ago and shot and killed at least three adults and three children . she herself was shot, andrew, we only have 30 seconds left any reaction to this news that she was not a teenager, but 28 years old. doesn't affect the tragedy in any way, alex. it's still an absolutely horrific thing that's happened. it may shed light on how she came and in possession of those weapons much easier for 28 year old to purchase firearms . and it is for a teenager. um but we'll have to. we'll have to wait and see is that plays out we get more information from the locals on the scene. alright andrew mccabe. thanks as always, for all of your expertise. we're sorry they got to come in for this horrible news. cnn breaking news continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom

onboard. sanchez bianna golodryga once again, a school shooting in america now what's rare about this recurring nightmare in the us is that we're hearing this time the shooter was a woman national police reporting that the shooter was 28 years old families are gathering in despair. the covenant school in nashville. police say the shooter went on a rampage inside the small private school located inside a church gunning down three children and three adults. the call came in at 10 13 am local time short time ago with spokesman said police came upon the attacker as she was opening fire and killed her. officers entered the first story of the school began clearing it, they heard shots coming from the second level. the immediately went to the gunfire. when the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter and female who was firing. the officers engaged her she was fatally shot. by responding

police officers. the situation is still unfolding, and authorities are directing families to a reunification center. this woman says her mother is a teacher at the school. and i just woke me up this morning and told me that my mom said there was a shooter at the school and then i texted her and i said, just like what was going on. she said she was hiding in the closet and that they were shooting all over and that they had potentially tried to get into a room really scary , really sad, just praying for all the families out there. let's get straight to cnn's emerald walker, who has been tracking the latest details for us amarillo just seconds before we came on the air. police in nashville came forward, saying this was a 28 year old woman. it appears that they have identified her. right this. this is probably one of the more shocking aspects of this horrific tragedy shooter being

identified as a female nashville police are currently working to identify this person who they believed was possibly a teen at first, but now they're saying she is 28 years old. we don't know what her connection was to this private school. if she had any connections, we know the school that she went into this morning and started shooting, um and was a private christian school for pre k through sixth graders are very small school on a typical day about 200 students would would attend classes there. also very disturbing to learn that this woman from nationals nashville police, she was heavily armed, two assault style rifles and a handgun and i think something that stood out to a lot of people. when we're listening to this news conference was, you know, a reporter asked about a school resource officer, a security guard being there on site and, uh don aaron, the nashville

police officer who was giving that news conference said no, there was no security. there was no school resource officer. this is a church. it's a presbyterian church that also houses this private school. this gun. this this, this woman this, the suspect entering this church, which is also a school from a side entrance. what's remarkable is that she did not get inside a classroom. um police responded very quickly. so the call came in at 10 13 14 minutes later. there were five officers who arrived into this school. they and there were two officers of that five who made it to the second floor where this woman was, and they shot at her and they killed her within 14 minutes of that first call coming in. this is a huge tragedy because we're talking about three children. who have been killed. as a result, we don't know their ages. but again

, we can only presume that obviously, these are these are the smallest victims you can imagine, right? i mean, pre k could be as young as four years old sixth grade as old as 11 to 12 years old and then also three adults, three staff members of the school or church that remains unclear. who were also killed as a result of the shootings were talking about six total victims and, of course, 1/7 being the shooter who was killed by these two responding police officers. remarkably nobody else injured except for a police officer. we did here had some minor injuries from from shattered glass. but, you know, i just want to emphasize because i have a child who goes to one of these, um church schools. what you know if you will, um, this is, uh, the school is called the covenant presbyterian school. um and again, it's as you we've been hearing through social media, it seems to be a very tight knit community, you know, especially with this.

