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issues. alright simon, we'll be watching. thank you very much for that this morning continues right now. so kids coming out holding hand in hand. i saw officers coming out bleeding as awe. just raleigh motion. had officers tell me they weren't sure if they could do this anymore after carrying kids out of the building, it was just a tough, tough scene. that is the nashville police chief, weighing in on the devastating scene that we all saw yesterday coming out of nashville. good morning, everyone. poppy is off. john and i are here as you heard there from the police chief. he's describing a horrifying scene played out at an elementary school in his city yesterday for 39 year olds and three school staffers were murdered. overnight police released new
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video disturbing video of the shooter entering the school, and we have new information just in to cnn that the shooter had actually reached out to someone on instagram moments before. also this a crucial witness in the donald trump hush money case testifies again. david pecker, the former publisher of the national inquiry appeared before the grand jury. for the second time, those jurors set to meet again tomorrow. and at least 39 people have been killed in a fire that swept through a migrant detention center in mexico. we have new details coming in. but we start this morning, tracking the several overnight developments as we are getting new details out of nashville, where that school shooting took place, including this surveillance video from inside the school and new information about the minutes leading up to the murders of 39 year old children and three school staff members. i want you to know that what you're about to see is disturbing. this is the shooter pulling into the parking lot from surveillance video. now that identified as a 28, year old former student of the school arriving at covenant
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school, too small, private christian elementary school. only about 200 students total, the shooter had a handgun and two assault style weapons. we were told, blasting the way through the entry glass doors at 10:10 a.m. then climbing through one minute later. the shooter, as you can see on the video roamed the hallways, eventually taking six innocent lives. the 1st 911 call came in at 10 13 am 14. minutes later, the shooter was dead, getting brand new information about the moments before the shooting former middle school classmates as the shooter reached out to her on instagram minutes before the rampage, writing one day this will make more sense left behind more than enough evidence behind , but something bad is about to happen. every on a patent joined us just moments ago, telling us those messages. i just i just couldn't believe it like i'm in effect. you know that. i the, you know, i tried to reach out, you know, not even knowing that
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it was her. i didn't i just i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. wish where she was. you know what? what she was dealing with. i just i don't know. a lot of questions still remain this morning about the shooter but first and most importantly, we wanted to focus on the victims. 61 year old cynthia peak was a beloved substitute teacher. six year old catherine kunz was the head of the school. 61 year old mike hill custodian. the young victims include nine year olds, all three of them, william kenny halle scruggs. you can see here pictured with her father. he's actually the lead pastor at covenant church. this is a photo of them from 2019 and evelyn dick house, the tennessee and reports that her sister, i fifth grader cried at last night's vigil, saying, quote i don't want to be an only child. cnn's
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sandra walker is in nashville. covering all of this, aymara. i mean, the more we are learning this morning about these details about what led up to this and what happened in the moments before this tragic shooting took place. there is so much more that we're learning and look, the reality is that there are six families waking up this morning here in nashville without their children, and without their loved ones. this is what they're going to have to go through for the rest of their lives. in the meantime, here at covenant school, the investigation continues. it will be the second day police will be arriving. to process what is now a crime scene. i don't know how somebody could go through with doing something like that, and especially children, like just it's disgusting. and i yeah. i just i have no words this morning. another community is in mourning after what police are calling a targeted attack by 28
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year old audrey hale, a former student who showed up on campus to execute a prewritten plan indicates that there was going to be shootings at multiple locations. and the school was one of them. there was actually a map. of the school detail and surveillance entry points and how this was going to be carried out on this day. metro nashville police releasing more than two minutes of surveillance video showing the moment hale arrived on campus in the video, hale is seen driving through the parking lot of the covenant school in a silver honda fit the security camera footage, then cuts to video of hail, opening fire on glass double doors at an entrance of the school before climbing in as the video continues, you see, hey, will start roaming the hallways. police say hail had three weapons and they are style rifle and our style pistol and a handgun along with significant ammunition. police say they believe two of those weapons may
