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katelyn polantz abosch on the rest of the celebration. it's going to start at nine. but you'll have to look at her instagram for love. this is amazing. i was gonna wear a tim. got this. by the way button. i was gonna wear an alabama jersey under my we went all around. we could not find it in manhattan yesterday, i went in the barbershop. tim is like a walking around my head and trying to find an alabama jersey and we never found it. you guys are the best. thank you very much. thank you to everyone else for all we love you for not doing anything more because i would have paid it that's coming now. cnn news. central is now have a good weekend. okay, now you got now you got to open it. why why are you scared? rescue the rest. please ready, okay? mm hmm. israel strikes back after a major rocket attack is really defense forces launched a series
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of strikes aimed at southern lebanon and gaza. and we're learning this morning that the idea has mobilized its reserve forces, the latest on this fluid situation. cnn is on the ground important new jobs numbers just in moments ago, 236,000 jobs added, but that is below expectations. the unemployment rate is down to a low, low low 3.5% there are signs that things might be cooling off. expelled in an extraordinary move. tennessee house republicans vote to remove two young black democratic members for protesting on the capitol floor backlash and how republicans are defending it. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central .
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major retaliatory strike in the middle east is really forces firing rockets overnight hitting palestinian targets in lebanon and gaza. and the i, d f is now ordering the mobilization of reserve forces. israel strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets fired from southern lebanon into northern israel that we were bringing to you in real time yesterday, the most severe violence at the israeli lebanese border since 2006 now this round is seen as stemming from those raids by israeli police at the al aqsa mosque. cnn's fred pleitgen is near israel's border in gaza. want to bring him in right now, with the very latest, fred, what is the very latest from there? hi there, kate and i'm standing in front of those iron dome missile defense system, obviously very active time here overnight as there were dozens of rockets that were fired from gaza, but also as you mentioned a big retaliation from the israelis as well. and i do have with me right now. the international spokesman of the i d f
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lieutenant colonel richard hicks , tell me tell me some of the things that you guys were doing around gaza but also in south lebanon overnight, so there's been a convergence of frontiers right now for israel of regions. an event started off in jerusalem got expanded to gaza, hamas and into lebanon so basically is due to the events that happened and again. we're in very volatile times two nights ago, an event and temple mount kicked off a response from gaza who is trying to escalate with a lot of special niche social networks, this region. and they started firing rockets after that some palestinian factions in lebanon, predominantly hamas also started fighting israel. so we had like a multi arena with one main adversary. the palestinian capabilities, saying is very volatile time. obviously we saw that last night. what we're hearing today is that israel is calling up some reservists specifically in air defense and also in the air force. can you tell us how many and y you're
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making that move now? so i won't go into the numbers, but i will tell you that we are ready for any developments you can understand from the language of how this event is unfolding. that we want to de escalate. i mean, there's a very, very sensitive weekend ahead with passover, ramadan and easter, all aligning, and we're looking for a hoping for a quiet weekend. although we had another attack the right after the prayers and the jerusalem in the jordan valley, but we look we're looking to deescalate. do you feel that on all sides? do you think there is a chance for de escalation right now? or do you see this? as you say, it's very volatile. do you see that? there is the potential for this to blow up into something bigger. especially right now, when you're dealing with two fronts your in south lebanon and here in gaza as well. so again. there was a language here that we spoke. we were very focused on the things that were threatening us specifically also the rockets from the north and also the rockets from gaza and again, we are now trying to keep the worship and keep this weekend open because it's a sacred time . all the crossings from judea samaria open also from gaza, those people coming in and if
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it's quiet, it will be answered with quiet. there was an attack . also in the west bank today, killing two israeli sisters whose car got shot at can you tell us a little bit about that and how that could also play into the treacherous event, which is an a line of a lot of events we've had in the last few months in this big build up again. judean samaria for the last year and a half has been very unsettled and very volatile. 22 bullets a guy who was sticking out for a car with a family traveling on there. friday to one do their regular errands and he killed two ladies . i have a family. there's another third female fighting for her life as we speak, colonel richard, i thank you very much for joining us. so as you can see, guys, as lieutenant colonel said, it is a very volatile situation here on the ground does seem as though at the moment it is a little more quiet, even though a couple of about half an hour ago, there was another mortar attack apparently coming out of gaza. so it continues to be very, very tense here and obviously all sides here very much gearing up