school being housed within a church. but it seems right now. i mean, clearly this is still an active scene. it will be for many, many hours and my heart goes out to the parents who are hearing about this, uh, you know, rushing to the campus, there is a staging area, a reunification area at a nearby church. um where parents are showing up, not knowing what happened to their children. giving their child's name to police and, you know, waiting to hear if their children made it out alive. um it looks like that process is still ongoing. you can see nashville police have swarmed the scene. we know the fbi is also has also deployed agents to the scene to help in this investigation. but once again here we are guys talking about another mass shooting, and yet again, another school being targeted. you've been covering this since the first reports came out just a couple of hours

ago, and you're so right that this is every parent's worst nightmare to have to worry about their children and hear reports about a shooting at their school and now, some two or three hours later, still not getting confirmation as to the names of these children, and also we noted that three ah. faculty members in adults were also killed. emerald walker, thank you so much. well, joining us now. on the phone is state senator heidi campbell. she represents the area where the shooting occurred. um i'm so sorry that we have to speak under these circumstances. i know that this is a national nightmare that we've been covering at nauseam throughout just this year alone. 129 mass shootings and we're not even into the month of april. and yet for you, this is trauma for an area that is tighten it and small. can you tell us a bit about this covenant school? i know that we heard from the police spokesman. on a typical

day, it houses just 209 students. yeah, that's right. this is a very small school and the community are being very supportive of one another, but no parent should ever have to go through a day like these parents are going through today where they're sitting in a sanctuary wondering if their child is okay . and even if they know that their child is okay, knowing that someone else's child has been hurt, and knowing that the trauma that their kids have gone through is never going to be remediated because this is such a horrific events. state senator campbell. i'm wondering if you're familiar with families that may have students at the covenant school and if you could share with us, what was your initial reaction to hearing that this was unfolding in your community? well you know, my stomach dropped to the floor just like everybody else in this community, because yes, of course we know families with children at the schools, and quite frankly, i would say that it doesn't even matter if you do

or you don't. this is a culture that we're living in. and if there was ever a time when we needed to remind ourselves that common sense gun reforms are necessary. this would be that moment because this is that does not have to happen. this is, um this is insane. are you hearing from residents in the area? yes i've been i've been with the family is in the sanctuary all day. i'm i'm calling you right now from the from the sanctuary . and at this moment, we're reuniting these children with their families. and you know, um , if i were one of these parents, i could not get to my child fast enough. so they have been incredibly patient. and um , this has just been a very, very tough day for this community and for the parents and for the school and keep in mind that there were also several faculty members that, um, that were hurt and died. i think we're still trying to find

out exactly what happened. um but but they they, their families are also here trying to get information about what's happened to their loved ones. and what's your message to those parents? when you're talking to them, they could understandably be panicking right now uncertain about their loved ones. what are you saying to them? we're just trying to give him as much love and support as we can. you know, the very simple things like staying hydrated and we've opened the windows and the sanctuaries that people can get some fresh air because it can just be a staff locating situations for people and it's this is a wonderful school and i wonderful, um, communities, so everybody has been very supportive of one another. um but you know, it's one of those moments where the minutes seem like, hours. well, state senator heidi campbell, please keep us posted on anything that you're

hearing. we will be covering this. obviously as we get more information as well. i have a friend who lives in the area, and she said her son is at school nearby. a neighbor of hers has children at this very school covenant school as well. so i'm checking in with her. um, it is just the country's worst nightmare doesn't even have to be a parent's worst nightmare. as you said that this is a tragedy that's unique to this country. thank you so much for your time and please do keep us posted. thank you. we want to expand the conversation now and bring in some experts who are as we all are becoming all too familiar with these kinds of tragedies. joining us now is the former boston police commissioner at davis and cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. juliet a number of things stand out to me about this incident. as i noted, they are far too common. there was one in denver last week before there was one in iowa. before that, there was one not far from where i am in virginia. um but

what's unusual about this? this was a 28 year old woman. apparently that's an uncommon profile for these kinds of shooters. yes very much, so there's and the and the fact that it's not common is going to have investigators look for the potential nexus between the school and or church with her. this is just rare. i mean, it is, you know, the mass shooters tend to be male, almost in all instances of a certain age 20 older 20 something year old woman is just something is just not a demographic. we see. so you are. you are going to look more closely to a type of connection or motive that might begin to explain this. there's also another variable that's different to explain to viewers . these schools that are in churches are are essentially open for a reason. it's because the church is open our religious

facilities here in america. whether it's a synagogue or a mosque or a church are open for reasons because we want people to come in and feel comfortable and welcome at our community and our places of faith. that is what this essentially was so the fact that they did not have an armed personnel is not surprising to me because the church aspects of it tend to take over rather than the thinking of it say as a large high school, which we often do are funny, said they've been that the lack of the thing that we do know is that there is someone who was heavily armed, viewed a school as an appropriate target. this is now a consistent story, and the only variable is whether we are horrified because there's over 20 dead or if we're just slightly horrified because you know there's i was about to say. fortunately only six dead. this is where we are in terms of this dynamic in this country is that at some stage some number than triggers are horror. and then this now seems manageable in the

way that we think about it, and that is that is because of our unwillingness to address the underlying commonalities of all these shootings, which is heavily armed people targeting our schools. this is solvable. we know how to solve it. we're just unwilling to do it. commissioner in terms of response time, the police responded swiftly, especially given as we heard from juliette . there was no police stationed at the school at this church. police responded within just 14 minutes of that first call, so given that and given what you just heard from juliet and what we heard from andy mccabe in the last hour, do you agree that this is more of an issue for congress to solve than law enforcement? good afternoon. i agree completely with what juliet had to say it's really horrible to see an unspeakable tragedy like this occur and people in political camps cannot

move off their positions in in light of uh of children that have been massacred in our schools. it's just one of the great disappointments to me because juliet and i work on these issues every week, and we can mitigate the heck out of a situation. we talked about trying to put things back together again, or trying to prevent things by putting up better fences are better locks or having armed people in the in the school. but the truth of the matter is this is an access to weapons of military grade. um and there is no cover and concealment in a school. if someone has a weapon like that, and they start firing it, the bullets go through walls and go through doors and, um, there's literally no place to hide. so the solution to this is that is that keeping these weapons out of the hands of people? who will do something like this? commissioner is staying with you

. you mentioned the way that this shooter was armed to assault style rifles and a handgun. does that speak to you of a high likelihood of premeditation here? yes it does . um, first of all, just carrying that much equipment is not easy to do. um if you would , it would require some planning . it would require, um, the acquisition of not only weapons but also of specialized ammunition that are fired out of these weapons. it would require some level of familiarity with the weapons. those those guns are not easy to shoot. um so there's something going on here and is, juliet said the police will be drilling down into motivation. they're looking right now at cell phone communication, social media posts, they'll they'll hit the house of the individual responsible for this bill. they'll get all of their, uh

electronic media and drove through that. and they'll come up with with a an explainable motivation as crazy as it is for someone to have targeted the school. the tragedy is we couldn't prevent it that that despite the fact that we can put the case together, and have some kind of twisted logic to it. it's just beyond frustration that we can't save our children. it is horrifying in the richest country in the world, and this is a uniquely american crisis that we deal with time and again . juliet on that note, you know, active shooter drills have become the norm in this country for our students going back to columbine in 1999. i'm just curious to get your perspective . how do you train students as young as four years old? i mean, i'm the mother of young children as well. how do you check train students that young to prepare for situations like this? you

can. i mean, essentially, they're just going to be following the teacher at the stage. so this is not older, teenage kids that you can say run or or hide yourself in high schools do have different dynamics because you have kids, sort of, you know around at all times in different rooms, changing rooms through six there in just that room, so all you have is the lockdown capability. and the teachers quick response and so and of course, most teachers are trained in this. we will learn what happened in that regard. you know you count your blessings in this if she was this heavily armed, uh, lot more damage could have been done. so. so what did the lockdown features of keeping the kids as protected as possible work? because we learned that she was not in a yeah, that the shooter was not in a classroom, but you can train until you know, you know, you can train as much as you want, uh, once the school is penetrated by an active shooter

