>> hello i'm kayleigh mcenany here with harris hair. fox business anchor, cheryl casone. spokesperson marie harf. press secretary ari flyer. a new and heartening poll. and what they reveal about the core values that have defined us as a

country for generations. new wall street journal polls showing patriotism, religious faith, having children and hard work have declined in importance to americans. check this out, patriotism plummeted over the past 25 years. back in 1998, 70% of those surrendered ranked it as being very important to them. now just 38% feel that way. more than 60% said religion was important. today less than 40%. and family values like having children also have dropped sharply. in 1998, 59% of americans believed having children was very important. now just 30% do. the polls are not entirely surprising, we have seen the deterioration of america's core values. distortion of the american flag, as symbol of patriotism to one

of oppression. kneeling for national anthem, that was applauded, pretty widely. the kneeling of a christian high school football coach in prayer on another football field, that got him fired. meanwhile children are being taught that america is systemically racist and for those of you without kids, while the left says don't have them for the sake of the planet. the polls just reaffirm what we've been witnessing for decades, the decline of american values that helped define the national character of our country. harris, you look at the direction particularly of our young people, the fentanyl overdoses, 1 in 3 girls considering suicide. social media dictions, maladies plaguing a generation and have you to believe this has something to do with deterioration of faith, and country. >> i was reading recently, i

knew a number of churches had closed. 4500 protestant churches closed in 2019. >> wow. >> according to the latest data available. 3000 new churches opening but that's out of balance. and, you know the lockdowns during the pandemic didn't help. i mean you could, you could have alcohol delivered to your front porch, you could go to a weed dispensery, not for medical needs, necessarily. >> why are you looking at me? >> i'm sure you weren't hitting up the weed dispensery. i'm sorry, i was looking at that side of the couch. but the churches were closed for wore in had. i would have religious leaders tell me, h harris, whats it if we are not here for toughest times to come. when you see closing churches out of balance how many are opening. over a thousand or more, that really is a problem. i think

this is key. and i will be quick with this. are we going to show people when you are might illegal blessed what that looks like. are we going to pray with our children in pub look, i do with mine. are we going to show people what being blessed means, it's not the car you arrived in, it's the people who help you push it once it breaks down. and they see that you're blessed, oh, my gosh, it's harris faulkner, she is on whatever. if i say i'm blessed i should show that. how are young people going to learn what to strive for, it's not the money, it is not the job. it is the time, the eye contact, the love in our hearts, the kindness of things that we have the blessings to share. we can shed our grace, we have to start doing that. >> i'm so glad you mentioned -- sorry to cut you off, churches and closures during covid because ari, gorsuch and

kavanaugh, the casinos are open, the church doors are shut, it doesn't take supreme court justices to do that. it should be in the heart of americans, the cultural heart, houses of worship, even if you are not a person of faith they are important for those who do process faith. >> i am glad this segment has come up. for all the hard news there is also news like this that endures and it really scratches the itch of what is wrong with america, the lack of patriotism, our feelings about cultural matters and personal family matters. there is a reason we look back in time and call one generation of americans the greatest generation. and when you talk about them being the greatest, what made them great? they defeated the nazis, what were their morals, they are a religious people, they were married, they had all the patriotism, it's the very thing this poll talks about prevalent into the 90s brought to us by

the greatest generation by the baby boomers, we slid away from it. it's a feeling like something is unmoored in our society. and you know, from a personal point of you vehicle i was raised saying a prayer every night and every morning. and then i got away from it for decades, i started doing that a year ago, there is a feeling of soul, of peace from doing that, it's little things, things you want to teach to your children, hope for younger generations, i love what you said, praying in public. let other people see it. there is something strong about that. >> thank you, not everybody agrees with that. >> it's so well said, you know. cheryl, we pray with my daughter before we go to bed, now my son. we read her a bible story. no matter what faith you are, for me that is my place of faith. my daughter is going to have something, when the going gets tough, the social media viral issues come, the eating

disorders, the pressures, she is going to have something to look to, this is bigger than what i am facing i think this is what i am missing. >> i'm episcopal, one of the things that the church gives to my family is a sense of community and a place to go to be together, to celebrate, to be grateful. and so many things in this new poll i found you see a lack of those especially the younger generation, i call them the snowflake generation, they are not grateful for the greatest generation which was my grandfather who fought in world war ii, my grandparents who were children during the great depression, who didn't have any food on the table. and especially when you look at this poll, i was looking at them and their views of the economy, 80% said the nation's economy is pouring out so good. 47% said it's getting worse. that is true, we are going into a recession. a lot of these younger folks, i hate to target the under 30 but i am going to. they've never been through the