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for what could happen next, guys . a cautious calm, fred, thank you so much. and please. thank you, lieutenant colonel for coming on. it's important to hear directly from the idea of in this time. thank you very much, john. they want to de escalate. that was very clear from the very clear and it was great to have him there. all right. any moment now we are expecting a major update in the case of three teenagers killed in florida the marion county sheriff will hold a press conference announcing arrests in the case involving these three teams who were killed last week. their bodies were found in three different locations. but the sheriff believes they were together before they died. now. cnn's carla suarez has been following this story for us, carlos and important press conference where we do expect this major announcement. what have you heard? that's exactly right, john. so we're expected to hear from the marion county sheriff at 9 30 this morning. he is expected to detail these arrests as well as some additional information last night, the marion county sheriff said that there is surveillance video that captures the car that
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the three victims were in before and after the murders took place . that's an important development in this case, because, as you mentioned the sheriff's office believes that these three teenagers were all together. at the moment leading up to their debts. their bodies were found last thursday, friday and saturday. now the car in question belongs to 16 year old leila silver nail. she was the first teenager that was found on thursday. the bodies of a 16 year old girl were found the body rather of a six year old girl was found the following day . and then a 17 year old boy was found as well. one outstanding question in this investigation right now is this apparent detail that the sheriff provided early on which is they believe that at least one of these three teenagers were caught up in some sort of gang activity. john it's still unclear at this hour if the sheriff believes that one at least one of these teenagers
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were involved in a gang or whether they were killed by a gang member again. we're expected to get a lot more information come the half hour here as we learn that several arrests have been made in the debts of these three teenagers in mary. in county, which is about a 90 minute drive north of orlando. carlos thank you. so much for your reporting. and again, this news conference is really just what a few minutes away right now, so we are expecting major new details there will bring you to the live when it happens, sarah alright. the political battle is far from over in tennessee after a republican supermajority in the statehouse made a historic decision to expel to democrats for breaking house rules of decorum. the gop led house kicked out representatives justin pearson and justin jones . two young black men, both in their twenties. but a third democratic representative gloria johnson, survived the expulsion vote. all three had interrupted house proceedings to call for stricter gun control measures. days after a mass shooting inside a nashville school.
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rather than passed laws that will address red flagged and banning assault weapons and universal background checks. they passed resolutions to expel their colleagues. yeah, and i think that the issues over yeah . we'll see you on monday. i exactly right. former representative jones. republicans have also responded . last night. i asked tennessee republican caucus chair representative jeremy phase on if they considered how this would affect the expelled representatives constituents. sir who are you? punishing because, yes, you have kicked out these two democrats, but there are tens of thousands of constituents that are also being punished and don't have any representation right now. what do you say to them like you to go back and watch watch what took place today. they literally control the crowd. they control the protesters. they look at them. they do their hand like
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this. they do their hand like this. it's like leading the choir. they were already quite worked up because they love their state and they love their kids, and they want to see a safer place for the children. and themselves. how can we get to the to the answers? are we going to do about gun violence? what what are we going to do about guns in court? what are we going to do about red flag laws? the conversation can happen because they're drowning out sucking all the air out of the room. cnn's ryan young is live in nashville at the state house and watched all of this go down. um i guess the big question now is what happens next. we heard representative jones. i know you interviewed him as well, saying see you on monday. yeah. see you on monday, and i guess what they're going to several news conferences this afternoon to talk about what the next steps are. we do believe the democratic party of national also make some statements about what they plan to do in support of these members. we also talked to a national council member yesterday who told us on monday they plan to vote to put jones
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back into office. that's something they plan to try to do. i can tell you the excitement around. what was going on yesterday was something that was unprecedented. you had so many protesters show up from across the state it even from outside the state to have their voices heard. sarah we're not talking about what so many people want to talk about the focus on the fact that we should talk about gun control and what happened to those children and those moments that happened last week when someone opened fire? that's what the focus should be, according to the folks who we talked to yesterday. now the focus is about what the fight here is that the state house and of course when talking to joe yesterday, he said all his options are not off the table just yet. take a listen. rather than passed laws that will address red flagged and banning assault weapons and universal background checks. they passed resolutions to expel their colleagues. yeah, and i think that the issues over yeah. we'll see you on monday. so you heard
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that ceo monday? something that has been repeated over and over again? i can tell you, sarah, there is a plan to maybe come back monday, enforced with a lot more people in terms of putting a lot more pressure on this body because they really want the republican party to understand they don't plan to go away. and of course, the fight will be over gun control but also be those empty seats now that are inside that state house. one thing that you talked about, representative johnson pointed it out. did she survive because of a race and that was something that people were talking about on the way back of their cars. last night, they said, the focus here in the country looking at this state and the fact that the two black members were voted out, and the one white member got to keep their seats, something that the focus will be for quite some time to figure out exactly what happens next. and also the thing that it may leave on the state moving forward. there is a perception that racism may have played a role in the expulsion of these two young black representatives . ryan young. thank you so much great job out there in nashville, john brand new numbers just released by the labor department show the us added 236,000 jobs in march, the
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unemployment rate dropped to 3.5% that's a low number. cnn business correspondent rachel solomon is here with what this all means, i guess after so much surprise in the economy over the last several months. maybe the nice thing here is not so surprising. well, it's funny because we don't often get to say these days that this largely matched matched expectations, but this larger native touch light 236,000 jobs. the u. s economy added. to put that in context, the expectation was closer to 239. now this is cooler than we have seen in the past year or so right. but in terms of historical standards, still robust jobs growth and that's important to point out. i'm glad you said that 3.5% is very reload because it is 3.5% is pretty much matching a 50 year low, so unemployment remains very long. we can sort of show you the unemployment rate. as of march. 2020 2022. we can see. certainly we had a spike. during the pandemic. but then, of course we've been sort of hovering around 3.5% lower
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than 5% let's take a look at where we saw some of the largest job creation and some of this is still because of the pandemic as we claw our way out of the pandemic, leisure and hospitality still has jobs to add, and i should say when we look at consumer spending where folks like you and i are still spending, john it's leisure and hospitality. it's the services government, also adding about 47,000 jobs and professional and business services, adding jobs, so bottom line here is this a calling? absolutely is this still historically strong growth? absolutely both things can be true. interesting jobs in the service sector going up where maybe banking technology media little bit now, one of the things that people been watching, you know, the fed is watching wages. what are we seeing? there has been watching wages really closely because of concerns that higher wages could make its way into. higher prices and could make the inflation problem a bit harder to solve. right. so this was also in line with expectations. month over month wages increased 0.3% on an annual basis. that's 4.2% so we don't get to say often that
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economists have pretty much predicted what we actually saw in the data. this was a report that they did in terms of to investors like this to economists like this. does jay powell like this? i would argue . yes. i mean, this is not a recessionary report by any means , but it is certainly showing a normalizing economy back to levels that perhaps many people argue. we need to return to everyone likes being right. i wouldn't know, but i'm told that people like being right. right great to see you. hell's oliver. thank you so much, okay. the white house admits mistakes were made in a newly released report on the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, but the administration is not taking all the blame why it's pointing the finger at donald trump plus calls for a supreme court code of ethics after a new report claims justice clarence thomas and his wife took luxury trips on the dime of a republican donor and friend and did not disclose them. millions of americans are right now at risk of losing their medicaid coverage. where when and what you need to know that's all
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having a turbulent start at the masters, admitting he was in constant pain during his opening round. the 15 time major champion suffered severe leg injuries in a car crash back in 2021. woods, though continuing to play hurt today, teeing off in just a few hours, john alright, thanks, sarah. major new developments for a man who has spent a course century on death row. richard glossip could soon have his capital murder conviction vacated. oklahoma's attorney general is asking for a new trial for glossip, who was convicted for ordering the 1997 killing of his boss and sentenced to death. glossip insists he's innocent. the a g's move follows the release of a report questioning the testimony from the state's star witness against glossip. the 60 year old is scheduled to be executed next month. cnn's ed lavandera covering this story for us, ed, why such a big change now? well the details in this report by an
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independent investigator that was brought on by the attorney general in oklahoma is raising serious questions about this murder conviction and this death sentence. the attorney general in oklahoma is now saying that he can no longer stand behind the murder conviction and in a statement yesterday, said that this is not to say that he believes that that this man is innocent, but that he believes that the state of oklahoma has serious reservation. nations about the way the case was handled. and he goes on to say that for the oklahomans to have , uh, faith in the justice system that this murder conviction should be vacated, he goes on to say that i do not believe that justice is served by executing a man based on the testimony of a compromised witness and what the attorney general there john is alluding to is this testimony from a co defendant, the man who confessed to murdering the boss that they worked with back in 1997 glisson
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was convicted in large part because that other defendant implicated him in a murder for hire scheme. but defense attorneys for the death row inmates say they have evidence that shows that this other defendant wanted to recant his testimony so serious concerns about whether or not mm hmm. all of this testimony will be able to stand up at a new trial. so that's where we are right now, and it's quite a dramatic move at this late stage. in the in this case, john 11 era please keep us posted, you know and katelyn polantz, so this process will have to move quickly. it's really wild. this story. coming up for us. millions of americans stand to lose medicaid coverage in the next month, but five states are moving faster than most and could cut coverage as soon as tomorrow. with the key pandemic air policy expiring what you need to know coming up.
