grunting today is your day. Crush it. Angies boom chicka pop whole grain popcorn. Boom this is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. A little past 11 on the east coast. New developments tonight. A 19yearold exstudent kefzed to the Florida High School shooting rampage. Nikolas cruz is charged with premeditated murder. Amid questions about Mental Health and warning signs he left on social media. That as President Trump addressed the nation a day after the deadly rampage. You know, the president said something today that hit me. You might have missed it in the remarks. The remarks where he didnt mention the word gun once and said he wanted quota plan that works. What a great idea. What is the plan . Anyway, what he said was this. And so always, but especially today, let us hold our loved ones close. Let us pray for healing and for peace. And let us come together as one nation to wipe away the tears and strive for a much better tomorrow. I want everyone in this country to hold their loved ones close.
Along with rene marsh in new york, im dave briggs. It is friday, february 16th, 2018. Im here in parkland, florida. We start with the latest on the Florida High School shooting. Families begin the process of saying goodbye to their children. Charges documents in the case show 19yearold nikolas cruz has confessed to being the gunman. We learned the fbi was warned about cruz by someone who saw a threatening post online. That post, one of many, that offer disturbing glimpses into his mental state. All 17 victims have been identified by the broward sho sheriff. As lawmakers fumble with what to do or not to do, the conservative murdoch owned New York Post cover mr. President please act. Seven people remain in the hospital. Four in critical condition. For the latest on what we learned about the gunmans actions before and after the atta attack, we turn to cnns rosa flores in parkland. Good morning, rosa. Reporter good morning, dave. The suspect waking up in a jail cell after confessed to the
Getting out . I thought i was done. So much screaming. I can hear it all over again. Shots right by me. New details emerging of how the terrifying rampage unfolded. One student saying he encountered the shooter loading up his weapon just before the attack began. He said, you better get out of here. Things are going to get messy. Cruz is being held without bail, charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Hes sad. Hes mournful. Hes remorseful. He is fully aware of what is going on, and hes just a broken human being. Authorities say 19yearold nicholkolas cruz was heavily ar with a bullet proof vest, loads of ammunition and a powerful ar 15 bought legally a year ago and hidden in a rifle case. We are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of Mental Health. Some critics say missing the mark. The one word he didnt use that caught peoples attention. After last year, revoking obamaera regulations to make it harder for som
The victims revealed tonight. The hero teachers and the football coach. Sacrificing their lives to shield their students from the gunfire. And our interview tonight with the survivors. The children, the students here seeing the gunman in the hallway, hiding in silence in closets. And President Trump tonight, addressing the nation. What he says about Mental Health and the question he did not answer about guns. Good evening on this thursday night. And we are here in florida, where a dark and troubling portrait has now emerged about the horror that played out here a little more than 24 hours ago. You can see the massive presence here behind me, authorities are still here on the scene of this school, the buildings from that large campus, right behind those trucks here behind us, where children piled into closets, hiding in silence, texting their parents. So many of the students telling me today that they told their parents they thought they were going to die. Tonight here, new video from i
Of this entire operation, which was almost like a business they were running it as a business, and all the purpose was to create this Information Warfare to infiltrate really our country, and to infiltrate our election process. And it did begin back in 2014 according to the department of justice. It did. So even before donald trump was announced as a candidate, they wanted so sow discord, they wanted to impact the election. Thats right. The russians have been known this is what they wanted to do. It also shows you how the fbi and gives you a window into an fbi counterintelligence investigation and the resources that it takes, the money that it takes, the manpower it takes. They were able to infiltrate this organization every which way possible. It says a lot also about the mueller investigation. I mean weve been hearing now for months from the president s attorneys who say by thanksgiving it looks like its going to be winding down. By new years. It doesnt seem like its going to be wind