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headquarte headquarters. i i'm george howell, cnn news room starts right now. we start with failures answered mixed signals. the massacre is becoming a deadly combination of both. four law enforcement officers waited outside as the gunman inside mowed down high school students and too mucheachers in. >>. >> the tup line about nicolas cruz could not have been more clear. cnn has reviewed the transcript of the call informing the agency

about the shotter. she talked of his peaus aboosts. she said she worried about him quote, shooting the place up. 40 days later he did just that. >> the missed call is one of the growing lists of failures. they include the resors officers speaking about his job. >> we have ear all for the same goal. >> peterson resigned and retired rather than face suspension without pay. broward county sher -- shr riff

says he stayed outside the building. >> i eemt 30 years. >> but peterson is not the only deputy of reacting properly. some were shocked to see deputies standing outside the school shooting site but at a a news conference they didn't talk about what hay they did did. >> believed to be the first officer charging alone toward it is building. >> i thought i was going to encounter the shooter as soon as he was trying to escape or get away. >> instead, he found only

silence. >> but officer did hear gun fire. recounting the moment the shooting began. >> i hear to be known as five to six gun fire shots. >> he was watering the baseball field. he also knew husband wife, a teacher and his son, a student, were both inside. >> i heard a round of probably and books about a round of six or five to six shots. he ran into the gun fire. then grabbing a vest. >> and we cleared back towards the 12 building. >> that report will be critical

and is expected add earl as next week. this is a community still very much deeply in grief. and the shock is affecting not just the civilians but the first responders as well. cnn, parkland. >> thank you. there is plenty of anger and a great deal of frustration over the mixed signals and the failure to act. samantha, a senior at the school, she was shot in both legs ands i you see there was hospitalized. >> parents and teachers and faculty and students, everyone has reported this kid and we thought we did everything in our

power to get him away from us. and kids would against p even joke about how he was going to be the next school shooter. we thought if we put it into the hands of the government it would be handles but now we have to take action because our system is failing us and we won't be stopped. >> she says the school resource officer who didn't go into the building that he took on oath to protect and serve that he broke that service. president trump is doubling down to put the hands of teachers with a gun control. >> it's not all of them vp. but you would have a lot and you would tell people that they're inside and the beauty is concealed. nobody would ever see it. it's concealed so this crazy man

wouldn't even know who has it, that's good. it's not bad. it's good and the teacher would have shot himself before he knew what happened. . >> president trump is pledging to get congress to act on gun k policies. one thing the president has seized on again and again is the idea of arming schoolteachers and other school officials. he said it is those teachers. >> a security guard doesn't know the people that doesn't love the children. he problem my doesn't know the children.

>> the this has been rejected by education groups, teachers and others. it was an idea raised by the nra in the wake of the sandy hook school chuting. it was viewed as a fringe idea. it is now pushed by the president of the united states. the florida gone governor says he does not support this idea. rauzing the age limit for people to buy rifles and other long guns. but there is something that president trump says he supported but did not mention again on friday. the nrr strongly opposed to gun limits. there is clearly a sign and no chlorosign what type oses of legislation that may be. >> thanks for the reporting.

as jeff mentioned, rick scot is raising the age limit to 21. it would also assign one school officer per # thousand students. the plan calls for more mental health counselors and a ban on so called bump stocks. theeds funding changes may mine there wointd be tax cuts this year. >> it is to make massive changes in protecting our schools, provide significantly more resources for mental health and to do everything to keep guns out of the hands of those dealing with mental problems. >> in the meantime faculty and students return to stone marn douglas high school on friday.

one of those returning was history teacher diane i don't feel. she also appeared at the cnn down hall earlier this week. later she spoke with cnn about president trump's proposal to put guns in the hands of teachers. >> i can imagine my teachers overworked underworked exhaustednd be able to perform the their. -- it's absolutely ludicrous.