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have been obtained legally, officers say when they arrived on scene, hail fired on them from a second story window. one patrol car taking a bullet to the windshield. police say two officers confronted hail on the second floor. and hale was killed during the shooting. avery myrick was texting with her mother, a teacher at the school. i texted her and i said , just like what was going on. she said she was hiding in the closet and that they're shooting all over. she later spoke to her mother by phone and learned she was safe this morning. we're learning more about the victims 39 year old who were killed. evelyn. dick house. william kenny. halle scruggs also killed 60 year old katherine coons, who are, according to the school's website, was the head of the school police also identifying 61 year old mike hill, a custodian and 61 year old cynthia peek a substitute teacher. police continue to
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investigate a motive but say they have a theory. there's some belief that there was some resentment to having to go to that school. don't have all the details to that just yet, and that's why this incident occurred. of course, motive is the big question. why would anyone go on such a deadly shooting rampage? metro nashville police also said that the shooter scouted a second location but decided against it because there was too much security there. enhanced chose the covenant school, this private christian school, we learned that there was and is no school resource officer or security guards on campus because this is housed inside a church, perhaps questions will be raised on whether or not that policy needs to be changed. yeah, definitely a lot of questions that we still have emerald walker, not a nashville . thank you very much. so the police response in nashville stands in stark contrast to what happened last year in your baldy
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, texas. you've all the law enforcement waited more than an hour to confront the gunman in nashville. the response to just 14 minutes from when the 1st 911 call was placed to the shooter. being killed and police say five officers responded after the 911 call came in at 10 13 am central time as they arrived, they said the shooter fired on them from a second floor window. two officers then made it to the second floor where they shot and killed the shooter at 10:27. a.m. 14 minutes 14 minutes. and both eovaldi and in nashville. the shooter entered through a side door and you've already police say that the door was unlocked. cnn has identified the side entrance that the shooter in nashville uses on the west side of the building. it is unknown if the door was locked or not, but as you'll see here in this surveillance video, it didn't matter, right? didn't matter. the shooter just fired. their way right through two glass doors. cnn's senior crime and justice correspondent is shimon pro prepares. simone
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joins us now he wants polk award . as a matter of fact, there is reporting and you've all date, shimon. um good morning to you. you were actually in the vaulted yesterday you were speaking to parents about the prospect of another shooting. and then this happened in nashville. what was the reaction was just finishing up an interview with parents of a 10 year old girl who was killed and you've all day and we were talking about what do you say to family members who go through something like this? because it's gonna happen again , and sure enough, as we were wrapping up the interview, we finished the interview. the mom turns to me and says, oh, my god, there's been another shooting and the pain all over her face. i mean, these families in your body. certainly, um are suffering and they will suffer for the rest of their lives, and they are fighting for justice. they are fighting for reforms, you know, gun reform and to see another shooting like this happen again. reliving it again . um, another parent texted me whose daughters her daughter survived. she's not send her back to school. she's too scared
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to send her back to school because she's afraid of the security and whether there is enough security at schools. she was thinking about sending her to private school. she said to me well, this happened in the private school, right? i said, yeah, she said. well now i'm not sending my daughter to private school. so there are families all across the country that are really afraid to send their kids to school because you know, one of the parents said to me yesterday. it's one thing when you leave your kid to go to school. you have no control over them. you dropped them off. you leave. and you expect them to be safe. if you go into a supermarket, you're there with your kid. you can protect your kid if there's a shooting in a supermarket or somewhere else, you have no protection for. you can't protect your own kid. and this is something that many of the parents and you validate are living with the fact that they couldn't do anything to save their kids. and now many of the families here in nashville are going to have to deal with what could they have done possibly different to try and save their kids to prevent this from happening? you know, you talk about the door. you talk about guns. you talk about mental health. right? clearly something
