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
time fighting cancer. we don t spend anything fighting gun violence. that s right. you know, keep in mind you can compare the administration s reactions to different tragedies. this reaction is different from the reaction to recent terrorist attacks. especially when they are committed by someone who was not born in this country. so you have to sort of compare that reaction when you look at the administration and see in those instances and terrorist attacks and apparatus of government springs to the action to get to the bottom of it and there is a conversation of what could have been done to prevent it and perhaps per the earlier conversation, it is up to the voters to demand the same in this case. you are right, it is not like cancer. it is not like a number of other issues. this is one that sometitymys congress. the partisan line has been graug has been drawn.