last week s scoot shooting. school shooting. i didn t hear you. they re coming, they re coming. cbs s mark strassmann is there. so much indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. plus, pope francis returns to the vatican, just in time for holy week. i m chris livesay in st. peter s square where pope francis is celebrating palm sunday mass after making a swift recovery. and later, triumph and heartbreak. there s no stopping march madness, even though the calendar says it s april. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. tonight new york city is bracing for what could be two tumultuous days. on monday, former president donald trump is expected to fly from florida to new york. then on tuesday he will be formally arraigned on criminal charges in an historic indictment that remains under seal. today, in west palm beach, ved to supporters from inside his suv as he
children and their two teachers who were slaughtered inside their schools. the first lady reaching out to the images of the innocent, smiling. fourth graders who were murdered. the president caressing the face of one child s photo. just 12 days ago, mr. and mrs. biden were in buffalo, new york, to honor the 12 people murdered in a wasteless attack on a supermarket. yesterday, vice president horizon attended a gruesome funeral and across the country this weekend, there was an explosion of more gun violence. we need change! president biden accompanied by the republican governor of texas also faced frustration from people demanding gun reforms. one man explains why he was heckling. at a certain point in time it s going to be on us. because we vote these people in to represent us. they re not representing us. it s heart breaking. because things leak this happen. something needs to be done. we need change. we need help and my biggest fear is nothing is going to change. in si
elementary school. she saw her teacher killed. for the first time we learn what the killer said before he fired his gun in that classroom. we hear new details about what he did, this witness says he played music during the massacre. and we learn what this brave 11-year-old did to stay alive while it was all happening. all of this at the top of the next hour. in the meantime, the police response to the tragedy that took place here is facing intense scrutiny and there are new questions about the timeline. this is what we know. the 18-year-old gunman was not not confronted by law enforcement before he entered the building. this contradicts what we were told repeatedly by law enforcement. officers at the scene we are told were calling for backup as shots were being fired inside the school. a source close to a teacher who was inside says the school was not on lockdown before the shooter entered, even though he fired shots at two people near the school 12 minutes earlier. fra
where there s more firearms, there s more firearm injury and death. reporter: america has roughly 400 million guns in private hands. gun violence, like heart disease or opioids, qualifies as a public health crisis. during the covid pandemic, the u.s. firearms homicide rate spiked by 35%. on average, gun violence kills more than 100 americans a day. just as unsettling, guns are now the number one cause of death among children. every shooting has this vast ripple effect that affects so many more people and tears apart families and communities. reporter: nashville is now one of those communities. like parkland, like buffalo, like uvalde, so many indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. thousands of tennesseeans last week demanded state lawmakers limit access to guns. unlikely in a state where gun rights are expanding.