great recession, 2008 financial crisis. they think that starbucks and having a fully charged iphone are the most porridge things, that they should have every day and it's not. with all the job losses we're starting to see especially in technology companies i think that it makes me sad but i'm not surprised by the numbers that i found in this poll. >> to that point, marie, you brought up money. marie, look at this, this was so sad. the only priority the journal tested that has group in importance in the past quarter century is money which is cited as very important 43%. tolerance for others deemed very important by 80% in 1998, now down to 58%. so, love of money up, lack of tolerance ever present. >> and corporate prophets off the chart. the middle class struggling. we talk about -- cheryl touched on that. it's been a hard 20 years since this poll was conducted, we went

through the great recession, iraq war, 20 years of war not just in iraq but in afghanistan. you have to look at it in that sense. for me the thing about patriotism i always liked, for me a definition of our country has always been perfect, always right, we talk about the greatest generation, my grandfather was part of that. our country was still segregated in the 40s and 50s. we fought for minorities, women, and it's an ever continuing process of getting toward that more perfect union. and i think what a lot of democrats might say, i don't represent all of them, what a lot might say the word patriotism has been weaponized politically. a around the iraq war, around issues after 9/11. and religion has been in some ways weaponized, if you don't pray or believe certain parts of the country that somehow people are made to feel less than. and the beauty

about this country we can all pray as we pray, you can choose to pray or not pray as part of a religion not to be and you are still part of the fabric of the country. i think the poll is getting at some tricky cultural issues. >> can't do that in iran. >> patriotism should be bigger than any one political party. >> it should be, you are right. >> september 11th, 2001, we were all one country. we could use a little more unit. is a marine veteran who survived three tours only to lose his life in a violent carjacking when he got home. the heartbreaking story next. i got tai last december. i've spent almost every minute with her since. when i first brought her home, she was eating little brown pieces in a bag and it was just what kind of came recommended. i just always thought, “dog food is dog food” i didn't really piece together that dogs eat food.

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all right. so, we are first getting reports of a shooting at an elementary school in

nashville, tennessee. yes, i said an elementary school. the fire department says multiple victims, and there is an active scene going on right now at the christian academy. the national police department tweeted this in part, an active shooter event has taken place at covenant school, covenant presbyterian church, the shooter was engaged by the police department there. shoot ter is dead. reunification with parents is under way. you may know as we are saying the same reports on all the ones who did not survive. we are going to wait to confirm the deaths of anyone in this when we can do that through fox news. what we can tell you is coming directly from the fire and police department that there are multiple victims in this elementary school shooting in nashville, tennessee. we'll check back on all this, this is

going to change rapidly, we can tell already. a marine veteran and a dad who survived three tours in iraq and afghanistan did not survive a violent carjacking in los angeles. aaron arosco was working as an uber driver to pay the bills. he began working nights so he could watch his young children during the day while his wife was working as a nurse. police say he was shot to death at a 7-eleven. he shot him and pushed his body on into the parking lot and left him to die. police are still hunting down the armed carjackers, aaron arosca was 38 years old, his wife was left behind who was his high school sweetheart. she is living a nightmarement he spoke

with fox and friends today. >> i am a veteran myself, too. so, i know what it's like to be deployed. it's heartbreaking. and it happens so sudden. you know, where everybody is so devastated right now. >> ari. >> there is nothing to say. this is the -- anybody who served our country and nobody deserves anything like this, but especially those who served our country. and your heart just breaks. this is the type of thing when people talk about crime and people say crime is not a serious issue, tell that to his family. crime is a serious issue. it's one of the reasons that we as americans feel the things that are untoward in many ways, it's happening in cities all across the country. not just in los angeles. on a personal level your heart goes out to this family. >> do you know what is so

important to just layering what you just said, it's not what people talk about constantly but every single poll shows that this is the top three things affecting them. not that they are concerned about but they are affected by. >> that's why our cities are in decay. >> yeah. >> cheryl. >> done what, it's heartbreaking. but i think about the heros, he was a hero, his wife is a nurse. she is a hero. a marine veteran is driving an uber overnight to pay the bills so he can watch the children when his wife is off working. and we don't pay our military service men and women enough. we don't take care of them when they leave service, that's one of the most frustrating things i find. even though i know a lot of the big banks in new york have tried to get programs going for them and get businesses going for them and to help these people. i think that's what frustrates me so much. we are not taking care of these men and women and this is a perfect

