jonathan is at atlantic with the latest. jonathan customer the police are investigating a positive motive also looking at surveillance video from the school they got the call around 1015 this morning. an active shooter at the school, gunfire erupted at this private christian school in nashville upscale green hills community officers of enter the building and ended up clear in the first floor when they heard gunfire from a second-floor lobby area and then headed in that direction. when the officers got the second level they saw a shooter of female, who is firing and the officers engaged her. she was fatally shot by responding police officers. they say it was 828-year-old nashville area woman who at some point had attended the school would serve students in preschool-6 grade. i have notified families of the victims which include three adult staff members and three children survivors of the attack were taken by school bus to a baptist church about 2 miles away to be reunit
. and i m amra walker. thank you all for spending a part of your morning with us and to you, victor, i have to tell you i tweeted out a photo of us yesterday and the excitement level for victor blackwell was pretty intense. and everyone s saying, look, is this permanent ? i m like, yes, yes. yes it is permanent for real and for keys as long as long as you wake up the reason. i mean, the schedule again, cycle is a chance. here is what we are watching this morning. i got my wife we got in the tub covered our heads. by the time we did that the storm was coming over and all we could hear was the house. breaking apart. so many terrifying stories. the death toll continues to climb after at least 10. tornadoes ripped through the south friday. the recovery efforts now underway as federal resources are moving in , and we are also tracking the threat for more severe storms today. due to the violence of the explosion and the amount of time that has passed the chance of finding survivors
one! well, those aussies, they know how to do their fireworks. they do. too right, as they say. beautiful. yeah, sydney harbour there with the glow. kind of looks like my neighbor s house. i m sure. here s another plus, down there in australia, they are just kicking off summer, so ga-day. welcome to 2023. do you have any big plans tonight? no. it s 12:01, quick cheers and good night, everybody. us, too. cnn this morning continues now. and good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, here in the u.s. we ve still got a bit of time left in this year, happy new year s eve. thanks for waking up with us. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. glad to be with you, martin. i m amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. we began this morning with breaking news and sad news to end the year. pope emeritus benedict has died. his health had deteriorated over the last several days prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the
middle of his third season with the bills. he is considered one of the game s star safeties. as i told you, guys, we are praying for him. we want to bring in our friend trey clevis here, found there. i ve been waiting to talk to you all night. what is your reaction to this breaking news that is coming o out? lawrence, thanks for having me on. let me had a couple of things right off the top. the bills are one of the biggest families in the entire nfl. for people who know what it s like to live in buffalo, i know several of their players. it s an incredibly tight knit team. i thought that will cain was just saying and i was sending out this tweet. lawrence meant to me is what has were presented what s so great about sports. this damar hamlin charity has raised right now $1.2 million. the initial goal was $2500 to provide toys for children in the pittsburgh area where hamlin grew up. here s something crazy, lawrence. over 47,000 people have donated to the charity. almost all o
mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing