CNN: Both MN Officials Shooting Victims Are ‘Incredibly Lucky to Be Alive’ According to Update from Family

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DEAN: "You're in the CNN newsroom, I‘m Jessica Dean in New York, and we begin with breaking news out of Minnesota, where the suspect in a political assassination is still on the run tonight. Investigators are now focused on a vehicle and a cowboy hat found in Sibley County, Minnesota, that officials believe that hat did belong to the suspect. And tonight, we‘re also learning more about the two surviving victims, State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Senator Amy Klobuchar just moments ago sharing a text she received from Yvette Hoffman. She says they‘re both incredibly lucky to be alive. She says her husband has undergone several surgeries after suffering nine bullet wounds. She says she was struck by eight bullets."