>> fallout, a day after special counsel robert mueller indicts 13 russians into his probe into election meddling. the republicans and democrats drawing very different conclusions on what it means r for. leland: plus, visiting the wounded, the president and first lady spent time with those injured in the park larland, fla attack. eboni: we'll talk to congressmen from both sides of the aisle. ♪ . eboni: welcome to america's news headquarters from washington.

i'm eboni k williams. leland: we didn't scare you off last time. i'm leland vittert. and president says the indictment of 13 russians, the democrats are saying this is far from over. alison barber to break it down for us. >> hi, leland, according to the indictment, this began in 2014. the white house is trying to point to this as evidence of no collusion. >> this began in 2014 under then president barack obama's nose, he didn't do a thing about it. long before donald trump announced for president, this was going on. this makes it clear and concise that to the american people and proves correct, no collusion between donald trump, his campaign and russia. >> deputy u.s. attorney general rod rosenstein says this indictment does not accuse any americans of knowingly participating in the alleged

crimes, but the indictment does claim that the russians wanted to help the trump campaign. it says in part, defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates and by early to mid 2016 defendants operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then candidate donald j. trump and disparaging hillary clinton. in a statement. house minority leader nancy pelosi says there's more work to be done and imperative that the investigation be allowed to follow the facts. the american people deserve to know the full extent of russia's interference in the election and the president refuse toss enact sanctions against russia as required by congress. and the individuals named in the indictment are based in russia, because of that the chances of a trial are slim. it's unlikely that they could

extradite them to the u.s. they haven't communicateed with russia about that, but will follow the process of seeking cooperation in extradition. leland: i don't think that rosenstein is waiting for the phone to ring from the russians. and the fallout. eboni has that. eboni: and a columnist, and in the latest piece for the hills, you layout what we know. what are some things we know for the allegations, as you say they're fascinating, telling how the russians tended to thwart the campaign and ted cruz, and marco rubio, and hillary clinton. i want a quote from the attorney general's office rosenstein. he says there is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant in this illegal activity.

then, there is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election. now, a lot of people are going to hear that and say that sounds like vindication on the trump collusion issue. is it? >> not in my opinion. it's an important point, but i don't think it's the full-blown exoneration that the president's supporters claim. to me the important words in the quote that you just read is, in this indictment. this is part after larger probe. this is a piece of the jigsaw. we've already seen people associated with the president plead guilty as part of the broader investigation. so it's an important point, but it's not the whole picture. eboni: now, you talked about the president's supporters and vindication being, of course, top of mind for them. they take criticism how long this investigation is taking. we're over a year out from this and no collusion at this point. in your experience how long can these investigations take to offer up proof of that type of collusion? >> they can take a very long

time. we have no exact parallel for this probe, but robert mueller has successfully kept the details of his investigation out of the public eye until he wants to reveal them. and a side effect of that is that we don't really know at what stage he's at in this whole probe. lawyers for the president have suggested it would be wrapped up by thanksgiving or by christmas of last year. that clearly hasn't happened. eboni: sure. let's talk optics, we saw a hasty press conference featuring rod rosenstein speaking on above of the doj. separate from bob mueller and his investigation. and do you think he's trying to make it an apolitical statement and people see rosenstein, some people do, having credibility issues, especially in light of the nunes memo. >> i think it's interesting that the deputy attorney general made

that public appearance. he seemed simply be being there physically tying himself to that indictment. obviously, he's been under fire from the president. to me, that's an assertion of independence rather than a display of bias, but different people see everything in this probe through different prisms. eboni: do you think the president has made a mistake since the beginning of this probe, describing it as a hoax, being fairly reluctant to even acknowledge any russian interference whatsoever and tying the russian interference and collusion issue as one in the same when you see here the doj making these two separate issues? >> yes, and that's the big news from the announcement and this isn't a particularly apolitical, we heard mcmasters talking about the fact that this provides incontrovertible evidence of russian meddling. a distinct issue, a r separate

issue. eboni: very much so. >> this makes it problematic to try to sustain the offense that the president has mounted that this is all a hoax. eboni: i think we can expect much, much more around the complete fallout politically and even legally. thank you so much. leland: president trump in palm beach this weekend. when he landed last night, he went south to meet with those wounded in this week's shooting. also spent some time with the police who raced to the scene. more on that in just a minute. meantime, the vice-president in dallas for a political event talking about the tragedy in florida. >> as your vice-president, let me assure you, we are continuing to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear in support of broward county and the sheriff's office and in support of this investigation. we will get to the bottom of what happened here. and as we speak, the justice department is already working with agencies across our government to study the intersection of mental health and criminality. leland: and there are so many

questions about the investigation and the clues that were missed. steve harrigan with the latest from parkland, florida. hi, steve. >> leland, the funerals have begun here in parkland, one after the other, two yesterday, two more tomorrow. and along with the mourning and anguish and grieving, anger is coming in as well. people are saying red flags were is m -- missed about this suspected killer and the police visited 36 times, averages out once every two months and for violent behavior. the biggest red flag, the fbi failed to follow up on a tip from the call hotline, someone who knew the shooter well, that he was disturbed, had a gun and he was afraid the killer would attack the school. that's exactly what happened just six weeks later. we got a look at the 5-7,

130-pound killer in court. the suspected killer, he is likely to plead guilty, this according to his public defender, the hope is to try to avoid the death penalty, something florida's attorney general said the state will certainly be seeking. as far as the building behind me, the three story building where the ninth graders were where most of the shooting took place. and florida lawmakers say that building will be diminished and rebuilt and a lot of students say they can never enter that building again. throughout the day we've seen people go in there escorted by police, getting their cars, vehicles, belongings out of the crime scene. the road itself might be open for traffic sometime this afternoon. back to you. leland: trying to get things back to normal as quickly as possible with an investigation ongoing. steve harrigan, parkland, florida there. last night the president was nearby that scene. president trump went from air force one right to the pompano

beach, florida hospital where so many of the shooting victims were taken. he met with doctors, nurses, police and first responders and he said their response to this was near record setting and also spent time with some of the victims. more from kevin corke on what the president had to say there and also a little about the president's time with law enforcement at the half hour. meantime, we bring in steve pomerantz, former fbi director to talk about this. steve harrigan, he does not use words lightly in my experience. he talked about a real sense of anger. 36 times the broward county police went to the home of nikolas cruz, the fbi, your former organization, with a call to the tipline, what this guy was going to do. how big of a miss was in? >> big miss. this is your worst nightmare come true. lawmakers caricatured very

