, andrew, i think both you and i had the same reaction when we heard from them last time. absolute surprise, stunning really? that this attacker was a girl, a young woman, possibly in her teens, according to the metropolitan police department, is that question of her identity, the biggest one that you have right now. well, it certainly is like who is this person? everything else that follows all the other questions that will have really come from that. like once we understand who she is, we can better understand what her connection is to the school and what brought her to this place today to engage in this attack. and it is relatively uncommon, is it not that these kinds of things these shootings take place at private schools? doesn t that raise more questions? you know it does, alex, but i think schools figure so prominently in
delivers independence for scotland. prince harry makes a surprise appearance at a high court hearing in london. he s among several high profile figures bringing a privacy case against the publisher of the daily mail newspaper. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu will delay regarding the leadership of the scottish national party but before we address those stories, just to bring you some breaking news coming out of the united states the last few minutes, we are hearing of a shooting at a school in nashville. according to everything rehearing on the news agency among others, this
and then you have the shooter who was engaged by two of our police officers, part of the five member team, and she is deceased. for a total of seven individuals. there are no other gunshot victims nonlethal that i m aware of that present. many people were shot. do you know how many people were shot before the police engaged the shooter? no shot anyone after they engaged the shooter. do you know if the shooter was able to shoot anyone else? what have any connections that we know of? we do not know who she is. at this juncture. we re trying to identify her. she does appear to be in her teams. again with two assault type rifles and at least one pistol. we all got a lot of this. recent incidents to the school of the church. no i m not working in the school. no. this is a church that operates a private school. there was no metro police personnel assigned
happened here today. um i thought it was also excuse me, really notable, alex that cuba s she was interdicted on the second floor of what the school and in what was described as a lobby area, so they got there fast enough to stop her before she got into a classroom, she was still in kind of an open space on the second floor, not actually in a classroom, which probably also saved many lives. as we think back to the horrible tragedy that you ve all day in the situation where a shooter actually was able to kind of hide in a classroom with those victims and you know, according to the gun violence archive, we re not even in april. yet this is just the end of march. and this was the 129th mass shooting in this country just this year. that s of course, more than one per day. it s actually in fact, closer to 22 per day, but andrew when we see
to that building at any time, and you know if i were to adults that were shot maybe confronted . to a total of three adults, three adults who have been fatally wounded, one of them being the shooter. no three children. so let me let me go over this again. you have a total of six victims. three students who are deceased and three adults. staff members from the school who are deceased. the shooter herself. makes seven bunch of three adults may be confronted her. i do not the teachers. there is video from the school that we are viewing now to try to learn exactly how all of this happened. can you say where the victims were located? hallway and classroom cannot at this juncture, as you know, five of the six were transported. so we will get that information. later in the day, police engaged with the shooter inside the classroom or in the