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needs to be done. and these families realized this and you've all day. um and just with the ease in which this shooter was able to get inside the school, i mean that to me. it's certainly very striking. can we talk about that? because i know one thing that we have also talked about is the police response. the fact that the first call and when the shooter was killed, 14 minutes had allows between that but the door. my mom is a schoolteacher 1/4 grade teacher classroom is right by the door. and after you've all the we talked about this, and the precautions they take and locking the doors. but the door was locked here made no difference. no difference because of the ease of which the shooter was able to shoot through the glass. you know, schools in many ways are now kind of soft targets. after 9 11. there was all this security that went into infrastructure and buildings to prevent against terrorism. um you know, schools now are a target a big target for shooters for killers, and they studied. you know this shooter here we have evidence did surveillance knew where to go new where they could possibly
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get in with these, and they found that door. the other thing i think with this is that we need to learn more about the shooter right there. certainly indications if there are this trail of warning signs with this shooter, so hopefully today the police can release more information more about the timeline. the 14 minutes? yeah, it sounds fast. but it's really not that fast. you know a lot of times these things are over in 3456 minutes, so i think we need to know more from the police on the timeline and go back and look more on what was going on in the shooter's life at the time. interesting time that we're interview is saying that your mom's classroom being near a door and with when i was in school, i'm sure when you were in school, the windows were open. the doors were open this, you know what i mean? it's justo think that we need to fortify schools, right? no one wants to think that and you get attacked for saying that, maybe, like at aree supposed to make schools into prisons? nout this is something that i think talk. go spend a year in your body as i have. they have built
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fences like massive fences around the schools just so that parents can feel safe about sending their kids to the world . we live in this way surveillance video from both what happened in your body, and what we're seeing this morning is so disturbing. sean don't we want you to keep around us? obviously you are such an expert on this and you've done so much reporting on this. we want to broaden out this conversation this morning and talk more about, you know. the aftermath of that sissy gossip. goff is here. she is a director of child and adolescent counseling at daystar counseling ministries in nashville and was so happy to have you thank you for joining us this morning, ms gab you rushed to the church yesterday, where parents and children were united to volunteer your time. how is this tragedy affecting the community there? well obviously everyone is just devastated. this is a very sweet school. a lot of families that care so much for each other. i was standing next to a friend yesterday whose kids are in the
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school and she said, we are a family at covenant and i think they're feeling the reverberations of that. one thing that were so struck by. i mean, you look at the front page of the new year of the washington post today, and it's this this young child who is being driven away from the school on a school bus. it's just this anguished image that we are seeing. and i think the question that so many parents have this morning is a had a how they feel dropping their own children off at school. shimon is just talking about but als if their child was there, what they what do you even say to your child as a parent who's waking up this morning in nashville? i love that you're asking that because i think it's so important, i would say, first of all as grown ups, we really have got to manage our own anxiety because kids pick up on it. and so that would be 1st and 2nd. kids have this amazing, innate ability that they asked for the information that they're ready for, so we want to have really short factual statements . be the source where you're the one telling them, not someone else and then really let them lead the conversation. so say
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your 2 to 3 sentence and let them ask the next question and then answer that age. appropriately honestly, and let them ask again. you were at the re unification center. can you tell us what some of the questions were? how you helped in counseling. can you talk to us about that? please? yes most parents were just asking exactly what you all just asked. how do i talk to my kids? what do i say? how do i help? and then i got yes. what can you talk to us also about, um, listen, obviously, the people who are affected most by this are the families who are involved. but really, the whole country is traumatized, re traumatized every time something like this happens for the broader audience watching now they're saying, my gosh how you know how much do we have to deal with this is katelyn polantz. reminded me of images of seeing, you know. hearses going by families in
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their young kids, and everyone is just sort of re traumatized over and over and over again. how much more can any of us take with this? i don't have an answer to that. i wish i did. i wish none of it. i wish we would never have to go through this again. and i think we certainly need to circle up and be near kids and give as much support as much opportunity for them to process their emotions as we can and be safe, steady sources of support in the midst of that yeah, it's just insane that you have to even think about how to talk to children about that, sissy. thank you for joining us from nashville. you have a unique perspective on this. you were there at the reunification center. thank you for your time this morning. thank you. to shimon. for what? you your perspective on this and what these families are going in. and of course, our hearts go out to the families. those are the folks who are are dealing with it, evelyn. haus, nine years old halle scruggs, nine years old william kenny, nine years old cynthia peak, 61, katherine coons, 60, mike hill, 60. one
