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Blackhawks crashed suddenly. of the seven men, just one survived. critically injured. rescued by a quick response team. no word on whether the helicopter was shot down or whether it was a mechanical failure. 2,160 american servicemen and women have been killed in the 12-year war in afghanistan. new revelations provide insight about the gunman in the colorado high school shooting. according to police, karl pierson wrote a message on his arm including one phrase in latin for the die has been cast. he also scribbled a series of numbers and letters which the sheriff's department says correspon...

0 i feel good. i don't even know. i can't sleep tonight. >> teeing good! another winning ticket was sold in georgia in atlanta. each one worth $318 million, but, of course, you take the lump sum, it is a measly $170 million. let's move on to other news this morning. the senate ended debate on the ryan murray budget proposal setting up a fim vote on the bill later today. 12 republicans voted to advance the bill along with every democrat and independent in the senate. minority leader mitch mcconnell and marco rubio and ted cruz and rand paul voted against the measure. a number of republicans wer...

Know that they did not get along on this trip to nationals. karl had threatened to kill mr. murphy kind of jokingly and mr. murphy brought that to the attention of them and karl got suspended for that and felt that ruined his chances for college. he would get angry and say, i just want to shoot everyone up. >> friend of shooter karl pierson, the head of the debate team. and a junior and defensive tackle on the football team. welcome. obviously what we just heard is chilling in the context of what happened. tell me about karl pierson. did you have any feeling things weren't quite right with him...

Especially with the speech and debate club and a couple of classroom things but i couldn't really say what was going on in his mind at the time. >> what we're told is that about a week before the incident, he had been dropped from the debate club, run by tracy murphy, the school librarialibrarian. were you aware of that? had he said any ill will he bore towards this decision? >> yeah. actually, it was brought to my attention he was kicked off the speech and debate club. i'm not really sure why. there could be multiple reasons, some that i'm not sure of, but i had heard that before. >> you hung...

>> it took only 80 seconds for the shooter to walk into that high school and shoot claire davis in her head at point-blank range and then take his own life. we know that he was targeting his debate coach, tracy murphy who suspended him from the team. >> i know that they did not get along on the trip to nationals. karl threatened to kill mr. murphy and he brought that to the administration. he felt that the suspension ruined his future. >> and the victim is in a coma tonight. the governor of colorado asked for all americans to pray for her recovery. and for many folks in colorado, this shooting...