John berman here in Sutherland Springs, texas, for cnns special coverage of the Church Massacre that is now the deadliest mass shooting in texas history, but only the deadliest in u. S. History since last month. 26 people are dead including a 17monthold baby. John, i am so glad youre with me for this hour here live in texas. Im Brooke Bolduan in new york. Breaking at this hour, we are learning another murder victim was lula white, the grandmother of the shooters wife. Investigators just revealed that the gunman had sent threats to other members of his wifes family. One thing everybody wants to know is why did this happen. Its a senseless crime, but we can tell you that there was a domestic situation going on within this family. The suspects motherinlaw attended this church. We know that he had made threatening texts from him and we cant go into details about that domestic situation that is continuing to be vetted and thoroughly investigated. We want to get that out there that this was
Breaking a record with a huge play. What a way to do it. [cheers. [ . Steve 6 01 here in new york city. Time to go to a fox news alert. Two big stories we are following right now. First, Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh set to hear his first cases today after ceremonial swearing in last night at the white house. Brian a lot of emotion there this morning Mass Evacuations are underway in florida as the Hurricane Michael barrels towards the gulf coast. A storm the governor is calling monstrous and quick. Ainsley janice is calling it bad. She is following michaels track this morning. We asked her how is this and she said bad. Janice unfortunately a big bill for the big ben, apalachicola. A lot of wind and not a lot of you were level winds hinder this storm from strength. 91 mileperhour. Cat 2 is 96. We expect this to be a category 3. A major hurricane when it makes landfall sometime tomorrow. Now we are predicting midday in the afternoon. Exact timing not still yet to be determined. N