example overnight in los angeles, the crime story, yes. obviously. but the crime is he was having to drive an uber just to get by. all the tax money that i pay, i wish it went to him, not to forgive student loan debt. >> that's so well. so, many unanswered questions here. his body was apparently pushed into the parking lot while one of the suspects fled on foot and the other drove off in the stolen car. he leaves behind a 9 year old and 3 year old. some of the words of his now widow sandra, we've been married for ten years but been together since high school, high school sweethearts. she no longer has her beautiful high school sweetheart and the part that really got me, i haven't even told my kids yet. they still think dad is going to come through the door. i can't imagine the loss of their high school sweetheart and telling your 9 year old and 3 year old that daddy is never coming home.

we hold the family in our prayers. >> marie. >> yeah, i mean, on veterans we talked today already about these 20 years of war. somewhere around probably 3,000,000 americans served in one of those post 9/11 conflict. cheryl to your point i think we're still grappling with how to take care of them with jobs, employment, continuing education, the gi bill, the post 9/11 gi bill with medical care, mental healthcare for ptsd. this is an issue that even though those wars are over, and we've looking at china, we're looking at other threats, we need to keep focused on that. i think this is such a part of that story that we need to focus on as a government, civil society, business, people with voices to be able to do that. >> yeah, i think all of this, i go right back to where ari started though. we are in a situation right now where we cannot tolerate to what is happening to america be our largest cities. the crime and

lack of civility and the types of crimes going on right now that's lates so quickly from burglary to robbery to death to carjacking to death. those slippery slope crime, we cannot tolerate this and we can't tolerate it at the border and tolerate it on our streets. wherever we have people protecting us it's not enough right now. >> there is an opening for a leader somewhere just to go back to basics on these things. people have to fear the law. how else -- >> there you go. >> sit in the back of a car, take out a gun, shoot the driver, shove them out of the car and not care. this i is depravity under way. strong leaders to go back to basics and scare people so they don't engage in crimes like that. moving on. coming up, you might say this is rather rich. really rich. john kerry comes to the defense of eco warriors like himself who fly private jets,

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this is breaking news that we are covering this hour, you are looking at nashville, tennessee right now. st. paul's christian school, elementary pre-k-6 grade. massive casualty alert. multiple victims down, school shooting at st. paul christian. we want to keep you abreast of this. we do know that the accused shooter has been taken out by local police there. and as we work to do this, we can tell you that when we say multiple victims, we it believe there are children among them. a mass casualty alert has every hospital in the area on alert to take victims from the scene. we

are getting very few details in at once. but as soon as we know that there are a command post, a checkpoint where we can hear from authorities, of course we'll take you there live. this happened just a short time ago. and as we're watching this, i went to mention -- yeah, i'm reading this as i'm telling you. children are among those that have been shot. no word on the state of theirer whys. you will see places, i always acknowledge this, things are said to be confirmed and they have not yet. we are careful in our reporting. there are parents potentially, family members who are watching who may not be able to get to the school. don't know the situation. we want to be informational and not pan be driven. i am not going to put numbers of people out until we've confirmed them here at fox. can i tell you that this is a mass casualty alert event, that's the reporting from the

ground. the police department had said earlier and the fire department, that the shooter was engaged by the local nashville police department and dead. parents can meet at a special location to meet up with their children, i am going to give that to you now. woodmont baptist church is located at 2100 woodmont boulevard. and yes, the whole nation hears that but specifically the people in the area who might be watching or friends or relatives who are watching, can text this to them. go to woodmont baptist church, metro nashville police, we are following them on twitter. if you are personally touched by this, i encourage you to follow them on twitter, they are the most urgent with these types of messages. you won't find the investigation details or what's happening in the interim there. we'll have that for you here. we see it at the center of the

screen. a school bus and it speaks to the ages of the people who are inside that school. this is pre-k. prekindergarten through 6th grade. this is a christian school. you see all who have responded here in our law enforcement. we'll stay on the story and bring you the latest as we get it. climate czar john kerry, but he seems to have no problem when his eco minded elite peers do. listen to what he told yahoo news about the hi pock crease about eco warriors like himself as they speak out on climate change. >> private aviation is an example of something where people are starting to pay more attention and but when, you know, people who go to davos go to talk on private.