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testing on the capitol floor. the move was met with large protests and this morning, very fluid and dangerous situation in the middle east. israel retaliates after a major rocket attack from lebanon. at least two women have been killed. in a shooting in the west bank following a series of israeli strikes on lebanon and gaza. the israeli defense force has now mobilized its reserve forces. we are following all these major developments. john alright, sarah starting this week, millions of people on medicaid could begin losing coverage of pandemic policy that helped 15 million people. has expired. people in arizona, south dakota, arkansas, idaho and new hampshire will be the first affected, they can become losing coverage this month now expired policy banned states from kicking anyone off medicaid even if they no longer qualified, so st stop checking eligibility as a result last year, only 8% of americans were uninsured. that's the lowest rate. there's ever
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been, but the spending package passed last december by congress set april 1st as the date to unwind this guarantee anyone who lo longer qualifies or fails to re in war role will lose coverage. the concern is that this will include millions who are actually still eligible, but slipped through the cracks because they did not get a notice or didn't understand the notice. the department of health and human services, says children, young adults as well as black and latinos will be most affected by this. cnn's amber walker has been digging into this story, and i imagine there are a lot of people out there. concern thinking, how can i make sure i stay on if i still am allowed to be on? john. they'll be concerned. if there even aware of that this is even happening. so as you said, yes, you're right. i mean, this will disproportionately impact children and, of course people in the black and latin x communities, but right now, the most important thing to do for medicaid recipients is to get online. go to your state's medicaid portals and update your
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contact, information your financial information and do not forget to press the renewed button. renewing your enrollment will be the paramount. there are two main things to be. i guess people are keeping an eye on that are concerned about and you mentioned it. john 15 million people. they're expected to potentially lose their medicaid insurance coverage. this is primarily for people with low incomes. not because and about half of those 15 million are expected to lose their coverage not because there are no there are no longer eligible, but because perhaps mistakes will be made along the way by state employees or the medicaid recipients are not aware of this quote, unquote unwinding period and they will fail to re verify their information and re enrolled, um, also to keep in mind. the biggest challenge right now for advocates is just getting the ward out, making people aware that this is even happening. right now. 14 state.
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um states will have about 14 months. i should say to re verify and dis enroll people from the medicaid rolls and i spoke with courtney mcknight. she has an enrollment specialist here in georgia. and she said yes, that has been the biggest hurdle getting people to know that this is even happening. listen. my family can because i have medicaid for my kids, and i can lose medicaid for my kids. is that what you're saying? yes, ma'am. everyone has been pretty receptive. and i think it was just everyone was freaking out because the way the information is given. it's like you're gonna lose your benefits, and it's like no that you have not lost them. you're not going to lose them if you enroll within your 30 days. alright so i mentioned earlier that mistakes potentially will be made as of april 1st. every state has begun the process of re verifying all 92 million medicaid recipients.