>> while many argued teachers should not be armed in a classroom there are some where that idea is welcomed as cnn reports for us. >> we'll do whatever is necessary. >> this is the stark message that greets you when you walk into the one of the school buildings. he oversees what the school district calls the guardian program. it's a school staff allow howed to carry a -- >> we don't want to be at the mercy of somebody that's intent on doing harm. we refuse to be that person. >> the wake of the toneman douglas high stool shooting the redirect examination of arm k teachers is over'em whelming.

>> but in some, most rural communities the idea of arming teachers is welcomed ern by some students like this freshman and junior at the high school who asked that we not identify them. >> i dhoent think they're going to threaten me in any way. i know they're going to handle it. >> i feel really safe knowing that i can like come to school and if there's an ens incident that does happen they'll be able to protect us. >> there will about 170 that have a policy of lla policy of-g

teachers to carry. it can take many minutes for those deputies to respond to those shootings seens unside a school. >> they undergo active shooting scenario once a year but critics say that isn't enough. the school officer who was trained formore extensively waited outside the building as the gunman unleashed a deadly massacre. if his guardians face the same ordeal, they won't flyinch. >> and i have have complete faut that they over willing to stand up and protect our people. >> the armed teachers here haven't faced the wost case scenario, so the question remains how will they react if they're faced a killer?

>> it is fair to say the gun debate drags on here. a number of kpaerns are now cutting ties with the nra and powerful lobby group. car rental companies, enterprise, national, avis and budget i, they're all stopping nra discounts for renters. first national bank on of omaha is is to be stopping its as well. >> a former employee begins to open up as cnn newsroom continues. >> you see the video there.

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campaign manager. pall manafort accusing him of secretly paying. the charges came after manafort's long time aide. >> ruck gate social security now a very important cooperating witness and that's a big deal to paul manafort. gates business partner and potentially for others. if court prosecutors described the plan to fail to pay taxes and real i state that they

owned. and profession cue torrs piled on new charges on friday alleging an illegal campaign to use ukraine politicians. gates pleaded guilty to two criminal charges. conspiracy to defraud the united states and maching a false statement. he's saying quote, i had hoped for reasons to yet sur you are surface has he has chosen to do other wise. all right. thank you. now let's talk about the president's son-in-law and senior advisor jar id kushner. . the white house was alerted two

weeks ago would bedelay his security a -- president trump says the decision on whether kushner keeps his temporary clearance that would be made by john kelly. the president says he is frustrated by the system. listen. >> it's taken months and months to get many people that do not have the complex fshls. and they don't have that. you don't know how many people are on that list. >> the deadline for stripping officials of their interim clearances was friday. it's not clear if any action had been taken. leslie is a profession fall.

let's talk with gates plea deal. what kind of pressure does this put on pall manafort specifically. what does he know and what could mueller try to get from him. >> he's clearly not happy about it, not clear whether he was expecting it, but mueller's been tremendously successful from getting from another individual. and the pressure will been on paul manafort. gates has clearly got a lot of information and for the president it's yet ood sign that this investigation is very serious, it's not stopping and that we have every reason to believe that there's a lot going

on, that mueller thinks is absolutely crucial. but also the question of why were these people part of president trump's campaign, part of his administration and very sperveg c specifically and they're asking, you know, the is it about obstruction? is it about collusion or is out about all after oabove? >> well, think think it's clearly in the immediate ib stance about lying, conspiracy and about a number of financial charges and there's a lot that we don't nose about yet and a

number of people are wanting to know more about but mueller is a very careful investigator. he's very clearly moving people in a direction that he's getting the questions so it's a very effective and a very important investigation and it's going to proceed carefully and slowly. >> and there are people in the white house, many people around the president suggesting the president would be over in a matter of months. it looks to be a very methodical investigation that will play out as long as it will. switching now to the fatal shooting that took place in the state of florida. he talked about that officer that stood outside the hospital and making a comparison that teachers would love the students more. the teachers union clearly

against this idea. do you see this going anywhere? >> it is very remarkable that the national and federal associations that they've come out very clearly opposed to this proposal of arming teachers. i think most teachers see this as shocking and so i would be surprised if there was broad support ff those that would have to buy into this. it's a distraction at a moment when there's been an extraordinary crisis. i think we've drn the response to this most recent devastating attack in florida, the shootings has been really remarkab one thg that's interesting is to see if

