the time that it was seized.

KINKADE: And of course, we're learning more about the operation when the U.S. captured Maduro. We're hearing that more than 100 people were killed, including citizens and members of the Venezuelan military, according to the interior minister. I understand some of those funerals are now underway.

BASHIR: That's right. We have seen videos, images emerging of these funerals taking place in the capital, Caracas, for military officials, soldiers who are said to have been killed in the U.S. military operation to seize Maduro.

We've seen these funerals taking place. Many gathered at this site to mourn those killed during the operation. We've seen the military orchestra taking part in that as well as civilians, family members marching behind a row of coffins being carried to be laid to rest.

As you mentioned, there has been some information provided from Venezuelan officials with regards to the actual death toll. Venezuela's military has reported at least 24 Venezuelan officers to have been killed in that operation.

They have also said, according to the Venezuelan interior ministry, that 100 people total were killed, including military officials and civilians. However, there hasn't been any clarity provided on the breakdown of actually how many civilians were killed in that attack, and no comment from the U.S. on that front at this stage either.

And this all comes, of course, as there continues to be growing uncertainty over the future of Venezuela, what it looks like in terms of the governance of Venezuela as well. We've just heard from the U.S. President Donald Trump speaking to "The New York Times," who has said that the oversight of Venezuela from the United States could, in his words, last a very long time. But again, no clear details exactly on what that will look like, Lynda.

KINKADE: Right. Nadia Bashir, thanks to you.

Well, in the coming hours, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a measure that would limit President Trump's war powers in Venezuela. It comes a day after Congress was briefed on the operation to capture President Nicolas Maduro. Republican Senator Eric Schmitt applauded what he called a successful mission.

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SEN. ERIC SCHMITT (R-MO): I think it sends a very powerful message to folks around the world, our adversaries around the world, the capabilities of the U.S. military in support of this law enforcement operation.

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KINKADE: The Democrats left Wednesday's briefings unimpressed. They accused the Trump administration of having no plan for what comes next in Venezuela.

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SEN. CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT): This is an insane plan. They are talking about stealing the Venezuelan oil at gunpoint for a period of time, undefined as leverage to micromanage the country.

SEN. PETER WELCH (D-VT): Everyone is in great admiration of the capacity of our military, but there is no answer about what comes next.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), U.S. SENATE MINORITY LEADER: This is fraught with peril.

SEN. TIM KAINE (D-VA): About what's next. Is Greenland next? Is Colombia or Mexico or Cuba next?

We've got to get this discussion out of the skiff and into the public before it's too late.

REP. JASON CROW (D-CO): I'm not going to talk about what happened in the classified briefing, but I don't have any confidence that this administration has a realistic plan. I think it's a delusional way of thinking that this is going to work itself out.

What after is the important question. There's no question that we have the ability to do amazing things around the world with our military, to kill and capture adversaries. That's not the point.

The point is, once we do that, then what comes next, and this administration doesn't have a plan for that.

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KINKADE: Alex Pitsas is a CNN national security analyst. He's also director of the counterterrorism program with the Atlantic Council. Good to have you with us, Alex.

ALEX PITSAS, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST, AND DIRECTOR OF COUNTERTERORRISM PROGRAM, ATLANTIC COUNCIL: Thank you so much for having me.

KINKAD: In your best case scenario, Maduro's arrest triggers the defection of the power brokers in Venezuela and a negotiated exit. You noted that the U.S. force footprint is far too small to occupy and run Venezuela. Does that tell you that the administration is betting on a political collapse, and what happens if that bet is wrong?

PITSAS: So I think the United States is actually not betting on a political collapse. There was originally a response from the President when he was asked about the opposition taking over about Machado, and he said, look, she doesn't have the respect inside the country, and Venezuela already has a Vice President, which set off some speculation that perhaps it was tied to her receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, which the President publicly stated he felt he deserved.

