the shooter who you see on the screen appears to have been unable to find anyone to shoot. we can also see how quick and brave the response from both staff members and the first responders was. this woman was outside the school, out in the open when police arrived. not only was she putting herself in danger by not getting into a more secure location. but listen how she communicated to the police when they arrived. that woman quickly and concisely told the police everything they needed to know, be careful, two kids might still be in the hallways, people inside are telling her that the shooter is upstairs. seconds after that, the police had entered the building. the police then cleared the room, they cleared room after room methodically and with breathtaking speed. it s clear they have trained for this moment. and when they ultimately heard gunshots, they sprinted toward them. they neutralized the shooter. it s a testament to the teachers in a building for locking down so effec
weapons can do an ungodly amount of video in no time at all there s one other piece of video, it s important in how elected officials respond every time we go through a mass shooter. last year after a shooter killed 19 students and 2 teachers in uvalde, texas. republicans were blaming one thing, doors. unlocked doors. republicans made a huff about how the policy solution after uvalde was hardened locked doors. we talked about what we need to dobo to harden schools, including not having unlocked back doors. if the school was on lockdown, could the doors have been locked? ve classroom doors should be hardened tooo make them lockabl from the inside and closed to intruders from the outside. put a pin in that for a second. take a look at this. this is how the shooter entered the school yesterday. they used a semiautomatic weapon to shoot their way through the doors. i have no idearo if the door wa lockedth or not, clearly it didt matter. i m sure republican senators would
amen. a prayer from the senate chaplain on behalf of a grieving nation. on that very solemn note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from washington, d.c. and from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i ll see you tomorrow. thank you for joining us this hour and for alex tonight, the national metropolitan police department release body camera footage that left three children, three adults in the shooter, themselves, dead in the melamine tree school in the nashville suburbs. there is a lot that is notable about the footage. first off, 14 minutes went by between when police were first alerted that a shooter had entered the building and when the police ultimately shot the shooter. pretty fast. we can see that for a good chunk of that time, the shooter who you see on the screen appears to be a unable to find someone to shoot. we can also see how quick and brave the response from both staff members and the first responders
investigations live tonight at nine. good morning to you. although a sad one. in many ways, i m jim sciutto sad because it s happened once again . young lives ended in an act of gun violence. the victims were 39 year old children and three teachers at a private christian elementary school in nashville, tennessee. police are calling this a calculated and planned attack. this morning. we are learning new details about the shooting do surveillance video shows the suspect identified as 28 year old audrey hale, shooting through glass doors as you see there. violence lasted roughly 14 minutes before two officers confronted shot and killed hail, the mayor of nashville told cnn this morning. it is time for the federal government to act on gun control. the public is gonna. go back to understand our questioning why we have so few restrictions on guns, particularly assault level type guns that guns and gunfire, the number one cause of death with them. children and we really can t tolera
was targeted. and we re getting a disturbing look at the moment that suspect who police say is a transgender person and a former person at the school shoots out the school s windows and walks inside to carry out the attack. we re also learn much more about the six victims. three students, just nine years old and three adults in their 60s, including the head of the school. the lost, once again, renewing calls to do something to prevent the next shooting. the mayor of nashville sharing this call to action earlier on today. the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts. and that is where we begin today. yasmin is in nashville for us. you were on your way home from one disaster in mississippi when you got the call to reroute to another tragedy. this time in nashville. i know you as a mom, your two boys, you keep thinking a