, unless luck and divine intervention get involved, you are going to have fatalities because the ability to get a target if a person is wants to do that, it's just too easy. it's just it's a soft target. it once you are inside the classroom so we can focus as much as we want on fortifying these schools. you know, spend as much money as we want until we get to the moment where we under we, we control the ability to kill children this quickly. we will not solve this problem and i have done this enough with you. ed has done this enough with you in the days to come. we are surely going to learn that this shooter, um people, new people were worried about her family members might have known. this happens every single time and so intervening also having the community intervene in ways begins to make a lot of sense as well. so the laws and the community both have to work

together. we have we have yet to see one of these school shootings where in the days to come, and i will be sitting here, learning mean more about her intent. yes sadly too often . in these cases you hear about folks that bring up red flags that there were whether on social media posts or things that the suspect may have said to them. commissioner i wanted to get your thoughts on this as we have been speaking nashville pd just put out a tweet confirming that it was two metro nashville police department officers who entered the building and went to the sound of gunfire. they engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her in what a spokesperson for metro pd described as a lobby area on that second floor. obviously the response time here within 15 minutes of the call coming in officers entered a neutralized the shooter very different response to what we saw and say you, baldy obviously walk us

through the protocols in place. for officers responding to a scene like this and how those have changed over time. well, ever since columbine. the protocols changed. you know, our job used to be to get to the scene. secure the scene. try to evacuate as many people as possible, but then wait for the swat team to come in to deal with the suspect. after columbine. we realized that people died because we followed that protocol, so the protocol now is to go to contact and basically what that means is the first officers on the scene. are supposed to run to the sound of gunfire. and when we when we train these things with officers and with with civilians, we tell the civilians that even if someone is injured or shot, the police are not going to stop to render aid. their first responsibility is to get to the shooter, and so it sounds like this happened. i mean, ideally, this would be a five or six

minute response. but but 15 minutes is certainly within the protocol of good solid police work and you wait until you get one or two people with you, and then you literally do what the marines described as charge the position now the unique thing about that is if a shooter has a rifle and you've got two officers who were the first ones on the scene with just side arms . they are heavily outgunned in a situation like that, so the courage that it takes to walk into that withering military fire is remarkable. and we don't know all the details here. but, um, but i suspect this story will be compelling. yes you said. we don't know all the details, but at this moment, it appears that the brave work of those officers may have saved more loss of life. commissioner davis juliette kayyem, please stand by as we get more details on this breaking news. if you're just joining us three children and three adults killed after a shooting at a private school in

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breaking news out of nashville, tennessee, where police say a 28 year old woman from that area shot and killed three children and three adults at a private elementary school. let's bring in cnn's jeremy diamond. jeremy we're learning the president biden has been briefed on this unfolding situation we heard from first lady dr jill biden address this at an event in the last hour. how is the white house responding? yeah, that's exactly right. and the briefing by the white house press secretary, karine jean pierre also just wrapped up and in her remarks. what you could hear was this clear sense of frustration that is reverberating inside the corridors of the west wing. right now, with the inaction in congress and the fact that the shootings continue to happen. there's a clear sense of frustration about that. i want you to listen to the white house press secretary just moments ago. so we're seeing the heartbreaking news of another shooting of innocent schoolchildren this time in nashville, tennessee. the president has been briefed on

the situation and our team is in contact with doj and local officials. about what is known so far. we want to express the president's appreciation for the first responders and prayers for all the families affected by this shooting. what? we don't know yet all the details in this latest tragic shooting. we know that too often our schools and communities are being devastated by gun violence. schools should be safe spaces for our kids to grow. and learn and for our educators to teach. and she went on to say that the that we must do more and she said the president biden wants congress to act because, despite the fact that they shoot touted the president biden has signed more executive actions on gun violence than any president in history. there is a clear acknowledgment by the white house that those actions simply aren't enough and that the true action needs to come from congress. she talked about president biden's calls for an

assault weapons ban for closing background check loopholes. and you know when you look back at the fact that you saw the most significant bipartisan legislation in decades on gun violence during president biden's term, even that piece of legislation really only look to enhance background checks for 18 to 21 year olds. it tried to incentivize red flag laws and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding for mental health issues in school safety, and yet we see these shootings continue to happen. and so what is shining through today is also the white house's willingness to immediately they go after this issue and reiterate their calls for the kinds of legislation and the kinds of actions that they believe are needed to try and stem the tide of gun violence in this country. lastly, we also did hear briefly from the first lady jill biden. what she said was that she was without words, she said. our children deserve better. and she said that we all stand with nashville in prayer moments from now we are expecting to hear directly from

