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Loved ones. This morning, what were learning about the victims and the hero teachers and football coach. The suspect now in custody after slipping out of the school blending in with evacuating students. This morning, new details about his past, the disturbing social media posts. Why he was expelled and what he said before the shooting about valentines day. Now another American Community devastated, mourning the victims of this latest shooting. We are live on the scene with the survivors of the massacre and the match teacher who helped keep his students safe right here on gma. Good morning, america. As you can imagine, it is a challenging, difficult morning. George is on the scene in florida, where another community is in disbelief shocked by devastating violence. This time at that Florida High School on valentines day. This image, one that has become all too familiar. Students evacuating with hands up and the suspect in that deadly shooting is in custody. New images this morning showin
What are you talking about . The same for him. Thats right. Hes working overtime on that. A cool start to your morning. That will wake you up for sure. Its a morning you walk out the door and feels like, okay, it is still winter and we are going to see those temperatures going from the 30s to 40s into the 60s again today. Here is a live look outside in san jose where now were starting out at 43 degrees. We do have some 30s in some of the interior valleys. A look at our temperature trend as we go through the day in san jose. 44 at 8 00 a. M. And at noon 60 degrees. Warmer than yesterday and well get more sun. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike is checking in on whats happening at the bay bridge. We saw a sudden big backup at the toll plaza. The metering lights, well, theyre not on and its smooth from the toll plaza. Look over here, we do have slowing just after the metering lights. We see this build about 5 00 and that will continue to build as we look at your maps. What happ
Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, Florida School shooting, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from pyeongchang, south korea. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. We are here in olympic park in pyeongchang, south korea, but it goes without saying that our hearts are definitely back home. Theyre back home and our hearts are heavy. Its hard to even imagine that this has happened again. Again. Its happened again. And we want to get right to the latest overnight. The death toll, in a word, is st shootings in american history. At least 14 others were wounded, some of them are in Critical Condition this morning. The suspected gunman is in custody. Officials identifying him as 19yearold nikolas cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who had recently been expelled. We are also seeing disturbing images recorded and shared by frightened students as they barricaded themselves in classrooms. Thache went through. This is how it looked,
Learning that the alleged High School Shooter had a struggle with Mental Illness and history of violence. Nikolas cruz told investigators he heard voices telling him to conduct the attack. The 19yearold confessed to the killings after being taken into custody. Authorities describe the mind of the suspect as warped and possibly demented. He shot the chickens across. He shot the chickens across in the back there. He like cornered a squirrel. Was throwing rocks at it, trying to kill it. Abc news learned the fbi learned a tip on social media about a possible shooting. The agency says it did not have enough information at the time. It was a difficult day as we learned the identities of the 17 victims. Their ages range from 14 to 49 years old. As new details emerge about the shooter and the political debate continues, we want to pay tribute to those who lost their lives. Dan ashley tells us more about them. 14yearold alex shackter w a championship in the band last year. My heart is broken is