>> actually, they offset -- they buy offset, they buy offsets and working harder than most people i know to be able to try to effect this transition. >> all right. ari, he uses the word offset, whatever the heck he is talking about there, i am going to go home and plant a tree, right? that is going to make it okay that i'm flying private to davos. there is a why there is a pushback and rolled, they spent a lot of money, and they tell the rest of us. >> john kerry being a hypocrite. we all know that, they john kerry is saying i'm the hardest worker i know. other people may care about this cause, they may do something, nobody works as hard as i do. what pompousness and that is john kerry to a t.

you can see the way he looked at the reporter, how dare you question me and my habits. what i would like to know, does john kerry fly private on vacation. >> admitted over 300 metric tons of carbon that is just since president biden took office, he is going out there and polluting the skies and has no issue with this. listen to this, this is just john kerry talking about what else is coming for all of you when it comes to your wallet and your cars and trucks, listen. >> there is a massive movement now in this transition that is bigger than any one administration or one policy. and i don't think anybody in the future could get away with trying to reverse that. it's just not going to happen. >> kayleigh. >> yeah, i wonder when the last time he flew commercial if anyone has an answer. >> john kerry flies commercial for -- he does not fly private,.

>> commercial almost every time he has flown. >> when is the last time he took a boat like greta thunberg. >> in this roll and i didn't mean to cut you off. >> no, no. >> in this role he does fly commercial. carbon offsets is a real thing. he has worked with international bodies like united to come to an agreement that they will help reduce admissions by purchasing carbon offset. no one thinks that but offsetting your carbon is actually a very well researched and intentional way of doing this. i know the headlines are interesting and some of these private planes people say, his family aren't, i know a lot about how john kerry travels. the bigger picture is we do have a climate crisis, the planet is on fire. sorry, kayleigh. >> it's the elitism of, people like me, when he went to receive the award has to travel in this manner. you know, it's almost as

if he is saying we are the air h can buy climate offsets, the rest of us can enjoy energy poverty. i don't think it is a good look. >> he admitted when he flew to iceland, this is the only way that people like me can travel, that goes back to the elitism, and that is you frustration and criticism of davos. and also, too, we can sit here, i am a money person a business person, the dollars and cents, we can pontificate about fixing the climate, you have china and you have india that are polluting the world and nothing we do is going to change or stop that. and that's why it gets so frustrated marie, with somebody like john kerry pontificating from-an ivory tower. >> he is doing -- i will say though, and i was obviously part of his team at the state

department that works on the paris accord. we have to do something, massive weather events we're seeing, the heat we've seen across the world, the globe, heatwaves that are killing people, we have migrants that are not able to have anyplace to live, anything to eat because of our changing climate, we have to address this, you may not like john kerry but his message is one we have to listen to. >> john kerry predicted in five years, in 2013, scientists predicted we will have the first free arctic summer. >> shipping routes can go through there now because it's melting. >> he should trans significance to boat if it's that urgent. >> and i had checked out for just a second because i'm working this breaking news, that is my job to do. when i hear you accusing people of basically the sky is falling, i give you aoc. there are a lot of people on your side of the aisle that have been saying the sky is falling

with no direct way to keep it from hitting the ground. by the way, it isn't falling, things are changing, the world is always changing. >> this climate is going to change. >> when you panic people you don't inspire them to change. you don't give them transition points. it's like don't use your gas stove, don't do this, don't do that, don't plug in your electric car, maybe give up my fossil fuel card. there has to be a transition point and a clarity and a calmness how we get to the next level. if anybody is causing a panic, it's your side of the aisle because you think we only have a few more years to live. i'm old. i have many more i hope i've lived 57, i've been blessed. what i learned in those years is, when you panic you shorten your life span. so, let's just get it together. and don't accuse the other side because your side is monster big at doing this of causing the panic, of it's in five years, it's in 13 years. >> but we're right on this.

