Braves and yankee game at turner field. Newsroom starts right now. Hello, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me. Im fred rericka whitfield. A memorial is about to get under way for adam ward and Alison Parker gunned down by a former disgruntled employee. The station will hold a ceremony beginning at 3 00 eastern time. Wards funeral has been set for tuesday at 11 00 a. M. His family will receive visitors tomorrow at the high school where he graduated. The parents of Alison Parker are also speaking out today. Weve heard quite a bit from her father this past week. But this is the first time weve heard from her mother in this exclusive interview, our poppy harlow spoke with them a short time ago about their mission to enact stronger gun control and why their opponents are, quote, messing with the wrong family. We cannot be intimidated. We cannot be pushed aside. We cannot be told that this fight has been fought before and that were just one more grieving family trying to do something. Be
Tonights debate to take shots at each other. The party is in an uproar after the Sanders Campaign filed a lawsuit against the dnc for barring sanders team from using a National Voter database. The dnc shut off access after a sanders team member admitted to browsing through clintons secret files on the database. All sides reached an 11th hour agreement last night, but the dncs chairwoman defended the partys action on cnn this morning. We did reach an agreement with the campaign. They finally gave us the information wed been asking for, so we could begin to assess the depth of the breach, where their staff looked at inappropriately and were unauthorized material that was the proprietary information of the Clinton Campaign and weve been asking them for that information for two days. They had refused, not only to provide us with the answers to those questions, but also refused to participate or not greed to participate in an independent audit, so we could get to the bottom of how deep the
place. got it. thanks so much, carl herron. thank you so much. just in to cnn now, a russian president vladimir putin says he is ready to use, quote, more military means in syria if needed. putin s remarks came during a gala reception at the kremlin. he touted what he sees as progress in russia s military campaign in syria. and indicated russia has even more military force that it can unleash. we ll have much more straight ahead in the newsroom.
parks. banning toy guns is also not allowing anyone over the age of 14 to wear costumes. and it s adding dogs trained to smell body-worn explosives. joining me right now to discuss is carl herron. he is a former fbi crisis response agent and is the security manager for the georgia dome, home to the nfl s atlanta falcons. good to see you, carl. good to see you, fredricka. this seems to be the new norm. heightening security measures, even if it means, you know, at a family-related disney park, right? yeah. it s something that gradually was going to come about. you look at disney, it s a u.s. icon. known throughout the world. and when you have something where you have a lot of people considered a soft target, i think the measures are right, what they re putting in place right now. and we all recall, even before the super bowl, and there were concerns about the soft targets, the places leading to
gregory ace murray was a husband, father, grandfather, son, brother and friend to many. he dearly loved his family, atlanta and the atlanta braves. greg was a season ticket holder with the same seats for 23 years. the night he passed away, he was doing one of his favorite things, watching his braves. your heart goes out to his family. boris sanchez, thank you so much. we re going to find out what stadiums are doing to prevent these kinds of things from happening. the former security manager for the georgia dome is joining me. carl, so good to see you. we still don t know anything more than what boris has reported police say they don t suspect any kind of foul play. they are still investigating this. but almost immediately people start thinking about, you know, the safety of a stadium, the