president's coming out. i will meet with the president. >> president trump plans too visit el paso and dayton tomorrow, but not everyone welcomes him. >> mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. >> the president focuses on mental illness instead of gun safety. and china just punched america's midwest hitting farmers right where it hurts. it is not, folks, easy to win a trade war, and american farmers are about to find out. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the

world. this is "early start." it is 4 a.m. here in new york. i'm christine romans. >> reporter: i'm victor blackwell in el paso, texas. it's 2 a.m. here, august 6th. president trump is planning to visit both el paso and dayton within the next few days. the white house says he'll express condolences and offer federal help in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend. here in el paso the number of people killed is at 22 with at least two dozen injured. some people here are not in a welcoming mood. they sent an open letter urging the president to capsle the visit so, as they put it, their community can continue to grieve and heal in peace. beto o'rourke put it in even more bluntly terms. he tweeted this. this president who helped create the hatred that made saturday's tragedy possible should not come to el paso. we do not need more division. we need to heal. he has no place here.

el paso mayor has often disagreed but that won't stop him from visiting with the president. >> he's coming out here on wednesday, and i want to clarify for the political spin that this is the office of the mayor of el paso in an official capacity welcoming the office of the president of the united states, which i consider is my formal duty. >> reporter: cnn's rosa flores with the latest on how the city is coping days after this mass shooting. first, let's talk about this visit. where are the people on this side? should the president come? do they want him here or not? >> reporter: so the individuals i spoke with find it difficult to reconcile the president's words, the words he used before

his speech the other day about the shooting and some of them i actually talked to people just now that are stopping by this memorial that has been growing and they say they don't feel the president's words are genuine because of how he's referred to latinos in the past, to the migrant caravans, to mexicans as rapists. so they're having trouble. one man that i talked to, oscar salazar, he says he grew up here and he says he hopes that president trump comes to his city with positive words. take a listen. >> but hopefully this is an awakening for everybody as a humanity. i'm just a little nervous about how the public is going to react to him after saying so many negative things about mexican people and stuff like that. it's kind of heartbreaking but that's the world we live in today so --

>> reporter: now it's really tough because you can hear his emotion and never one that i talked to in this city, victor, you can hear that emotion, you can see that emotion. it's a tough time in el paso and healing for them is going to be different for everyone. this woman i spoke with said she's going to heal through art, her dance group that is made of all latinas, they're going to come together. it will be different for everyone. >> reporter: the president offered a healing tone in the scripted remarks. we'll see what he says when he comes here and the unscripted remarks that are often in conflict with what he says when it's written. rosa flores, thank you. whaley welcomed the president

but said she expects something done about gun violence. >> i spoke to her about 24 seconds, that this gunman reached havoc with that much violence. i'm from southern ohio. people have rifles. they have handguns. we are not a peek that -- like we're not east coast or west coast folks that say no guns at all but like i don't understand why anybody, why any citizen would need that gun. he didn't disagree with me. maybe he was just placating me a bit, i don't know, but i appreciated that he listened to me around that. we'll continue to push because i don't want other cities to go through this. >> reporter: cnn's brian young has more on the investigation from dayton, ohio. >> reporter: christine and victor, a lot of work to be done to figure out exactly what the motive was when it comes to this shooting. so many questions in this community when you have people from the ages of 57 to 22 who were killed in this crime. people want to know exactly why

the shooter came here, trained his gun on the club behind me and opened fire. what we do know is at least 41 rounds was fired from that weapon they had. police believe he had over 200 rounds of ammo within that clip and in the car. there was one man who was still alive who accompanied the shooter and his sister to the scene. he was shot. he's still in the hospital. he may have more details to unravel this investigation. 24 seconds is all it took for that shooter to kill 9 people. the 911 calls where people were calling for help but it was the police response, those heroes who got into the scene within 30 seconds and were able to take the shooter out who saved so many lives. victor and christine. >> reporter: president trump condemning racism and white supremacy in a speech on monday, but he failed to acknowledge his

own racist and divisive rhetoric. he stopped short of endorsing a house bill for background checks. >> manifesto consumed by racist hate. in one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. these sinister ideologies must be defeated. hate has no place in america. we must recognize that the internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts. we must stop the glory if i case of violence in our society. we must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence.

