things to know for this. tuesday april the 11th louisville this morning morning the lives of five people murdered in a mass shooting at a bank. police say the gunman used to be an employee there. the tennessee three closer to being made whole. state representative justin jones, officially reinstated after being expelled last because colleague justin pearson basis of vote tomorrow to get his job back. federal appeals court weighing a decision on a widely used abortion pill, the doj has asked the court to stop a texas judge s ruling that would suspend the use of crestone also president biden departing for northern ireland this morning. he is going to be there tomorrow, 25 years since the good friday, of course, ended years of violence. and say hello to mayor taylor swift. the city of tampa is now given the singer the honorary title and a key to the city of ahead of her concert there this week. cnn this morning starts right now. another day, another mass shooting in america righ
do with this? where local reporters don t have a platform and the resources to report on things like this. it s a massive contributor. the average statehouse has three reporters covering it and the local and that s sort of the larger statehouse paper papers with statehouse bureaus. the local papers that serve smaller towns are just dying. we know that and those were the papers that would have covered. here s what your local state rep did or has been doing. you add those two things up in these places are largely anonymous. no one knows who their state reps are. they don t know what the state budget does. they don t know how that new law impacts them. and so it s really dangerous whenever you have a whole lot of power. in total anonymity and that s what the state has had become. so the shrinking of local media not again. the big papers have statehouse bureaus, but especially the small papers that would have given you coverage of that legislator from your district. those combined to be a