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as you'd imagine john. it's going to be a monumental task, especially for many states that are dealing with staffing shortages and high turnover rates, which means that there will be some inexperienced workers who will potentially make mistakes and perhaps deem someone in eligible for medicaid. even if they are eligible, so the best thing to do right now what's in your power as a medicaid enrollee is to get to your state's medicaid portal and update all your information and re enroll. now don't wait for the state to contact you that you need to do so. in this short window. john is such important advice. emery walker. don't wait for the deadlines, check. now this is something really important for so many people. thanks so much amber for that report. sarah. alright john. we are waiting on new information from marion county, florida. you are looking at live pictures. now, as we wait for the sheriff to bring forth some really important new information potentially and arrest. they said one was imminent yesterday, waiting to
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i'll go ahead and tell you because you've been asking me. for specific details. she was located in the trump. now. i want to clear up before we get into those details based on the interviews. digital evidence from her phone. she was there of her own free will. now i'm gonna start off by thanking all of the entities. if there's ever a true example. of law enforcement. communities. coming together. and a. almost perfect collaboration. to come to a conclusion. in a week. on a triple homicide. it's truly amazing. those entities include
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the fbi. f d l e. us marshals office. and in my opinion, probably the best state attorney in the state of florida for the fifth judicial circuit. bill gladstone's assistant state attorneys. o p. d. my detect my deputies, detectives. forensic professionals. and our citizens. who are truly amazing. now this one's gonna come a shock to you. that includes you, the media you helped us. getting information. my emotions right now. are all over the place. because i am so . so proud. of my guys and
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girls. i didn't do a thing. but they stepped up to the plate. and yes, you. you put information out there. and i will admit this. you wore my ass out. have been a booze. you hounded me. but don't ever think i didn't use you as well. to get the information i needed. now the investigators were able to determine this group of juveniles were involved in committing burglaries and robberies, which they were referred to as a lick. now, although. we head out there there was gang related. we have
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nothing specific to say that it was any rivalry or anything to such that cause. but however, each and every one of them in some shape where form is associated with a gang. basically. simple terms. there is no honor. among the thieves. and at some point. these three individuals turned on. our three victims and murdered them. two of them. right there. they fled the scenes. but left a lot of evidence in their week. through the cooperation of the agencies that i previously mentioned. in my office. we were able to begin compiling all of the evidence and finding these killers. that we were shot and saddened by the
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violence. as all of my citizens. because we are shocked. not only are the victims juveniles but the murderers are juveniles as well. i know each of you in the media here, and viewers out there probably heard us and law enforcement or even in community events. talk about what is the problem? and i'm gonna go ahead and address the first thing. that i know it's going to come up. because there are individuals out there viewing and include some of you media. they want to blame the one thing that has no ability. or the capacity. to commit the crime itself. and that's the gun. these individuals committed the crime. so what's the solution? i
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wish i could give you that answer because this world will be a whole lot better. but the fact is, society fails it we do not hold june of juveniles. accountable. we minimize their actions. let me tell you why i say this. last night. i had to stare into the eyes of two mothers. it's not their fault. because what i saw last night was to mothers who are willing to give their sons everything. do everything for them. and give them their own lives. well, just like you and i no matter how
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much we teach them, because i am a father. i am a father. and i cannot fathom. what they were going through. these mothers and mothers across this nation. i need all of your help. because here's what infuriates me. i've got a particular media who has a problem. putting photos of juveniles out. now we do it. what the law says we can do. but these photos out. i put myself in the shoes of those mothers because i heard one of them say it. i wish i would have known. what? this one i was doing and
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who they were because my kid never would have hung out with them. and to think and believe to minimize any actions that is criminal. about juvenile. there's a disservice. and frankly, stupid to think. we need to hold them accountable. and then hope. that we can change them. i'm not gonna be able to give you everything. because there is a third suspect. that we were unable to locate last night. but
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however, you will receive. you may already have it. the problem cause affidavit. it tells you the details of the bench that occurred. i will tell you this. i already told you of the witness hearing the gunshots. that because when all three were killed. the suspects were in the vehicle. this individual who is a juvenile also. is who we're looking for. no, i'm talking to the viewers. you some of you know him. you know where he is, and you need to turn him in. i
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will get him. i will find him. and justice will be completed. as you can imagine. my thoughts are all over this page right now. fighting these crimes. these types of crimes requires all of us to come together. as a community. and marion county. stepped up to the plate. and we've been successful. now i know i've forgotten something. and i'm missing something. so i'm going to open up the floor to questions. any type of motive given. mentioned it robbery. go
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to her first clarify now. you said the suspects were in the vehicles. are you saying off six were in there? one time and yes, ma'am. and so. three individuals that are in custody and this person they turned on the other three in the feet in the vehicle, and that's how this unfolded. that's correct robbery of the three victims. not gonna get into too many, too many more of those details because of the third suspect be enough. sheriff freud. ted williams. rick fox news did the suspects and the three dead teams have you been able to determine how long they've known each other? not integral short time, short time. sheriff you mentioned, uh, gun and we know how the suspect callable weapon. car burglaries.
