for women for years to come. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. some genuine all american heroes are taking us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. it s great to be with my family last week. but i love being back here with you. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here with us tonight. so, this is how the news today in nashville unfolded on live tv and that city. this was in nashville as it happened, live on the channel 4 local news. we do anticipate this news conference starting any moment. this will be the first official news conference where we can hear where police are at with their investigation. is joining us live with some perspective, some personal perspective on this as well. joy lynn? yeah, there s absolutely no word for what s going on today. i m actually a school shooting
children and three adults shot and killed at a school in nashville. with over 100 mass shootings this year alone we will talk to a gun safety activists who is on the scene and fed up. and then a manhattan grand jury hears from another witness while donald trump riles up his base at his first 2024 rally in waco, texas. and kevin mccarthy moving forward with a tiktok legislation in the house. could we actually see a national ban on the app as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle live from washington, d. c.. we begin with the latest and deadly national crisis that seems to have no and in this country. this morning at the covenant school in nashville, tennessee, six people were killed when a shooter walked in and opened fire. three of the victims were students, all just nine years old. and three were staff members. officials say that the shooter was armed with two air style rifles and a handgun. nbc s kathy park has more.
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
also today, the man who acted as donald trump s secret weapon to keep some of the most salacious stories out of the headlines, be suddenly a surprise witness for the grand jury in manhattan. and prime minister netanyahu calls off reshaping the judiciary appearing to avert a national crisis. up next, the negotiations meant to keep things from boiling over again and the invitation that may be coming from the white house. we start with the six families who may be starting the day without the people they love the most. the horrors of the nashville shooting more gut wrenching because three of the victims were 9-year-olds. -year-olds who should be coming home from school in an hour or two. instead evelyn dieckhaus, halli scruggs, william kinney are gone. cynthia peak, katherine koonce also gone. the maps drawn by the shooter audrey hale, we have to ask the question why does it keep happening and why don t we stop it? we saw from video, locked doors did nothing. hale shot right
a.c. 360 starts now. the mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas, 17 young people murdered five years ago in parkland, florida. today parkland is back in the news but not as an example of how far we ve come in making such massacres a thing of the past. instead it s a reminder that the sister and brotherhood of mass shooting victims, survivors and bereferred is always growing. the families and loved ones of three michigan state university joined that number. it was neither the first nor the 61st such killing this year. according to the gun violence archive it was the 67th. 67 shootings with four or more people shot or killed. the number 68 happened today with four wounded outside a high school in pittsburgh. before we talk about the larger story, though, here s what we know about those who were killed in michigan. alexandria verner was inary junior year and came from the small town of clawson. her high school principal said she was an excellent student and played three s