>> reporter: now before the president made those remarks he used his twitter account to call on republicans and democrats to come together for strong background checks on gun purchases, even suggest they marry the legislation to immigration reform. resistance to that within the white house. two senior administration officials oppose connecting the two issues in the wake of the el paso and dayton massacres. the justice department is now considering a federal law that would make shootings a capital crime. we want you to know about this. chris cuomo will moderate a live cnn primetime town hall, "america under assault, the gun crisis" tomorrow at 9 right here on cnn. >> president trump sharply escalated u.s. sanctions against the venezuelan government. the president explaining the move in a letter to congress citing what he calls the

continued usurpation of power by the illegitimate nicolas maduro regime. opposition leader juan guaido declared himself the leader. the only exemptions are for u.s. government business and humanitarian aid. a dramatic escalation of the trade war sparked a worldwide selloff in markets on monday. a term day for the dow jones industrial average down 767 points. the s&p 500 crossed nearly 3% lower also recording its worst day. the nasdaq finished down 3.5%. that was the worst daze day since october 24th, 2018. what happened? the chinese government devalued the yuan. the treasury secretary steven mnuchin officially labeled china

a currency manipulator. something the u.s. government has not done ever adding he will work with the international monetary fund to eliminate the unfair competitive advantage created by china's actions. china responded to the announcement of new tariffs last week with this, halting the purchases of u.s. ag products. they called it a body blow for people in need of dire relief. soy beans are sitting in storage at record levels and according to the st. louis federal reserve bank and delinquencies have tripled to eight year highs here since 2015. important for investors. the dow was up more than 10%. the staup 13.5 and the nasdaq up 18% even after monday's selloff. president obama speaking out against the divisive rhetoric.

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15 minutes after the hour. welcome back. mexico was called the el paso massacre an act of terror. the country's foreign minister calls it an act against mexican citizens on u.s. soil. he says mexico will not only participate in the investigation, it is considering a petition to extradite the shooter. eight mexican citizens were killed in the shooting, six others are being treated for their injuries.

patrick oppen is live from juarez in mexico. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, victor. three of those eight mexican citizens who were gunned down are actually from the city where i am just on the other side of the rio grande from el paso. this is a very busy border crossing. every day people go back and forth. you read some of the stories about those eight mexican citizens, people who were grandparents. one couple who were murdered. one woman who was a school teacher. people who are part of the fabric of this community ripped from their relative's lives, murdered in an instant. people asking why. you heard the mexican foreign minister saying they're going to demand the u.s. government have tougher gun laws. take real action of their own. it's unclear what mexico can do. there's been people here rocked to their very core.

this is one of the most dangerous cities in years. one of the most dangerous cities in the world. people have said they would go to el paso if it got too dangerous here. people said their families, children who cross every day. in el paso the u.s. side is considered the safe part of where i'm standing, the border crossing where i'm standing. juarez has been called the dangerous part. that has all changed within the past several days. >> patrick oppmann there, thank you. barack obama is calling on americans to condemn language. the president did not specifically name president trump but he did call out the kind of rhetoric the president frequently uses saying it is at the root of slavery, jim crow, the holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the balkans. it has no life place in our politics and public life.

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north korea has launched two more missiles. a u.s. official tells cnn they were short range ballistic missiles similar to the ones used in recent launches. the missiles landed in the waters off the korean peninsula. a senior official said the situation is being closely monitored with south korea and the japanese. president trump has already said he has no problem with these kind of short range missile tests. the florida man who pleaded guilty sending pipe bombs to cnn, pleaded guilty in prison. he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. among the targets were former president obama, hillary clinton, and major democratic donor george sorrows. he got a mid-range sentence because he made a decision to

build bombs that would not go off. he said he was sorry and said he was a sick man knows that now that he is sober. a heart stopping moment in southern china. a curious 37-year-old steps on a broken manhole cover. he hauls him out. the boy was terrified but kept his head above the dirty water and suffered only minor injuries to his feet, victor. back here in el paso where khalid said he will be performing a benefit concert in his adopted hometown. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: khalid grew up in a military family that grew up in el paso before his senior year in high school. he's been outspoken about his love for the city. on monday he tweeted over the past few days i've been thinking

of ways to help out and support the city. i'm planning for a benefit concert later this month. all of the proceeds will go to the families affected by the shooting sending everyone my love and we'll keep you guys updated. we're getting reaction from people here in el paso, texas, just learning that president trump plans to visit tomorrow. that's next. ines, it's all included for the whole family. like unlimited with netflix on us. and now with each new line, get one of our latest smartphones included. $40/line for four lines and smartphones are included for the whole family.