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hmm. yeah. is that right? all the gun laws we got in place didn't prevent it, did it? neither will any new ones. because here's the fact that bad guys going to get a gun, no matter what law you have put in place. these juveniles shouldn't even possess a handgun. but they did. and i'll go back to you and your question a simple burglary that some people will say, but i don't consider anything simple when it comes to a burglary. the law allows me i'll plaster their face up on this page up on my page up a media our hand it out if the law allows me because parents have the right to know who their kids are hanging out with. and preventing this. what is the suspects? parents say when you i spoke with them about their arrest. i personally
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didn't speak to them about the arrest is immediately after the interviews in which i talked to the mothers. but really, they don't have a whole lot to say. if you're a parent, put yourself in their shoes. holy hell! panic. i'm scared to death as a parent. embarrassed, ashamed. do you think they're going to say? sure would. do you know what these three are juveniles will be tried as adults. alright state attorney's office is reviewing that right now. okay, so i don't want to say yes. and then it turned around. no. then you'll end up calling me a liar. at some point, so what does account to kind of piggyback on that. so what does accountability look like for you? i know you talked about accountable for their actions. hmm. i will refrain an awful lot
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on that answer to this question. to the full extent of the law. okay. don't don't take me wrong. i might be hard on people, but i also have a heart. and i've already told you i am a father. but here's the one thing my boys know. growing up. freaking barber had my permission to whip their asses. and not only that. when this stuff came up on tv, i pointed him. i said, you don't have to worry about the law coming after you. yeah, full extent. because they took a life. y'all comprehending that. they took a life without thought. hmm they deserve the full extent of the law. did you
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come in contact with his team's before today had seen the pictures some other shots from previous incident. i personally haven't but have we. minimum contact. i can tell you right now. i know somebody over here had a question. sure. and i understand correctly that the three victims were an active part of crimes prior to their desk with these three is that correct? i don't want to give too much detailed information, okay? but let me put it this way. my dad was a fireman. always said where there's smoke. there's fire. okay, lets folks don't ask dumbass questions and andy, i apologize. but really i have to spell it out to you. what do you think they were doing their associated with a gang and i've told some of y'all in interviews. gangs don't go to church on sunday and then preach the gospel for the next six days. their games because they
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commit crimes. how simple is this idea? where are we losing it? and i know we're going along. but this is my press conference, not yours. sure yes . six were committing crimes. do you know why the three turn on the other three? i can't divulge that. i wish i could tell you i'll tell you when we get this one, okay? bless you. i want to tell you everything i really do . and since day one i've wanted to tell you anything. they have had a leash on me like you wouldn't believe. next let's get somebody new timeline of the three victims in terms of how they were shot. was it all at once? hold back on that hold back. okay you heard the bosses. you don't have any represented where they hang out somewhere
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were probably able to catch up with them. do you want? the one subject on the previous photo. rob robinson was in custody already. at the juvenile detention facility. and the christopher atkins, the 12 year old we've located him at his house yesterday after serving a search warrant. so they went on the run everything they had. please surprised in see you show up. yes. they were very surprised. we showed up. are you able to make any statements as to what they said? leave that to the sure hmm. no, you'll get that eventually. we told you he was in d. j. j. he was arrested by opd the next morning after the murder. for the charges on that. i believe it's a form of a friends who and a fray at the school. oh that's what i call a lightbulb coming on right there.