the president himself begins to think differently about a number of concrete proposals and that's where we'll watch and seize. of course we'll get a lot of resince tans in congress js but he goes toing to koptd to to come under pressure and putting out proposals to arm teachers it's going to generate a lot of controversy but these very specific proposals, having increased brachyground checks, really dealing with the mental health and then the broader question about whether specific weapons will be banned. buzz it was remarkable to watch that conference yesterday where the australian january prime minister. of course buying back we tons,

having bans that are really unconceivable in the united states. >> it is important to point out those optics and the united states figuring out its way to see the front and center. and perspective live for us in london. >> and still ahead here on cnn newsroom, bombs continue to come down on civilians. how president trump is responding to the afternoonage that's taking place there. plus the olympic games, why one north korean refugee doesn't think it will last. d constipati, and you've tried any number of laxatives, probiotics, and fiber, it could be wearing on you. tell your doctor what you've tried

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coast to coast here in the united states and to our viewers, you're watching cnn newsroom. suicide bombing killed at least these people early saturday in kabul afghanistan. the attack was about one kilometer from the u.s. embassy. a suicide attack in southern province killed eight paeople. we're learning more details about missteps in the response to the high school massacre. one but not four officials

waited outside a school. and an unidentified woman says the he was going to explode. former trump campaign manager paul manafort is facing new charges that he secretly played poll ligss to lobby in the united states. and he cold even tich against limb. the u.s. is imm posing more sanctions. officials say it's part of campaign of maximum pressure. turns to now to the knew united states -- youphyted nations. the you yieaccuses russia.

all of this comes as areas like eastern ghouta here remaining under intense bombardment. people hiding from bombs. much of the rebel held enclave has been released to rubble. this video you see here, it is truly ha true heart breaking, they're trie trying to find survivors in the ruins. >> i will say what russia and what iran and what syria have done as a humanitarian disgrace. we're there to get rid of isis and go home. we're not there for any other

reason and we've largely accomplished our goal, but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a sis grace. >> without a cease fire there is no way to get critical medical supplies to eastern gouhoutghou. >> cnn has the latest and we do warn you, this report contains images that are disturbing. >> right now -- >> it's known as the double tap. children panicked cry out to their father but there's no time to wait. only try to run and and try to stay alive.

most spend their time underground. >> childhood is not evening a reflection of o ever what it should be. and their giggles reverberate. play games familiar to most of us under circumstances we not pretend to imagine. >> we wish for aide for help here. we're hungry. let them understand this, this little girl pleads. in another reality and what may be what may be a world away, it's not that anyone heard her cry, it's the powers that control syria's fate portrayed it. this is syria's story. one that is on a repeat.

a mother bids her son good boour. he's already been through this. till e tell him he died the same way he did. >> begging people to try to put themselves in the father whose son they are looking for. you hear sort of an anguished low cry. there are no words for this or perhaps new ones that need to be created that can how we utterly failed syria. >> ben is following this story live in beirut. you see the video there, without any question there's a lot at

stake with this possible vote in the coming ahoir hours. >> it bats collision comes down to the rugszs have a serery os conditions that the other countries involved in this vote have difficulty agreeing to. the russian for instance, want to make sure this 30 day cease fire does not include any fighters with isis or the new front to the al qaeda affiliate's new name. in addition to that the russian wants to guarantee that the other rebels will respect the cease fire. the two main cease fires, there's the -- but the americans cut offensively the provision of money and weapons and ammunition to these groups at the the

beginning of the year when they shut down their operations room. and therefore they don't have much influence over those groups either. so the russians may simply be doing this as a tactic to buy time whereby some sort of evacuation agreement will be worked out whereby the rebel fielgters, the opposition fighters amend their families will be evacuated probably to the northwest province where we're seeing a really concentration of opposition members and their families but at this point it's not at all clear where the vote will go. we know that the french president and angela merkel has communicated, written a letter

to the russian president squg that russia shoate in favor of this 30 day cease fire but as a i said it may not companie. there will be a vote but at this point it's not 58 all clear whether the members of the security council can agree on it. >> so the question as to whether it comes at allnd how effect ifz it will be. cease fires don't have the greatest track record of really holding up, so we'll have to wait and see as some people wait and see, some people underground. thank you for reporting o. >> still ahead here on newsroom. the u.s. cracking down on kin companies. we'll explain how the u.s. is

