was targeted. and we re getting a disturbing look at the moment that suspect who police say is a transgender person and a former person at the school shoots out the school s windows and walks inside to carry out the attack. we re also learn much more about the six victims. three students, just nine years old and three adults in their 60s, including the head of the school. the lost, once again, renewing calls to do something to prevent the next shooting. the mayor of nashville sharing this call to action earlier on today. the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts. and that is where we begin today. yasmin is in nashville for us. you were on your way home from one disaster in mississippi when you got the call to reroute to another tragedy. this time in nashville. i know you as a mom, your two boys, you keep thinking a
makeshift memorial growing as we speak and preparing your children. you see the picture right here. how do you prepare that? how do you prepare that young child? how do you talk to her after what she experienced? the ptsd they must have. having to deal with the memory and the fear and then returning to school. they got to go back to school eventually. where will they go to school and will they be fearful it will happen again. i had a conversation with my 4-year-old last week who told me, mommy, we had a lockdown drill today. and i asked him, well, baby, what is that? and he said to me, it s when someone bad is outside, something bad is happening and we have to be quiet. we didn t have lockdown drills when we were kids. we had fire drills. we had hurricane drills. we had tornado drills. we didn t have lockdown drills. this is where we are living now. this is the moment we are in.
schools. this is pervasive throughout our culture. senator, thank you. chris jansing takes it over right now. chris, just on focusing on schools, i said this at the top of the hour. i ll say it again now. 95% of schools have done active shooter drills in 2015 and 2016. 95% of schools. it s not just fire drills. it s not just earthquake drills or hurricane drills or tornado drills. active shooter drills. and it s worth reminding folks that the first big school shooting, which was at columbine, was more than 20 years ago. it happened in 1999. i was there. i spent weeks talking to parents there. they said their sole purpose was to make sure this didn t happen again elsewhere. if you talk to barack obama, ask him the great regret of his presidency. it s that something didn t get done significant on guns after newtown. here we are again with another shooting and as cory booker said, it s going to take really some real movement in the senate. it s remarkable that it has not happened befo
that s why i asked her that question, because it did occur to me looking at all of these young people sharing these agonizing stories, that they come from a different generation. they had in my generation coming up in texas, tornado drills. those in florida, hurricane drills. in this generation coast to coast, it s active shooter drills. it s a new day. i m not sure any of us are ready for this, but these kids are holding up. the young lady sarah rose, for the record, is a communications major. i think it s shown through tonight. she talked about the fact she s been through this lockdown at school, channel island school a couple of weeks ago on halloween. we remember the story. it was a woman who was in a second story with a gun in a bathroom and they locked down the school. that was considered an active
meteorologist chad myers monitoring tropical storm debby, chad, debby s proven to be pretty stubborn. not moving really at 5 miles an hour. and it s still spinning at 40 miles an hour. so don t get me wrong, it s still there, but it s not moving along, so when it begins to rain in one spot, it rains for hours. in fact one spot in tallahassee picked up 20 meninches of rain. it s still flooding right now. we re still trying to get crews into these areas to see how bad it is. east of panama city, near the panhandle of florida, but not all the way to jacksonville. this is the latest, the 11:00 advisory, east at 3 miles an hour. it doesn t even make landfall until 8:00 tomorrow morning and it s only about 60 miles away from shore. it s going to take a long time to get across the body here of florida, then back out into the ocean and then eventually turning on up into the northeast. and when it gets out here, these are spinning again, because it turns into a tropical storm again,