donald trump is not willing to show up on the debate stage. chaos follows him and we can t have a country this disarray. taking their shot, ron desantis and nikki haley trying to take down the frontrunner donald trump on live tv. and plus phoning it in, trump warns iowa supporters not to sit back next week over speaker phone. and joe biden heads to battleground pennsylvania today to set the tone for his 2024 re-election bid. good morning, happy friday. we made it. it is 5:00 a.m. in washington and 4:00 a.m. in des moines where ron desantis and nikki haley each made their case that they are the better choice to face president biden in the fall. the democrats want trump to be the candidate. they are going to talk about all the legal tough, january 6, that will be what the election will be about. you don t want to be a infrastructure on trufrnl and the past. you want to be a referendum on booi biden s failures and our positive vision. and you need somebody that can ser
deadly school shooting in iowa. police say a 17-year-old student opening fire just as school was starting in perry, iowa, outside des moines. five students and the principal shot. a sixth grader killed. the others rushed to the hospital. and rachel scott is in iowa for us. the major winter storm targeting new york city and the northeast. heavy snow, rain, potentially damaging winds. at this hour, at least 20 states now under winter alerts. the potential snow totals in new york and the northeast, depending on the track. and rob marciano will show us. the jeffrey epstein case. tonight, the newly unsealed court documents linked to epst epstein, revealing the names of people who had various connections to him, including former presidents clinton and trump, magician david copperfield, michael jackson. none accused of wrongdoing, but what the documents do claim. aaron katersky reporting tonight. former president trump and the scathing new report tonight from house democrats,
welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m ana cabrera in for jose diaz-balart. moments from now, president biden set to leave the white house on his way to pennsylvania where he ll give his first campaign speech of the year. meanwhile, the republican candidates are going all in, in iowa, with just ten days left until the iowa caucuses. overseas, israel outlines its plans for the next stage of the war against hamas as secretary of state antony blinken heads to the region for the fourth time in three months. back at home, a monster winter storm barreling toward the east coast, impacting tens of millions of people. we ll tell you which areas could see up to ten inches of snow. great to have you with us. it s just 11:01 now. we begin this hour with the 2024 race for the white house, and ahead of the third anniversary of the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol, two presidents, past and present, are offering two very different versions for the fu
seven minutes of that activation. and located multiple gunshot victims. still unclear exactly how many are injured. there is no further danger to the public. john: we are awaiting an update in iowa, there are multiple gunshot victims after an active shooter was reported at perry high school earlier this morning. no official word of the number of victims and their status, but police can confirm a shooter has been identified and there is no danger remaining to the public. and with that, hello, i m john roberts in washington. welcome to thursday, sandra. sandra: good to be with you, john. this is america reports . so, here is what we know so far, it all happened before school even began this morning when police received that emergency radio activation. it happened shortly after 7:30. officers say they were responding within seven minutes of that activation locating several gunshot victims at that time. john: fbi agents on the scene assisting state and local authorities. s
want to bring in ali vitali who is on the scene for us. this is breaking in the last hour or so. we re learning more by the minute. what do we know right now? reporter: learning more by the minute, yasmin. expected to get even more hard information as soon as this press briefing starts. i m told that the sheriff is on his way over right now. and we ll start getting more information. when that happens, i ll go over and try to ask all the questions that we still have, which is effectively what is the official timeline of what happened here. i will say i caught up with a parent, who was picking her children up here, they were thankfully okay, but she described to me that moment where she got the text message from one of her kids saying that there was an active shooting at their high school, and she never thought that it could happen in this community, and to her children, and unfortunately now this has come to perry, iowa. she also told me that while this shooting may have hap