of the national school shooting gets underway soon. the first lady jill biden, is set to attend, as police revealed the shooter may have had weapons training. also, tonight, we ve learned that the new york grand jury investigating donald trump will take a break for most of april. how might that impact the decision on whether to indict the former president? and the crisis unfolding in israel right now is testing relations big time with the united states. we re tracking the tensions after president biden criticized prime minister benjamin netanyahu s divisive judicial overall plan. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and let s go right to nashville. right now. we re mourners are gathering to honor the three children and three adults shot dead at the covenant elementary school there . cnn s carlos suarez is joining us right now. he s just outside the school. carlos this vigil is being held tonight
migrants to northern cities, but the white house issuing a statement, saying in part, governor abbott continues his extreme political stunt that not only seek to dehumanize people, but that also make it harder and more dangerous for border patrol to do their jobs. let me keep you up to speed as to how all of this started. it was wednesday evening when texas authorities started putting up razor wire fencing and gates around a public park. shocking local officials. well, the situation escalated when the state of texas took the extraordinary step of blocking border patrol from that public park, not only from the public park, which border patrol uses the boat launch at public park to launch their boats, to get access to the rio grande, but also to staging area that they used during migrant surges, and also to miles of the river and the texas military department, which is the state authorities that are there, doubling down, saying they are not getting border patrol access.
ahead of this vigil, which begins? what in about a half an hour or so from now? that s right, wolf and look, this is the first citywide vigils that they have held for those six victims who were killed on monday morning. inside the covenant school. you can probably hear sound check happening right now. nashville of course, is the music city and we expect quite a bit of music through morning to happen today . here in the public park in the center of the city of nashville. you can probably see behind me. we ve got the media role here we have up here is where we re going to see the different speakers. we re talking state. federal and local officials, john cooper expected to speak. we re also expecting the chief of metro nashville police. and, of course you mentioned first lady jill biden will be in attendance as well. we anticipate many religious leaders. this was a school inside a church. this is also deeply impacted the christian community here in nashville and we anticipate we re going
joe biden and most of the field were there this weekend, where the state makes up 61% of the primary electorate and biden will have a chance to explain why he made segregationists part of his presidential pitch. moments ago we learned vice president biden called senator booker today to try to smooth things over. that s according to two biden campaign sources who say they will not comment further on the substance of the discussion. a world war i memorial in the shape of a cross will stay on public land in maryland. the supreme court announced the ruling today. fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news at night shannon bream has details. for nearly a century, the bladensburg piece crosses stood as a memorial to the fallen soldiers from world war i. for more than five years the american humanist association has been trying to take it down, arguing that the symbol on the public park equates to government endorsement of
into the room. people like tradition, particular during christmas. it s a little bit as long as were talking about mary poppins. imagine if lin-manuel miranda was cast as manny poppins. i promise you there would be a female revoltin and there should be. leave santa alone. there is historical precedent. he was a bishop. sinterklaas is the embodiment ol st. nicholas. that became santa claus. we can t change it. it ruins the whole deal. laura: there is a nativity scene? woodland, washington. these officials have evicted jesus from the public park. this nativity has been a place for 40 years. this year, a handful of people complained that it violates the separation of church and state. people likend marc mcvey. i wrote the mayor and the city manager and said i m not quite sure if this is in keeping with what the law allows. i m not antireligious. i think it s great.