What we found out afterwards, and confirmed in speaking with CIA officials that I've talked to the last couple of days, is that there was in fact an assessment made that if Maduro were to go and there was no ground force in the U.S. or someone else to sort of force a change, that that would result in a potential collapse inside the country. And so the CIA had actually recommended leaving a member of the administration in place of the current Maduro regime, and then using that person to help sort of guide the country through a transition of power.

KINKADE: You spoke also about the worst case scenario, which would be fragmentation and guerrilla conflict. What would happen for Venezuela to tip into that kind of prolonged instability?

PITSAS: So for it to tip into that prolonged instability, there's a couple scenarios that could sort of emerge. There was a question about whether or not the interior minister would sort of make a play to take over a crew of some sort and then infighting inside the country, or if the United States was going to embark on a larger military campaign that would involve ground forces, and then naturally with military overmatch, which is where we are and why the Venezuelans appear to be cooperating now, at least for now, that they recognize they wouldn't be able to fight a traditional war against the United States, they'd simply be overmatched.

And then in seeing how the global war on terrorism played out, Afghanistan, etc., that an insurgency and sort of taking off into the jungles and etc., the mountains, would be one way to fight back. And it's a very long and difficult, complicated fight, knowing that the U.S. is not looking for that type of force commitment.

But it seems that preservation is what's in mind right now, and as Secretary Rubio said, apples and oranges to make sort of direct comparisons to the Middle East. But that is a very plausible scenario in terms of what could happen. It's just very unlikely is what we're seeing based on the actions of Venezuelan officials right now.

KINKADE: Of course, sir, right now the U.S. is intercepting oil tankers tied to Iran, even re-flagged as Russian. How much does this maritime pressure accelerate a political decision inside Venezuela, and how much does it potentially increase risks and tensions?

PITSAS: Well, you know, Venezuela is South America's wealthiest country that was run into the ground by the Chavistas over the last several decades. And one of the lifelines economically was the illicit oil trade coming out of Venezuela, and cutting that off is -- cutting off sort of one of the last lifelines.

But it also comes at a very interesting time in that President Trump, I think, has determined that the Russians, and particularly President Putin, is not serious about a peace agreement in Ukraine. And so what we saw today, you know, was a tanker that was seized off the coast of the U.K. that originated in Iran, that was headed for Venezuela, didn't dock, and then sort of took off, re-flagged as Russian, and the U.S. sent special operations forces to the U.K., where they eventually launched an interdiction mission today.

What was interesting, though, is from those planes that were sent over, along with the forces, is that it included P-8, which are submarine hunters. Neither the Venezuelans nor the Iranians really have submarines capable at this point of interdicting or escorting a tanker up in the North Atlantic near the U.K.

So it was kind of interesting. That air bridge started on January 3. The administration's known for at least four days that the Russians were looking to provide a submarine and surface vessels to escort that tanker.

And so it appears to be tied to the Russian ghost fleet as well. And at the same time, Senator Graham has publicly stated that the White House has given its support from President Trump to the secondary sanctions bill that has been held for the better part of a year now, that has 87 co-sponsors in the Senate. We can't even get 87 U.S. senators to agree that water is wet, but they've agreed that sanctions were necessary.

The President was trying to hold off on the Russians because he didn't want to put more pressure on Putin. He was afraid that would cause it to collapse. He's finally realized that that's not the case.

And I think the drone stunt that Putin pushed about hours after the positive meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy headed towards peace talks to try to disrupt it was where the President drew the line. And so now it appears to be a coordinated campaign to go after the shadow fleet globally, which is interconnected between Venezuela, Iran, Russia, and then obviously the rest of the axis, North Korea, China, and that's been providing oil all over the world.

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So it's cutting off a lifeline, not only for Venezuela, also targeting Russia. And at the same time, the secondary target, which is really what Secretary Rubio is after, is Cuba. And that some of the funding and mechanisms were also supporting the Cubans.

And so it appears that this is connected to a global funding mechanism that they're trying to cut off for this access of resistance, for lack of a better term, as it's been dubbed.