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the president's coming out. i will meet with the president. >> president trump plans to visit el paso and dayton tomorrow. not everyone welcomes him. mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. >> reporter: the president focuses on mental illness instead of gun safety. china just punched america's midwest hitting farmers right where it hurts.

welcome back to "early start," everyone. i'm christine romans. >> reporter: i'm victor blackwell. it's half past the hour. president trump is planning to visit both el paso and dayton, ohio, within the next few days. the white house says he'll express condolences and offer federal help in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend. here in el paso the number of people killed has now climbed to 22 with at least two dozen injured and some people here are just not in a welcoming mood. the el paso democratic party sent an open letter to cancel the visit so, as they put it, the community can continue to grieve and heal in peace. democratic candidate and el paso native beto o'rourke put it even more bluntly. he tweeted, this president who helped create the hatred that made saturday's tragedy possible should not come to el paso. we do not need more division.

we need to heal. he has no place here. >> he's coming out here on wednesday and i want to clarify for the political spin that this is the office of the mayor of el paso in an official capacity welcoming the office of the president of the united states, which i consider is my formal duty. >> reporter: cnn's rosa flores is here with me now. we've heard from the politicians, right, about how they feel about the president's visit. what do you hear? >> reporter: emotions are very raw right now, victor, in el paso as you might well imagine. there are still fbi agents recovering evidence from the scene that's behind us. the memorial keeps on growing. i just walked there this morning and you can smell the candle

scent outside. >> and they're people who come here at all hours of the day and night. >> yes. >> there are two people over there right now. >> reporter: around the clock. when you talk to them, most of the time they say, look, i don't know anyone who died. we all need to come together. i did talk to them about president trump visiting the city and a lot of them have difficulty reconciling the words that the president has used in the past to refer to immigrants, to refer to mexicans and they're having trouble. it's a very painful time. some of the individuals that i talked to said that they don't believe that his words were genuine when he spoke so eloquently and provided positive thoughts. they just felt that those were not his words, that they were scripted words and one individual who grew up here in el paso just recently moved because he said, i wanted to move to el paso because it's a

safe city. it's a great city to come back to and only for him to come back to this but he said he hopes president trump has positive things so say while he's here in his city. take a listen. >> but hopefully this is an awakening for everybody as a humanity. i'm just a little nervous about how the public is going to react to him coming back after saying so many negative things about mexican people and stuff like that. it's kind of heartbreaking but that's the world we live in today so -- >> reporter: you know, victor, the other thing too that individuals keep on mentioning is that the death toll has increased to 22. it happened yesterday and for all the people of el paso, hearts are very heavy. they're still trying to figure out how to heal. we all heal in different ways. we'll have to be respectful to each other as the healing

process continues is what people have been telling me. the president's visit might help some people, might not help others. it's going to be a tough time. >> reporter: the healing process is going to take a long time. we got the news of additional deaths within 45 minutes of one another yesterday. and of course there's still a lot of work to do here. rosa flores, thanks very much. >> reporter: as we said, president trump is going to visit the city of dayton, ohio. mayor whaley told the president he is welcome but she made is clear she expects something to be done about gun violence. >> i talked to him about 24 seconds, that this gunman wreaked that much havoc with that kind of gun. i said, look, mr. president, i'm from southern ohio. people have rifles, they have handguns. we're not a people -- like we're not east coast or west coast folks that say no guns at all. i said but like i don't

understand why anybody, why any citizen would need that gun. he didn't disagree with me. maybe he was just, you know, placating me a bit, i don't know, but i appreciated that he listened to me around that. we'll continue to push because i don't want other cities to go through this. >> ryan young has more on from the city. ryan? >> reporter: christine and victor, a lot more work to be done when it comes to the motive. there are so many questions in the community from what happened when you have people from the ages of 57 to 22 who were killed in this crime, people want to know exactly why the shooter came here, trained his gun on the club behind me and opened fire. what we do know is at least 41 rounds was fired from the weapon he had. police believe he had over 200 rounds of ammo within that clip and within the car. there are a lot of questions. there's one man who is still alive who apparently accompanied the shooter and his sister who

he ended up killing at the scene. that man is in the hospital. 24 seconds is all it took for that shooter to kill 9 people and wound dozens others. now we're seeing surveillance images as he moved through the street. 24r there were 911 calls and they saved so many lives. >> reporter: president trump condemning racism and white supremacy in a speech on monday, but he failed to acknowledge his own racist and didvisive rhetoric. he stopped short to promote a bill on buying guns. >> the shooter posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate.

