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Aired September 07, 2026 - 13:00 ET
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BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: Investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong after an Amazon cargo plane overshoots a runway in Miami, crashing into cars and then bursting into flames. At least five people were killed. We will take you live to the scene.
Plus: a close call. New details emerging about an armed suspect accused of lunging at a candidate in the Ohio governor's race, injuring multiple people.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: And gas prices hit a record high for Labor Day. We will show you why experts say the pain at the pump is likely to last through the fall.
We're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to CNN NEWS CENTRAL.
SANCHEZ: Happening now, we're learning new details in the deadly runway crash that killed at least five people in Miami. We have a warning to share with you. The next video you're going to see is disturbing, the terrifying incident unfolding just under 24 hours ago, as this Amazon cargo plane overshoots a runway, striking several cars as it raced toward a parking lot.
Today, new video appears to show just how far the plane was beyond the usual landing zone. You see that left landing gear appearing to bounce down the runway.
CNN's Pete Muntean is live for us on the scene in Miami.
So, Pete, what is the latest?
PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Boris, we just heard from the National Transportation Safety Board.
They are doing their first walk of the scene behind me with a dozen investigators here. This will lead up to their first press conference at about 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, about three hours from now, on this crash that happened around 2:00 p.m. yesterday. And let me just lay out the scene for you here. You can see the tail
of that Amazon Boeing 767 sticking up on West 67th Avenue here. That road runs north-south just west of the airport here. Runway 3-0 is what the airplane landed on yesterday, or at least attempted to land on yesterday, went sailing off the end of the runway right to left across the road here, four lanes of traffic, and then coming to rest in a parking lot in a logistics facility, an Amazon warehouse off behind me.
What is interesting here is that the new data coming in, the public source data, really paints a picture of what pilots call an unstable approach. And I want you to look at this graphic from Flightradar24. You see the paths of other airplanes in cyan and yellow and green there, the glide path, the stable glide path, leading to the runway here.
Those are planes that landed just before this flight, this flight depicted in red. You could see the altitude change and the trajectory change. Pilots call that an unstable approach, which is obviously very concerning and can lead to a runway overrun like this.
The video also telling a bit of a story here as well. You could see that video shot by an apparent airport worker on the south side of this runway showing the airplane with the left main landing wheel trolley still airborne, not fully touched down just yet. That's about the size of a car.
This is really significant, these new findings. The NTSB, though, will lay out its preliminary findings from official sources here. What we can tell from the open-source data is, around the point of view of where that video was taken, the airplane was still going about 180 miles per hour.
Typically, an airplane at that point would be clearing the runway going at least half of the speed, and then went through the end of the runway here going about 130 miles an hour, 112 knots, according to the public data. The final data, about 80 or 90 miles per hour is the last data point.
So much for investigators to dig into here as they begin to try and figure out exactly what took place here, but this clearly is telling the story of an attempted landing that went horribly awry, Boris.
SANCHEZ: And we look forward to hearing from officials later this afternoon.
Pete Muntean live for us in Miami, thank you so much -- Brianna.
KEILAR: Today, a 38-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly rushing through a crowd and lunging at Ohio's Democratic gubernatorial candidate at a fair.
Police say Patrick Havas pushed through the audience as Amy Acton was speaking on Sunday. Two people were knocked down and injured. After Havas was taken into custody, police say they found several weapons on him. CNN's Gloria Pazmino is following this story for us.
Gloria, what more are you learning?
GLORIA PAZMINO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Brianna, a lot of concern yesterday shortly after we learned about this incident on Sunday.
It appears to be another instance of political violence, which we have seen so much of in the last few years here in our country. But, thankfully, there were no major injuries after this incident. However, it was a scary situation for both the candidate and for those who were in attendance at this campaign.
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This happened at the Canfield County Fair in Ohio, where Amy Canton (sic), the gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, was making a speech to a crowd. She was speaking inside the Mahoning County Democratic Party tent at the fair, and that's when police say that the suspect identified as 38-year-old Patrick Havas entered the tent, he made his way through the crowd, and that he was recording while doing so.
That's when he tried to lunge at Amy Canton (sic). Her security detail was able to stop him before he could reach her, but in the middle of that scuffle, people were knocked down to the ground. Some of them were injured, including some elderly attendants who were at this event.
Now, police took the suspect into custody. He has been charged with two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct. And police found that he was carrying two firearms and a pair of brass knuckles. I want to play some witness sound for you who saw exactly what happened. Take a listen.