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years old. yeah. so straight ahead about 15 minutes from now we're going to be joined by the mayor of nashville. his name is john cooper. we're going to talk to him more about this and what he plans to do and what the city is dealing with. that's coming up. so many questions remain this morning. also this morning, we are tracking other domains. another round of severe weather is expected to roll through california we have a reporter live on the ground in san francisco, where storm fatigued communities are preparing bracing for more rain. she's feeling the powerer of listerin. he's feeling it. yeyep them too. it's a an invigorating rush, zapping millions of germrms in seconds for that one of a kind won't which leaves you feeling? blisteng feel the wo. anyone who's ever sold a home can tell you it is really hard, and it's one of the biggest financial decisions you'll ever make. that's why who you work with
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trump the manhattan grand jury examining trump's role in a hush money scheme has heard from former national inquirer publisher david pecker again yesterday. pecker up here before the grand the panel in back in january. it's not clear yet why he was called back for more testimony. we're still reporting on that. pecker was the chief of executive of the national enquirer's parent company known as am i. until 2020. he played a key role in connecting stormy daniels is attorney would then trump attorney michael cohen when daniels wanted to sell her story of an affair she says she had with trump to the paper. trump has denied the affair. he continued to do so even as of last night. but cohen did ultimately paid daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence. the grand jury is next scheduled to meet tomorrow. the panel last convened on march 20th. that was when they heard from bob costello at the request of trump's legal team to in order to contradict and pushed back on testimony that was then provided by michael cohen. trump responded to all of this last
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win alert, wind alert that could reach up to 70 miles an hour since camila bernal live in san francisco with more this morning . good morning, man, california just getting hammered. can't catch a break. how are people? what are they doing? they're bracing for another storm. well look, everyone is just thankful for the rain, but also trying to do everything they can to get prepared, especially people that have already been flooded because the situation can get worse. it's just another round of storms here in california, the ground is already saturated . that means the potential for a lot of trees to come down, which also can translate to power outages, so you have to prepare for those power outages as well up in the mountains. there are many roads that are already closed because of the mudslides and the rock slides. there could be more closures. we have record levels of snowpack already, so it is just incredible what we've been seeing in california. the forecast today in the bay area, 1 to 2 inches of rain in may not seem like a lot, but again, it
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make on time payments. cf 30 poump in their credit score , on average, download the app today i'm melanie is known in washington, and this is cnn. you can see nashville there. there's more now on our top story this morning as we were tracking all of this. here's what we know. at this hour. the national school shooter has been identified as a 28, year old former student
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described by police as a female to male transgender person. the shooter had detailed maps of the school, including entry points to the building and was armed with a handgun into our style weapons. newly obtained surveillance surveillance video shows the shooter firing through entryway doors before roaming the halls and eventually killing six people. the shooter was then killed by police 14 minutes after thest 911 call had been placed. the mayor of nashville, john cooper, joins us now and good morning mayor. as i said, i'm so sorry that you were joining us in these circumstances and under this, and we want to talk about the victims in a moment, but first, i would like to start with what investigation. and have you learned anything else. from authorities this morning about the motive here. well known about motive. expect the police will have a lot of information today with the release of body camera footage and then probably had a discussion about this manifesto. they found a lot of docus. thiwas clearly
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planned. there was a lot of ammunition there were guns. it speaks to the heroism of the first responders that we're able to deal with somebody who was prepared for police response, and yet it was dealt with within only 14 minutes in running to gunfire and under a lot of gunfire and in nashville. this is our worst day, but it could have been worse without this great response. so we're very grateful for that. we're showing those two officers who heroically responded to this there now on the screen, so you do expect that officials will release more body cam footage today or body camera footage today. and you do expect them to tell more about the documents they found. that the shooter had . i do. i mean, we have a good policy here of being very transparent and as quickly as they can. all this is going to be released to the public. what do you think we're going to learn from that? well i think i think the public is gonna go
