hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom," and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, america's school shooting epidemic. vigils held for the victims of the michigan state university shooting, as the country marks five years since the massacre at a high school in parkland, florida. we will hear from survivors of both tragedies. a new report says thousands of ukrainian children have been held in russian camps to be reeducated, militarily trained, and even forcibly adopted. and as the death toll in the turkey/syria earthquake continues to rise, images of rescue teams finding survivors under the rubble offer a glimmer of hope. we'll have a live report from istanbul.

>> live from cnn center, this "cnn newsroom." with rosemary church. >> thanks for being with us. well, investigators say the gunman who killed three students at michigan state university was likely planning more shootings. they found a note in his pocket after he killed himself, threatening two schools in new jersey. people in michigan are struggling to come to grips with the horror on campus monday night. they held a candlelight vigil in the detroit suburb that was home to one of the students. authorities have identified the victims as brian fraser, a sophomore from grosse pointe, arielle anderson was a junior, also from the detroit area, and alexandria verner was a junior from the small town of clawson, michigan. >> we now have a complete

generation that's grown up with this, many times over as just a part from elementary school all the way up to now. and now we're looking at this at the college level as well. they lived with this the entire time. it's unfortunate that those with the abilities to even make the most minor changes pretty much their entire lifetime at this point. >> more now on the investigation from cnn's adrienne broaddus. >> reporter: the gunman first opened fire on the campus monday, just before 8:30 p.m. >> oh my god! >> there is still people down there trying to get out. >> reporter: shooting at two locations, the first inside a classroom at berkey hall. >> while the officers were managing that scene at berkey hall, we began receiving additional reports of another shooting at the msu union building. >> i'm coming down stairwell 13 with seven people. >> reporter: new video shows

students hiding in a classroom. reacting to a knock while on the phone with police. >> they said don't open the door! >> reporter: one witness says his fight or flight response kicked in. >> i booked to the far side of the class and ducked down, and he came in and shot three or four times in our classroom. >> reporter: police released a photo of the suspect taken from campus security cameras, and a caller's tip sent them to lansing, michigan. >> suspect wearing bright shoes and a backpack. >> reporter: the search ended just before midnight. >> clear. shots fires 2349, subject down. >> reporter: police said the gunman shot himself during a confrontation with police and died. >> we have absolutely no idea what the motive was at this point. we can confirm that the

43-year-old suspect had no affiliation to the university. he was not a student, faculty, staff, current or previous. >> reporter: according to police, they are now investigating a two-page note found in the gunman's backpack, saying he's going to, quote, finish off lansing, and that there are, quote, 20 of him who will carry out shootings, according to a source familiar with the investigation. law enforcement now investigating a local residence where the gunman's father says he lived with him, and two weapons. the shooter purchased two handguns in michigan in 2021, a law enforcement source tells cnn, which do have at least one weapon. >> reporter: the gunman had been arrested before. he was released from pro anticipation in may of 2021 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for possession of a loaded firearm. msu students now dealing with what's next after spending hours hiding from a gunman. >> we took heavy furniture from around the library and just essentially barricaded ourselves

in to a study room to make sure we were safe. >> i was shaking in the bathroom. and it was just terrible. i was preparing myself for the worst thing ever. >> reporter: despite the tough circumstances, there is one greeting among msu spartans that still unites them. >> go green. >> go white! >> reporter: you guys smiled instantly. >> as tomorrow and disgusting and tragic as that was, we are all in it together, and everyone was here for each other. >> reporter: and that's a greeting that made them smile today. and it's one they learned during freshman orientation. and it was needed, especially as these students learn more about that 43-year-old shooter who police say had a note in his pocket threatening not one, but two schools in new jersey. and out of an abundance of caution, at least one of those schools did cancel classes on tuesday. but police say there was no threat. they did say, however, that 43-year-old shooter has ties to