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FMR. REP. JOHN BOCCIERI (D-OH): An armed individual came barreling through the crowd, pushing people out of the way, actually knocked down a couple of senior citizens and elderly people in the crowd right in front of Dr. Acton.
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PAZMINO: Now, Amy Acton, as you know, is the former health director in Ohio. She is the Democratic nominee in what is expected to be a very closely watched race for the Ohio governor's office. She is facing off against a Republican nominee, Vivek Ramaswamy.
He had actually also been scheduled to be at that fair and speak at that event. He could -- he issued a statement condemning the incident. And we also have a statement from the Acton campaign, thanking law enforcement for their swift response.
We are still waiting to learn more about the suspect and perhaps any potential motivations that we could learn about why he was doing this, but, as I said, Brianna, this just one more in a long string of incidents of political violence that we have seen on the rise in recent months and years here in the nation.
KEILAR: That's right.
Gloria, thank you for the latest there.
Still to come: gas prices reaching a record high for Labor Day just as millions of Americans head home after the holiday weekend. But is relief coming any time soon?
Plus, new polling showing trouble for President Trump with his own party. What this could signal ahead of the midterm elections.
We will have that and much more coming up on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.
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SANCHEZ: Travelers hitting the road are paying record high gas prices on today's Labor Day holiday. AAA says the national average price for a gallon of regular gas is $4.15, marking the first time unleaded fuel has surpassed the $4 mark on Labor Day. That's up more than 10 cents since last month, more than $1.17 since the start of the war.
And experts say the pain is likely going to continue this fall with no end in sight to the conflict with Iran.
Joining us now to talk about this is Kevin Book. He's the managing director for ClearView Energy Partners.
Kevin, great to see you, as always.
KEVIN BOOK, MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLEARVIEW ENERGY PARTNERS: Likewise.
SANCHEZ: Now six-plus months into this war, is this about where you expected gas prices to be?
BOOK: Well, they could have been much higher. If you look at the nominal price during the Ukraine war, and the Trump administration has been making this comparison, they did get higher in the early months of that war. They got above $5 a gallon, but they fell.
And if you compare now to then, it's about parity on a nominal basis and a real basis. So it's a lot higher than I think most of us would like, but it reflects that the crude oil price is still quite high. It's been rising over the last week with the resurgence of conflict in the Middle East.
SANCHEZ: The administration has tried to make the case that the Strait of Hormuz is effectively open. They're suggesting that they're getting out millions of barrels of oil a day, and that that has essentially rendered Iran's grip over it ineffective.
Do you see that effect on gas prices? Is that actually giving confidence to commercial shippers to get product through? BOOK: Well, there are a lot of things going on at once there, Boris.
One is that the crude oil is coming out thanks to the Naval convoys. We don't know necessarily how much. We get the data that they give us when they give it to us, but I would expect that the U.S. military has good data since they're doing the escorting.
So the market might be higher were it not for that. We might see a higher oil price. On the other hand, there's also refineries in the Persian Gulf that are just starting back up. Some are still damaged. And not all of the refined products can find their way to market through alternate routes the same way that crude oil can.
So the products we put in our cars, gasoline, diesel that we put into trucks, that's not as available as crude oil coming out of the region.
SANCHEZ: You mentioned diesel. Obviously, for most folks traveling on Labor Day, they're not quite as focused on diesel, but it is more inflationary than regular gasoline, something you just told me during the commercial break.
BOOK: Yes.
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BOOK: All the freight that travels across American roads, from the ports, where freight travels on the open seas, are using what are called middle distillates, the pool of fuel that comes out of the refinery that includes diesel fuel, as well as heating oil, which is particularly poignant in some of the states in the Northeast, including Maine, where it could have electoral impacts.
And so these are in short supply, partly because Russian refineries are offline, partly because the refined products are being trapped in the Middle East, the refineries are shut down there, partly because refineries in China aren't exporting as once they were.
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And, meanwhile, there's still plenty of demand in the second half of the year, as you see the holiday season, you see harvests. And, of course, of course, that -- this driving this weekend is just part of it. We have stocking up for the Christmas holiday coming up as well. More freight there too.
SANCHEZ: Yes, no doubt.
So this -- the other step the administration took in the last week or so to try to show that they're doing more to bring energy prices down is this oil deal with Venezuela, touting billions of barrels of oil over the long term. Is that an effective step in the short term, though? I imagine it's going to take years for that to hit the market.
BOOK: Yes, I think most everybody looking at that realizes that's a long-term response to short supply.
