years an american has committed mass murder. columbine, colorado, april 20, 1999. 13 dead. 26 wounded. after two students shot them down. the two then committed suicide. april 1 16, 2007. a deranged man on the virginia tech campus kills 33 people including himself. no motive for the homicides. november 5, 2009. army major nadal hassan kills 13 americans at fort hood, texas. currently charged with premeditated murder. his trial will begin next year. and january 8, 2011 gerald love lofner. now, we have 24-year-old james holmes from san diego who allegedly killed 12 people, wounding 59 others in a colorado movie theater.
years an american has committed mass murder. columbine, colorado, april 20, 1999. 13 dead. 26 wounded. after two students shot them down. the two then committed suicide. april 1 16, 2007. a deranged man on the virginia tech campus kills 33 people including himself. no motive for the homicides. november 5, 2009. army major nadal hassan kills 13 americans at fort hood, texas. currently charged with premeditated murder. his trial will begin next year. and january 8, 2011 gerald love lofner. now, we have 24-year-old james holmes from san diego who allegedly killed 12 people, wounding 59 others in a colorado movie theater. the crime took place in aurora
january 8, 2011, americans were shocked by the unthinkable violence in arizona, a shooting at a political event. it left congresswoman gabrielle giffords forever changed. six people dead and 13 others wounded. one killed was 9-year-old christina taylor green. born on september 11, 2001, christina was a living symbol of hope that persisted despite the tragedy our country faced that day. so president obama spoke about christina in his speech at the tucson memorial a few days later. i want to live up to her expectations. i want our democracy to be as good as christina imagined it. i want america to be as good as
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jackie. you can see where the severe storms are hitting the united states. there have been a couple watches in places. even yesterday as i was in south carolina, watches all over that state. this is a new storm system. it s a vigorous one. something with this much energy for nighttime tornadoes is somewhat unusual. this is a rare event. it s particularly dangerous. we call it a pds watch. a lot of that because of the storm risk we have. there s a high level of certainty to have multiple tornadoes. some could be large and stay on the ground for a long period of time. the other thing that makes this dangerous is that this is happening at night. people are going to bed. you can t see what s going on. so you could be sleeping when the storms come on through. there you can see the watch area. eastern parts of arkansas and western tennessee. northern parts of alabama and even into the boot heel of missouri. the thunderstorms are initiating just to the west of little rock. the who