president biden. he is speaking at an unrelated event, but we are told that at the top of those remarks to address this latest school shooting. um as we take a live look now, at the white house where president biden is set to speak, we will bring you those remarks as soon as we get them. jeremy diamond, please stand by for an update after we hear from president biden. well as we've noted, since the top of the show, the school shooting in nashville will now join the ever growing list of mass shootings tracked by the gun violence archive. there have been 129 of them across the us in the first three months of this year alone. and last year the us hit 100 mass shootings on march 19th. so if you're doing the math, it seems like we are on pace to surpass what we saw last year. in 2021, a late march date as well and from 2018 to 2020. there weren't 100 mass shootings until may. which like cnn, defines a mass

shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter. a davis and juliette kayyem are back with us now. and the numbers don't lie, juliet right there. there are more mass shootings. they are becoming more frequent . in the last few moments we heard from state senator heidi campbell, who talked about a six gun culture in this country. um, how much do you think these rising numbers are associated with? the culture that is so attached and attracted to guns in our society. very much so in and i mean you just because we can compare ourselves to other countries. other countries have mental health disorders. other countries have have schools and they don't have the kind of mass shootings we do are often say in response to the to the to the slogan. we just have to give good people guns, right and then we'll solve this problem. if we if guns were going to make us

safer, we would be the safest country on earth. we are an overly armed country with weaponry that is just not suitable for civilian society so we can put aside the handgun debate. most of us who are for, uh, responsible gun legislation understand, and most people should be able to understand the difference between a handgun and the kind of weaponry that we're likely to learn about. in this case, rifles and the a r series . the thing i want to make clear is in the politics of this. it's very important that the white house and i commend them begin talking about this immediately because what? what's what happens is we tend to focus on the shooter and i think in this case, we will learn a lot about the shooter because it is a unique shooter. it's a 20 something female. we just don't see that in the demographics and that's going to tell us something. but we also need to look at the totality of

circumstances. and so it's not one thing, so it's it is the mental health issues in our country and the failure of people to get the support. they want strong. red flag laws. it is, of course it issues around supporting our schools supporting our teachers, making them stronger, so i like playing defense as well. but the third piece, of course, is a kind of weaponry. you can't you can't have the first two conversations and not have the third. i think those gun gun advocates will always want to focus on the first two, and i think as a mature society, we need to have all three. i'm not dismissing the need for better defensive measures. that's what ed and i do, often not just missing the need for a much better mental health system that captures people that might turn to violence. but you cannot take guns, access to guns, access to these kinds of guns off the table to be able to solve this problem, even though it's not a

perfect solution. juliette, you're right to point out that the united states doesn't have a monopoly of mentally challenged and mentally ill people or people with grievances. and yet here we are. just look at the statistics as we read coming into you, commissioner we know that the shooter had to assault type rifles and a handgun we heard from the white house there once again, the president is reiterating his call for an assault weapons ban. is that something that you would support as well? absolutely you just can't go to these scenes and see the things that i've seen over the course of my career without thinking that this is that's part of the solution. mental health is a is a very serious part of it. but these weapons that are built for the battlefield should not be in the hands of civilians. and um and so, um, i absolutely support that. i think, uh, we had an assault weapons ban here for a

number of years. it worked. um and you know, when you look at what happened in new zealand and how quickly that government responded to an incident it's just it's just unconscionable that we can't do something similar. and commissioner staying with you. i am curious to get your perspective on the difference is in perhaps logistics or the readiness response of a private school versus a public school. we understand from national police that there was no school resource officer on site, if i remember from the press conference correctly, what do you make of that? well we, you know, we work with both private schools and public schools in in the work that i do every week, and there is a difference and i think it's largely due to the amount of resources the private schools. um look at security as a cost center and, um, there's