wrongly, but every law enforcement do what they want to do. it says on the side of many police cars, to serve and protect, and to miss like this is a horrible, terrible tragedy. leland: it's one thing to miss when you show up at a guy's house, you realize this guy is a weird kid, he may do things that people find unsettling, but to go from that to school shooting is a big deal. if this holds true, this was a call to the fbi tip line saying, this guy is going to carry out a school shooting, and it's not like the fbi followed up on it and then decided, gee, there's nothing to charge him with. >> right. leland: they didn't even pick up the phone. >> if the reporting of what we're hearing is true, they be your characterization would be accurate and again, that's just the worst possible outcome not to follow through. leland: rick scott called for

the fbi director to resign over this. is that the right answer? or is that knee jerk? >> you know, i have to leave that to others. i don't know if that's the right answer. certainly, there has to be an extraordinarily thorough inquiry as to what happened. why did, again, if what we're hearing accurate, and people-- if it turns out to be human error, it appears that's the way it's going to turn out, people have to be held accountable, there's always a question how far up the line is that accountability, i don't think that's for me to say. >> we don't hear what we've heard in the past when the fbi missed things, the boston bombers or fort hood shooter and we've heard the suspect being taken down. president obama once said, look, this is really hard stuff. you don't hear that defense right now. you hear almost sort of mocking of the bureau. take a listen to turk tucker

carlson. >> at least we knew what the federal agents were doing recently, they have been chasing down bad facebook trolls, if they would have been told to cruz was talking at that putin. neil: there's an irony there that the fbi missed a massive intelligence operation from 2014 to 2016 to interfere in the u.s. election and russian agents coming into the united states to help carry it out. >> i think we need to know a lot more before we make that kind of conclusion that they missed, that they missed all that. leland: there's no evidence that they knew about it or tried to stop it. >> the successes that the fbi has every day in all of these kinds of stopping these kinds of intelligence operations, stopping terrorist attacks and stopping criminals is often overlooked. i don't know-- >> i wonder about that, a common

talking point, our successes are always silent. but really? because often times the successes are paraded out and there's press conferences with indictments and there's-- >> and you just said the key word, leland. if there are arrests and indictment, yes. but many times these kinds of things are stopped, especially in the counter intelligence field, well short of arrests and indictments. for example, you've heard the term png, persona nongrata, when espionage agents are sent back, kicked out of the country based on fbi investigations. so, there's truth on both sides of this. leland: well, and given how much heat the bureau is taking, you wonder if they'll make more of their successes public in the coming weeks and months if they can. steve, always good to see you, thank you, sir. eboni. eboni: absolutely. we'll have much, much more on the response to the florida school shooting coming up

tomorrow on sunday morning futures. maria bartimomo has an interview with jeff sessions and chris wallace talking about gun violence. check your local listings for time and channel. tomorrow an on media buzz, howie kirtz, and he talks with ari fleischer how the white house deals with tragedies like this shooting. leland: and throughout the day we'll be remembering the 17 members of the parkland shooting who as steve harrigan said are beginning to be laid to rest. 14-year-old alyssa alhadeff, the parkland soccer club had a message, we'll quote for it.

live for aliyssalyssa, be her v and breathe for her, alyssa loved you all forever. eboni: 35-year-old geography teacher scott beigel tried to save his students. when shots began to ring out, beigel unlocked the door to let children inside for shelter. one of the children he saved said, quote, i thought he was behind me, he wasn't. when he opened the door, he had to relock it so we could stay safe, but he didn't get a chance to. leland: 14-year-old martin is remembered by his older brother miguel as quote, a funny kid, outgoing and sometimes quiet. he was sweet and caring and loved by all of his family. most of all, he was my baby brother, my family and i have no words to describe the event. all my prayers to the lost ones. eboni: 17-year-old senior nicholas had earned a

scholarship to join the university of indianapolis swim team in the fall. his aquatics team said he was nicknamed swim daddy. and nicholas took his life and his hands and he chiseled and molded his life. leland: it's difficult to get through this and probably difficult at home to watch sometimes as we go through each of the pictures. pretty easy sometimes to talk about the perpetrator, what was missed. this is the hard part and it's fitting and proper, i think, that we spend the time to do this, to show who these people are, to show the horrificness of this crime, but also at the same time, it provides all of us a sense of really what this loss is for so many families. >>. eboni: 100% leland and honor them as people and their story.

i agree it gets lost as we cover the shooter and facts and law enforcement organizations involved here that these were people, these were people's children. these were people's children, husbands, fathers and sons and their stories have to be told. leland: and we will continue to tell them throughout the day here as we look at both sides of this story. coming up, also on the program, travelling west on a southern california highway hurdles into an eastern lane head-on into traffic. never ends well. plus, the fight over immigration in congress. congressmen from both sides of the aisle to find out why no deal has been hashed out so far. inaction in washington, imagine that. and general kelly resetting the button how white house employees are vetted after the porter abuse allegations. so is the white house standing by their chief of staff. >> john kelly has done a

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>> major freeway in southern california reopening today after

five people died in a crash. this is the aftermath. officials say a cement truck burst into flames after crossing a center divide into oncoming traffic. this happened east of los angeles. obviously, there were other vehicles involved in the crash and those caught on fire. authorities don't know why the cement truck crossed over all those lanes. >> the president's chief of staff, john kelly, he's calling for an overhaul of white house security clearance standards. stating in a new memo, quote, the american people deserve a white house staff that meets the highest standards, and that has been vetted carefully. especially those who work closely with the president or handle sensitive national security information. rich edson joins us. >> thanks, eboni. chief of staff kelly pushed

these after the security investigation revealed months ago, allegations of abuse from two ex-wives. in a memo, senior intelligence and law enforcement staff, kelly acknowledges the events of the last ten days focused attention on the clear process that has been in place for multiple administrations that should and in the future must do better. despite the changes, congress is still investigating. >> my first questions are going to be to the fbi because i want to fully know who knew what when and who did you communicate it with and then we'll direct the inquiries to the white house, but i'm going to start with the fbi. >> kelly is directing the fbi to personally inform on findings and release any information that kelly says is derogatory within 48 hours of and pending white house investigations at least once a month. the white house will grant those applying for access to sensitive

information interim security clearance for 180 days with an option to extend that an additional 90 days while they finish the background check. kelly says they'll revoke all interim top secret clearances for those whose investigations began before june 1st. that could affect top white house advisor and son-in-law jared kushner has his is pending. he has been assigned a plan to establish piece between palestinians and israel. >> daca, the fix not coming so fast. what congressmen on both sides of the aisle have to say about that and we continue to look at those who were at the douglas high school.

coach feis used his body to shield the students from gunfire. he died the way he lived, putting himself second. a kind soul and niceman. aaron feis leaves behind a wife and a daughter.