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welcome back to cnn news room. this time the u.s. is targeted dods dozens of shipping companies. the u.s. and south korean officials is to force north korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

>> the president's been very clear, he's not going to broadcast exactly ma his plans are. ewe are going to con a campaign of maximum pressure. the latest sanctions are the strongest that we've had onconorth korea. hopefully we'll see a change on behalf of the nortd koreans to stort to denuclearize. >> while in pyeongchang, south korea, she tierer cheered on team usa at several events. but the first daughter and senior advisor to the president say the main purpose of her event is to push. and clearly the first daughter has to object ifz thes to cheer the usa team but also play into

diplomacy here. >> one are the photo opss, smiling, taking pictures, that's public side but beheends closed doers there have been discussions at the blue house, and one of the things that ivanka trump briefed her about was this new round of sanctions against north korea, the largest sanctions every imposed. the first daughter is the one who is conveying this information all the way to south korea's head of state and he's been briefed about a lot of topics. >> with regard to these angst sanctions what has been the response and how biting have the sanctions been that are already in place? >> so the treasury department

said that the u.s. has intelligence that the sanctions already in place are beginning to have significant impact in north korea. buzz north korean meeds ya says that that no angsts will cause significant states. the united states is targeting all of the ships that north korea uses to conduct these ill lis sitz transfers of coals. what they've done and they've sailed hair ships outs to a a part of the ocean and they meet up with another country. they transfer these materials, they offer a very good price and then the company will sell those materials and not say that it's from north korea. not only are all of these noths

korean shapes but they're also warning if they have people spotted, trying to that catch these types of transfers in the act, they're saying if those companies are caught they want to make it so sis ki that they will decide this it is not worth the risk. >> all right. thank you so much. >> so sports and diplomacy. we eve seen these two themes play out hand in hand throughout these winter themes. with new york reducing tensions. buzz one man who thread to south korea doesn't think this will change this situation. snoob cook, who is was just 19

when the korean war broke out. he hated the ideology. he then joined the u.n. forces. >> i told my parents i'd be back in a week. he said he wouldn't have left if he had known he would never see his parents or two brothers again. he doesn't know if any of them are still alife. >> one of millions of families destroyed by the corps yeen -- korean war. >> he married in south korea and has four children and nine grandchildren but still misses his family every day. he checks google earth,e the

clovisest he can get. >> this is my school. my mother and farther live there. >> some see it a as positive development. ez's not happy to see a joint korean team. it doesn't think he will change the situation. any family still alive will be funnished for his military desertion. >> lfs almost 20 when i left home. there's no joy of life. i'm waiting to die. i don't know why he says, to be older i become the more i miss my brothers. >> a lot at stalk here beyond the games but foeing on the games there's one more day before the olympics games wrap

up. the court of arbitration says a female bobsledder has been found guilty of doping. the shek superstahr has claimed her if he could gold of these games after winning her first gold seven days aago in alpine skiing. and tam usa will be adding another gold after defeating sbeeden in men's curling. the united states still has a long way to go to catch up to norway. norway, they have 38 tall med dls. that's more than any country has ever won in a single olympic games. >> already. homes are flooded and roadways are a miss many any parts of the united states right now.

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way to pennsylvania you would not leave the danger. that's where the river of danger will continue. that's going to continue to pump to the north and east. oh and by the way, winter still hanging on so we have cold air hanging on to the north. so my concern is not just the flooding which is bad enough but a severe weather potential as well. we get the cold air from frort and west and it will be severe and have the potential to spawn tornados so if you're in this area that's going to be a nasty afternoon for you. and notice to the north it is not gouge to be rainfall. it is going to be snow. so again, this is the time of

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