KINKADE: Certainly a complex web. Good to have your analysis. Alex Pitsas, thanks so much for your time.

PITSAS: Thanks for having me.

KINKADE: Colombia's president says a phone call with his U.S. counterpart has helped ease tensions between the two governments. Gustavo Petro says he spoke with Donald Trump for about an hour on Wednesday, with the two agreeing to restore direct communication channels.

President Trump said he appreciated the call from Petro, who he says explained the quote "situation of drugs and other disagreements." President Trump said it was a great honor to speak with Petro and looked forward to a meeting with him in the near future. It marks a stark contrast to the U.S. President's weekend remarks when he described Petro as a sick man and reiterated his claims that Petro is connected to drug trafficking.

We're going to have more on the scene in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where crowds gathered for a candlelight vigil for the woman killed by an ICE agent. Protesters are calling for that agent to be arrested for the shooting. We'll be right back in just a moment.

Plus, I'm going to speak with an immigration expert in Minnesota, what she says about the crackdown and whether these ICE agents are actually following the law.

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KINKADE: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom," I'm Lynda Kinkade. Let's check today's top stories.

Trump administration officials have begun revealing their strategy for Venezuela's oil. The complex plan centers on selling millions of barrels of oil at market value and convincing American oil companies to make major investments in rebuilding Venezuela's energy infrastructure.

Pope Leo XIV is holding his first large-scale meeting with Cardinals since he became the leader of the Catholic Church. The two-day gathering began at the Vatican on Wednesday. Among other things, the Cardinals will discuss the Pope's push for more collaboration among church leaders.

Protesters in Minneapolis are calling for the arrest of an ICE agent who shot and killed a U.S. citizen. Renee Nicole Good appeared to try to drive away as agents approached her vehicle. One officer opened fire in what Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called self- defense.

The shooting has sparked protests and a candlelight vigil, which, for the most part, has remained peaceful. CNN's Laura Coates is on the scene. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAURA COATES, CNN ANCHOR AND CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST: You know, there's a continued presence of community members who have gathered here throughout the day. I've been out here for hours and hours watching the community response unfold. At times, very congested, gathering behind me.

A few yards away is actually the site of the vigil. It started with a couple of flowers. Now it's hundreds of candles and flowers and a huge presence around it.

People gave speeches, they were talking, they were chanting, they're very angry. They're angry at the presence of ICE. They're angry that somebody has been killed.

They're frustrated by the fact that they believe that the Minneapolis Police Department and law enforcement more broadly is somehow, if not complicit, at least supportive of trying to clear the area when they wanted to make sure the investigation would continue.

Some I've talked to have been angered about the overall response from the administration, the President's statements, and Secretary Kristi Noem, fueling further distrust. And just to orient you right now, we're a few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed.

This community very well versed, sadly, in conversations about use of force and officers. But it's a very somber occasion as well. People realizing their life has been lost as questions still swirl around the two competing narratives, justified use of force and murder.

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KINKADE: We've seen anger as well on the streets of New York following the deadly shooting in Minneapolis. The crowd on Wednesday night took part in a march speaking out against ICE.

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UNKNOWN: What ICE is doing, this, it was just like, today was just like the last straw. I just had to come out.

UNKNOWN: So I think the only way that we're going to have any accountability and fight for any justice for Renee is by being out in the streets and showing that we're not going to -- we're not going to stand down and let this happen to our communities.

UNKNOWN: We see the injustice that happened in Minneapolis, and we won't stand for it. And we demand that these ICE agents are prosecuted and that they can't get away with this.

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KINKADE: Immigration advocates in New York organized the rally in Foley Square in response to what happened in Minneapolis. Those who gathered held a number of signs, including one that read, quote, "the people demand ICE out of our communities."

Julia Decker is a policy director with the Immigration Law Center in Minnesota, and she joins us now. Good to have you with us.

JULIA DECKER, POLICY DIRECTOR, IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA: Thanks so much for having me.