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>> president trump taking a solemn trip to florida this weekend, visiting a community reeling from a deadly school shooting. kevin corke is in west palm beach with more on the president's visit. >> good afternoon to you, eboni, a very important day once again for the president to take upon the role of comforter in chief. there's nothing in the schedule that we can share at the moment. and truth is, we may not see him if he's in and out of hospital rooms visiting victims and their families. should we get pictures, i will share them with you tonight.

the president got a chance last not not only to get to the hospital, but spends time with victims and families and stake holders in the community. let me take you to twitter and share is bit about what the president had to say about that. several hours ago, said our entire nation with one heavy heart continues to pray for the victims and families in parkland, florida, to law ens enforcement and medical, we thank you for your courage. those are pictures from a powerful friday night. victims and first responders. i should gare that the president gathered with community safety and department of the to discuss best practices and the number one priority for everyone in in community and that's the health, safety and well-being of america's children and while he was there he thanked those who

did what they could. >> very sad that something like that could happen, but the jobs the doctors did, the nurses, the hospitals, first responders, law enforcement, really incredible. the speed that they got the victims over to the hospital was like record speed. in one case, 20, and one case, 19 minutes from the time of the shots. it's incredible thing. >> really something to listen to, the harrowing stories from that fateful day over at parkland. now, as mentioned again, nothing on the schedule i could share. should that change naturally we'll pass that along to you. one other piece of business before we get you go. i want to make sure the folks at home were aware of this story, it broke during a busy news day, john kelly white house chief of staff has made major changes how the white house security will

handle investigations. and i'll share what the white house hopes to do. he crafted these changes along with the white house chief counsel, john mcgan, they're asking the fbi and department of justice to flag and should they be become available, this is a fallout from the dismissal of former staff secretary rob porter and to make sure that people are aware of. over to you. eboni: important overhauls indeed, thank you for that reporting. as often happens in the days after a shooting, democrats continue to ring for gun control. massachusetts sheriff thomas hodgkin's argued we need a different discussion. >> someone is involved in dui, a drunk driver, and when somebody bombs something, they're a bomber. when someone goes to a school

and shoots people, suddenly it's the gun. leland: and we bring in florida congressman rooney, as always, you're a strong proponent of the second amendment, defending second amendment rights. is there a way to do that arn still and prevent these shootings in a more active way? >> leland, there's got to be. this parkland, to me, is a bit of a game changer. the fact that this obviously disturbed and mentally ill could go through all of these noted-- provide all of this notice, police coming to his house so many times, fbi getting called and still legally buy an ar-15 or any kind of weapon is a serious problem for our country. leland: does this, perhaps, reinforce, as tragic as the miss is by the fbi and broward county sheriff were, does this perhaps move the point that we may not need new laws, may need better

enforcement of the ones we have. >> we might very well need better enforcement. we might need to change the balance of the right to privacy versus public safety and security. you know, that's the quintessenti quintessenti quintessential debate, how much freedom do we give up to be safe. and keep track of people who have a mental or emotion al disability, and if they get a hold of a gun that they know. leland: or make it easier to figure out how people are posting things on youtube like i am a i'm going to be a professional school shooter. there was bipartisan agreement in washington, the senate to kick the daca can down the road once again. now there might be a little bit of action in the house, which has no chance in the senate. march 5th is going to come and go with nothing happening, right? >> it could. it's kind of up to the senate at

this point. they were taking the lead of coming up with a proposal that would balance security enhan enhancements and security reform at the same time. leland: what's your feeling, at least from house members on the other side of the aisle? do they really want to get a daca deal done or more interested in having this as a wedge campaign issue? >> no, in fact, i think it's the democrats that don't want to get a daca deal done. i think they just like to talk about it instead of act. i have heard no republicans say anything other than we would like to have a comprehensive solution, despite the fact that it's unconstitutional, to keep these kids here in some sort of legal status, provided we add the border security we need, we get rid of chain migration and the diversity lottery. leland: so to flip the argument around, if both sides agree on taking care of keeping these, quote, unquote, kids here to use your words, why not just do that

as a clean bill and why don't republicans say by the way we want all of the other things, and told the daca kids hostage over it. aren't you doing the same thing the democrats are? >> it's typical of the alice in wonderland d.c., that democrats were for all the things they won't vote for now. i figure if we're going to enshrine an unconstitutional executive overreach program we need to solve other things at the same time. leland: as you said, the wonderments of washington. we'll get you back to the 64 square miles surrounded by reality as soon as you're done soaking up the florida sun. >> thank you, leland. leland: have a good weekend. eboni. from insight from other side of the aisle. california congressman john garamendi. thank you for joining me. >> good to be with you. >> congressman, you heard the

other congressman, congressman rooney talking about this being a wedge issue and something that the dems don't want to get done. i have to ask you, because you did indeed vote for this recent budget deal that had absolutely no addressing of daca in it, although, as we all into, democrat party has said they will not move forward with legislation that doesn't directly address daca. so, your yes vote on that bill that did not address daca. tell me how that's not a betrayal of your party's stance on this issue? >> my task is to solve problems. that's what my task is, and i don't want to shut down the government. and i knew that that particular piece of legislation would not be in a situation where we'd ever get to the daca. we need to solve the daca if there is ever an issue that's ripe for compromise, this is one of them. we're just dancing around some of the-- >> conem congressman, you're hitting the point it's ripe for compromise. sounds similar to what we heard from congressman rooney, we want

to get it done. yet it's not on the table not moving forward to closer to the deal and march 5th in front of you. why the yes vote on something that did not address daca whatsoever when your party and nancy pelosi grand standing and chuck schumer grand standing on the issue, why the yes vote when it doesn't touch it? >> simple, i don't want to shut down the government. it was not a good leverage point at all. i don't want to hurt our government and our nation over this issue. we have the opportunity, just as the senate didn't get through, they had four different votes. all of those votes could be put together and compromise could be reached in the senate. we could also do it in the house although i suspect the first vote up in the house, if we ever do vote, will be one that will be very harsh. you won't get enough republicans to support it let alone democrats. there is a compromise that's available here. we can deal with the daca issue,