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shortly. this is nashville, tennessee. covenant school here. this is pre-k-6th grade. web the last hour there has been a shooting there. we've been telling you about everything we can learn, the details are slow to come in. so, metro police in nashville are investigating the shooting at the covenant presbyterian school. three students were shot, that much we know. we are working to confirm at fox whether or not those three are safe now. if they are in recovery. other outlets are reporting that is not the case. we are still working. we don't want to get it wrong. we can tell you that the shooter is dead. the shooter according to rapider built university medical center has passed away. a student reunification, i gave you this address earlier, woodmont baptist church, 2100 woodmont boulevard. i am also

seeing that the vanderbilt university center, medical center is where those three students were taken. i want to be careful with their conditions but we don't have anything listed and others are reporting something grave. so, we are going to work the phones on our own and with our own reporter, johnathan on the ground. the team will let me know. just a short time before we reported to you when this first happened within the last hour, we were told by the nashville fire department, and it was also tweeting out they had an active shooter on the grounds at covenant school. and that they could confirm multiple patients. we also got a mass alert for casualties for all hospitals in the area. so, this has been ongoing for awhile. and instant information for where parents could go. because of the ages of the children, we know -- at least i do from covering stories like this that they handle things quite differently. so,

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we have breaking news now, we can confirm the deaths of three children at the christian academy school covenant. this is nashville, tennessee. we knew the shooter had been taken there and the shooter was dead. he had engaged with the metro police department in nashville. that's what they are saying. now, they took him out. pretty early. we don't have any details. we don't know the age of that person who is the shooter. we don't know anything about that person. we can tell you that these children will be between the ages of

preschool and 6th grade. that's a very young group of people at the he will elementary school here. you know, it's always interesting with these scenes, can you tell the urgency went away quickly in terms of trying to take someone out, that active shooter situation. you stop seeing swat vehicles go back and forth and that sort of thing. now we are in the zone of waiting to hear are any others shot in this? is we know of three children dead. vanderbilt medical staff has their media relations department has confirmed that they took those three children in. there was an all-call mass casualty alert for all hospitals near the school. this elementary school covenant inside of a church in nashville. and so everybody was prepared. but the four people were shot including the shooter who engaged with metro police in nashville, and the three children. we don't know you

know, whether or not their families know a lot of the details at this point, too. so, we are very very careful with the story. but we wanted to continue it through. it's still considered an active investigation scene. i don't see at this point any back and forth for ambulances. so, they will do what they always do. they will go through and sweep that building, looking to see if this person who was the shooter had an accomplice. did we get everybody haute/o haute was evacuated. anybody else shot. this will take some time and we will stay on this story and report to you the facts as we learn them. and we pray for all children across america who find themselves in the place of harm where they should be protected and learning. kayleigh. >> yeah, you know, harris, i'm on the website now welcome to the dominant school. lines, we are a beacon on the hill shining god's truth. you look at that

church, that beautiful little church, you can put yourself there, i don't know if they held church services yesterday, you can imagine some of those parents might have been at that place with their child. what we are seeing play, it's good versus evil. evil came into that beautiful little church, took the lives of three children. and soon we will learn their names, we will learn their stories. we will learn how they in fact were lights in the world as their alma mater lyrics suggest. we after our prayers in this very moment, i can't imagine these parents in the fear, the trepidation they have as they go to wood burn boulevard. >> so monday morning, today, the covenant presbyterian school became a crime scene with a shooter that opened fire. three children are dead now. the shooter is dead after having engaged with the metro nashville police department. the fire department had said early on that they were transporting

multiple victims and of course that turned out to be true and we held back to see because some reports said people, some reports said children out of the sensitivity of the ages, of people involved in this as victims, we held back. it's always hard to -- to learn these facts. we know from sandyhook, we know so many other occasions unfortunately in our nation where children have been shot and it's never an easy moment for the law enforcement. so, i always pray for the first responders, too. because the crime scene they roll up on today will live with them forever. and for those parents who have lost little ones, who have yet to be reunited with little ones because the scene can be quite chaotic. we want to make sure that we report the story as factually as possible. i know that our reporter on the ground jonathan serrie is collecting details. live at our

atlanta bureau, jonathan. >> hi, there, harris, the covenant school is located in an upscale community of nashville. ordinarily very quiet there. this is not the type of thing that would happen at a small private presbyterian school that serves grades pre-k through 6th grade. we are talking about elementary school students here. the national district attorney has requested requested assistance from the national bureau, sending agents and personnel to the scene. both the tbi and local police say there is no current threat to public safety, that's because the metro nashville police department has cop firmed that the officers engaged the active shooter. the shooter is dead and then sadly as you reported, harris, vanderbilt university medical