they don't have a lot of discretionary funding. um at those schools, so you seem you seem to see sort of a hesitance and i think it's probably built on a perception that wait a minute. we're a religious school or private school. this this stuff doesn't happen here. in the truth of the matter is it can happen anywhere. i hate to say that, but but, you know, i think that incidents like this cause, um, a review. we have to we have to put as many safeguards in place as we can. but knowing that the real solution realized with the with the legislative branch and we should note that we're expecting an update from the nashville police department in the next few minutes, so when that happens, we, of course, will bring it to you and juliette. you mentioned something earlier that this has become sort of an evergreen for experts like you. and i would say for boris and myself as journalists asking the questions. it's just a change in in the victims in the names in

the location, but a lot of the circumstances leading up to it. are the same. what's not the same as how this impacts all of these families lives right now. how do these parents talk to their children? about what they're seeing? what happened to their classmates and what they're seeing, quite frankly, around their schools right now, which looks like a war zone. yes and, of course, uh, and it's not just the kids at that school, the impacts all of nashville and then, of course, reverberate. so we have some idea because we now have a generation that we call lockdown generation. these are the post columbine. pre cares that the kids who were quite young, if not even born before columbine, who are now of age, they have experienced lockdowns as a part of their of their education in a way that you and i did. isn't uh, when we were in school, um and they and they

actually focus politically. on guns and greater protections, much more so than their parents , and i think it will be interesting in terms of the long term consequences of what we have done to children in terms of their experience, how they live with guns. how they think about guns there how they think about whether they would be killed by guns starting to have political momentum, and that's going to be the longer term trajectory at this moment in the community. of course, the number one factor is family unification . we end it appears that the fatality rate is now known and that there are no no one in the hospital once again. this is a this is where used to this these guns kill or they don't right. that's all they do. they have their killer. they don't because that's what they're intended for. and so you you have fatalities at the at the school and apparently no surge of injuries at the hospital. this is, uh you know, this is the

fate of what we're putting our kids too. and so obviously family unification matters. there's going to be mental health and other resources once the school districts reopened. um and then long term help for not just the students who were there their siblings that will be obviously impacted by this. and then, of course, parents. the parents, though, as we know , as any parent knows what we'll never recover. this is not something you manage. this is you know, this is now there's a before and after in their lives , and we do this to parents now , as we've seen in the numbers every single day. an important point of context for just the power that these weapons have that everyone that the shooter hit, ultimately was killed and passed away. uh, juliette kayyem . ed davis. please stay with us . we are expecting to hear two important things. president biden, speaking at the white house. he's expected to make remarks about the shooting and

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one of the best guys in the united states congress, ben carden. folks are welcome to the white house. the light to have you all here. and who are those good looking kids back there? the kids, all four of them. we'll stand up guys. i want you to know like you. i had two

brothers 33 in our family, three brothers and one sister. my sister is smarter than all of us. not a joke. she was used to be three years younger than me. now she's 23 years younger than me. she managed everyone in my campaigns for office even back when i was in high school. we went to the same university two years apart. she graduated on us. i graduated. we had a simple rule in the family. listen to val. my sister valerie is incredible. so guys be nice to your sister. you're gonna need her. you're gonna need her. i promise. it's the same lineup. you're the oldest. who's number two. number two who is number three. twins you guys twins, okay? alright this this that wasn't our outfit. i'm so glad to see you all. thanks for coming with mom. okay you gotta

take care of your mom. dads are much harder to raise, but you know. before i began to speak. the reason i spend a lot of time in the kids. i just want to speak very briefly about the school shooting in nashville, tennessee. you know? ben and i have been doing this. our whole career is it seems and, uh, it's just it's sick. you know, we're still gathering the facts of what happened and why, and we do know that as of now there are a number of people who are not gonna did not make it, including children. it's heartbreaking. family's worst nightmare. and i want to commend the police, who responded responded incredibly swiftly within minutes and the danger reminding the situation really closely been as you know. and we have to do more to stop

gun violence. it's ripping our communities apart, ripping a soulless nation, very sovereign nation. and we have to do more to protect our school so they aren't turned into prisons. you know the shooter? in this situation reportedly had to assault weapons and a pistol to make a 47. so i call on congress again to pass my assault weapons ban. it's about time that we began to make some more progress, but there's more to learn. but i just wanted to send my concerned hearts out to so many parents out there. i've been to so many of these sites has been knows by virtually everyone. and, uh, one of the things you folks should. i know you do know what you should focus on. you know, just like when in the military. my son is in iraq for your other places. you so many members of the