1.8 million the president is correct about that. his border security issue, yes, we do need border security. there is not one agency that i'm aware of from the coast guard to the border patrol folks that think a border wall is the only thing that needs to be done. yes, there's some border wall issues, yes, they do need to be repaired. yes, the coast guard does need more to protect the maritime coast of the nation. eboni: realistically-- >> these are issues that are possible. we need to get beyond the current, we're not going to do anything idea. we can solve this problem and we must. eboni: i understand, congressman, everybody degrees that it should be solved, but it sounds like we're quite away from the how. >> we're far closer. eboni: okay. >> we have pressure coming down. there is a march 15th-- march 5th deadline, there's also a shutdown of government possible on the 23rd of march, also deadline-- . >> would you be willing to let the government shut down at that

march deadline? >> no, i've already said, i i don't like government shutdowns, i don't think that's the way to go. eboni: they're wrapping me now, cone congressman, i appreciate your time on the issue. leland: after the break, back to south florida. how that community is responding to the school shooting and the politics as well and we continue to remember the fallen. 14-year-old jaime guttenberg volunteered with the friendship organization, that brings kids with special needs together with their student peers. the founder of the organization says that she was mature, compassionate beyond her years and eager to share herself with people who were less fortunate than she.

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his wife says he loved being an american and serving his country and installed that in our two kids. as a reservist he had been deployed, and then died at the hand of a shooter. eboni: among the victims, 15-year-old luke hoyer,he was the youngest child in a close knit family. his cousin says tears will never show how much i loved luke. i live through him. tell the people around you that you love them and care about them and hug them tightly. leland: but quite literally we didn't know the names of the dead before the politicking began over gun control. florida senator bill nelson weighed in throughout the week, saying, quote, i have always had guns since i was a little boy. i have hunted all my life, but an ar-15 is not for hunting. it's for killing. let's bring in florida-based

radio host brian mudd, 610 on the dial. and bill nelson, florida senator at the same time that we didn't even know who was dead, how many people were dead, the debate over the gun control begins. is it too early for south florida or are they ready for this debate? >> at this point we're ready for the debate because as you pointed out, unfortunately, it started almost immediately. wednesday in the initial aftermath, you went through the emotions of the shock, the horror, trying to understand and putting the pieces together. by thursday morning, we already saw the finger pointing. by the press conference by many public officials and florida governor and former fbi along with the broward sheriff. we began to hear the calls of politics. you mentioned senator nelson. i believe that people show their true character in times of adversity and i think it's unfortunate that people rush to politicize the way he did. he basically had a 20 minute

commercial after poignant political comments calling on people to vote and that's unacceptable in my view. the second amendment isn't for hunting either, mr. nelson, the second amendment is there for us to be able to protect ourselves. leland: brian, aren't you doing the same thing right now as you're answering his calls that he's doing? >> at this point i've had to enter the debate to a certain extent and i want thoughtful conversation about what's really wrong. leland: do you really have to enter the debate? do republicans and conservatives have to enter the debate or is there a higher moral calling, wait a second, we're not going to engage in this debate. we're going to remember the victims and honor sacrifice and service not only of the first responders, but also of the teachers who gave their lives protecting students. we'll save the debate for later. is that the moral high ground? >> 100% it is and i would agree with you. okay, so let me give you the thoughtful approach and this is the approach i laid out

throughout the course of the day yesterday, ap and really what i prefer to talk about. we've got three issues we need to address, one, the schools themselves, two, there is a gun debate that needs to be had here and the third is the fbi if we take a look at the schools, let's think about this for a moment-- >> brian, we'll have to of you back for the more thoughtful part of this debate, probably part of the problem is that we only have a couple of minutes sometimes for the discussion. >> sure. leland: we know the president is down around where you are as well today. we'll keep an eye on him and he visited the sheriff and broward county had questions of his own to answer and the broward county sheriff has some tough questions to answer. >> thanks. eboni: and a community in new mexico is picking up the pieces. f

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september, those left over 300 people dead. >> and the fight for gold is in full swing in pyeongchang at the winter olympics. among the athletes though are the diplomatic games. they're unfolding behind the scenes and between the u.s. and north korea. greg palkot has the latest from seoul. >> that's right, amid the olympic support, diplomacy as well. saturday at the games, south korean president moon was visiting, has not confirmed that he will take north korea up on its offer of a summit. he did confirm he wants the regime of kim jong-un to talk with the united states as well and ultimate aim of these discussions should be the denuclearization of north korea and that's what we've been hearing from officials close to president moon the past couple of days.

there was the visit by vice-president pence. we have been told that north korea talking to the united states is a pre-condition for any korean talks. we had a chance once again to get over to the olympic games on saturday and here is a bit of what we saw and heard. >> with the winter olympics now in their second week. the ice venues are going to be very busy. we're already seeing some results from the sports diplomacy aimed at dealing with the north korea crisis, but there remains to be seen in the coming weeks and months whether team usa and team korea will play nice and come up with some real gold medals. >> it's a stepping stone. >> it certainly wasn't hurt. >> i don't think they're making a good enough showing having a few athletes. >> i wish that every day could be like the olympics and we all could get along, but i think it's a great time to celebrate everyone being together. >> and those north korean cheerleaders were on the sidelines on saturday of the

game are making yet another appearance. as you've heard there is mixed feelings about the north korean presence at the game. just about everybody wants peace, not sure that everybody thinks this is the way to go. one final note, epsy, halfway around the world, the horrendous school shooting in florida marked as well in front of the u.s. embassy and the heart of seoul, a flag flying at half mast. sadness wherever you are. eboni: greg palkot, thank you for that reporting. leland: the white house says the indictment of 13 russians for meddling, robert mueller, is the media the one to really blame? (vo) make her day with

