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John mccains grave. and roberts kraft wants video and other evidence from his so licitation case kept undr wraps. welcome to "early start." >> it is thursday, march 21, 4:00 a.m. in the east. nobody won in the powerball by the way. but we start overseas, decisive action from the prime minister of new zealand less than a week after 50 people were slaughtered in two christchurch mosques. jacinda ardern isov joefoverhau her countrys gun laws. >> new zealand will ban all military style semi automa...

Community can return to pray there this friday afternoon. in the aftermath of the shooting the government has announced that it will tighten the gun control laws how has this been received. by the prime minister did it meant that there were a large number of loopholes in new zealands gun laws that needed to be addressed she also added that these would be addressed by the new legislation that her cabinet is fairly working on and will be announced in the coming days. new zealands fine and remains ...

Terrorism, we will have announced reforms that will, i believe, make our community safer. i strongly believe that the vast majority of gun owners will agree with the sentiment that change needs to occur. i believe they will be with us. >> "washington post" reports possible measures could include restricting the military-style semi automatic weapons that were used in the attacks. stories of heroism amid the gunfire are still emerging. the new york times reports adbul aziz was praying with his fou...

Two mosques here in christchurch. the police say that they believe this was the work of one suspected terrorist, a 28-year-old australian namedbreo far just one count of murder. they believe both attacks on the two mosques were the work of this one man. now, one of the online shopping sites here, trade me, has announced that it is suspending at least temporarily the sale of semi automatic weapons. another company here called gun city has confirmed that it sold four firearms to the suspect all do...

Around the streets with guns. perhaps if you have a hunting license or a farm, that is different. but otherwise it is impossible to get firearms. so obviously police will be looking into how these three men managed to get hold of the semi automatic weapons. we have watched these 17 minute video that was streamed live from the helmet of the gun man, an australia citizen in his 20s being charged with mass murder and will appear in court in christchurch tomorrow morning. this video is chilling. it ...

Monitoring the situation for us. she joins us live from hong kong. anna, what are we learning? >> reporter: well, as you say, 49 people are now dead. but that death toll could very well rise. there are dozens of others that have been seriously injured, being treated in hospital. so as i say, that death toll could rise. this is unprecedented, this act of violence unprecedented in new zealand. never before has there been a terror attack in new zealand let alone on this scale. this was a massacre. ...

Possibility more shooters arent at large. anna coren is monitoring the situation and joining us live. >> reporter: this has been horrendous day for new zealand, as the primary jacinda ardern described earlier. a terror attack carried out by three men, one of those being an australian citizen. now, this australian, he live streamed the video on facebook. his killing spree was live on facebook. and ive watched the full 17 minutes and it is probably one of the worst things that i have ever seen. he...

Semi automatic weapons. looking at the video, there would have been at least 60s semi automatic weapons. he had magazines of ammunition, he had jerry cans filled with fuel. and when they arrested two of these men in their cars, there were ieds attached to the cars. so if at all possible, this death toll of 40 people could have been much higher if these men had been allowed to carry out perhaps the full extent of their attack. >> anna coren live for us in hong kong, 4:00 p.m. with the latest ther...

Their teachers were not lost and the damage not suffered the law needs to be applied dispassionately and he is saying this is horrific. everybody agrees on that but should the manufacturer bear liability? he says no. it is about the person who chose the gun and what they did with it. >> i disagree with that debate. there are 15, semi automatic weapons. you cant kill a rabbit or deer. shannon: plenty of people use it for that and target practice and other things. >> this is a military style weapo...

Iceberg and the defendant is a domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct. so, what this gentleman had been doing, he was stockpiling weapons, more than a dozen, including semi automatic weapons, rifles, handguns and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, since about twee201. he is also accused of using tramadol, a narcotic thats sort of a sedative, and stockpiled 20 bottles of human growth hormone. according to the court...