protests, a crippling nationwide strike and warnings of civil war ? israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delays the judicial overall plan that s dividing his country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the nashville school shooting and what we know about the woman who pulled the trigger that, according to police, cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher is working the story for us. she s on the scene, diane as we await an update momentarily from police. what do we know at this hour? wolf. we just got a notification from police on the identities of the six people who were killed this morning in the covenant school in nashville, tennessee. i want to read their names to you, um evelyn decals. halle scruggs, william kenny, all of them just nine years old cynthia peak 61. katherine coons, age 60 and mike hill age 61. according to police. all six of them were killed by a 2
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injured, and, um you know, the parents mind goes to the worst place. i m the father of three. i ve got a i ve got a 10 year old. i ve got a child right in that range and, um, this is going to be something that impacts everybody in nashville. you know, we re big, small town. and these, these three kids will have played on a bargain of field team with somebody that will have gone to church. they this is gonna this is gonna hurt for a while. it s going to hurt for a long, long time in our hearts go out to the families and the friends of these six victims who were brutally murdered today for apparently no reason at all. how disturbing is the information state representative that the police apparently found, including a manifesto at this woman s home and various surveillance maps, as described by the police of the school? it s extremely disturbing. and you know, i m just thankful that the police responded as quickly as they did
mentioned that these that the shooter had basically had these writings that they have looked into. and they said that there was at least one point where they thought the shooter was going to target another location . but did some investigating on that location, looked at it and determined there was too much security there and opted not to. now again. they talked about maps. they talked about surveillance that was done on by the shooter. so this is something that, as chief ramsey said, seemingly was quite planned out. police sort of hinting at the fact and teasing him. to the fact that they have theories as to what may have motivated the shooter, saying as well. they have spoken with the shooter s father. they ve been out to a home associated with the shooter, but says that they will not be able to divulge any of that until later on, wolf. yeah they re going to be divulging a lot more clearly in the coming hours and days, chief ramsey. we did learn from the police chief there in nashvil
or it could have been, it could have been significantly worse. um, but you know, it s we live in in an odd time today, where there s so much information out there. that s public that, um you know, it s just scary. how how easily some of this information received and we also we re told that there were three weapons that she had when she broke in to one of the doors and shot the door to get in and managed to get into the school. and they are style rifle and our style pistol and a handgun and the two of those three weapons were obtained. legally. ah something s gotta be done about the availability of weapons, right? what? without a doubt. i mean, you know we re we have these conversations every time something like this like this happens and you know, i said earlier that that we should do something about this, and we should have red flag laws and we should have, you know