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welcome to america's news headquarters from washington. i'm eboni williams. >> nice to be with you. nice to be with you at home. hope you are staying warm. i'm leland vittert. president trump in south florida this weekend as he arrived he met with injured victims of the parkland florida shooting as the fbi faces mounting criticism over missed chances to stop the killer. >> plus fallout from special counsel mueller's indictment of 13 russians for trying to influence and inflame or political system. the new details we are learning today. and what about rebuilding

our infrastructure? the chairman of the house transportation and infrastructure committee on how president trump's plan to spend billions more is being received on capitol hill. and we start back in south florida as the funerals have begun. and the anger is building at law enforcement over missed warning signs of the impending rampage. among those warning signs, a tip to the fbi's hot line that wasn't even followed up on. rick leventhal live in south florida as the investigation continues behind him. hi, rick. >> marjory stoneman douglas high school is still a crime scene. the area is sealed off for blocks in every direction. some family members are being allowed in today to retrieve cars from the parking lot and others are leaving balloons and flowers along the perimeter in memory of the 17 people killed here on wednesday afternoon. and as you mentioned, there are now questions about whether this shooting could have been prevented. the fbi admitting that a person

close to the confessed shooter nikolas cruz called the public tip line six weeks ago leaving information on cruz's gun ownership, his desire to kill people, his erratic behavior and disturbing social media posts. and the potential that he might commit a school shooting, but the information was never forwarded to who it should have been forwarded to. >> the fbi has determined that protocol was not followed. the information was not provided to the field office and no further investigation was conducted at that time. >> meanwhile, the killer's public defender claims that the killer is willing to plead guilty in exchange for life in prison and not the death penalty, but today the state's attorney released a statement saying that a deal is a long way off writing this certainly is the type of case that death penalty was designed for. this was a highly calculated and premeditated murder of 17 people and the attempted murder of everyone in that school. our office will announce our

formal position at the appropriate time. last night the president and first lady visited some of the wounded and spoke with doctors and medical staff at broward health north where three patients are still hospitalized. two others are hospitalized in ft. lauderdale. all of them are expected to survive. but the funerals continue. two yesterday, one today. at least two tomorrow. and a dozen more after that. leland: sadness really for weeks and months to come. for some the pain will never end. rick leventhal in florida, thank you. eboni has more. eboni: thanks. now we're going to bring in our guest from the hudson institute with more on the fbi's response. we hear they are reporting what's turned into frankly anger towards the fbi because over and over again we're hearing about these failures to act, the systematic failures to act. and americans across the country

are scratching their heads and saying what we're told is see something, say something, but in this case, people did see something and they did say something, and yet unidentified people on youtube, you know, not being able to identify the comment. also the failure of the national fbi to reach out to the miami local fbi field office and connect these dots. are people right to be angry? >> yes, yes, you know, this isn't -- normally we see a failure between the fbi and local law enforcement. this time we're seeing a failure between the fbi and its miami office. so again, these are issues of manning and resources and i would recommend, you know, there's never been a time in our nation's history where there have been more qualified veterans to augment not only the fbi but to augment security guards on these -- at these high schools. >> i want to ask you about that more specifically because i think it is a fascinating idea frankly is one of the problems as you identify is not enough resources around safeguarding some of these issues that can be preventive.

correct? >> right. >> one of the solutions you are going into here is how to get the veterans involved that process. >> right. you have veteran military police men and women that have skills, they know firearms training. firearms training isn't just about shooting somebody it is about not even drawing your weapon, it is about identifying the situation and realizing when to use violence. you have intelligence analysts that can simply look at social media, put nikolas cruz's name in and not only his name, but terms, violent terms that would send a red flag up. those are things we can do. there should be a task force not only the fbi but local law enforcement where individuals that come in that way are able to -- sorry about that -- are able to actually identify these individuals and follow them up. there should be task force. people like this should not just fall away. eboni: it seems as if michael this is not a one off. i want to take a moment to say the fbi gets it right a lot.

for that great work, they should be commended. but i got to say, when you look at, you know, orlando, the pulse shooting, san bernardino. every time one of these mass killings occurred, there has been prior knowledge, prior research around these individuals as was the case here yet falling through the cracks still. what's that correlation as you see it? >> it is a resource. the omar mateen case is striking to me. the fbi agent said because he didn't know the difference between hezbollah and al qaeda he wasn't serious about joining a terrorist group. to me it meant that he was willing to join any terrorist group in order to kill americans. eboni: is it fair to say that sometimes the fbi in their investigations of these people that they are made aware, are they going towards not being presumptuous enough around the intent kind of based off what you just described? do you think there should be more of a presumption around the

worse case scenario? >> right. it should go into a database and say listen, if this name pops up again or anything on social media highlights a violent term, to go after that. but there's also this element where cruz was actually given training by a junior rotc rifle team at the school. and my question is as a former military veteran would be did those army trainers, did those military trainers in this high school rifle program identify any indicators and warnings that cruz should not have been in this? and again, it relates to our military standards now. for mental illness to join our military. had cruz not done this, he could have very well found his way into our military. that should be -- >> terrifying >> we should raise the standards because of that. >> michael, thank you. leland: ellison barber is going through the actual documents

that broke yesterday. >> let's talk about the reaction in misoscow. a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry seemed to dismiss the indictment outright writing on facebook quote 13 individuals interfering in the u.s. election. 13 individuals versus the budget of the security agencies that are measured in billions of dollars versus the intelligence counterintelligence and top-notch technology isn't it absurd? three russian companies and 13 russian citizens were indicted on charges related to interference in the 2016 presidential election. one, a man is a close putin ally. the special counsel says the russians tried to sow discord in the u.s. political system in part by making social media groups and communicating with americans. the white house national security advisor says it is clear russia meddled in the election. at a security conference in

munich, mcmaster said in part that he is surprised he made a joke saying he's surprised there were any russian cyber experts available based on how most of them have been undermining our democracies in the west. he went on to say that with the fbi indictment, the evidence is essentially no longer something that can be disputed. others at the white house are focusing on the fact that according to the indictment this all began in 2014. >> listening before donald trump announced for president, this was going on. also it points out clearly that in this process, there was no collusion. >> house minority leader pelosi released a statement that pushes back on that idea. she says the indictment shows that the russia investigation is not a hoax, as the president has said on a number of occasions and that when you also factor in previous indictments of former trump campaign officials, flynn, manafort, papadopoulos that it shows in her words the gravity of the trump russia scandal.

leland? leland: where you stands depends an awful lot on where you sit. ellison barber with us. and now we bring in npr niles parks for a little bit more. big picture, this came out of absolutely nowhere. for all of the discussion and sort of breathless reporting of mueller's interviews and discussions, the idea that he was going to indict russian operatives essentially was kind of unthinkable. >> yeah, absolutely. i think that's the most amazing thing about this news yesterday was how few leaks there were in terms of we had no idea -- leland: there were zero leaks. >> right, this concept as it has happened with every development in this investigation, all of washington took this as a surprise yesterday. and i think the fact that the congressional hearings, we have heard in the abstract what this russian operation looks like, but this was by far the most specific granular explanation of how just complex and huge this thing was. leland: not only was it the social media, there was money

laundering involved, there was sending u.s. agents to the united states that were missed. this is what sean hannity last night had to say about it. >> given what we know now, president obama the top members of his administration they owe you an explanation, hillary owes you an explanation because what this did is a dereliction of duty. they failed to stop a major national security threat. leland: how big of a miss was this for fbi counterintelligence for the cia, for the nsa? >> i think the questions are completely valid, and i think we're going to see that talking point come up a lot in the next few weeks because we just don't know when these national intelligence folks knew about this stuff; right? leland: what's worse? that they didn't know about it, therefore they are completely inept or they did know about it and did nothing about it because they were sort of okay if they want to help -- >> well, we need to remember how different the global terrain looked like in 2014.

