don t have one. your child will wait for another child to die. a message like that coming at the same time as the republican governors in texas, florida and other states try to force schools not to mandate masks for their students. we ll have more on that ahead. we start with that breaking news in the caribbean where officials say at least 29 people have died in haiti after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. new video shows homes and churches reduced to rubble. it happened in the western peninsula just before 8:30 eastern this morning. multiple aftershocks have also rocked the region. the quake, which was felt in the capital of port-au-prince some 100 miles to the east, triggered a tsunami threat in the caribbean that was eventually called off. joining us is nbc s ed o gostin. ed, i want to start with you. what reporting are you getting right now from inside haiti as the government and global organizations begin to search for those missing or impacted? reporter: well, the
Two families are suing Gov. Bill Lee and the Williamson County School District, saying their middle school-aged children were arrested, strip-searched, put in solitary confinement, sent to alternative school and then subjected to months of home visits by social workers and probation officers after school officials misinterpreted conversations between peers as "threats of mass violence."
A challenge to Tennessee s law dealing with the use of public school restrooms and locker rooms by transgender students remains alive after a federal judge declined to dismiss all claims against the state Education Department and Williamson County Schools.
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