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back to understand our questioning why we have so few restrictions on guns, particularly assault level type guns that guns and gunfire. the number one cause of death with children, and we really can't tolerate that anymore. and the fact that you have nashville joints now a long list of where their school shootings where our kids are targeted. and you've got to be careful about the mental health and access to guns issue in america. now in tennessee, we've been rolling back gun laws and making them guns almost ubiquitous, but it makes guns. first of mind when people are thinking about doing terrible things, and we've got a we've got to make that clearly more difficult. we owe it to the parents, everybody that's attending every vigil in nashville. feels that there needs to be a public response to
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this kind of tragedy and to say enough is enough. and when are we going to learn? and we're grieving city? um right now and guns can be, um, second amendment for sure, but they can also be a little bit of a cult and let's let's not let's let's keep him out of the hands of people who should not be having them. do you think there will be any changes guns? president biden is calling on what do you what do you think will happen in washington? any action? well i think it more likely from the federal then from this state level cities are relatively not that effective in doing this, i think hopefully in the state will reverse the tide, as opposed to a 10 year tide of reducing regulation common sense regulation on guns to go back where we were just 10 or 15 years ago, which was not an anti gun place to be. it was just
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common sense regulations, so i hope the federal government will end we'll take this back up because i think the nation is demanding a discussion on it right now. it seems unlikely washington will do that. we'll see if that changes but on this investigation when it comes to the shooter back to this we heard from a former teammate of the shooters who got a message from the shooter moments before the shooting happened. do you know if authorities have heard from anyone else who says they also had contact? with this person. well no, i don't. but i will say the manifesto that they found the documents that this was very plant and, uh, numerous sites were investigated and as the chief was saying in his press conference yesterday, there was a lot of planning going on here. so the response the effective response by first responders is all the more impressive. um i do think it will take some time for people
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to really under begin to understand what could be the motives here and right now we have or the footage i think in time, the manifesto and our praise for the 14 minute response that has ended up saving. i feel like a lot of lives here in nashville and mayor. do you know what those other sites were? that the shooter was scoping out? well i think the police will talk about them later today. um from that stanoint, and then for your viewers to know this is a private school. they had their own. um precautions on these kind of events, and it seems to me that they really will probably be congratulated on how good they were that the responding very appropriately and i hyper difficult situation , but it is a private school. we did not have metro police officers there or sorrows, but you've seen the footage of somebody literally shooting their way into the building, and
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that's that's hard to prevent from happening. it's hard to harden facility enough to prevent that from happening. it's terrifying to see i was saying earlier. my mom was a school teacher. she she's right by the door that looks similar to that one. before we let you go. have you been able to have a chance to speak with any of the victims? families yet any of the survivors of the shooting uh, alright. haven't the oil of nashville is praying for them again? thousands of people in our vigils. um and the post traumatic stress for those families and for the city is pretty significant, and i'm grateful for all the counselors doing all of their valued work right now. there's gonna be a lot of counseling going ahead. mayor john cooper. i know you're very busy right now. we're very grateful for your time this morning. so thank you for joining us. thank you. and we have other news to tell you
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presents max original heaven's gate sunday at 10 on cnn. how do you expect the city to grow and prosper, particularly sports communities? when you're talking about the funding the police and the type of the funding that will impact the ports communities. i'molice and you, u know that. you know that i have passed multibillion dollar budgets oand over again, not going to do that. so we are just one week away from the largest big city race to test voters views on crime and policing in the runoff race for chicago mayor brandon johnson and paul vallas. both democratsave starkly different strategies on crime, the top issue for voters , so balance is more moderate former public school chief backed by the chicago fraternal order of police, he has focused his campaign on a pro police tough on crime message. johnson is a progressive cook county commissioner endorsed by the
