morning. it s saturday. april 1st. i m victor blackwell. april fool s day, huh? hi victor. i m amarillo walker. thank you. so much for spending a part of your saturday with us. here is what we are watching this morning. we don t know what s left. all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys were out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. at least five people are dead and of hundreds of thousands are without power. this morning, i met a tornado outbreak across several states. we are live in hard hit kansas and tracking the threat for more severe storms, as tornado watches remain in effect this morning. the challenge for the nypd is going to be protecting everybody s first amendment right, allowing everybody to have their voice heard. and to do so in a way that keeps the peace. new york city is preparing for president trump s first quarter appearance after he was indicted by manhattan grand jury. what we re learning about the charges and how this historic moment is
special counsel s questions in january, 6th investigation, and the faa says enough is enough, telling airlines they must do more to prevent close calls as a spring travel spring break travel season heats up. this is what we re watching at this hour. i can t thank you for being here. i m amarillo walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in nashville, where we re learning new details about the shooter who killed six people inside a private christian school. police say they don t know exactly why 28 year old audrey hale opened fire on monday morning. but what we do know is that hale was able to legally purchase a total of seven different firearms and was under a doctor s care for an emotional disorder. in another troubling sign. we are hearing from the shooter s former art instructor that hale had a breakdown on the first day of college. we re also learning more about the three children and three adults who were killed in this attack tonight. the city of nashville will hold a victim
people on both sides of the aisle would agree with that statement. matt eagan. appreciate your time. thank you for your reporting. and thank you for yours. i m amarillo walker. inside. politics starts after the break. when you stay at a verbal, you always get the whole home. part of it, but the whole upstairs downstairs. whole fridge and the whole secret nap room because is it really vacation home if you have to share the house with the host. only with verbose. don t worry, professionally installs google nest products. cool all set. so your home is safe and smart going to miss. you can check it on your home system. we should go system from virtually anywhere. intelligent alerts
kind of you see other officers conducting, like checking and safety activity along the side of the hallway and you see the largest most capable weapons, the assault weapons that our police officers are armed with these days being pushed to the front so that you have the most capable weapons and the most protection likely to engage with the shooter first. um so it s tactically very sound but incredibly intense video to watch and sadly as you watch it. you also know it is still too late to save the lives of six individuals. andrew standby for us, i would do want to bring in amarillo walker, who was in nashville, tennessee. on the ground there for us, uh, tomorrow what has been the reaction there to this newly released body camera video. while some of the people most of the folks i spoke with, haven t seen the video, yet i did speak
nashville, now the latest american city to face the horror of a mass shooting once again involving children what nashville s mayor described as the city s worst day, let s go back to amarillo walker, who s live in nashville camera. jessica. i want to bring in sissi goff and because she knows , and new katherine coons quite well. you were friends with katherine coons, who was the head of the covenant school. for it was a three or four years. you said that she had been at the school. i think so. and so you had a long friendship with miss coons. first off when you heard about the shooting that occurred here. when did you find out about it? what did you do? probably about 10 15. i got a text from a friend and coworker and i went to my office and several of us from our counseling practice. we re going to the reunification center. so i went straight there to see what i could do to help. and you told me that as soon as you heard you also texted your