we must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. these sinister ideologies must be defeated. hate has no place in america. we must recognize that the internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demeanted acts. we must stop the glory if i case of violence in our society. this includes the gruesome and grizzly games that are now common place. we must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence. >> reporter: now before the president made those remarks he used his twitter account to call on republicans and democrats to come together for strong background checks on gun purchases. he even suggested lawmakers marry the legislation to immigration reform. resistance to that idea from within the white house.

cnn has learned at least two white house officials oppose connecting the two issues. in the wake of the el paso massacre, the justice department is trying to make new developments a capital crime. a programming note, chris cuomo will moderate "america under assault, the gun crisis" tomorrow night at 9 eastern here on cnn. >> don't want to miss that. thank you so much for that, victor. president trump sharply escalating u.s. sanctions against the venezuelan government. he's proposing a total embargo to venezuela. he cites what he calls the continued usurpation of power by illegitimate nicolas maduro regime. juan guaido declared himself president. the only exemptions to the new

embargo are u.s. businesses and global aid. markets trying to find their footing. a flare-up in the trade war between the u.s. and china dragging down stock prices around the world. the dau closed down 767 the worst day of the year and sixth worst point drop. the s&p 500 down nearly 300%. the nasdaq down 3.5%, the worst since october last year. what happened? china retaliating against the latest round of trump tariffs. china devalues the yuan in a decade. it risks starting what is known as a currency war. the american called that a body blow for those already hit by the trade war. soy beans are sitting in storage in record levels. delinquencies on agriculture

loans have tripled since mid 2015, now the highest in eight years. some important perspective for investors here, the dow is up 10% this year, the s&p up 13%, nasdaq up 16%. i want to bring in cnn's matt rivers live in hong kong. matt, proof that trade wars are not easy to win as the president has said. i don't see an offer up here. the next in person negotiations between the u.s. and the chinese are sometimes this fall. >> reporter: yeah. you know, those are relatively low level. the time that we've seen both sides kind of get fwak on the right track is when president xi jinping and president trump meet face to face. that's not going to happen for a while. nothing on the books to suggest they're going to meet. it's been a rough week. if you don't want to see a trade

war, it was just last thursday that the president announced new tariffs on chinese imports to the united states. that's because china was not buying agricultural products the way they said they would. china was going to hit back. the fact that they allowed the u.s. to get to 7 to 1 on the u.s. dollars. the fact that they're not buying a agricultural products. it's a massive hit to frmers on the right. both sides are clearly digging in. like you say, trade wars are difficult to win. what you're seeing is the proof that the president's strategy to get them to change fundamentally the way they do business and structure the economy is not working. >> so often becau, the editorias

of the chinese state newspapers are saying the chinese are right to dig in and wait until there is a new administration because they don't trust the donald trump administration, is that right? >> reporter: yeah, that's absolutely right. it's almost kind of hard to argue with their logic. if the chinese government believes that they can wait out, their economy is strong enough and they can wait out donald trump, the election isn't all that far away. the chinese government doesn't plan in months, they plan in years and decades. so they're looking at this saying, there's a presidential election in a year and a half, looking at the polls there's at least an even chance that donald trump loses and maybe we'll have a more favorable election coming up. this is the chinese game prapd for a long time. allow them to optimize their

roles. matt rivers, thanks for following up. victor? >> reporter: christine, eight mexican citizens were gunned down here in el paso and mexico's government plans to take action. a live report from mexico next. pampers is the first and only diaper with three extra absorb channels. they stay up to three times drier so babies can sleep soundly all night pampers

13 minutes to the top of the hour. welcome back. mexico is calling the el paso massacre an act of terror. the country's foreign minister calls it an attack against mexican citizens on u.s. soil and it says mexico will not only participate in the investigation, it's also considering a petition to extradite the gunman and plans to take legal action against the u.s. eight mexican citizens were killed in the shooting, six others are being treated for their injuries. patrick oppmann has the latest developments. good morning to you.