there is the possibility that the obama administration was in the middle of negotiating a very complex iran deal; right? russia was involved that. there's the possibility that -- we have no idea what anyone knew and when they knew it. but we have to remember that how much of this became public or how many actions -- their actions -- leland: miles, you bring up a great point because we have seen in the past the obama administration shall we say turn a blind eye to bad activity if they want to make a deal with somebody. your iran deal was a perfect example. they turned a blind eye to some of the iranian behavior as it related to hezbollah. we know that the obama administration has been dealing with russia about syria in 2014 to 2016. great question. did they turn a blind eye to this? >> i think the bigger point is that regardless of what we find -- and i think there's going to be a lot more we find out about what administration officials knew in the next couple weeks. i think the bigger point is that it's going to become a talking point because it gets the

attention off the president and the administration, which is obviously a big part of this investigation as well. leland: you've covered this investigation. you know a lot about sort of robert mueller's powers. there are calls now for him to interview members of the obama national security team, whether it be susan rice, whether it be ben roads, whether it be the president himself, whether it be as you just heard from sean hannity, interview hilary clinton about this, does he have that right as the special counsel to subpoena those people? >> i think we have no idea the breadth in which an investigation is going to take. there's still -- reports came out yesterday almost immediately after this indictment became public that people are expecting this investigation to go on for months, and i would assume that he has an interest in interviewing quite a few more people around d.c. leland: you bring up a great point. you say there was reports -- this was a single sourced report from bloomberg saying someone close to the investigation with knowledge claims that this investigation is going to go on for a lot longer.

should we believe that? mueller just indicted 13 russians, and we had no idea it was coming. >> right, but we also know that there have been plea deals in the past, michael flynn, george papadopoulos where people have agreed to share information with mueller, so we have no idea what has come out of those agreements and whether that could push the needle forward. this is just a massive investigation, leland. we have no idea still months into it what the next step is. leland: months into it and as we see now, three or four years into the russian operation and for that matter whether it's still going on, whether they are going to use -- >> we heard that this week in congress that it is still going on, and this operation -- they are planning to have an effect on the 2018 election as well as the 2020 election. leland: we heard rex tillerson talk about sort of the difficulties in trying to be able to effect any real pressure on the russians to stop it. miles great having you. appreciate it. >> great to be here. thank you. eboni: coming up, talk about a

cliff hanger literally. three climbers find themselves needing a helping hand after their day of rock climbing near the golden gate bridge goes very wrong. plus congress reacts to president trump's infrastructure plan. we will talk to transportation and infrastructure chairman about what projects are first on his agenda. and former g.o.p. presidential candidate throws his hat in the ring to be utah's next senator. well he's got a lot to say including how he would work with the president. >> he's adopted many things that i think make a lot of sense for the country. i will support him and work with him on those policies, but again, where we disagree, i will point that out too. i will call them like i see them. ur bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it.

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newsroom with more on mr. romney's run. hi, adam. >> hey, leland. the former governor of massachusetts and the 2012 presidential nominee gave the keynote address last night at that dinner in utah making it official of course early in the day when he released a video with the official announcement that he will be running for the seat that's being vacated by long time senator orrin hatch. of course now he will be the june jor senator if he does -- junior senator if he does win. he somberly touched on the topic of the shooting in florida. he also addressed his hot and cold relationship with president donald trump in the last two years. and if he was to win, as a junior senator from utah, where does he stand with the current president? saying that they can find some common ground on topics like taxes, regulation, and smaller

government. >> now i'm not always with the president on what he might say or do, and if that happens, i will call them like i see them. that way i have in the past. we can certainly work together and our agenda will be for the best interest of the people of utah and the people of our country. >> romney also made a joke about being called the junior senator. he says being called junior at his age in anything is actually a compliment. he also says that he believes the pundits are wrong about the midterms. he believes because people's paychecks are bigger and the economy is growing, he thinks the republicans will stay in the senate and the house. he's been compared to hilary clinton when she moved to new york to run for senate, but he is obviously a favorite son there in utah so it will be interesting to see how this race

plays out. leland: he is indeed especially from his time with the olympics there. you mentioned the republican party chairman criticizing him. any other republicans either put their hat in already, are willing to have a challenge from the right for him? >> you know, that's a question that i think is going to be seen. there are some other names that are being possibly thrown around, but he is obviously a very difficult candidate for anyone to run against. the democrats already tweeted out -- his rival tweeted out something about him moving into the state to run. he may get it from both sides. you have to admit, he is a likable guy, the olympics are on right now. it does remind people about what he did in 2002, saved the olympics for utah, turned that around to be one of the most successes in olympic histories. those topics will come into play as well. leland: that exploded utah's economic growth as well the 02 olympics. adam, great to see you on a weekend. thank you. eboni: coming up, president trump laying out his plan for improving the nation's infrastructure. we will talk to the chairman of the house transportation and

infrastructure committee on the president's infrastructure plan. and remembering the parkland fallen. 14-year-old cara loughran danced at the drake school of irish dance in south florida. in a statement the dance studio says cara was a beautiful soul and always had a smile on her face. we are heartbroken as we send our love and support to her family during this difficult time.

eboni: president trump's newly released infrastructure plan called for 1.5 trillion, with a t, trillion dollars in investment to help repair the nation's roads, bridges and transit system. joining me now to weigh is pennsylvania congressman and transportation and infrastructure chairman bill shuster. thank you congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> washington, you know, we know that it is notorious for having a very difficult time actually

getting things done. however, you are optimistic and say that you think this infrastructure plan could be done by the summer. why so positive and optimistic? >> well, because this is the first time we have had a president of the united states since eisenhower talk about the need to invest in our infrastructure in this country. this is the physical plan. this is what helps to keep us competitive in the world. president trump who is a builder understands the need so he has put it on the front burner and we have presidential leadership -- >> i know the president is insistent on that type of issue. it is not just the president. we need the congressmen and women and men and women of the u.s. senate to be on board as well. they certainly have a track record of infighting, delay and clogging up what that pipeline looks like. how do you think they will work on this? you say the bipartisanship is a heavy requirement here. >> absolutely. and you are absolutely right. it does take presidential leadership to do something like this. but there's support on both