military coming back with post traumatic stress after witnessing violence and participating. for these children. these teachers. you should be should be focusing on their mental health as well. and so i'm grateful anyway. sorry to start off that way, but i couldn't begin without acknowledging what happened. and now i'm grateful to all of you are joining us here today. natalie thank you for that introduction and for doing such an amazing thing in detroit. there. you heard the president address the school shooting in nashville as he was speaking to an s. b a women's business summit event, the president calling it sick, heartbreaking, a family's worst nightmare and once again, reiterating his call for congress to pass the assault weapons ban. we are also expecting the nashville police to give us an update on the deadly school shooting any minute when that begins, of course, we will take you there.

back with us. now cnn's jeremy diamond cnn's emma walker, as well as former police commissioner at davis and security specialist juliette kayyem. thank you all for being with us, jeremy, i want to start with you and get your thoughts on the president's remarks from the east room at the white house, he said of the school shootings that they are quote ripping at the soul of this nation. senator ben cardin was also there and he referenced him at the beginning of his remarks, saying that he and the senator had seemingly been working on this their entire careers. um obviously, last year there was legislation passed to limit access to weapons after what we saw unfold in uvalde, texas, but it just doesn't appear that right now there is much momentum on capitol hill for more ah, laws that would restrict access to guns. no that's right. but as biden himself he has described himself and as the white house press secretary described him earlier. president biden is an optimist, and he is a fighter,

and that is why you're going to continue to hear after every single one of these shootings, president biden swiftly reiterating his call for an assault weapons ban. you know, you'll remember boris that president biden himself. as a u. s senator in the nineties, was instrumental in the passage of the last assault weapons ban, which expired under president george w. bush's time in office . and you did see a notable impact on on shootings and on shooting deaths in the nation during the period that that law was implemented, that is something that the white house has repeatedly stressed. and i do think again. it is notable especially when you think about how president biden is reacting to the shooting now and how asked. presidents have have reacted to them in the past. there used to be this, you know , let's let's wait. let's wait before talking about legislation . let's extend thoughts and prayers and focus on the healing process. for now, before we get to any talk about what kind of legislation is needed. it's very different with this president,

and it may be part partly due to him but also part of the evolving nature of this and the number of shootings that this country has gone through in the last couple of decades. but there is a immediate response now from president biden from his staff and from democrats in congress as well to immediately jump on what they see as the most important legislative solution. that is an assault weapons ban. he didn't bring it up just then, but he has in the past also talked about limiting high capacity magazines and also closing those background check loopholes. but as you said, boris, you know there is no sense of any kind of momentum in this currently divided congress. but those calls from the white house will continue. and julia jeremy describes the president as an optimist. we all need some optimism, but just from a realist perspective and a pragmatist perspective, actually , we're going to go now to the police commissioner and the spokesperson there in nashville, giving us more information on the shooting investigations. as to that. we have three adult

victims. and we have three children. who have been identified and their families have been contacted. ah! right now. i will refrain from sand ages. is that whenever i hope that we would never have this situation. that if we ever did, we would not wait. we would immediately go in and we would immediately engaged the person. perpetrating this horrible crime. and so that's all i can say. right now. we have david ross, director of the tb who will come after me. to address his portion. and then we have others that will say something as well. so thank you. thank you, chief. again i want to echo which chief has said in reference to the great support

and the great team work that has been taking place here and as well as sending our heartfelt prayers. to the to the families to this community of these victims. now i know there will be people who want to criticize us for prayers. but that's the way we do that in the south, right. we believe in prayer and we believe in the power of prayer. and so our prayers go out to these families. um the role of the tb in this investigation is we have been asked by general fund to assist in the officer involved portion of this incident. so the incident where the officers engaged the suspect. we are assisting the metro investigation and the reason we've got metro doing the primary investigation is because it was a fluid scene, so there wasn't a single stop in the action, and so as they investigate the homicides ah then we felt it was most appropriate for them to continue that investigation, but we will assist as as in our role as an