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chicago teachers union has focused his campaign on the message of crime and addressing the root causes there. so brandon johnson joins us. now we have to note that his opponent, paul vallas is going to join us tomorrow for an interview. good morning, sir. how you doing? hey good morning. i'm doing well. thanks for having me. i'm glad we have you here. so thank you very much for this. listen i'd be remiss since you're a former schoolteacher have to ask you a career as a public school teacher. you spent a while doing that? what is your reaction to the shooting in nashville? yeah of course. my heart is with the people of nashville. i mean, this has been you know what an epidemic for too long in our in our country, and we have to do everything in our power to keep our communities safe. particularly our school communities, as you've indicated, have served as a public school teacher here in chicago, and so my heart goes out to all of our public employees in general who are on the front lines, holding it down for the people of america. and so again, my thoughts and prayers are with the people and the families in nashville and again committed to doing
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everything in my power and my authority as the next mayor of the city of chicago to keep people safe. so with that in mind, public safety is a major issue for voters and this election violence and the city spiked in 2020 and 2021, although shootings and murders have decreased since then other crimes including theft carjacking robberies, burglaries increased last year. so then what is your strategy, sir? it's a serious problem for people all over the city of chicago is something that my wife and i wake up to every single day. we're raising three children right here on the west side of chicago in austin, a beautiful community, but don it is one of the more violent neighborhoods in the entire city over the last four years, just in austin alone , almost 400 homicides. that's more homicides just in my neighborhood than in many of the neighborhoods combined throughout the city of chicago, and so you know, this is top of mind. um, listen, our approach is comprehensive. we have to get at the immediate crisis and we
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have to solve violent crimes in the city of chicago. we have an abysmal clearance rate. when crime does take place. we're not solving it. 5% of the carjackings in the city of chicago have gone 95% have gone unsolved. and so that's why immediately i'm g to tin and promote 200 more detectives so that we are actually solving violent crime in the city of chicago to we have to implement the laws that are that are already on the books. we have red flag laws that we are not implementing. and that's going to cost us money. ando i'm prepared to investn that people who have guns. that should not have them. we don't manufacture any guns in the city of chicago, but yet somehow, um, they flow through our streets. have to make sure that we aree implementing the consent degree that's going to cost me $50 million and there are dynamics within their consent degree that are pretty straightforward. making sure that we're providing mental health services for a law enforcement, making sure that we are providing the research to come up with the reforms that are needed to hold people
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accountable. but we also haveo do what works, which is we have to prevent violent crime from happening, and that's why i'm committed to doubling the amount of young people that we hire in the city of chicago because there's a direct correlation between youth employment in violence reduction. we can do that right away. let me jump in here because listen, i know chicago very well. so local reporter there for a while and then covered on the news. channel level, especially when you talk about that gun pipeline right that supplies so many guns coming into chicago and then the issue that you have. umith neighborhoods that see the most crime in that city. so policing is a big issue there. your opponentpaul vlas has criticized you supporting the defund the police, right? mayor lori life during the election, ran this highlighting your comments, comments that you made we're talking about a whole bunch of stuff, but in particular, like our effort and our move to redirect and defund the amount of money that is spent in policing. i don't look att as a slogan. it's an
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actual real political goal. it's not just a slogan. it's a real political goal. you said. you're going to hire more than 200 detectives and other things as well. but how do you respond in that because you're saying directly that deep on the police? it's not just a slogan. it is a goal for you. gold for you. well here'at going to defund the police. what i was referring to is, if you remember when trayvon martin was murdered. president obamaaid that if he were to have a son, he would look like trayvon. what i'm speaking to the mike brown's the laquan mcdonald's. we're over and over again. you've had people who are prepared and willing to work within the structure of the system in which unfortunately, has been quite brutal to black and brown people. and so even with body cams, it's still continue to happen. so speaking to the real frustration that exists all over the city, all over the city of chicago, but quite frankly,
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around the country that when you work tirelessly to come up with with reforms to stop the brutalization. of unarmed black men, unarmed brown women, right, this happens. too often. this is speaking to that frustration. but what i have said repeatedly is that i'm not going to defund the police and i recognize you know that there have been people on the right in particular, said that president biden was going to defund the police. people say that governor j. b. pritzker was going to defund the police. look, it's a lie. i'm not going to deepen the police. this is about smart policing and someone who was working with democrats single day your fellow democrats who are saying that about you and if you have if you said that listen, i understand that you're giving it context and we live in a society now where people aren real big on context. but do you do you feel that you're going to hav the support of the men and women in blue and the people there who were concerned about crime? if you have said in your past, even with context here in nuance that you're going to defund the police at that was