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remember i just talked about minimizing and holding students accountable. our school districts, not just here. i'm not going to point out just mine school districts have cost this state and across this nation need to quit minimizing the actions of their students. hold them accountable. that's where the failure is. do we know where the last suspect was seen? the last place he was seen. we're gonna hold that 13 have done or was it just one gun and, uh, one for the tribute. we know that. alright some of that i'm not going to answer some of it. i will. the one i will is the two confessed to shooting our third victim. in the trunk. how many
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guns were involved. i'm not gonna answer that one. i appreciate your questions. you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't ask. any others. the third suspect republicans worry about him. no, the community doesn't need to worry about him outside of i want them to find them. that's what they need to worry about. is locating him for me. yeah. and they do. if you ain't never watching my wanted by woods wednesday. that's successful and they find them. allow one more. for these juveniles for students at the same school. no. alrighty thank you. that was interesting. alright so what? we have been watching this press conference from the marion county sheriff
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on the very latest arrests made and a suspect they're still looking for in the murders of three teenagers in marion county, a press conference announcing arrest, but press conference that you don't have the likes you don't often see joining me right now is cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. juliet the facts that came out the facts that came out in this are to arrest their juvenile's. they have confessed to shooting at least one of the victims here. these teenagers, one juvenile suspect still on the run. they are still looking for him, and they are asking for the public's help in it. one of the one of the kids that they have arrested is 12 years old in this murder and in these murders of these three teenagers, the state's attorney is going to be determining the charges that they will be facing. that's the facts of what we're learning, but i have to say some what's your what's your reaction to the sheriff? a. it uh, that was the craziest, most unhelpful press
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conference. i'm just i've seen a lot. i've seen a lot of law enforcement press conferences with you. over the years. it was defensive. it was personal. it was, uh, it was it was making legal representations that he that are going to hurt the prosecution in the future, and i will sounded like a political campaign. i'm just being honest , i've never heard anything like that before. there are three dead teenagers and three teenagers whose lives are essentially going to be in jail or even younger than teenagers. none of this none of this is funny. none of this is about him. none of this is that the when you come and start a press conference and say this has nothing to do with guns, you've lost me. i mean, not because i want to have a debate about guns, but you've come into this discussion already telling me it's all the kids fault. you know, i mean, whatever you want to call them, they are under 18 . the law recognizes that is different. he was antagonistic towards the media antagonistic towards the school district
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because apparently defending gun laws and pointing the finger at the school school. i mean, i let's just focus on the facts because that's what not what was going on there. the facts are clearly this was a horrendous team, killing the there's still one suspect at large. the atmospherics of what we saw. think are, you know, given the nature of elected law enforcement, given the nature that he may have political aspirations in the future? you just got to say it that that's it seemed like that was his opportunity. i know they won't like me for it, but i thought it was whatever you think of the kids. they were in a gang. they're dead, and they and that's you. don't blame them. you don't call them bad people. i mean, it just was. it was an odd one, and it's sort of a sad way to end in tragedy. it's a tragedy and the tragedy continues to unfold. as as he talked about the mothers of the boys now under arrest in the
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fact that these mothers were are at a loss of what they are now going through. but he started the press conference. one of the first things, he said, is that his emotions were all over the map, and i was just wondering. what you see and wives why the sheriff was so we're what the emotion was because people were waiting for a major announcement , which you did eventually get to the facts of the facts of what we're what community was looking for answers for because they have three dead teenagers that was obviously very scary for families and people across that community. you lied. i mean, if you're law enforcement , this is a law enforcement press conference. you lead with what people? the community, not the media, not what the community wants to know. right what happened? could it happen to my kid? no. this is a particular type of situation where those kids were were. i think stealing cars and other and other things harburg each other. do you want to make sure that there's not a team killer around the community you lead with that? look we there. the.
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he talked too much about himself, right? the emotions you know, we all have emotions. those of us in this field have emotions. it's not about us. it's not about us. it's about the victims. the community, the parents, everyone, and it was just a sort of unfortunate turn in a case that is relevant. the case is now confined. that's good. it is not a team killer is not a team killer, and there will be investigations. but you know, that was airtime for someone who who ought to know better and didn't and don't talk about your i mean. we don't talk about our emotions. just don't talk about it. stick with me, john. we're gonna we're gonna continue to follow this very closely to dig into the facts of what? we just learned this triple murder in marion county, florida there have now been two arrested. a suspect is still on the run. thankfully cnn's coolest carlos suarez has been following this story and carlos just cut through all of this and explain to us what we just learned because we just g

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