Good morning. Welcome to early start. It is thursday, february 15th. Im Christine Romans in new york. Good morning, christine. Im dave briggs. It is 5 00 a. M. In parkland, florida. Known as one of the safest cities in america. Waking up to a recurring nightma nightmare. Helpless to stop the gun violence plaguing the country. 17 People Killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Five patients are in life threatening condition and ten others hospitalized with nonlife threatening injuries. So far, 12 victims of the h rampage have been identified. Here are the moments of terror. We want to warn you the video is disturbing. Holy
[ gunshots ] oh, my god terrifying. Imagine getting that out of your mind. Officials say that is the sound of an ar15 being fired from former student nikolas cruz. Senator bill nelson of florida told cnn how the attack began. The shooter wore a gas mask and he had smoke grenades. He went and setoff the fire alarm so the kids would come pouring out of the class
messages. we also know that he is expected to face a judge today. dave. all right. thank you, rosa. we are having trouble with dave s audio there. i can tell you this about the shooting. many of the worst shootings in recent years have something in common. the same weapon. ar-15 rifle used in all of them. sutherland springs church. las vegas concert. pulse nightclub. san bernardino office shooting. sandy hook and aurora movie massacre. the ar-15 is the civilian version of the military s m-16. the nationaldaptable and reliab and effect. and effective. the shooting in florida quick to draw outrage from
firearms in the theater i go to. there are not bag screenings or metal detectors. i m not sure movie goers want that necessarily. i have seen security guards at exits because the aurora shooter came in through an exit. do you expect to be visible changes? there were small changes in the wake of aurora movie massacre. the way people go to the movies did not change. this is after all a movie industry. it is not in their interests to have that security unless people are concerned about going to the theaters. we did know see that in the wake of the aurora massacre. we did not see a down turn in ticket sales. we talk about this with the back drop of people dying in the theater last night. it is horrific to imagine. most people at home know that these acts of violence are rare. we just learned the president
an inch of snow in chicago this year, if you can believe it. we haven t seen much in new york. no. it is out west where the ski slopes are. jon: i would like that but would like a little more snow if you could deliver it. it is still wintertime. jon: janice dean, thank you. thank you. jenna: we have breaking news from centennial, colorado, where the court is for this case for the aurora movie massacre. there is the live shot there. the judge granting a defense motion to delay the a rainment of james holmes until march after ruling there is enough evidence to put him on trial. holmes faces more than 160 counts of murder and as well as attempted murder in the shooting deaths of 12 people in the shooting in july. we ll tell what the case means with arthur eye dallas, former defense attorney and prosecutor and jason friedman. former prosecutor. arthur, march, we have to wait until march to know if the defense will enter a plea. what is going on here?
dale. the bodyies will be sent to the medical examiner s office to be identified. it is difficult for us to go through and the people of the community. not only evans dale and all of the community that came together and showed support. gretchen: more details are expected to be released in a news conference scheduled for 5:00 p.m. tonight. steve: shock and disgust in the university of the colorado in the hours after the aurora movie massacre. thousands of internal e-mails released and exact moment officials realize they were in the middle of a major crisis. that reads subject emergency. shooter in the rourr rour mall was james hol mes a former student. i am worried about the safety of the students and faculty . revealed that hol mes had a brief romantic relationship with a fellow grad student.