>> reporter: good morning to you, victor. three of those eight victims from mexico came from here from juarez, just a short distance from where you are, but really a world away. you heard the minister and make changes, make changes to gun laws and try to fight back the growing sense that u.s. immigrants are not wanted but could be the target for hate crimes. the people we've talked to here, it has changed their outlook while these two communities, juarez and el paso are separated by a border, you have people who have family on both sides of the border, who go across the border every day. certainly during some more dangerous years here where drug cartel violence really racked the city, many people sent their children to live in el paso. many people hope to get their

family across the border because they felt it was much safer than juarez. the sense is that it has all changed and that a praise as well known as that walmart where people -- many people's first stop once they crossed the border, that they're no longer safe there. people say that there really is no going back and that something has changed not only in el paso but oen this side of the border as well. >> reporter: former vice president biden said president trump's anti-immigrant and antiant anti-minority rhetoric has emboldened this situation. the former vice president stopped short of calling the president a white nationalist. >> white supremacist. >> do you see this as another

defining moment? >> absolutely. but, you know, it's a continuation. i mean, this is a president who continues to speak in ways that are completely contrary to everything we are. i mean, referring to immigrants as -- mexicans as rapists, talking about, you know,s rats in baltimore. i mean, the way he talks about people. >> do you blame the president in part for what happened in el paso? >> what i do is his rhetoric contributes to this notion that almost legitimate. people coming out from under the rocks. this is white nationalism, this is terrorism of a different sort but it's still terrorism. >> beto o'rourke believes the president is a white nationalist. >> let me put it this way, whether he is or not, he sure is using the language of and

contributing to the things they say. clearly his actions have done nothing to do anything other than encourage this kind of behavior. >> reporter: former president barack obama is calling on americans to condemn language from leaders that normalizes racist sentiments. the former president released a statement on monday that did not specifically name president trump but he it did call out the kind of rhetoric the president frequently uses. he said this. it is at the root of jim crow, slavery, ethnic cleansing in the balkans. it has no place in our politics and our public life and it's time for the overwhelming majority of americans of goodwill to say as much clearly and unequivocally. back to you, christine. >> thank you, victor. north korea has launched two more missiles. a senior official tells us they

were short range. they landed in waters off the korean peninsula. the situation is being closely monitored in cooperation with south korea and the japanese. president trump has said he has no problems with these kinds of short-range missile tests. the florida man who pleaded guilty to sending pipe bombs to prominent democrats and cnn sentenced to 20 years prison. 57-year-old caesar sayoc is sentenced to 20 years life. among the targets, former -- he said he got mid range because sayoc built bombs that didn't go off. now that he's sober he knows he's a very sick man. how's your 401k today? taking a hit after a brutal day on wall street today.

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let's get a check on cnn business this morning. a look at markets around the world trying to find their footing after a really awful day on monday. you can see asian stocks all lower continuing that terrible trend we saw in the u.s. yesterday. it looks like european stocks trying at least stabilize here. on wall street, futures right now a little bit higher here. less than 1%. escalation in the u.s./china trade war caused a huge selloff on monday. the s&p 500 closed down 3%. also worst day of the year and the nasdaq finished down 3.5%,

biggest decline since october. trade tension hitting tech stocks really hard. look at apple. apple down more than 5%. chip stocks also have a major presence in china such as intel, qualcomm, broadcom all down hard. important perspective, the dow was up 10%, s&p 500 up 13.5% and nasdaq up 16% even after the selloff. a run on guns. stocks of publicly traded gun companies rose on monday after calls on stricter gun laws. shares of american outdoor brands closed up 2% in the big down day. gun stocks tend to rally after mass shootings because investors think the prospect of stricter gun laws will get people to rush out and buy more guns and ammunition. it's a sad irony that when something terrible happens in the company, investors in gun stocks are rewarded.

there are growing calls for walmart to stop selling the assault-style weapons after the two shootings over the weekend. thanks to our international viewers for joining us. have a great rest of your day. for the rest of our viewers, "early start" continues right now. the president is coming out. i will meet the president. >> president trump plans to visit el paso and dayton tomorrow, but not everyone welcomes him. mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. >> the president focuses on mental illness instead of gun safety. and china just gut punched america's midwest hitting farmers right where it hurts. welcome to our viewers in the united states. this is "early start." 5 a.m. here in new york. i'm christine romans. >> reporter: i'm victor blackwell. it is 3 a.m. here in el paso.

tuesday, august 6th. president trump is planning to visit both el paso and dayton ohio within the next few days. the white house will offer federal help. the death toll has climbed to 22 with at least 2 dozen people injured and some people here are not in a welcoming mood. the el paso democratic county department sent an open letter urging the president to cancel the visit so their community can grieve and heal in peace. beto o'rourke put it even more blunt bely. he tweeted this. this president who helped create the hatred that made saturday's tragedy possible should not come to el paso. we do not need more division. we need to heal. he has no place here. el paso mayor dee margo says he has often disagreed with the president but that will not stop him from meeting with the