independent oversight on the officer involved situation, and so that will be the road tb. we too want to thank all of our partners. it is special. we've had this conversation. unfortunately too many times. in tennessee. and that is that ah, you wish you wouldn't have to do these types of scenes. but when you do you want to have the working relationships that we have in our law enforcement community here in tennessee? it is amazing. and we've all come together as one and working very tirelessly and will continue to work together to address the situation. it's a horrible, senseless tragedy, and we will be here working with our partners to get through it. and next, i'd like to introduce the district attorney general for this area going from yeah. this is the ultimate crime. when

school children and caregivers are the victims of senseless gun violence. i can't say anything before first. express our concerns for the victims and their families. and the extended . victims that are traumatized by today's events. i came out on the scene today because our current operating procedure is that when an officer is involved in a shooting that comes out and i knew that this was a unique case. um and i want to make sure that everything was handled appropriately. director ross was out here almost at the exact same time i got here in chief. drake had already been on the scene for a while. three of us met and talked about how the investigation was going to be handled made a joint decision affirming what to law enforcement leaders. how they wanted to proceed, which was that metro was going to handle the book of this, but the t b. i would participate in a capacity

to continue with making sure that we have transparency and everything and to make sure that any backup that m npd needs and this continued investigation would be provided. i cannot stress enough how seamlessly that worked to have a conversation. a decision to be made quickly and appropriately as far as how the case was going to be handled from here. hats off to chief drake into director roush i also want to thank chief swan and our federal partners as well. well, i cannot comment about the ongoing nature of the investigation. i'm really impressed with the work that's being done by law enforcement. yes. good afternoon. first let me just say as everyone else. what a tragic day here in nashville. so our hearts and prayers do go out to all the family members. and also the first responders that actually made this call. as always, the

fire department and officer emergency management. our job is to support and we were here at the beginning, and we'll be here until the end. um, we just ask that everyone again, as was stated earlier about prayer. we ask for that. and i'm going support that's needed from our standpoint is to give support in any area that's that's asked for on the scene. so again, we thank you and from this point forward , we'll just continue on with our mission and try to bring some type of closure and resolution. thank you. i anticipate there will be another briefing. at or before four o'clock. we will entertain two or three questions at this moment before these gentlemen have to go back to the scene to continue their work. chief you identified, have you? did you confirm? did you identify the shooter in this case yet? yes we have identified the suspect as a

28 year old female. wait, actually a nashville yin or lives in the natural area. we are having ongoing investigation as it pertains to her at this place where she lived. you have officers there we have. we have was she wearing body armor? can't say that far into the investigation. i don't remember seeing it. but i can't say for certain if he had body armor one and not have any connection to the church. from my initial findings is that at one point she was a student at that school. but unsure what year all of that, but that's what i've been told so far. i can't give any social media or have examined at this point. the investigations are still going going at this point of federal partners, our state partners. we're all looking into that to see exactly this is still fluid

at the time, but we're looking at everything. did anybody pull the fire alarm? we know i don't remember of fire alarm going off was told there was kids that evacuated into a wood line at the presence of mind to do that, and to go to a fire hall. ah once we arrived, arrived on scene. we had everyone moved to first baptist church woodmont, and that way we could get parents and children reunited and then ultimately make the notification on the three kids. we know yet if you are she entered in his locked that's that's there was a door that was entered. all the doors were locked to understanding and how exactly, she got in at this point, it's still under investigation. there is a vehicle that was nearby that gave us clues as into who see who she was. and so but as

stated that investigation is still ongoing school have school shooter protocol. they did have protocol to my understanding. we had unfortunately, three kids that would tragically hurt. it could have been far, far worse. okay folks, we'll be back again before four o'clock. okay. thank you. that was a press briefing from nashville police and other officials in that city. as six people, three of which were kids are dead from another shooting rampage in the united states. but this mass shooting wall obviously all too common is also very rare national police confirming they have identified the shooter 28 year old white woman. who forced her way