of the national school shooting gets underway soon. the first lady jill biden, is set to attend, as police revealed the shooter may have had weapons training. also, tonight, we ve learned that the new york grand jury investigating donald trump will take a break for most of april. how might that impact the decision on whether to indict the former president? and the crisis unfolding in israel right now is testing relations big time with the united states. we re tracking the tensions after president biden criticized prime minister benjamin netanyahu s divisive judicial overall plan. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and let s go right to nashville. right now. we re mourners are gathering to honor the three children and three adults shot dead at the covenant elementary school there . cnn s carlos suarez is joining us right now. he s just outside the school. carlos this vigil is being held tonight
chinese spy balloon and when they realized they must tell the president about it. this comes as u.s. navy divers and other military personnel are scouring the ocean floor off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. and we re getting new video in to cnn. a resident in south carolina shot this and said he believes it could be debris from the balloon. to be clear, cnn cannot independently verify whether or not this is, in fact, debris from that chinese spy balloon. we re reaching out to the navy for comment. in the meantime, republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. cnn s alex marquardt joins us now with more. alex, you re learning more about this timing, when it came down to the decision-making that was taking place inside the biden administration. we heard the president stating to reporters emphatically yesterday that he made this call on wednesday that the balloon be shot down as soon as it was safe to do so. but there s m
shot because of it. they re gonna have spears that they never thought about in their life that now they re going to think about all the time there is this culture within america that shoot first ask questions later. what is going on in this country? at least two people are dead this morning after severe storms tore across three states overnight tornado left down trees and power lines, creating challenges for first responders to find those trapped in a number of emergency crews all over this area. look at all the damage. the inflow is insane. access to the comment. abortion drug kristen still legal, at least for now, this is a really uncertain time for the abortion rights movement. pandora s box of potential legal issues. real question is, will they hear it? and where are they headed on this? we don t want a supreme court justice in our bedrooms, telling us what to do. not can you hear me? now? can you hear me? we saw a missile land very close to our vehicle. thousands have al
on the growing controversy and what the future holds for women s sports and the fight to keep it fair. sandra: and for most americans no greater measure of success than buying a home. only under president biden your success will now mean higher mortgage rates and you ll have to help folks who don t have good credit scores. larry kudlow does not like it one bit. defaulting i can ruin my own credit. did we forget about 2008? sandra: good question, larry. he had a lot to say on this controversy move as we were learning about it last night. so, he is here for round two on america reports. welcome back as we roll into a second hour. sandra smith in new york. john: john roberts in washington. as you can imagine, larry has a lot to say coming up. by the year 2000, we should succeed in seeing that every 8-year-old can read independently. today 40% of our nation s 8-year-olds are not reading as well as they should. and that is the main reason we have launched america rea
in washington, and we begin today with another deadly mass shooting this one at a bank in louisville, kentucky. police say four people are now dead and eight wounded. they say the shooter is also dead. and in a video recorded near the bank, you can hear the shots being fired as police begin arriving on the scene. the gunman began firing just as the bank was getting ready to open, and police say they believe he was a former employee. two officers were wounded in the exchange of gunfire, and one of them remains in critical condition. right now , a witness says that he spoke to an employee who was sheltering inside of the bank. she s at the bank at this building. their protocol is to get into the vault. me and her have had that conversation several times. hit the panic button. go to the vault. don t fight. don t do anything. lock yourself up hard and let it go. kentucky s governor, andy bashir arrived at the scene this morning, and he revealed that two of the people that were ki