sides of the aisle, both sides of the capital to do something significant. we have not touched the user fee that we pay at the gas pump for 25 years. and it's a federal -- it's a standard -- it's a function of the federal government. >> congressman i want to ask you about that gas tax because you are exactly right. it hasn't been raised in 25 years. looks like president trump is floating the idea of raising it 25 cents. is that enough for you? >> well, i'm open to it. absolutely it's now have for it. but i'm open to any other ways we can figure out how to dedicate funding -- this is different -- this is not really a tax. this is a user fee. if you use your car, you drive on the roads, you pay for it unless you have an electric car, you pay nothing. this is a tax that goes -- it's a fee that goes to washington. it is put in the highway trust fund and 100% of it is spent on our roads, bridges and transit system. can we do it more efficiently? absolutely. but this is dedicated funding so it is not going to washington down a rat hole, it is going to

intended purposes. >> the word you said there is efficiency. back to the open here, 1.5 trillion, that's a lot of cash, historically conservatives have really ran on the notion of fiscal conservative as well. this is not fiscally conservative. many other people are saying how ironic it is that it is indeed the g.o.p. that's running forward with this very expensive infrastructure plan. what's your response to that criticism? >> well, what's fiscally not conservative is when you spend money and you don't have it. that's why we're talking about ways to fix the trust fund. 100% of that fee goes into the trust fund and it is spent on our highways bridges and transit. unlike the other taxes you send to washington, god knows where it goes, it goes in all different directions. we need to be more efficient. this is something that needs to be paid for. that's a principal of fiscal responsibility, if you are using something, you pay for it. >> that makes sense to me. this is such an important issue for you, mr. chairman. you are not going to run for

reelection. tell me how high the stakes are for you to make sure this infrastructure plan is passed before your retirement. >> well, it's something that i have been working on infrastructure for my entire career, 17 years in congress. this is my final year. one o the reasons i decided -- one of the reasons i decided not to run was to focus 100% on this. put my efforts into this. it is my final year as chairman. it is something that's important to america. i'm proud to say it's been republicans throughout history, lincoln, roosevelt and eisenhower, the three big infrastructure presidents in our history. they were all republicans. transcontinental railroad, the panama canal, the interstate highway system. this a fundamental issue for republicans. >> it is a fundamental issue for americans. we all need the bridges highways and roads. both democrats and republicans agree it needs to be done. how far apart are the republicans and the democrats on this issue, legislatively? >> i think in many cases the democrats are in a similar position that i'm in right now. figuring out how to fix the

trust fund, make sure it runs out of money in october of 2020 and we need to fix it, and i have many of my democratic colleagues as well as republican colleagues on both sides of the capital that are in the same place that i am. this is something that's critical to america. every single american uses or benefits by the system, the transportation system, the infrastructure system in this country. every single day. even if you don't leave your house, when you go to get that milk out of the re -- refrigerat refrigerator, that had to get there through the transportation system. >> exactly. thank you, congressman. 13 russian nationals in its net what these indictments men for the investigation and -- what these indictment mean and the investigation as well. 14-year-old was the sweetest

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same press conference. yet everybody seems to be taking something different away from this. i will start with you, al, what do you take from both the press conference and the indictment itself? >> i'm heartened that everybody has different opinions. they are saying this is serious. the russians meddled in our democratic processes. they called it a sinister attack and we have to get it to the bottom of it. most importantly speaker ryan said we have to follow the facts where they take us. eboni: let me ask you about the president's response to this, brad, he says this is vindication of him. however, what we know with rod rosenstein said that at this point we are not alleging collusion, but is it premature for the president to see this as vindication? >> i don't think so. here's why. the deputy attorney general went to great lengths to tell us that no american wittingly knowingly

conspired colluded with the russians to interfere with the elections. there is no doubt that the russians tried to influence the election. that's the bad news. the good news is to no effect. donald trump won it fair and square. donald trump what he is saying is -- eboni: but brad you are saying something that i think is actually valuable; right? that it is two different scenarios that say there was russian interference, absolutely, factually we know that and it had no impact on the election. but for over a year we have essentially heard president trump equate those two saying one was causal of the other and you are pointing out something different. do you think the president has done himself a disservice by equating those two facts? >> not at all because i can tell you knowing washington and being a lawyer, if there were any facts that proved that donald trump and his team colluded with the russians, conspired to influence the election, that would have come out already. >> that's not true -- >> you don't lead with 13 indictments against the russians and go to great pains to tell

the american people that there was no collusion by any american or conspiracy, how can you at this point have future indictments to say there was? i happen to believe the fbi is leading with the strongest case. and the case is very favorable to the president that there was no conspiracy collusion with the russians to do anything. eboni: what's incorrect about it, al? >> there's three things we know. they are going after collusion, potentially. they are going after money laundering, potentially. and they are going after obstruction of justice, potentially. if there's one thing that's clear from yesterday's indictments is no one in washington knows what bob mueller thinks and what he's going to do because no one predicted that indictment was coming out. and the notion that he has signalled anything in any of those three areas is farcical. eboni: but he did go out of the way the deputy ag to say at this point no american is being accused of wrong doing and certainly we don't have any evidence at this point to link the president to colluding on the issue. what do you think the intention

was there for that distinction? >> well i think rod rosenstein is doing his job. he's protecting mueller from trump who has threatened to get rid of him as we know last summer. eboni: president trump has also threatened to get rid of rosenstein. >> by saying that, he makes it tougher for him to do. eboni: fair enough. brad, your response? >> absolutely not. he didn't have this press conference to save his job. he had this press conference because he laid his cards on the table and said, yes, the russians were involved in trying to skew our election. they weren't successful. we know what they did. we know the manner in which they did it. we know what they tried to do with americans. the fact is no american is guilty or should be tried or convicted or even indictmented -- indicted for any conspiracy to help or aid the russians. eboni: i feel like we could go on with this back and forth but we have to leave it there for now. thank you for joining us.

