there are nine people who are murdered inside the emanuel african methodist episcopal church here in charleston last night. cynthia herd, 54. manager of one of the busiest branches in the charleston county public library system where she worked for 31 years. the lie rather will be renamed in her honor. reverend daniel simmons sr. died in the operating room. he was 74. retired in 2005 as charleston county director of the community development block grant program which funds affordable housing and local development. she was a mother of four. tawanza sanders, 26. he got a degree from the division of business administration. myron thompson, 59, the wife of reverend anthony thompson, a nearby church in charleston. a mom to three children, a speech pathologist and coach for a girl s track team team outside charleston. susie jackson was 87, at church with her sister who also died at the scene who was 70 years old. finally, reverend pinckney, the pastor, first yore darrened at
was checking on an unoccupied vacation cabin saw a man who ran out the back door of the cabin, had clearly been burglarized. law enforcement went in, found it to be a credible possible sighting of one of the two inmates who have escaped, and that s why the search has now led to this area here. of course they re still continuing to search other areas, but very concentrated search in the wooded areas in this part of the region. sara and we can certainly see why. those two law enforcement sources telling us that evidence collected from that cabin you spoke of sara had dna leftover and when the dna testing was complete dna from both of those fugitives was found on personal items. i want to bring in gerard he s a former senior inspector with the u.s. marshal service. welcome back sir. i m glad you re here. i m glad you re still here. so this is good right? this is great news carol. this says they re not in canada more than likely. they re not in mexico and they may not have ha
we love our country. most importantly, we love each other. and i will tell you, there is a lot of prayer in this state. so you re going see all of us try to lift these nine families up in prayer because they need us. and emotional governor nicky haley spoke yesterday as officials announced the suspect in wednesday night ace fatal shooting in charleston, south carolina had been captured. the nine victims are being remembered from coast to coast today. prayer vigils were held across cities ashgs cross the country club chicago, denver portland and more than a dozen lawmakers gathered on the capital lawnol lawn. it s almost impossible to imagine the tragedy. good morning to morning joe. we re live in washington and we have new york times reporter jeremy peters white house correspond for american urban radio networks april ryan pulitzer prize winning communist and editor of the washington post and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson and president and south korea o
of the of the violence that dylann roof caused killing nine innocent victims, ranging in age from 26 up to 87. he just appeared in court via a video link. and he went before a judge. his bond was set at $1 million on a weapons charge. he s also facing nine murder charges. he s likely to ultimately face the death penalty in this case. there he is appearing before the judge, our first real look at him now almost two days since the shooting happened. we also learn in just the past few hours that he confessed to the crime with investigators, admitting that he bought the gun, a 45 caliber gun and fired into each of those individuals. we are also learning more about the weapon. there s a lot to discuss in the next hour of newsroom. first, i want to take you back inside the courtroom appearing just a few minutes ago where we also heard from members of the victims families. listen. susie jackson? is there a representative of the family of susie jackson? no. no. sharonda singleto
county director of the community development block grant program which funds affordable housing and local development. she was a mother of four. tawanza sanders, 26. he got a degree from the division of business administration. myron thompson 59, the wife of reverend anthony thompson a nearby church in charleston. a mom to three children a speech pathologist and coach for a girl s track team team outside charleston. susie jack sockson was 87 at church with her sister who also died at the scene who was 70 years old. finally, reverend picknynckneypinckney, the pastor, first yore darrened at age 18 and was elected to the south carolina house of representatives just five years later. age 27 he became the youngest member of the state senate. his seat in that chamber covered in black, a cloth of mourning today. pinckney described by a colleague as the moral conscience of the state senate helped build support for a bill mandating body cameras for his officer. last month he del