onboard. sanchez bianna golodryga once again, a school shooting in america now what s rare about this recurring nightmare in the us is that we re hearing this time the shooter was a woman national police reporting that the shooter was 28 years old families are gathering in despair. the covenant school in nashville. police say the shooter went on a rampage inside the small private school located inside a church gunning down three children and three adults. the call came in at 10 13 am local time short time ago with spokesman said police came upon the attacker as she was opening fire and killed her. officers entered the first story of the school began clearing it, they heard shots coming from the second level. the immediately went to the gunfire. when the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter and female who was firing. the officers engaged her she was fatally shot. by responding police officers. the situation is still unfolding, and authorities are directing fami
what, if anything, will they do? will anything actually change in this moment as we ve asked every single time before. the parents of these 19 children, the loved ones of all 21 deserve answers to these questions and they deserve action. we re talking about people like stephen garcia and jennifer lugo. their daughter ellie was killed in gold blood, a little girl so excited about the pool party she was going to have for her tenth birthday next week. sweetest girl you ve ever had the chance to meet. told her we were going to have a party and her face just lit up. that was the last time i saw her. i won t see my daughter again. hear with me from uvalde, texas is jose diaz-balart and gabe gutierrez. gabe, what do we know now that we didn t know yesterday or when we woke up this morning? reporter: chris, good afternoon, yes. the key question, how did the initial officers at the scene engage, in their words, with this gunman. we now know the texas department of public safety
Police are searching for a car. He dropped his vehicle. He is out of lewiston. He is former military. He is a certified firearms and tactics instructor. This is so often the Weapon Of Choice for many of the nations deadliest Mass Shootings. The two hospitals called in every offduty staff member that they could. I split in where the pins are and on top of the unbelievable somebody would start shooting at families. Those kids probably trying to have a family night. We had a really strong community. We have overcome a lot. We will overcome this. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Good morning. We are continuing to follow the Breaking News. Im Phil Mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. Right now urgent manhunt underway in maine after Mass Shootings at a Bowling Alley and a bar and grill in lewiston. At least 16 are dead. Police are looking for robert card described as an Armed And Dangerous Person Of Interest. We are told he is a military trained firearms instructor, a member of the u
The Nashville event aims to make a human chain between the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt to the state capitol, in support of gun safety laws.
and it may be part partly due to him but also part of the evolving nature of this and the number of shootings that this country has gone through in the last couple of decades. but there is a immediate response now from president biden from his staff and from democrats in congress as well to immediately jump on what they see as the most important legislative solution. that is an assault weapons ban. he didn t bring it up just then, but he has in the past also talked about limiting high capacity magazines and also closing those background check loopholes. but as you said, boris, you know there is no sense of any kind of momentum in this currently divided congress. but those calls from the white house will continue. and julia jeremy describes the president as an optimist. we all need some optimism, but just from a realist perspective and a pragmatist perspective, actually , we re going to go now to the police commissioner and the spokesperson there in nashville, giving us more information