good morning, and we begin this morning with a fox weather alert. severe storms again threatening parts of the south, already devastated by the deadly tornado outbreak over the weekend. at least 26 people are confirmed dead. and several towns have been left in ruins. brian: unbelievable. robert ray leads our coverage today with the latest. he is on the ground in mississippi. robert? yeah. good morning to you. yet, another morning of absolute devastation here in the mississippi delta in this town of just less than 2,000 people the majority of the deaths have occurred here in mississippi, a total of 25 people have lost their lives. one person in alabama. and you just see parts of homes, this chair, unfortunately, lie on the slab, a huge wooden beam that held up part of the home behind me. governor tate reeves yesterday spoke to the media, toured all of this with fema administrator. and others and let s listen to what he had to say about how is he going to help his com
nashville. as i said, the students go down to 3 years old up to sixth grade and we re waiting to get more information. they said, you know, inside of this hour, we ll learn more. stay with us. we ll get another update. i would ascertain that they have information that they are almost ready to reveal and they re likely making sure that everyone has been notified before they reveal this other information. we learned quite a bit here about the suspect in this case. a 28-year-old white woman who they believe went to the school. we ll get more information on that. they said she had two assault-type rifles and a handgun with her. she was killed on the scene of this horrific killing at this beautiful christian school that is up a long windy road. it s not this easy to get into this complex if you take a look at it from the other side. it s up a long windy road. he also said interestingly that her car, her vehicle, the vehicle they found nearby, gave us a clue to what she was. i don
up maps of the school showing entry points and gained entry to the school by shooting through a side door. listen. all units, be advised we are under a mass casualty alert. the school shooting off the midtown off the veteranton hill multiple victims down. private christian school in nashville upscale green hills community. entered and began lob i can t area they immediately headed in that direction. when the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter, a female. who was firing. the officers engaged her. she was fatally shot by responding police officers. police have identified the attacker as audrey hail a 28-year-old nacialg resident who is transgender and identifies as a woman. police say at some point she had attended the school which serves students in preschool through sixth grade. police identified the victims as custodian mike hill. substitute teacher cynthia peak and catherine coons who is interested on covenant s website as the head of school. three
her address. they have not released her name but describe her as a 28-year-old nashville woman carrying two assault style rifles and a handgun. authorities have not identified a motive e1either, but they do y it appears she was a student of the covenant school at one point, an elementary school. that s where she killed six people, three kids and three adults. here s a breakdown of what happened inside that school from nashville metro . ■qpolice s fi news conference a little bit earlier. when the officers gotq to th second level, they saw a shooter, a female, who was firing. the officers engaged her. she was fatally shot by responding police officers. there was a five member team who was on the that was on the second floor at that time, two individuals from that five-member team opened fire on the shooter. we know at this point that this shooterçó is a female. shooterçó is a female. she was armed( assault type rifles and a hawí we are efforting now to identify her.
tonight on the reidout we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritarianism. while here in the u.s., there s a shocking lack of urgency in repudiating the conspiratorial and violent rhetoric from our home-grown autocrat in waiting, donald trump. meanwhile, trump continues to lash out at the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan grand jury hears from a key player in trump s hush money scheme. bebut we begin with a tragedy that is unique to america. another school massacre. this time in nashville, tennessee. where a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and t