KINKADE: Now, her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was a 37-year-old mother, an American citizen shot in the face by a federal immigration officer. What was your immediate reaction when you learned what had happened?

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DECKER: So on the one hand, of course, it's an awful tragedy. On the other hand, this is not the first time that we have seen something like this happen.

Immigration, federal immigration authorities have unfortunately killed people in other cities during similar ICE surges. And so in some ways, well, of course, we hope that something like this never happens. There was also a sense of maybe that this could happen here as well.

KINKADE: The U.S. President has publicly described Renee Good and another woman at the scene as an agitator and a terrorist, while the head of ICE has defended the officer involved. From your perspective, what impact can statements like that have on an active investigation or on public trust in its outcome?

DECKER: This is actually something of a pattern that we have seen from the federal government in situations like this, where the statements by the federal government are fairly formulaic in terms of what they talk about has happened, even where there is fairly clear video evidence of what actually occurred.

I will note that this, I think, is the first time that we have actually heard the term domestic terrorism being used to describe the actions of the people that are alleged to have been involved. So that, I think, does represent potentially a sort of escalation in the rhetoric.

KINKADE: Federal officials say that this operation is lawful, it's necessary. From a legal standpoint, how does this level of enforcement compare to what Minnesota has seen in the past?

DECKER: I think this level of enforcement and the amount and the scale of it is pretty unprecedented. And I think one of the things that we are seeing, certainly in Minnesota, but also in other cities that have seen similar surges, is not only just the scope of the enforcement actions, but the way that federal agents and the federal government is often acting right up to and sometimes beyond the limits of the law. We have seen a lot of court cases around actions that federal agents have taken, and not always a lot of accountability coming out of those courts.

KINKADE: Are there any examples of sanctuary states or cities that have been successful in pushing back against ICE enforcement?

DECKER: I struggle to think of one at this moment. Unfortunately, I think particularly when we talk about, at the very ground level, the human cost of these ICE surges and the families that are separated, the children that are left without their parents, the communities that are really just devastated by the loss of oftentimes long-term residents. Those types of ordinances have really, unfortunately, not been effective against what has just been a very extremely aggressive and often violent enforcement regime.

KINKADE: And just quickly, for people who are worried, what resources are available to them?

DECKER: So organizations like Immigrant Law Center, ACLU, National Immigrant Justice Center, National Immigration Law Center, all have resources about what your rights are, knowing your rights, if you encounter immigration in various different places, whether it's your workplace or at your home or while you're driving. Those are really important things to know. Also, resources for if you are detained by ICE, how to locate somebody who is detained by ICE.

And then there are going to be resources within each state. For instance, Immigrant Law Center, ILCM in Minnesota has a hotline for people who are detained. So, looking up those resources in advance, knowing where and how to access legal resources in your particular locality.

KINKADE: Julia Decker, I appreciate your time tonight. Thanks so much.

DECKER: Thank you.

KINKADE: Well still to come, parts of Europe are bracing for a winter storm that's quickly getting stronger. It's set to bring heavy snow to France and the U.K.

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Plus the U.S. publishes new dietary guidelines, some aren't surprising, but others seem very close to the Health Secretary's personal beliefs.

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KINKADE: Welcome back to CNN, I'm Linda Kinkade. This is your Business Breakout.

A quick check now of the U.S. futures ahead of the opening bell on Wall Street. You can see there they're all down ever so slightly, pretty flat, really. The Dow down just 0.24 percent.

Let's take a look at the markets in Asia. You can see they're all slightly down apart from the KOSPI which is up ever so slightly 1.03 percent. Not much at all, quite flat indeed.

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Well, these are the business headlines.

Character A.I. and Google have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits over teen mental health harms and suicide. One of the lawsuits accused Character A.I. of not adequately responding when a teenage boy began expressing thoughts of self-harm. Both companies have since implemented a series of new safety measures and features.

