dons tons of grief to deal with and post traumatic stress. first time since monday's shooting that those students will all be coming together. alleged shooter, t.j. lane, now charged with three counts of aggravated murder. he's charged as a juvenile but they're expecting that he will be prosecuted as an adult. the football coach, frank hall, he is the guy who chased the gunman out of the school. we heard from him for the first time isn't the shooting yesterday. here's what he said. >> the families of danny, demetrius, and russell, i want you to know that i was with them. i prayed with them, i wiped their tears, i know god was with them. i don't know why this happened. i only wish i could have done more. i'm not a hero. i'm just a football coach and study hall teacher. the law enforcement, first responders, that came to our aid that day, they are the heros. >> i love that man. he is remarkable. i'm not a hero. cnn's ted rowlands is live in chardon, ohio. did i misspeak, i thought classes were going to start in an hour and a half. is it really in 30 minutes. >> 30 minutes, yeah, students are just starting to arrive at sdmool 30 minutes. it will be a difficult day, obviously, a regular day of classes, they're saying, but counselors will be there, grief counselors, it will be anything but a regular day. they were there yesterday for a short period of time with their parents. they've changed the school cafeteria around, soledad, where, of course, this shooting took place. they have painted it and they've changed the way that the cafeteria tables were arranged. they completely redid that. of course, four students were shot while sitting at a table in the cafeteria. they say they want a fresh start as this students come back. it was a very emotional skrin in the school yesterday. i suspect it will be same there today as well. >> it's got to be hard to imagine to get a fresh start when the funerals also start today, right? >> yes. we have a wake this afternoon for danny palmeteri, and then on tuesday, demetrius huln, another 16-year-old, will be laid to rest. >> hearing from demetrius' mother was so sad. they went on with the sporting event, though. they had one last night, right? >> yeah. and, boy, i tell you what, this was a great example of a community coming together. this was a playoff game, a sectional playoff game. chardon was playing another team at a different gym hosting this tournament. everybody in the stands were wearing the chardon red colors. even the other team wore chardon uniforms and chardon ended up winning the game by 20 points. it wasn't about the game. they said it was about getting these kids back to some sense of normalcy or just being a kid and the activity they had to get extra buses for the students. the whole student body showed up. it was an emotional evening. >> one has to imagine they're going to need that pulling together to really get on the path to healing. i know that they interviewed some folks at that game. i want to play a little bit, ted, of what some of the people were saying. let's listen. >> a feeling and helps us get through these times and trying to get things back to normal as quick as we can. >> everybody all wearing red or red and black to support us has been able to help us get through some of it. we take it one day at a time. >> it's got to be a tough day ahead. i know you're going to be covering it for us, ted. thank you for that update. other stories making headlines this morning. christine romans has those for us. good morning. >> good morning to you. new developments in that security scare at philadelphia international airport. a sharp eye at traffic controller, an unauthorized vehicle smashed through a fence and drove on to the runway. the controller spotted something on the radar but couldn't see the ground because of the fog. a plane that was just 100 feet above the runway was diverted seconds, seconds before landing. >> we've got a rogue vehicle driving around on the airport. we're not talking to him. we can catch him. >> hold short on the runway. >> this guy police arrested a suspect 24rks-year-old kenneth mazik, charged with driving under the influence, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief. shots fired at the end of a bank hostage drama in california. a s.w.a.t. team moved in yesterday after the gunman refused to release a dozen hostages he was holding a a bank in buena park. the situation ended with a bank manager coming out and the suspect taken out on the stretcher with a gunshot wound. two more bodies now recovered from that coast guard helicopter crash earlier this week in alabama's mobile bay. the chopper was on a training mission when it went down and within crew member remains unaccounted for. the coast guard still doesn't know why it went down but it was quite foggy at the time of that crash. all right. mitt romney gaining momentum in the race for the republican nomination. the former massachusetts governor letting up on rival rick santorum to bash president obama during a campaign stop in idaho. here's why. romney opening up a commanding 11-point lead over san tor 11-point lead over san toum among republican voters in the latest gallop poll. 18-point swing in romney's favor in just the past week. santorum determined to stick around. >> this is an episode of survival. we need to stay on the island, not get voted off, stay on message and have hopefully the grass roots of conservative movements support us. i think you're see that now. washington state holds caucuses tomorrow with ten states up for grabs on super tuesday. the candidates are battling for more than 400 delegates in the next 4 days. meanwhile, newt gingrich campaigning in his home state of georgia yesterday. he says one thing has to happen on super tuesday in order for him to stay in the race. >> i have to win georgia, i think, to be credible in the race. if i win georgia, the following week we go to obamalabama and mississippi. i think i will win most of