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
to the surprise of nobody, we re seeing politics in washington. the vote is expected later this afternoon. there s a good chance that every democrat will vote in a party line vote against mr. pompeo. if they do that, that would be unfortunate. just over a year ago, the senate confirmed mike pompeo to be cia director. he had 66 votes. 14 democrats vote to confirm him. this is a man that graduated from westpoint, served his name and been the cia director and as we look at this attack in toronto, we don t know the details yet but underscored what a dangerous world we re in and we need a strong secretary of state in place. so i hope the democrats don t play politics with national security appointments but instead confirm mike pompeo. it looks like they are playing politics, senator. so what to do now? what is your expectation in terms of a broader full senate vote for mike pompeo? where does this go? i m confident mike pompeo
we see this pattern repeat over and over. it is unfortunate there has to be such a pattern. there seems to be nothing at this point. no tragedy so atrociotrocious i shakes us out of the pattern. and they say democrats don t play politics with the sane apa suffering of these people. you replay the tape. let s talk about immigration. you cover immigration for us here at cnn. there is a move, a narrow move, to get some sort of deal. can they get 60? right now, christine, we do not know if they have 60 votes. they are very close. the bill came out with about eight republicans in support. if every democrat votes for it, which at this point is not a given, they need 11 republicans. they are right on the precipice of possibly being there. it is not clear at all whether they will get there. right now, what has been proposed as this came out of the