Reports say Beijing is asking some Chinese tech companies to stop buying powerful NVIDIA H200 chips. Sources tell Reuters that China may soon force firms to buy from domestic chip makers instead. The U.S. gave American-owned NVIDIA the go-ahead to sell powerful AI chips to China last year, NVIDIA says orders have been strong.

Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, has rejected the revised $30 a share hostile takeover bid from Paramount's Skydance. WBD says the offer for the entire firm remains inferior to the deal it struck with Netflix for its streaming and studio units. It's asking shareholders to vote for the Netflix deal instead.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled new dietary guidelines for the United States on Wednesday. They echoed past advice with some notable changes. CNN's Ivan Rodriguez breaks down what your new dinner plate should look like.

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IVAN RODRIGUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Every five years, Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture update the federal dietary guidelines based on the latest research. The new guidelines that go past advice but also include some nods to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement, urging Americans to prioritize protein and healthy fats and limit their consumption of ultra-processed foods and added sugar.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., U.S. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY: The new guidelines recognize that whole nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs.

RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): Officials say that following the guidance can help prevent the onset or slow the rate of progression of chronic disease as well as lower health care costs.

DR. MEHMET OZ, ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES: 30 percent of health care costs are directly attributable to obesity.

RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): The latest update will include images of an inverted pyramid that puts meats and vegetables in the whitest part at the top, flipping a long-standing visual of the American diet and moving away from the circular MyPlate.

KENNEDY JR.: Dietary guidelines shape dozens of federal feeding programs including Head Start. These standards affect 45 million school lunches every day.

RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): The new guidelines also tell Americans when adding fats to meals to quote "prioritize oils with essential fatty acids such as olive oil." Other options can include butter or beef tallow.

I'm Ivan Rodriguez, reporting.

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KINKADE: The U.S. is set to abandon another landmark international climate treaty. The White House says it's moving to pull out of the so-called U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The U.S. Congress ratified it back in 1992.

The treaty led to the key Paris Climate Agreement, which President Trump abandoned in the first day of his second term. But his ability to pull out of the agreement is a legal gray area since the 1992 convention was ratified by the Senate. If he does, the U.S. will become the first country to do so.

The move could also push other nations to reconsider their participation in U.N. climate talks. Former Secretary of State John Kerry calls the withdrawal a gift to China and other polluters.

A storm nicknamed Goretti is expected to impact France and the UK in the coming hours. The rapidly strengthening system is on track to bring strong winds and heavy snow to parts of Europe.

Southern England and northern France, especially along the coasts, are expected to be hit. The cold snap has already turned floodplains in Oxford into a natural ice rink. Heavy snow from Storm Goretti will likely disrupt travel in the air, the roads and the rails across parts of England and Wales.

France's Meteorological Office is also warning that snow will impact travel. Some rural communities could face blackouts.

Well more heavy rain and snow are forecast after intense downpours flooded communities and caused power outages across Kosovo. Take a look at this drone footage of submerged vehicles and homes. Contaminated drinking water in many areas have forced authorities to cut the water supply.

Emergency teams are helping to rescue those whose homes have been flooded. Officials are warning that the situation could get worse and have ordered all schools to remain closed until next Monday.

The arraignment for Nick Reiner has been delayed until next month after his attorney asked a judge on Wednesday to be removed as counsel. The judge and Reiner both agreed that he was then assigned a public defender. Reiner is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents last month, Hollywood director Rob Reiner, photographer Michelle Singer Reiner, could face life in prison without parole or the death penalty if found guilty. Prosecutors haven't decided if they'll seek that.

[03:55:00] Mourners gathered in Rome on Wednesday to remember Riccardo Minghetti, a 16-year-old boy killed in the deadly New Year's Eve fire in Switzerland. He was one of 40 people killed inside a bar authorities say hadn't been inspected since 2019. The bar's owners are investigating multiple crimes including negligence, manslaughter, bodily harm and arson.

Thanks so much for your company, I'm Lynda Kinkade. Have yourselves a good day. "Early Start" with Rahel Solomon is next.

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