hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
activity, because the investigation of the shooter is in high gear right now, and you may see some of these police units, the unmarked ones, especially, leaving the scene so that they can assist in the other phase, which is basically writing a biography on this shooter to get to know everything they can about him as soon as they can. steve moore, thank you so much, appreciate that analysis. if you are just joining us, right now, we are following a shooting in allen, texas. we know from law enforcement officials that one shooter is dead. there were earlier reports of a second shooter. law enforcement says they do not believe there was a second shooter. nine people have been transported by ambulance to medical facilities. law enforcement says they are not sure if other additional victims may have been transported in private cars. this point, law enforcement says it is too soon to give firm numbers on the total fatalities. congressman for this district tells us at this point,
newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington and at any moment we re expecting a news briefing from law enforcement officials and dave ville, alabama, the sad sight of last night s horrifying mass shooting. we are hoping to learn more about a suspect or possible motive in that shooting rampage in this tiny alabama town. this is a look at a vigil that s about to get underway. at any moment. these are live pictures that you re looking at right now of this vigil that is about to take place in memory of the children. teenagers many of them who were lost in this mass shooting. here s what we know right now about this tragedy for people are confirmed dead, spokeswoman for one local hospital says 15 teenagers suffered gunshot wounds and were treated another hospital says it received multiple patients. the attack apparently happened at a sweet 16 birthday party in this community of 3000 people. one of those killed the older brother of the girl celebrating her 16th birthday. there you see
viewers joining us here in united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. and i m rosemary church. just ahead, students demand action on guns in the wake of the michigan state university shooting. we ll discuss what needs to be done to prevent the tragedies we re seeing all too often in america schools. former south carolina governor nikki haley throws her hat in the 2024 presidential reign. but she will likely face some stiff competition in the republican primary. and as the death toll in the turkey syria quake continues to rise, images of rescue teams find a survivors under the rubble offer a glimmer of hope. we begin this hour in east lansing michigan. the community is mourning three college students killed in a mass shooting and praying for five others still in the hospital. we have new video showing students at michigan state university hiding from the gunman in the classroom. it s stupid. they already evacuated the other room. [screaming] get
second trump ally indicted on a contempt channel. we begin the reidout with a choice, a choice about the continuation of mass murder and school shootings that are plaguing this country because it is a choice, not an inevitability as some might want you to believe. in fact, one of our political parties has gone to great lengths to make you think just that. well, at this point shouldn t the republican party just keep it real and openly admit at long last that they believe that a substantial number of dead church-goers and dead shoppers and dead doctors and, yes, dead chirp, big kids and little ones, is an acceptable trade-off for them to have as many guns as they want whenever they want with as little inconvenience as possible, and no one has said it better than democratic congress montana dare jones who spoke during yesterday s contentious debate over democrats package of gun safety bills. as the youngest member of this committee, i need to address my republican colleague