>> thank you. leland: live pictures from ft. lauderdale florida near the high school where this shooting took place. this is a gun control rally, and we have seen the political debate over gun control fire up obviously since this shooting. a lot of debate over that since the parkland shooting wednesday. 17 students and adults were killed. the shooting obviously has reignited the gun control debate in the nation. we have heard both from the left, from the right about that and as we are reporters on the ground, reported a lot of anger focused at law enforcement as well who missed some of the signs of this impending tragedy. more on that and the political debate throughout the day. when we return, president trump was on the ground in florida yesterday as consoler-in-chief, following wednesday's shooting. we're going to take a look at how these tragedies and specifically how the president's reaction to them can define their time in the oval office. as we continue to remember the

victims. this is 17-year-old joaquin oliver. he moved to the united states as a toddler from venezuela. his friend says my friend will literally never get to say i graduated from high school. joaquin became an american citizen last year.

leland: this is 14-year-old alaina petty she took part in the helping hands program. she volunteered to help after hurricane irma. her family says while we won't have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman she know she would become, we are keeping an eternal perspective. so many parents won't be able to see their kids grow up or graduate from high school. alaina petty's parents among them. >> another tragic victim from parkland 18-year-old senior meadow pollack. her dad says she was a beautiful warm loving and intelligent soul whose sense of humor and loyalty to her friends made her loved by all who knew her. >> our kevin cork says these are

the moments the president acts as comforter in chief. we saw that on display last night where president trump visited both victims of the shooting and first responders. with that we bring in a presidential historian, friend of the show. good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. leland: it is striking like in times like this now, the time between horrific event and the politicization is now measured in minutes. we go back to oklahoma city. you go back to 9/11. you go back to columbine. we at least had time to bury the dead. >> well, there's so much violence that i guess people are frustrated and are saying hey, we've waited long enough. so it's understandable. there's so much heart break and so much frustration. but the president can't change the constitution. barack obama didn't have that power. bill clinton didn't have that power. we've had guns all through our history. we have had violence all through our history.

abraham lincoln's nearest neighbors in indiana were devoured by bears. you had to have a gun throughout much of american history. it is a very complicated problem and there's not an easy solution. leland: if there were easy solutions, conceivably any of the people you mentioned from bill clinton in the aftermath of columbine through george w. bush through barack obama who promised action after sandy hook would have found those solutions. it doesn't change what you brought up, though, which is the visceral anger, the victims and the victims' parents understandably feel. take a listen to one mother on cnn. >> president trump, you say what can you do? you can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands! put metal-detectors at every entrance to the schools! what can you do? you can do a lot! this is not fair to our families, that our children go to school and have to get killed!

leland: no question that anyone would agree with her that it is not fair and it is heart breaking to watch the emotion. is it usual or is it unusual for the president sort of to be personally blamed and called out in this way by family members? >> it's heart breaking to see this woman and her pain. but yes, we're in a slightly more divisive time than in the past, and part of that is because of negative campaigning. you don't vote for the person you like. you vote against the person you don't like. and we've taken negative campaigning to an ultimate end, and we're reaping that now, even after the election. so you can see her pain, but the president can't order metal-detectors into the schools. it is a very complicated problem. leland: that's for sure. this now is the president's twitter page. the background image of his twitter page is him with the broward county sheriff and other law enforcement there yesterday when he visited them, the

broward sheriff now facing a lot of questions about how they handled the lead-up to this event having been to the shooter's house a number of times. we will leave that and push that aside. one thing we haven't seen from president trump so far on this is the emotion. you think about president clinton at oklahoma city. you think about president bush in the aftermath of 9/11 at times getting emotional and deeply emotional. barack obama after sandy hook, deeply emotional. we haven't seen that kind of emotion from president trump. is it coming, do you think? is it important? >> i think so. i think this is kind of fresh, this is kind of -- i wanted to say one thing about the solutions. there's much talk about the solutions. as a historian, i notice we have always had guns. we've always had violence. we could go each decade up through charles manson. we haven't had the shootings in the schools until recently, and the one thing i see different are these computer games where a young man sits alone and he

kills all these people on a screen, and they don't have wives or children. their just numbers, and i noticed the grandmother uncovered this diary of this potential shooter and he said i studied the past shootings in school, i've got to make my numbers count. it sounds to me these school shootings, maybe some of the companies can help us find solutions >> that has become a common thread with columbine, sandy hook and this now. we appreciate your perspective, thank you. >> now the final four victims of the shooting we're remembering today. 17-year-old helena ramsay quote had a relentless motivation towards her academic studies and her soft warm demeanor brought the best out in all who knew her. her cousin says she was brilliant and witty and i'm still wrestling with the idea that she's actually gone.

she would have started college next year. >> 14-year-old alex schacter, he played the trombone and the b. his family says they are going to create a scholarship to help others enjoy the music and a fund to increase security at schools. they asked all of us please keep alex's spirit live with that smile. it is a good spirit. >> another tragic victim, 16-year-old carmen schentrup. she was a national merit scholar semifinalist, an incredibly difficult academic feat. she loved playing the piano, very friendly and always smiling. a friend wrote on her facebook that she was in the classroom as this beautiful soul. she was so bright, had her entire life ahead of her. >> we remembered a couple of teachers who died trying to save the students. now we remember a student, peter wang, 15 years old. he was in the school's junior

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leland: from spring-like to heavy snow, getting ready for major storm.

adam, 70-degrees in dc, it was nice a couple of days ago. >> leland it'll be 70-degrees in a couple of days, we just have the winter storm and taking right along ohio river valley is where you see the rain-snow line. everything still heavy showers as it runs closer and closer to the coast. expect the evening and overnight hours when this will become problem. everything in the watch but the warning from new york city getting you up to boston areas, these are spots where we will see heavier snow and snowfall totals will pile up. pay attention, future cast as we watch the system lift into dc in the next several hours. that is going to begin with snow but get the wintery mix, it continues to lift on up to new york city, at that point likely looking at all snow stretch to go boston. event that happens overnight tonight into tomorrow and as i

said, some of the areas especially from new york city stretching you up to boston all areas where you could see 4 to 8-inches of total snowfall and then real quick because you mentioned how warm it was and how it's going to be, monday and tuesday, inteer east coast running back to 70's, middle 70's. the next couple of dais and feeling like spring and even summer once again. leland: excited for tuesday after holiday weekend. >> i know it. >> sounds good, fellow, chinatown rang in lunar year with a bang, estimated as many as 600,000 fire crackers were use today usher in the year of the dog, the tradition to remove all evil spirits. leland: 6,000 fire crackers. happy year of the dog.

>> do do you know your chinese -- >> this is a fox news alert, reaction pouring in to the bombshell indictments in the russia investigation carried out by special counsel robert mueller. hello, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. >> i'm alicia acuña. 13 russian nationals trying to interfere in 2016 presidential election. top department of justice official say they spread misinformation about democrat nominee hillary clinton hoping it would propel then candidate donald trump to victory. >> the defendants allegedly conducted what they call information warfare against the united states. but the stated goal of spreading