87yearold woman. Police say they and others were murdered because of their race. Were looking at their lives and their legacies. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news as yet another American Community grieves tonight and the entire country recoils in shock and horror, the youngman who police say gunned down nine worshippers at a Historic Church is now in custody. 21yearold dylann roof was arrested. According to police the suspect sat in a prayer meeting before standing up and saying he was there to shoot black people. All of the victims, including the churchs pastor were black. The alleged gunman is white. Federal authorities are now investigating this as a hate crime. We have complete coverage tonight. Ill speak with South Carolina congressman, the former governor mark sanford, and our correspondents analysts and guests. Theyre standing by with the latest de tails. Lets begin with john berman hes he site of the church. John, tell us what happened. Reporter wolf w
We hope you make some great memories today. We turn it over to our colleague, fredricka whitfield. Hey, fred. Victor i know you will be heading to charleston early tomorrow morning. Safe travels there. It is the 11 00 eastern hour. Im fredricka whitfield. Newsroom starts right now. Devastated by violence and united by grief, you are looking at live pictures right now out of new york. Right now demonstrators there are rallying to pay tribute to the nine victims gunned down in that brutal Church Massacre in charleston South Carolina. Weve also just learned that gunman dylann roof is now on suicide watch. All as we learn chilling in you details about that horrific attack. According to wbtv he appeared remorseful after finding out he had killed nine people. The gunmans family offering their condolences saying this words cannot express our shock, grieve and disbelief as to what happened that night, end quote. On friday forgiveness, not anger, filling the courtroom as roof made his first app
Yesterday afternoon, relatives of those victims confronted the shooter to tell him that they forgive him. Much more on that in just a moment. Were also on the show going to be tackling the controversy of whether South Carolina should still be flying the Confederate Flag. Americans more divided on that question than you might think. Plus turning away from the tragedy for a bit, its also been a vang week in the world of politics, one that has the potential to have Lasting Impact on the race for president. Well be getting into that later in the show. But, we begin this morning in South Carolina. That is where thousands of people gathered at an arena in charleston last night to remember those nine victims shot and killed inside of a church on wednesday night. We all have one thing in common common, our hearts are broken. That service capping an emotional day in charleston a day in which the gunman in that shooting dylann roof appeared in court via satellite for the first time. Roof appeari
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