was targeted. and we re getting a disturbing look at the moment that suspect who police say is a transgender person and a former person at the school shoots out the school s windows and walks inside to carry out the attack. we re also learn much more about the six victims. three students, just nine years old and three adults in their 60s, including the head of the school. the lost, once again, renewing calls to do something to prevent the next shooting. the mayor of nashville sharing this call to action earlier on today. the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts. and that is where we begin today. yasmin is in nashville for us. you were on your way home from one disaster in mississippi when you got the call to reroute to another tragedy. this time in nashville. i know you as a mom, your two boys, you keep thinking a
but, breaking tonight, the suspect accused of leaking our nation s top secrets appearing in court for the first time today. 21-year-old national guard man for leaking and sharing classified information. we learn more about the investigation that led to his takedown as criticism mount to the methods of highly sensitive secrets to thousands of people including a 21-year-old air national guardman from texas. they are tightening the entire process. reaction. we begin alexis mcadams outside the court house. that appearance happened today in boston. good evening, alexis. very active day at the federal courthouse behind me as investigators try to figure out how a 21-year-old with a high school diploma had access to some of the country s biggest secrets. this all comes as new documents we just got a look at today show that jack teixeira might have known that the feds were on to him so much so he was trying to search in his data base. tonight 21-year-old jack teixeira remains in
what a tragedy this is for everyone. being as deep in this subject matter as you are and knowing the campus as well as you do, having gone there, is there anything that could have stopped what happened last night? i think we don t really have the answer to that yet, right, because the fbi and michigan state police will do the background on this individual who did the shooting to see maybe if there were tells and science, and there were people who saw something and did not say something, which is kind of my biggest fear, of course. but i think overall, i think we have to use when we push together what everybody wants, which is the answer to the motivation for why this guy did this, looking for the motivation is really helping us to find the next shooter, before the strike, and that s why we want to continue to look for the information about why this guy did what he did, not because we can make him not do it but because we can make the next kind not do it. we don t seem to
hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m lynda kinkade. ahead on cnn newsroom calls for justice after the brutal beating of a 29-year-old man in memphis. the controversial police unit linked to his death has now been dismantled. israeli palestinian tensions soaring amid a wave of violence. prime minister netanyahu outlines a new plan after two attacks in jerusalem. and new zealand s most popular city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, from lynda kinkade. the memphis police department has announced the permanent end of a special anti-crime unit known as scorpion. it comes just a day after the city released graphic videos of five scorpion officers fatally beating 29-year-old tyre nichols. police have confirmed all the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you re about to see may be disturbing. scorpion was created over a ye
this morning students and faculty at michigan state university are back on campus after the deadly, horrible shooting there. only, though, with an fbi escort so they can recover personal items left behind in the chaos. we re also learning more about the three young lives that were cut short. 20-year-old brian fraser, 19-year-old arielle anderson and 20-year-old alexandria verner were killed in that shooting. we re getting details about the gunman and what he left behind. we re also watching just about an hour from now, former south carolina governor nikki haley set to formally set to jump into the race for the white house. new details about who will introduce her at a rally in charlton and what her message will be. first straight to cnn s adrienne broaddus who joins us from east lancing, michigan. what more do we know about the three students who were killed, adrienne? reporter: erica, good morning to you. we re learning about arielle anderson whom her family afec shun na