the secretary of homeland security called it a, quote, difficult situation. question is, why won t he call it a crisis? and democrats press forward with key agenda items like immigration and voting rights but with a slim majority in the senate and the filibuster getting in their way, the question remains, what are they going to do about it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that s really wondering if we could just spring forward to friday? i am kasie hunt on this thursday, march 18th. we ll start with the news. the suspect arrested in the murder spree at three spas in the atlanta area has been charged. 21-year-old robert long faces eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault. police say he killed four people inside one spa, three people inside another and one person inside a third spa. officials say he was arrested while on the way to florida, possibly to carry out more attacks. six of the eight victims we
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, some breaking news. cnn can now confirm the name of the student who allegedly shot five of his fellow classmates at an ohio high school this morning. his name is tj lane. he s a junior. he was described by friends as quiet, but a nice kid from a broken home. no matter what, he created a scene of horror and chaos in chard chardon, ohio today. allegedly opening fire in the high school cafeteria, leaving one dead and four wounded. two remain in krcritical conditn tonight. nate mueller was in the cafeteria. he s a fellow student and described the scene. he didn t say anything the entire time. he took one shot and then that s when we looked to see what was happening. i saw him shoot, which hit one of my other friends that was sitting at the table with us and then as i was turning around, that s when he hit me. ted rollins is outside the high school in chardon for us tonight. and teresa hunt is going to join us in a couple of months on th
good evening. tonight, newt gingrich giving mitt romney a run for his money in south carolina. a new poll shows the former speaker trailing by four points. almost within the margin of error and much closer than just a week ago. could south carolina be newt s comeback state? here s what he had to say about that. i think i m going to win south carolina on a liberal conservative split where i represent conservative and romney represents a massachusetts view. second, i hope to win on jobs. i had a record with reagan on jobs, as speaker, where we added 11 million new jobs. i think on the jobs front and conservative liberal front, which appeals to south carolina, we have a really good chance to win next saturday. you got me to jobs, i want to get straight to that. you re in florida today, versailles, florida. you said this about your jobs creating record when you worked with president reagan. we banished a series of tax cuts, series of deregulations. it was so successful that