new jersey. adrienne broaddus, cnn, east lansing. >> and even before monday's mass shooting, the state of michigan was still coping with the massacre at oxford high school 15 months ago that left four dead. and that's not all. the michigan state university shooting happened just hours before the five-year anniversary of the mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. here is the message one parkland survivor had for msu students. >> the journey of healing is different for everyone, especially in the lens of something as traumatic and unexpected as this. honestly, in the first weeks of me surviving the shooting at my high school, i was super reserved to myself and didn't want to speak out. but i found power in advocacy and healing in advocacy. so really, i just want to send my love and support to all of the young people that just

experienced this horrific tragedy, but just to stay strong in these upcoming days and stay with your community. being with your community and healing together is really how you get through something like this. >> u.s. president joe biden marked the parkland anniversary by announcing $231 million in federal funding to curtail gun violence. the funds will be used to create projects like red flag programs as well as mental health and substance use treatment courts. >> and it's a family's worst nightmare that's happening far too often in this country. far too often. while we gather more information, there is one thing we do know to be true. we have to do something to stop gun violence ripping apart our communities. >> according to the gun violence archive, the u.s. has already seen 71 mass shootings so far this year.

the gun tree has topped 600 mass shootings every year for the past three years. there is a new republican contender for u.s. president in 2024. former south carolina governor nikki haley has formally announced her bid, making her the first major rival to challenge her old boss, former president donald trump, for the nomination. >> it's time for a new generation of leadership, to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border, and strengthen our country, our pride and our purple. >> haley served as u.s. ambassador to the united nations under trump. her announcement comes three months after the former president announced his third bid for the white house in november. haley will likely face stiff competition from other potential gop candidates. big names including florida governor ron desantis and former

vice president mike pence are widely expected to declare their own bids at some point. well, two source tell cnn federal prosecutors investigating donald trump's handling of classified documents are now asking a court to force one of his attorneys to provide more testimony. one source says prosecutors alleged in writing that trump used attorney evan corcoran in furtherance of a crime or fraud. last month, corcoran appeared before the grand jury for about four hours. a source says he declined to answer some question, citing attorney-client privilege. the white house is sharing its leading theory about the three airborne objects shot down over u.s. and canadian airspace over the last several days. given the limited information they have, officials believe they are balloons serving a commercial or otherwise benign purpose. cnn's oren liebermann has more now from the pentagon.

>> after days of uncertainty about the flying objects in north american airspace, the white house put forward its leading theory, balloons for benign purposes. following a classified briefing on capitol hill, senators from both parties feel at ease, but blasted the biden administration for not being transparent about the objects. >> the briefing was helpful today. i'm not unnerved by anything. i'm confident this wasn't an take on the country. i think it probably served the country well to have the president explain what's going on. >> there is a lot of information presented to us this morning that could be told to the american people without any harm to sources or methods or national security. >> reporter: the state of shoot-downs revealing new compuc compl complications, like what happens with f a fighter jet misses its target. the first missile, a side winder missed over lake huron. >> the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron. we tracked it all the way down,

and we made sure that the airspace was clear of any commercial, civilian or recreational traffic. >> so small you can't see it. >> reporter: new audio from the pilots trying to figure out what that pilot was over the great lakes. >> some kind of dark object. you can see some strings hanging down below it. . >> the u.s. and canada haven't yet recovered any debris from the last three objects shot down. a senior biden administration official says it's possible they may never be able to. >> very, very difficult terrain. the second one off the coast of alaska, that's up in some really, really difficult terrain in the arctic circle with very, very low temperatures, in the minus 40s. >> blast one. >> copy, splampblt. >> meanwhile, new audio of the moment an f-2 shot down that chinese spy balloon that is a complete kill. the balloon is completely