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a goal for you. so i'm not going to defund the police. and yes, i'm going to have the support. other people on the front line because look 21 of funders for my opponent come right from the trump camp, and so i get it that there are democrats who behave as republicans and this is not a moderate. this is someone who has ruined economies all over the country. here's someone when he was in charge of the budget in chicago, there were over 900 people. being murdered every single year in the city of chicago. even the chicago police department, the former chief of staff, indicated that my opponent's plan is just it's naive in its misleading and so what i've said repeatedly is that i'm going to invest to make sure that we are implementing the consent, degree training and promoting more detectives and that we're providing mental health services for law enforcement whore serving on the front line up against the type of support that need. time crunch here. brandon johnson, listen, i really
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appreciate you joining us and taking the tough questions. thank you. good luck to your campaign. whatever way it goes. we hope that you'll come back here and see them this morning to discuss so we appreciate it. thank you. i will. thank you so much. i appreciate you, brandon for chicago dot com. thank you very much. so tomorrow on cnn this morning, we're going to speak to brendan johnson's opponent, paul vallas. make sure you tune in for that we good to see what he says. in response. also the planets are set to put on quite the show tonight. you will not need any fancy technology like those telescopes to see it. we'll tell you more right after this. my most important kitchen tool, my brain , so i choose doriva plus, unlike some others, plusus is a multitasker supporting six key indicators of brain elf. help keep me sharp, areva think bigger. power outages are unpredictable and disruptive to your le, real threat to your comfort and safety. when the power goes out,
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of rochester. adam frank adam. i mean, i love the smithsonian described this as a parade in the western sky. what are we gonna see? how cool is this gonna be? basically you're going to be able to see the architecture of the solar system. you're going to see the fact that all the planets all orbit around the sun in a giant pancake, and so that line up that you're going to see on the western sky right after sunset is the fact that all the planets right now are in a position on that pancake that they're all gonna basically line up so you'll have mercury jupiter and then uh, venus uranus is gonna be a little hard to see without binoculars and then mars as well. so you know, you're gonna really see where we live. it's listen. you know, there's an old saying that my goodness the planets were aligned. and it means something big and great and good. what does this mean? and i know it doesn't happen very often often. does it happen? and what is this? what is the enormity of this? sir.
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the enormity is like coolness, basically, like, you know, from a cosmic perspective, these things aren't really that rare getting some of the planet because they are all the planets. are we all orbit in one giant frisbee, so it's not uncommon to get the plus some of the planet's to align this one because you're getting so many of them. aligning is a little bit more rare, but it's more just to see where we are. i mean, it's you know what's amazing is we've lost the night sky. there's this guy is so bright now with lights that we don't get to see the planet. but our ancestors even 200 years ago , they noticed that the planets were moving around against the fixed stars, and it freaked him out. it was a show and so for us to be able to be reminded that we live in a in a solar system that we live in on a rock that sterling with a bunch of other rocks around this giant flaming ball is a really powerful reminder of just how profoundly beautiful and mysterious the world is given that quickly. what is the easiest way to see it tonight? what? you just walk
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outside, or is there like a certain place? you should go? what is the easiest way to see it when this happens? you want to go someplace right after sunset, where you get a good view of the western sky because venus and mercury going to be pretty close to the horizon, and they're gonna set pretty close. um i'm sorry. jupiter and mercury venus will be higher in the sky, so you'll be able to see it for longer than eventually mars and the moon. you'll be able to see those as well, but you want to clear view of the western guy. if you have binoculars, then you'll probably also be able to make out uranus as well. in some place where there's not a lot of light pollution someplace. that's you know. where it gets dark, and you don't have better. yeah the darker the sky's the better the show. right frank. thank you so much, adam. thank you. my pleasure aligned for this interview. i love it. what's the significance of that? he said, basically, just because it's cool. it's cool. thank you for joining us. everyone so cnn newsroom starts right after this quick break. have a g great day. not flossing. well, then add the
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