It addresses a couple of things, though, that are promising if you think about supply security. Having more production in the Western Hemisphere outside of the choke points in the Middle East could make for more stable prices in the future. The administration's interventions on a short-term basis have involved things like Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdowns.
They have waived the Jones Act, allowing products to come out of the Gulf Coast and go to the East and West Coasts. They have relaxed gasoline specifications a couple weeks early, so winter gasoline, which is cheaper, can come to market a bit sooner.
All of those things are helping, but they can't offset sort of the bigger picture.
SANCHEZ: Is there anything you would counsel consumers to do to alleviate some of this burden on them?
BOOK: Well, I think all of us have pretty inflexible consumption patterns. We have to drive to work. We have to take kids to school.
SANCHEZ: Work.
BOOK: It's very hard to change. I think that more carpooling probably happens organically when we get to higher prices.
And one of the things that we're seeing is a weak co-movement. I wouldn't call it statistically fly to the moon quality math, but we're seeing that the sales of E.V.s as a percentage of light-duty vehicles had trended up as the share of gasoline that goes into disposable income consumption, disposable income has been rising.
And that may suggest that consumers are starting to make choices of their own.
SANCHEZ: Interesting.
Kevin Book, always appreciate the expertise. Thanks for joining us.
BOOK: Boris, thanks for having.
SANCHEZ: Of course.
Still plenty more news to come: A mother charged in the death of her toddler, and it has an eerie connection to the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. We will discuss in just moments.
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KEILAR: New details in the case of a mother accused of killing her son after she was closely following the Lindsay Clancy trial.
Court documents say Corie Walsh had become very invested in Clancy's triple murder case and was texting friends about it just hours before her toddler's body was found. Walsh is expected in court tomorrow in Illinois. Let's bring in CNN law enforcement correspondent Whitney Wild.
Whitney, what are prosecutors saying?
WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: Well, again, it's this connection to the Lindsay Clancy trial that is really coming from the timeline here.
So, what we know, according to prosecutors, is that up until 12:30 on Tuesday, she was in a group text with some friends about the Lindsay Clancy trial. And by 4:00 that afternoon, police were responding to a report of an unresponsive toddler.
A lot of the information that prosecutors presented to the court came from a neighbor who witnessed the aftermath of this horrific incident. So the neighbor goes to the house, and that is where she found 2-year- old Barrett Walsh hanging from a rafter.
The neighbor told police that she also went up to an upstairs bathroom, and that is where she found Corie Walsh. And she told police that Corie Walsh was actively harming herself as that neighbor walked in. So the neighbor grabbed the knife and threw it.
And then, when police arrived, they found Corie Walsh in a bathtub, basically surrounded by bloody bathwater, as this neighbor was trying to push a towel into Corie Walsh's thigh.
The neighbor also told police that she had tried -- or the neighbor, rather, had tried to save Barrett Walsh, tried to bring that child down from that rafter in the basement where she found that child, but unfortunately she was not able to save that child even after trying to administer CPR.
Law enforcement insists that Corie Walsh needs to stay behind bars. They say that she made comments that suggest that she was interested in harming her children, made comments about harming her husband, who was out of town at the time. He has since flown home. The other thing that we know, Brianna, is that there was a baby home at the time.
And, horrifically, her other two school-aged children came home around the time that neighbor found Barrett Walsh. And so they walked into this horrific scene, an unimaginable scene that is well beyond the understanding of a child, absolutely tragic moments there unfolding in Illinois -- Brianna.
KEILAR: And what is her defense attorney saying here, Whitney?
WILD: Well, her defense attorney says that this is plainly a case of a psychotic episode, saying that: "This is a tragedy for the Walsh family, all of whom are mourning the loss of this child. It is also a tragedy that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened."
The defense attorney saying that: "As more information comes out as throughout the thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is."
But, Brianna, law enforcement saying plainly this was a first-degree murder -- back to you.
KEILAR: All right, Whitney Wild, thank you so much.
Still ahead: Russia and Ukraine launching new drone strikes as we learn about a push by the Trump administration to bring an end to the war.
We have details next on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.
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SANCHEZ: A far right political party is now the closest it's been since World War II to obtaining power in a portion of Germany.
The anti-immigrant AfD, or Alternative for Germany, party surged to first place in state elections in Sachsen-Anhalt yesterday. It won 44 percent of the vote, falling short of the majority needed to take outright control of the state government there.
But now Germans are waiting to see whether the AfD can forge an alliance with a smaller party to implement their agenda, which not only includes focusing school lessons on Germany's pre-Nazi days, but also mass deportations of non-ethnic German citizens.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen joins us now live from Berlin.
