childhood says at the top of the homepage, two girls and a boy reportedly all nine were murdered there today by 28 year old former student who also murdered three adults before being killed by police. the children were evelyn dick house . william kinney, halle scruggs and how his dad is senior pastor of covenant presbyterian church , which runs the school to the adults murdered cynthia peak and mike hill were both 61. mike hill s friend posted this photo of him online said mr hill was the last employee hired when he ran the school and church kitchen said he was the kind of person who would sacrifice for others. katherine coons was also murdered. she was 60, head of the covenant school. her daughter is also a teacher. there. police say her killer who they say was transgender, was carrying a handgun into assault style rifles. president biden today called on congress to do what it showed no willingness to do since the federal ban on such weapons expired in 2004. so i call on con
nashville police have released security footage from monday s deadly school shooting that left six people dead, including three children, plus new information about the officers who took down the killer. we re live in television this hour where protests have stopped for now, after israel s prime minister halted his judicial reform plans , but the controversy is far from over. plus cnn is on the ground in mississippi, where a string of deadly tornadoes has devastated the entire community. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and we begin this hour with the shocking video of what s become an all too familiar scene here in the united states, a school shooting in nashville, tennessee . that s left three young children and three adults dead. police have released video, which they say shows a former student at the covenant school of arriving monday morning in a honda fit. they have identified the shooter as 28 year old audrey hale. a few minutes later , you c
not been able to confirm that with people who knew the shooter , nashville s police chief, telling nbc the shooters time as a student at the christian school may have played into the motive. there s some belief that there was some resentment to having to go to that school. don t have all the details of that. just yet, and that s why this incident occurred late last night. nashville police released chilling new security video from the school showing the attackers shooting out a set of glass doors to gain entry to the school. and then roaming the hallways rifle raised searching. for targets. cnn s dianne gallagher has more. tragedy at another american school, three children and three adults, staff members shot and killed at the covenant school in nashville, tennessee, in what police are calling a targeted attack by a heavily armed 28 year old former student, nine year olds. who were killed. evelyn. dick house. william kenny. halle scruggs. three adults. mike hill. custodian age
year what we re learning about the 28 year old woman, police say was responsible. and uproar in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu responds to protest that brought his country to a standstill, postponing a major vote to overhaul the judicial system. blast troubled waters bottled water hard to come by and philadelphia and major american city that can t guarantee how long water will be safe to drink. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start with our national lead with another devastating school, shooting three students and three adult victims. they are dead today after a woman opened fire at the school. according to police. she is now dead. nashville police are scheduled to give another update on this tragic shooting this hour. we re going to bring that to you live. as soon as it happens, but students there at the covenant school our preschool through sixth grade, according to its website, video shows staff as you see right here, ushering so
richard engel is in ukraine as the country prepares to mark one year of war. reports tonight that donald trump s daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner have been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating january 6th. it comes as mr. trump visits the site of a toxic train derailment in ohio. how he attacked the biden administration s response. will alex murdaugh take the stand at his double murder trial? what his attorneys signaled today. the newly revealed image taken by an american pilot of that chinese spy balloon as it overflew the u.s. and the surprise in space. new images of distant galaxies captured by the webb telescope. why they left scientists stunned. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. it is massive, it is powerful, it is historic. tonight much of the northern half of the country is feeling at least some of the effects of that coast-to-coast storm with more than 100 million people under winter alerts, wind a