democrats who participated in a gun violence protest inside the general assembly we ll talk to one state lawmaker what calls the move a very dangerous precedent. a violent start to the holiest week in the middle east. new air strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip in lebanon. we re going to bring you a live report from jerusalem. plus, classified documents detailing u.s. and nato plans on ukraine posted to social media we ll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story about how the pentagon is responding and it has been six months since hurricane ian decimated parts of florida we go back and see how communities there are rebuilding and we begin this hour with that extraordinary move in tennessee where the republican-led state house voted to expel two democratic lawmakers for an alleged rule violation for the first time in the state s history. people were removed from elected office before there, but never for violating decorum rules. j
i m in tennessee on a family vacation, visiting my sister in law, i have been lobbying in d.c. since we survived a mass shooting in july. i have met with lawmakers, how is this still happening? how are our children still dying and why are we failing them? those frustrated comments came following yet another deadly school shooting in america. this time, it was in nashville. where three young children are among the victims. we ll have a live report from the devastated city in just a moment. these tragedies always bring gun legislation and proposals to ban assault-style weapons back into the spotlight but given the current balance of congress any meaningful action remains unlikely. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, march 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville, tennessee. where six people including three children are dead following a school shooting that s left a community shattere
in the south, the white house promising help for the communities ravaged by powerful tornadoes this weekend. we re live in one of the hardest hit areas. plus new details surrounding the grand jury investigating the hush money payment made during the 2016 campaign. who just testified and what he could say. we re live in paris thousands of protesters are blocking trains and streets once again over the plan to raise the pension age. we begin this very busy hour with the latest on the deadly shooting at the school in nashville. this morning the heartbroken community is in mourning after three students, all 9 years old, were gunned down along with three adults by a 28-year-old former student. today we re learning new details about the victims of the tragedy. among them the head master, a substitute teacher and the custodian. the children were 9 years old. police say a sense of resentment may have played a role in the attack adding the suspect had a map of the school and cond
saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, oh, there s nothing you can do. they say you can do something for everything else but this. that s why you find ourselves in a position where our children are afraid to go to school. this is the leading cause of death. it is the leading cause of death among children. you know, it wasn t always that way. i was explaining to some people a bit younger than me yesterday, that when colubine happened, it was a shock to the system. that was really something that massive had happened, and we thought it was a one off. then a movie theater in aurora,
the covenant school, a small private school inside a church that the chief of police in nashville chief john drake, says appears at one point was apparently a student at that school. they were led to her by what he said was a vehicle parked nearby that they wouldn t go into further detail about her as this investigation is just underway. police say that she killed three adults staffers as well as those three children and students. the first call came in at 10 13 am local time and police say within 15 minutes of the call. the attacker was dead. cnn s dianne gallagher is tracking all the latest developments for us and diane police just gave an update. all of the families of those killed have been notified. they have identified all of the victims, and for now they are not releasing the names. that s right. and also bianna was noticeable that they said they did not want to release the ages, either. we are likely dealing with very young children . here is the covenant school at co