destroyed. >> discoveries were able to get into the water over the course of the weekend and were able to recover a significant amount of de debris, including some of the structure and electronics. >> as for ongoing recovery efforts for the balloon after the coast of south carolina, a significant portion has been recovered. a salvage vessel has been on the scene, but divers haven't been able to work every day because of conditions of the waters there, rough seas, essentially, but they have recovered a significant portion that includes a structure and some of the electronics that will be analyzed by the fbi. oren liebermann, cnn in the pentagon. president biden is scheduled to talk about the economy during a union event in maryland later today. the president is reshuffling his economic team as he is expected to run for reelection next year. the white house on tuesday officially named lael reynard as mr. biden's top economic

adviser. he previously served as vice chair at the federal reserve. the white house also nominated jared bernstein to serve as chair for the council of economic advisers. the latest consumer price index shows u.s. inflation surged in january by half a percent, which is the most in three months. however, inflation is still slowing on a year over year basis, according to the bureau of labor statistics. january marked the seventh straight month that annual inflation has gone down. and here is a look at how the rate of inflation compares to the rise in wages. and you can see there is still a significant gap between the average hourly earnings in blue and the rising prices in green. and that stronger than expected increase in consumer prices led to mixed results on wall street. the dow drop in order than 155 points on tuesday. the s&p 500 was flat, and the

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this just in to cnn. a strong earthquake has struck near new zealand's capital. g geonet, the country's earthquake monitoring system says shaking was felt nationwide with more than 61,000 reports coming in after the 6.1 magnitude quake. it was apparently deep enough that no tsunami is expected and there are no reports of damage at this time. we'll keep an eye on that.

more than 41,000 people in turkey and syria are now confirmed dead from last week's powerful quake. and that figure is all but certain to keep growing. the window for survival is closing, yet glimmers of hope are still emerging from the wreckage. turkey's defense ministry says a 77-year-old woman was saved early today 212 hours after the quake hit. turkish media say she was hugged by family members waiting at the scene of her rescue. and cnn's nada bashir joins us. extraordinary. another rescue, the 77-year-old woman pulled from the rubble more than a week after the quake. what is the latest on this and other rescue efforts? >> absolutely, rosemary, it is truly remarkable. you see in that video the

amazing efforts that are being put in to rescue this woman. 212 hours after being buried beneath the rubble. it has to be said that we are still seeing rescues taking place just in the last few moments, state tv trt reporting another 45-year-old woman has just been rescued after 222 hours beneath the rubble. so as you can imagine, this is a huge relief for those hoping that their loved ones are still alive beneath the rubble. as you said, the window for finding survivors is certainly closing very quickly. but this has really gone far beyond what many people were expecting in terms of the chances of finding survivors this far on since the earthquake struck. and that search-and-rescue effort is still ongoing across southeastern turkey, although, of course, it is turning into more of a recovery effort. that is certainly now the majority of the focus and the sheer destruction, the scale of the destruction that we've seen

in southeast turkey is immense, to say the least. and thousands and thousands of people have now been left homeless as a result of this earthquake. so there is also now a real sense of urgency when it comes to helping those who have been impacted by the earthquake, who have lost absolutely everything. here in istanbul, we are already beginning to see families who have been evacuated to this city. many families now taking part in charity schemes in order to be hosted by families. we visited one family just yesterday who are being hosted by an istanbul resident. they say they lost absolutely everything. they fled their home within just seconds before the building collapsed, a five-story building, leaving with their 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son. of course, while they have settle heard now in istanbul, they say they know many relatives, many friends who are still buried beneath the rubble. rosemary? >> it is just shocking. nada bashir joining us live from istanbul. many thanks. and i want to bring in dr.