those. we have a good opportunity to win in kansas. >> the latest poll shows gingrich with a double digit lead in georgia. more dangerous weather on the way in many of the same areas hit earlier this week. high winds, hail, and more large and powerful tornadoes are possible. from new orleans all of the way through the ohio valley today. maybe only a tiny window to recover some valuable or memorable things for tornado victims who have already been hit once here. meteorologist rob marciano as more on the potential threat of severe weather today. good morning. >> good morning. quite a storm is taking shape and in some aspects it's stronger than the storm that rolled through two days ago. we've got a storm threat and moisture and humidity and heat and that's going to the to call point for storms this afternoon. we have two rounds of convection we anticipate what's happening right now in nashville, getting rough weather. st. louis as well. this cell has been producing in some cases baseball size hail. north of st. louis. getting damaging hail there. watch box, the threat for damaging winds and hail for the next several hours. around 2:00 this afternoon when the cold front starts to sweep through the potential for 70- 80-mile-an-hour gusts and strong tornadoes like we had two days ago in the red zone especially but the threat from the canadian border down to the gulf of mexico. cincinnati back through evansville, nashville, as far south as northern alabama, moderate risk for severe weather including the potential for strong tornadoes and it rockets up toward the north and east. christine? >> thanks, rob. let's get a quick check of business. stock futures lower. dow futures down 20 points. weak economic data and concerns about the debt crieses there in the u.s. this morning. of course, stocks would close, soled soledad, to the highest since 2000. hitting a wall and not a surprise here. >> christine, thank you. there's been a rebirth of the birther movement. the controversial arizona sheriff joe arpiao is known for stirring things up. i haven't talked about him since we started this show in ten weeks, 11 weeks. he's due to be on tv. he is now set his sights on the white house. he did his own investigation into the president's birth certificate. we had all moved on but not joe. here's what he said. >> my investigators believe that the long form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in a paper format as claimed by the white house. >> they're back. the birthers are back. why? >> porque, why are we talking about this? >> people are talking about gas prices and things that matter. for them to be doing this -- >> are voters really concerned about this? there are so many problems impacting the country right now and real issues. i wonder, does it have an impact on voters? >> it's your party. >> it's really joe arpaoi. >> let's be clear about that. so this is -- yeah, this is going to be about jobs and economy. this is what people want the discussion to be about. this is what the candidates are going to be talking about. >> you don't think this is going to get any traction? >> i don't think it's going to get -- no, i don't think it's going to rise to become a big issue in the primaries, which is, you know, what's most newsworthy right now. i think people are focused on the state of the economy, growth, jobs, housing, bread and butter issues, standard of living, stagnant wages. that's where republicans will make their case against obama. president obama. >> do you think it's a mistake for rick csantorum to make thos issues? we will pick up the vicious cycle but it doesn't deliver 100% economy soeches. >> not related to the economic issues to some extent. you have to b to be able to put them together and people have got to be able to relate with them and understand. when you talk about education, parenting, you know, mental health, whatever the case is, those are important national issues. but primarily, voters are concerned ability cout can i ge, are my wages rising, can i keep my home, can i pay my bills? am i better off now? do i think i will be better off two or three years from now where i am now? i think that's where the battleground will be, over those issues. >> can those social issues alienate him in the general election? >> clearly will be -- i would imagine president obama and his democratic allies are going to try to wedge that. so i think if you, i'm a romney supporter so i think that you need to talk about social issues, i think you need to be aware of them, i think you need to provide leadership and have a philosophy on some of these issues. primarily this campaign has got to be waged on growth, opportunity, jobs, those issues. >> before we go to commercial break i was sort of surprised that we didn't see your guy, mitt romney, stand up and say why are we talking about jfk speech, why are we talking about separation of church and state. almost like this is a conversation that is taking us way off the main path. and even off the focus for voters who are going to head to the primaries. i was surprised. he has led leadership opportunities and i was surprised he didn't take them, talking about college degrees. no one stood up and said, why are we bashing and calling snob b y, people getting college degrees. >> i think, solesoledad, i thin has made very clear he's going to stay very focused on the economy, on jobs and the economy, 25 years in the private sector. he's got a great record with the olympics, bain, job creation, he's been very effective, very successful. if anything he's gotten criticized for not defending his success enough and defending sort of capitalism and growth and making the case for it. one thing he had found over the course of these primary season is that he is getting strong and stronger, more resilient and focused on these issues. i think through the campaign you're going to see mitt romney talking about his plans, 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