ryan king got out of his truck armed with an ar-15 rifle and started shooting. >> urgent manhunt, police in an all-out search for the mass shooter who opened fire at a waffle house in tennessee as the public is warned to be on the lookout. high stakes summit, the president muddies the water for his summit with the north korean dictator. travel nightmare. dozens of flights delayed, passengers fuming. plus, the viral photo that's injecting civility back into

politics. and why uncle sam is causing so-called accident equal americans pay up. and several americans pitch in for earth day. a manhunt is under way following a shooting at a tennessee waffle house that left four people dead and several others wounded. authorities are searching for 24-year-old reinking. >> as i got out of my car, he got out of his truck, naked except for a jacket, an consult rifle. shot a gentleman that was standing at the door, turned and shot my buddy, tee, who was trying to get away down the sidewalk. >> police and the ceo of waffle house are praising 29-year-old james shaw jr. who prevented further bloodshed by wrestling the gunman to the ground. but shaw says he wasn't with a

hero and was with reacting to the situation. >> i'm not a here he row. i'm just a regular person. you have to either react or you have to -- or you're going to, you know, fold. and i chose to react because i didn't see any other way of me, you know, with living. and that's all i wanted to do. i just wanted to live. >> police are warning the gun withman is still on the run and may be armed and dangerous. >> police say a gunman, armed with an assault rifle and wearing nothing but a green jacket opened fire at a nashville area waffle house, killing four people, injuring four on others. police believe this had is the gunman, 29-year-old reinking. there were two persons standing outside the restaurant. they were the first ones who were hit, both fatally.

>> reinking then entered the building. >> i hit him with the swivel door and then the gun was jammed up and it was pushed down. so we were scuffling. and i managed to get him with one hand on the gun and then i grabbed it from him and i threw it over the countertop. >> authorities say the customer, james shaw jr., saved lives. reinking fled. investigators searched his apartment and discovered one begun. he was known to the fbi since july 2017. >> the police department has received information that the guns were returned by taskell authorities to reink canning's father who has now acknowledged giving them back to his son. >> one of those guns, an ar-15, was used in the shooting.

police are now looking for reinking and the two missing weapons. this morning, president trump's choice to lead the state department will get one step closer to nomination. mike pompeo is expected to move to the full senate, but not before his historic rebuke from the foreign relations committee with members likely to reject him. the top democrat on the committee defended his historic no vote. >> he wouldn't answer me about what mueller talked to him about and it was about russia related, so this is something important to the committee. didn't tell us about his visit to north korea and he has a history of comments about regime change against the lgbtq community, on muslims, that didn't make it possible for me to envision him as the secretary of state of the united states. >> but that's not the only battle the trump administration is waging as the white house

looks to clean up the president's own words on north korea ahead of a make or break summit. kelly o'donnell has the latest from the white house. >> good morning, phillip. president trump is back in washington after a week in florida and he's been talking about the high stakes for any potential agreement or meeting or summit with north korea. he's also expressed on twitter frustration with people he refers to as pundits giving him advice he doesn't seem to want about how to make a deal. and the president is trying to send some positive signals. >> leaving palm beach, president trump posed with officers from the sheriff's department. and over the din of air force one's engines responded to shouted questions about north korea. this week, north korea's kim jong un and president moon jae-in of south korea are scheduled to meet. after kim, seen here inside his private train, announced friday the north's nuclear program is

complete and, therefore, would stop its missile testing. a move seen with both caution and optimism for potential negotiations. >> there's every reason to think that he will not agree to give up all of his nuclear weapons. so the question for the united states bumps are we with willing to live with some kind of compromised solution. >> president trump oversold on twitter declaring inaccurate hadly they have agreed to denuclearzation. but north korea has not gone that far. senator bob corker said for kim, the arsenal secures his grip on power. >> he views having deliverable nuclear weapons as his ticket to dieing an an old man in his bed. >> later, the president dialed back expectations. we are a long way from conclusion on north korea. maybe things will work out and maybe they won't. while the white house repeated its goal for trump/kim negotiations. >> but i think from our perspective, it means no longer