margaret harris now, a spokesperson for the world health organization. thank you so much for talking with us. >> it's a pleasure to be with you, rosemary. >> and of course, as we continue to see these extraordinary rescues, many survivors of this devastating quake face enormous challenges, don't they? getting access to food, water, warmth, and shelter. and then we have the injured who need help from your organization. what can you tell us about the medical supplies being sent to hospitals in northwest syria? >> you're so right to focus the survivors. surviving is just the beginning of the challenge, not the end. there are so many problems just getting, of course food, water, shelter. but also getting medical assistance. and that's what we mobilized right from the beginning. now in syria, we had some supplies prepositioned. so we were able to get those to 16 hospitals. but the other important thing was we put out a call immediately around the world for

emergency medical teams. and i'm happy to say the world has really stood up and responded. and we've got 12 international teams in the country in turkey, and we've got another 10 on the way. we also have in syria some bilateral teams from tunisia and libya, also providing help. but -- and we're of course have already sent 110 metric tons of supplies to syria. but that's just a trickle. we need to make this a flood and keep that flood coming. >> yeah, absolutely. understand that. of course, there is a frustration on the ground, isn't there, because a lot of people, they certainly feel a lot of the survivors that they haven't received a lot of the aid. and i know your specific area is the medical aid. but it is frustrating for so many people, isn't it? but there are so many challenges getting these supplies to

people. >> but you're right. one of the critical things for people's mental health. we've tried to really make it clear that much the work we're doing right now is to help people survive mentally as well as physically, and not end up with life-long scars, mental scars is giving them a place of safety, but giving them their needs right away. so that's the real challenge, to get that to everybody and make sure that they have got the things that can give them a semblance of not just safety, not just connectedness, but hope that things are going to get better. >> and you mentioned those emergency medical teams. let's talk about that. how many have been deployed at this time to the quake zone, and how long can this medical support be sustained, certainly from these -- the people on the ground. >> so the point of the emergency

medical teams actually is that they come in completely self contained. so they come in with the skills, but also the equipment, and also the finance already there. and the means of providing their own supplies. we of course as w.h.o. support all of that. but the important thing is not to put pressure on an already fragile or destroyed system. we learned this very much from early disasters like the haiti earthquake, that you can make things worse. you come in with a good heart, but you can make things a lot worse if you don't come in a way that works for the people. as we mentioned, we've got 12 on the ground. another ten coming. but we also have put out a flash appeal for 43 million. and we know that number is going to go up. but we put that appeal out right now to make sure that we can keep funding the expertise coming in, the help coming in and the supplies coming in. >> dr. margaret harris, thank you so much for talking with us. and of course for your good work on this. it's just incredible. many thanks.

>> thank you, rosemary. and still to come, russia reacts after a new report says the government has held thousands of ukrainian children at a network of camps. the details in a live report just ahead. and the community around michigan state university attempting to heal after monday's tragic shooting. we will have the latest on how they're remembering the victims. introducing the new sleep number climate360 smart bed. only smart bed in the world that actively cools, warms, and effolessly responds to both of you. our smart sleepe get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night.

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paying tribute and demanding change. they held a vigil tuesday night for brian fraser, a sophomore from a suburb of detroit. his sister tells the detroit free press she doesn't want her brother's name forgotten. arielle anderson was a junior, also from the detroit area. her family tells local station wxyz she loves children and wanted to be a pediatrician. alexandria verner was in her junior year and came from the small town of clawson, michigan. the clawson school superintendent called her an excellent student who played three sports and took part in school leadership groups. the u.s. house representative for east lansing says it will be a long time before the school recovers. alyssa slotkin says she spoke with students and parents who were terrified by what happened. she says many students stayed holed up in their rooms after

the shooting, and the campus has been quiet. >> particularly because it wasn't just a shooting. it was also a manhunt on campus. it was sort of a double trauma in a way. and everyone felt the effects. over 550,000 students here. it's a traumatic thing that's going take a while to get over. >> meantime, one survivor of the oxford high school mass shooting was forced to relive her trauma all over again on monday. 15 months ago, emma riddle hid inside the school's band hall when a student went on a rampage. on monday, she was hiding under her desk in a michigan state university dorm while police searched for the suspected shooter. here's what her father said earlier. >> it's been unexpected and pretty incredible that we've had

