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tonight on the reidout we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritarianism. while here in the u.s., there s a shocking lack of urgency in repudiating the conspiratorial and violent rhetoric from our home-grown autocrat in waiting, donald trump. meanwhile, trump continues to lash out at the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan grand jury hears from a key player in trump s hush money scheme. bebut we begin with a tragedy that is unique to america. another school massacre. this time in nashville, tennessee. where a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and t
deeply deeply sorry. it was right out of a soap opera. the husband, the wife, the affair with a local dentist. i just don t think of myself as someone, why would he be interested in me, you know? was it passionate? yes. but the script turned dark when her husband turned up dead. everything was a blur, she said she found him in his car outside his gym. words like heart attack, and and tourism. we all assumed it was a health related death. 40-year-old men just don t drop dead. it s just too many coincidences, shall we say. adding up. they believed it was poisoning. someone else was there with him that morning. this is now a murder investigation. 100%. you are hearing about a love triangle. she admitted that she was having an affair. i had nothing to do with his death. the plot was just beginning to thicken. oh my god, this can t be happening now. a new love makes the world seem a little brighter. a very smooth, i want to say a almos
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
that to you as soon as it gets underway. here is the very latest on that. at least 26 people were killed, dozens injured, after powerful storms ripped through several towns. the ef4 tornado spawned winds up to 200 miles an hour, destroying homes, buildings, and virtually obliterating the entire town of lulling fork, doctors in the state s western border. president biden declaring a state of emergency for the area as now certain rescue teams are combing through the destruction, hoping to find survivors, and helping those in need. we have got our lives. [inaudible]. but we are good. [inaudible]. i ve never seen anything like this. i ve seen tornadoes, but not like this. i must embassy joining us from ground zero about that destruction. welcome, let s talk about the situation there. what is it like? what are you seeing? really, there is not much left standing right behind you. exactly, alex, you can say, we are right next to the area where the governor will be speaki