center confirmed three chirp were transported on the haven'ter built campus, all of these kids had suffered gunshot wounds and all three were pronounced dead after arrival. just a terrible situation to cover, harris. >> i want to ask, this, jonathan police stay with us. senator marsha blackburn has just tweeted, chuck and i are heartbroken to hear about the shooting. my office is in contact with federal, state, and local officials. thank you to the first responders working on site. please join us in prayer for those affected. senator marsha blackburn, senior senator from that state. ari, your thoughts. >> well, we are going to learn soon is who is the shooter, and what was his motive. and i suspect it is a him, that's the tragedy. this is almost always young men who engage in these type of shootings in schools. the fact that the police may

have been on the scene, how quickly they got there, the fact that three were killed and not more. we don't know how many were shot and wounded yet. >> we don't, we don't, no. >> it would appear that the police were either on the scene or reacted extraordinarily quickly to their credit. there is a group i know called the secure community network and they represent, they protect jewish facilities across the country which are often targeted. the sad truth about america today, institutions like this often have guards. i can tell you how many jewish facilities, synagogues, hilel, summer camps. >> jccc. >> who have to have armed guards or volunteer guards to protect the perimeter, praying or being educated. it's a tragedy to see it happen at a christian academy. i hope we don't need security. >> can i say something, harris. 10 months ago was uvalde, is a in my mind right now. we're

still learning details, we are finding out what has transpired in nashville. i kept thinking about what we did learn about uvalde and rob elementary and innocent lives lost. my heart is breaking for those parents right now. >> absolutely. marie. >> there are too many names we've had to learn of elementary schools, house of worship, jewish. tree sunshine dog in philadelphia. >> in pittsburgh. >> pittsburgh, excuse me. we have seen over and over again in places that should be places of grace and protection, schools, hospitals, houses of worship, have to arm themselves. and that is -- that is part of the the saddest part of all this they keep happening in our country, we learn these names, kayleigh said, we will learn the stories of these children whose lives are lost. i'm sick of hearing stories of childrens lives whose

were cut short. i'm sick of it. >> it is our responsibility to know their stories. not just as reporters and cohosts, but also as americans. i mean, these are young lives cut short. their stories will always be special in our hearts. we didn't know their names yet. we didn't know much about the school other than what you were telling us, kayleigh, on the website and i know i have been reading through all of the local news coverage there now. i mean, this and of course the senator, senator blackburn's comments just moments ago. this is brand new video by the way on the right side of your screen. so, they are reaching now the other children and when you see those school buses, that evacuation is in process right now. they would have swept the school, jonathan, are you still with me? >> yeah, i am. they were evacuating the kids in these school buses and taking them to

a reunification center set up atwood month baptist church. it's a little more than 2 miles away, they are telling parents to head to woodmont baptist church, 2100 woodmont boulevard to be reunified with their children, harris. >> yeah, i was telling people that just here nationally, you know, a lot of people say well you know, it's not happening in my community. you could be watching at home and know that you have someone trying to reach their child and text them quick that 2100 woodmont boulevard, that woodmont baptist church information and greatly help them out. you know, just watching all the school buses, we're getting a feel for how many classrooms. so, prekindergarten through 6 6th grade, that is quite a few grades. we don't know how many of each grade, right there that is going to take several school buses, even though it's one or two in each grade. we are going

to do plans to the center of the screen, and now the left. can we go back to the live picture of the ambulance, i'll ask the team. and the reason i say that, we want to watch, ari and i both have the question, are there any other victims and how you find out. you watch the ground very carefully, jonathan you are with us, too, and you pray those doors of the back of that ambulance don't open again. and look at all the response now with first responders. ari, you said it, they were have so quickly and they may have already had some presence by the nature that this is a religious school and sometimes you see that. >> since sandy hook, schools have had to deploy officers for protection, put in bulletproof doors, shatterproof glass, sad actions taken as a result of the

shootings. >> you pray, though, the actions are taken if your little one is behind the glass. we pray for nashville today and for the parents there and all the other schools across the country who watch this, too. and just pray to keep them safe. thank you for watching "outnumbered" this hour. "america reports" now. >> sandra: fox news alert, horrific shooting at a christian elementary school in nashville, three children confirmed to have been killed. hello and welcome, sandra smith in new york. >> john: john roberts in washington, sandra, not how we hoped to start off the week. local reports saying the shooting began after 10:30 local time this morning when officers were called for an active shooter, enrollment between 195 to 210 students. it's located about five miles southwest of downtown nashville. >> sandra: then we