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
i m dave briggs live in parkland, florida. following overnight developments in the high school shooting that killed 17 people. this is the ninth deadliest in school history. so far, gun rights advocates, dave, have been silent. two republicans are taking a familiar fallback position if you will. including senator marco rubio. some of the coal llleagues ie senate have been trying to make this about policy and about gun control. is this the appropriate time to being doing that? it is not. people don t know how this happened. who this person is or what motivated them or how did they get a hold of the weapon they ued for the attack. it is important to know all of that before you jump to conclusions there is some law we could have passed to prevent it.
yesterday, the managers of both clubs. mike doyle and mike barton reflected on the friend steve. representative barton talked to pbs about the support he received from coal llleagues ac the aisle. everybody is supportive because our title our title is united states representative. i m very proud to be a member of the congress and i m proud to serve with people like mike doyle. reporter: now it goes without saying, chris, that security at the event will be expanded. there is expected to be a heavy