to go through this again with . and i remember thinking after the oxford shooting that okay, you survived and it's tragic and you lost friends, but this will never happen again, right? it can't. so you've been through it, and this trauma is something that you've experienced. and you're done, right? that's kind of what your brain tells you. there is no way it can happen to somebody twice. as pa parent, it's heartbreaking to hear that fear in her voice again. and something that i've never forget the first time. and now there is a second time. and you're heartbroken because all you want as parent is to protect your children and keep them safe. >> according to her father, emma riddle is back home and until classes start again. well, now to a disturbing new report. the details and expansive network of camps in russia where thousands of ukrainian children have been held since the start of war.

one of the report's authors says it appears the primary purpose of the camps is political re-education. russia is dismissing the report as absurd. cnn's clare sebastian joins us now live from london. good morning to you, clare. so what more are you learning about details in this report on the russian government operating this network of camps? >> yeah, rosemary, we've had reports from ukrainian officials all the way up to president zelenskyy himself since the good evening of the war of the alleged forced deportation of ukrainian children to russia. but this report by the conflict observatory at the yale humanitarian research lab, backed by the state department gives more details to that, and in particular what happens to children in russia. they say that this affects more than 6,000 children from several months old to 17 who they say have been in russian custody at some point over the last year. and they have identified a network they say of 43

facilities or camps whose primary purpose they say is the political re-education of these children, exposing them to patriotic, culture sort of russia-centric dealer, and even identified two cases of a specific military education, even training children on how to use firearms. take a listen to what the state department spokesperson ned price had to say about this. >> the network of facilities which these children are sent is vast, spanning from russia occupied crimea, across russia itself, from the black sea region to its far east. putin seeks to rob ukraine of its future by taking its children. russia's system of forced row location, education is an element of the kremlin's systematic efforts to deny ow crane's history, identity and culture. >> the unlawful relocation or transfer or deportation of

protected persons is a breach of the geneva convention and constitutes a war crime. russia meanwhile consistent with previous justifications of this war that it is about protecting people has called internet ned price's statement absurd. this is what they had to say from a russian embassy in washington. we remind that russia accepted children who had been forced to flee in she'll shelling in ukraine. we do our best to keep minors and families or in the absence of death of parents or relatives to transfer orphans under guardianship. we ensure the protection of their lives and well-being. the report does note that in many cases children were taken though these camps with the consent of parents, but it also notes and questions the ability of parents to give meaningful consent in the context of war. and it talks about other cases, for example, hundreds of children where their status is unknown being in these camps. and instances where children, when they were returned to their parents may have been delayed, in some cases by several weeks.

so very concerning development. and russia, meanwhile, calling these allegations absurd. rosemary. >> all right. our thanks to clare sebastien for that live report. still to come, the u.s. blacklists companies linked to the chinese military, some with a history of making balloons. after the break, cnn tries to track down one of their fac factories. i will use rid-x monthly to help prevent a backup. because rid-x is scientifically proven to break down septic waste. guaranteed. ( sfx: toilet flush ) get your together with rid-x.

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china. those concerns are getting even more attention after the shoot-down of a suspected chinese spy balloon earlier this month. over the weekend, the u.s. commerce department restricted six chinese companies with ties to military aerospace programs from buying u.s. tech without government approval. cnn's selina wang has more now from beijing. >> reporter: they're hoisting the balloon up for a big moment. it's the maiden flight for china's first high-tech giant balloon. state tv says it's for both military and civilian use. "if we can mast their technology," the narrater says in this documentary, "it might become the killer move in global competition." fast forward to 2023. >> holy crap! negative, the world's attention is on china's balloons. the u.s. commerce department has blasted six entities to china's

