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good morning. welcome to early start. it is thursday, february 15th. i m christine romans in new york. good morning, christine. i m 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 non-life 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 ar-15 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 com ....
probably stay republican with the chief justice roberts as the judge, win it there and declare a victory. and that s what he should do. well, we have to remember bill clinton was impeached but stayed in office. so it doesn t necessarily mean it would be the end of his precedency. takes a two thirds vote, remember. so, jack, would firing him get the president his ability to control the special counsel investigation. that would be the only reason of getting rid of rosenstein. i think it ll be exceedingly difficult. i can t imagine someone will come in and sit in rosenstein s place and try to baby-sit him and redirect of the course of the investigation. that s just not going to happen. i totally agree with everything bob said, by the way. and i think if he tries to replace rosenstein, if he tries to replace sessions, it would be seen for what it is. it would be seen as the act of a man with a guilty mind. innocent people don t behave this way. they don t threaten to fire ....
against the company of amazon and led a new somewhat baffling allegation against president obama. a side of himself that we and many others is going to be coming out. today, and on twitter we got a big dose of president trump uncut. here he was speaking about the u.s. military presence in syria which he announced last week that he wants to end. i want to get out. i want to bring our troops back home and start rebuilding our nation. we will have as of three months ago, $7 trillion in the middle east over the last 17 years. we get nothing, nothing out of it. and as you remember, in civilian life for years, i said keep the oil. we didn t keep the oil. who got the oil? isis. that is what funded their campaign. they took a lot of the oil. and we should have kept the oil then. we didn t keep the oil. the united states didn t keep the oil or take the oil which is the word mr. trump used to use on the campaign trail. didn t take the oil because among other reasons that is called p ....
clear why that decision wasn t made to press charges further and the police chief addressed that as well. in may of 13, we did have a situation where online threatening comments were made. we had a detective assigned to investigate it. the detective spoke with legal counsel for the capital gazette. several members of the capital gazette staff. it was discussed that the capital gazette did not wish to pursue criminal charges. there was near doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation. reporter: craig, so a lot of questions about what could have been done differently then. although it s likely it would have just ban restraining order situation. we don t know whether that would have changed events here but that s part of the conversation going on here. interesting to hear the police chief talk how this guy is still not cooperating and also they used facial recognition software to help identify him. what more do we know about that? reporter: we know the ....
A roundup of the day s events. A roundup of the day s events. both officers fire, shooting blevins four times. blevins later dying. at a press conference today, members of a police union said the two officers acted heroically and believed their lives were in danger. the whole time, he s looking back, getting position on where the officers are at to acquire a target to shoot them. reporter: at a later press conference, the county prosecutor took to the podium to defend the police department. but before he could announce charges would not be filed against the two officers, family and protesters rushed the podium, cutting him off. we want the cops arrested within the next 48 hours and prosecuted to the fullest degree of the law, because this was murder. and alex perez joins us live tonight from minneapolis. alex, emotions raw there. we saw the family and the protesters at that news conference today. they want justice for their family member. and the city bracing for p ....