having nuclear weapons that can be used in warfare against any of our allies. >> this week, two of europe's most powerful leaders come to the white house, french president eeen manual macron who is on good terms with president trump and german chancellor angela merkel. they have a more complicated relationship. but they expect to give a sign to north korea that the u.s. would be willing to keep its word if it makes another nuclear agreement. nearly 2,000 people gathered in albuquerque to remember jennifer reardon, the woman killed on a southwest flight last week. the funeral service was held at the university of new mexico. her husband spoke out for the first time since the accident thanking the community for support. he also said riordan's legacy will live on through their two children. >> while physically she may not be here, avery and josh are

going to grow up to be amazing adults because she's going to guide every decision that we make as a family for the rest of their lives. so she's still going to be here forever. in the wake of the accident, southwest is voluntarily inspecting its fleet of 737s and that's having an impact on passengers with about 40 flights cans canneled yesterday. the faa has ordered inspects of all sympathier limilar engines. . at least 57 are dead after a suicide bombing at a voter registration center in kabul. it was packed with people who were there registering for national identification cards ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections in october. 22 women and 8 children are among the dead. the death toll could rise. isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. it is the fourth attack on registration centers since a week ago.

the nation's chief executive condemned the attack, writing our resolve for a fair and transparent election will continue and terrorists won't win against the will of the avenuen began people. -- the afghan people. video from a sonic restaurant shows per rochus winds tossing debris. you see it there spinning wildly. the winds whipped around several vehicles in the parking lot. the restaurant was serving to customers at the time, but no injuries were reported. the tornado knocked down power lines in the region. >> the same storm system the heading up the east coast this week and it is going to be at a slow crawl. the storm systems not producing any more severe weather. now we're watching some heavier rains all the way from the

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he thought. the former republican presidential candidate and governor of massachusetts is running for the u.s. senate in utah. he was hoping to avoid running in a primary, but at this weekend's convention, romney failed to beat a challenger by enough votes. so he will have to run against that state representative at a primary in june. iranian foreign minister mohammed zarif is in new york today with a warning. president trump has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the 2015 agreement unless changes are made. trump is set to meet with french president macron this week who says while iran isn't perfect, it would be worse for the u.s. to back out. ali, good morning. >> that's right, phillip. the foreign iran chief negotiator is in new york in a last-ditch attempt to salvage d.

but iran's foreign minister is warning they have a range of options including resuming's nuclear program. now, iran's chief ahead of nuclear program last week also said that iran could start enriching uranium at high levels within four days. you now -- it's highly likely that the deal would survive with the europeans alone. french president emmanuel macron is on an official trip to the u.s. he's urged donald trump, with whom he seems to have a good relationship with, to stick with the iran nuclear deal to say that there is no better option and he doesn't have a plan b if the united states restores

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>> olivier is about as french as they come. except he was born in chicago. >> are you proud that you were born in the united states? >> yeah. when i was young, it was very exotic for the guys. in fact, now i realize that it's very complicated. >> complicated because olivia is what's called an accidental american. his french parents left the u.s. when he was 13 days old and only discovered his citizenship in his 20s when his french bank closed his accounts for being american and then the irs came calling. >> i don't want to pay taxes in the united states. that's a country where i never lived. i never used motorways, i never used the school. >> cpas say clients face tax bills from the u.s. the u.s. and eritrea are the only two countries to collect

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climate change. >> it's really time to wake up. >> the democrat is from rhode island, the ocean state, threatened by rising sea levels. >> i am quite determined to do everything i can to make sure that the very map of my state is not changed by carbon pollution on my watch. >> his urgent message often echoing around an empty chamber. >> it can be a very lonely feeling. >> what would you say to those who say all you've really done is produce a lot of hot air? >> well, i think you'd have to talk to other people, folks in the scientific community who are feeling very beleaguered and beaten by particularly the trump administration. >> married to a marine scientist, whitehouse is an attorney by trade, using both their actions to spur action. >> at the heart of this conflict

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breaking overnight. word that kate middleton is hospitalized in the early stages of labor. >> reinking got out of his truck with an ar-15 rival and started hooting. >> urgent manhunt, police on a search for the mass shooter who opened fire at a waffle house. and the president is set to welcome his french counter part for the first state dinner. and a travel nightmare for many