aerospace programs from obtaining u.s. technology without government authorization. and the balloon launched in this documentary was made by one of the blacklisted entities, beijing's aerospace technology. we tried to find a place. we yeo low waited a possible dress for one of its factories. >> according to state media, they have a balloon factory on the outside doors of beijing. so we're getting close now. this appears to be the exact spot from the state tv documentary. you can even see the same view of the mountain ranges behind me. but if you look here, it looks like there used to be buildings here, but now it's just this empty space. and there is this metal gate, a barrier over this area. we actually smoke to multiple villagers around here. none of them have heard of a balloon factory in specific, but when we showed them the state tv documentary, they said it was definitely filmed a this area. and two of them say they know

several of the factory in recent years have been torn down. which edon't know if it has anything to do with the six blacklisted companies, but beijing's company has flown over the u.s. before according to state media. in this 2019 state media video, pointing to a computer screen showing the trajectory of an unmanned air ship flying around the world. he says look, this is the united states. beijing claims the balloon that intruded u.s. airspace this month was only for civilian purposes. but u.s. intelligence officials claim the balloon is part of a fleet of chinese surveillance balloons. the general manager over the balloon company told state media in 2015 that the balloons can be used for military purposes, if they carry telecommunications or surveillance equipment on board. another scientist found it met

msat, another balloon maker on the blacklist. in this 2017 state media report on m-sat, the anchor touts that they can carry a large number of detectors for surveillance oreck sans for civilian and military use. cnn has reached out to all 6 entities for comment but noun have responded. thinking balloon program is not just for surveillance, but also for strike and the potential for dropping warheads, including hypersonic glide vehicles from high altitudes. >> reporter: this week beijing has made accusations of its own, saying the u.s. has illegally flown balloons over chinese airspace more than ten times last may, a claim the white house immediately denied. >> there is no u.s. surveillance aircraft over chinese -- in chinese airspace. >> the u.s. is now on high alert for airborne objects in its

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derek? >> hey, rosie. it's almost like we have a one-two punch swinging through the western and central u.s. right now. two distinctly different storm systems, but both creating havoc, depending on where they're located. now you can almost track the first system on her satellite as it exits the texas panhandle and moves towards the upper midwest. this is creating blizzard conditions on the back side of the storm system, western minnesota as well as eastern sections of the diagnostic coats. now the second more powerful storm system is starting to wind up across southern california and into great basin. this is going to be the catalyst for some significant snow and potential for severe weather as well. take a look at the winter alerts that are spread out across the country right now. you can almost draw a line separating the two separate storm systems. one to the north. you can see the blizzard warnings in effect for minnesota. the winter storm warnings with a second across the four corners. that shading of blue means

within the next 36 hours look out for the potential for heavy snow. that extends into northern section of illinois. with both of the storm systems moving through, there is a significant amount of energy. that's translated into high winds at the surface. we've got 80 million americans under wind alerts. you can see that through the great lakes, the ohio river. and much of the western and southwestern parts of the u.s., including just outside the los angeles area. wind gusts could exceed 60 miles per hour. just look at the forecast wind gusts with the secondary storm system as it photograph verses eastward and encounters a significant amount of warm air. with know what happens. here we good again. another round of severe weather possible across the deep south. here it is for wednesday. we have reefly 20 million americans that need to keep an eye to the sky from paducah, from memphis towards shreveport and lake charles. and then more of a suicide spread severe weather event possible on thursday, stretching

from the gulf coast through the ohio river valley. isolated tornadoes, damaging winds can't be ruled out. and i want to draw your attention to the central portions of k&n. some of our tonight models are pick up on several inches of rainfall. a slight risk of flash flooding throughout that area. and you can also notice the snowfall starting to accumulate across much of the great lakes into the midwest. this is north of chicago. let's say madison and milwaukee traps going into traverse city as well. all expecting up to a half a foot of snow. and the cold air that settles in behind it, that will be short-lived, unfortunately. rebounding nicely, the same for chicago. rosemary, back to you. >> thank you so much, derek. appreciate it. sandwich giant subway says its shareholders are exploring a possible sale. the fast food chain says its hired jp morgan to help conduct the process, but cautioned that

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