another mass shooting rocks the country. this time in louisville, kentucky what we're learning about the alleged shooter and the victims, his co-workers the state department officially declaring the "wall street journal" reporter in russia wrongfully detained

what this means for the efforts to bring him back home a middle school fight club a florida teacher in legal trouble for allegedly letting students brawl in her classroom. and there's a new mayor in town t. swift brings her new heiress tour to a florida city and gains golden access. it's tuesday, april 11 "early today" starts right now gro good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm cori coffin we begin with another tragedy involving gun violence five people killed and at least nine others injured after a gunman opened fire at a bank in louisville, kentucky the fifth victim is deana eckert president biden spoke with kentucky governor bashir on the phone about the tragedy. one of the victims was rick scott's banker

maggie vespa starts us off >> reporter: chaos and carnage gripping another american city >> let's be clear about what this was this was an evil act of targeted violence >> reporter: the familiar terror unfolding in downtown louisville, kentucky police say a lone gunman opened fire inside this old national bank >> this was terrifying it was terrifying. >> reporter: officers on the scene within three minutes investigators say this was not a random act. >> white male who was employed at old national bank his weapon of choice was a rifle. >> reporter: authorities identifying the shooter as connor sturgeon who died at the scene in a shootout with police. he live streamed the rampage, according to investigators who executed a search warrant on his home victims range in age from 40 to 64, including 63-year-old thomas elliott, the bank's senior vice president, according to his

linkedin account and a friend of kentucky governor andy beshear >> he helped me build my law career, , help immediate become govhelped me become governor >> reporter: one officer was shot in the head j.d. worley watched in horror from his office across the street >> other officers grabbed him and carried him off as he was motionless never could have fathomed i would see something like this happen >> reporter: at 26, the officer is less than two weeks out of the academy. >> nick has come outof brain surgery and is in stable but critical condition as we speak >> reporter: the governor praising police who raced to confront the gunman. >> it seems like we have so much anger. i still believe that love and compassion and humanity can lead us to a better place this is hard

it's really hard >> reporter: authorities here are investigating this as a case of workplace violence, adding the suspect who was an employee at this bank may have suffered from mental health issues in the past they add they expect much more to come out in the coming days back to you. >> maggie reporting from louisville, thanks, maggie a grand jury in virginia is taking action against the mother of a 6-year-old who brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. it's the latest in who had be h will be held accountable we know the boy will not be charged, but what is the phenmom facing >> reporter: a grand jury indicted deja taylor on charges of felony child neglect and misdemeanor for lead leaving a loaded firearm to endanger a child. abigail zwerner was shot in her left hand and upper chest by

taylor's son last week the richdneck elementary schoolteacher filed a lawsuit alleging that officials did not heed warnings about the student's behavior, including being in possession of a firearm. the student got ahold ofd of millimeter handgun now in virginia, these charges ca carry sentences of up to five years and one year a lawyer for taylor says she will turn herself in later this week an attorney for zwerner said that these charges address just one of those failures that led to the shooting and that many

unanswered questions still remain back to you, phillip >> it's the disturbing case all the way around, brie, thank you. now to the latest flash point over reproductive rights two contradicting court rulings over the fda's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone the justice department asking a federal appeals court to pause a texas judge's ruling to ban the drug while a different judge in washington state is asking the fda to keep it on the market here's dasha burns >> reporter: the fallout from dueling court rulings. the future of the abortion pill is hanging in the balance after a texas judge invalidated the fda's approval of mifepristone the department of justice is now appealing that decision. >> what this ruling effectively is, is a back door ban on abortion >> reporter: what options are available to the administration here >> we've been waiting for the judge to rule, and what we did is what we believe is the best strategy, which is to appeal the

decision immediately >> reporter: minutes after the texas judge's decision on friday night, a federal judge in washington state with equal authority dropping a contradictory ruling, ordering the fda to maintain access to the drug it all sowed confusion nationwide and created a legal standoff used with another drug, mifepristone is the most common method for terminating pregnancies in the u.s it has been used safely more than 5 million times but a group of anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations allege the drug is dangerous and the fda didn't follow proper protocol when approving it i spoke with the group behind the lawsuit before the ruling. >> the result if you win is that abortion access will be significantly limited. is that the goal of this lawsuit? >> no, the goal of this lawsuit is to protect american women and girls from dangerous chemical abortion drugs it's not, we are not seeking a nationwide abortion ban. >> reporter: meanwhile,

lawmakers in blue states vowed to do whatever necessary to protect reproductive rights. >> it harms patients, undermines medical expertise, and takes away freedom >> reporter: mifepristone remains legal, as the battles rage on in the courts. dasha burns, nbc news. ousted tennessee lawmaker justin jones has been reinstated following a unanimous vote by the nashville metropolitan council. afterwoo afterwards he marched to the state capital with protesters where he was sworn in again. he spoke about the power of the moment. >> thousands of people gathered here today, multi-racial, intergenerational gathered from the metro courthouse to the legislature to let them know that the world is watching and we're not going to allow their attacks on democracy to happen in the comfort of silence and we're still calling for common sense gun laws

that's what this was about in the beginning. >> reporter: and tomorrow the shelby county board will meet to decide on reappointing justin pearson. they were expelled for leading a gun protest on the gallery floor. now to a florida teacher arrested last week after faculty and parents say they found out she facilitated fights among girls at the middle school although angel denied having organized the fights she is charged with delinquency of a minor. they confirmed her voice laying down specific ground rules like 30 seconds and no phones the court documents showed two fights took place on march 22nd and 23rd, involving six girl whose pgirls who paired off no reports of injuries the u.s. state department

declared "wall street journal" reporter aaron gershkovich has been wrongfully detained that will enable the case to be han handled by the special presidential envoy russian officials say he was arrested on march 30 on suspicion of espionage in the interest of the american government the wall street journal continues to deny the charges against the reporter israel and palestinian territories are a powder keg right now after a week of back and forth violence, as devastated families on both sides of the conflict, as israeli forces raid towns and refugee camps, our raf sanchez met with some of the palestinian militants that the idf is trying to capture or kill >> reporter: israeli forces raiding a refugee camp in the occupied west bank, capturing a palestinian militant, they say, but also kill ing a 15-year-old boy. his body dpound by his own father

i came closer and realized it's my son, he says. the latest child lost to the violence gripping the holy land. two israeli sisters from a west bank settlement killed by a palestinian gunman on friday their mother also succumbing to her wounds a family destroyed israeli settlers staging a massive protest in the northern west bank, joined by far right members of israel's government we head to the nearby palestinian city of janine where israeli troops are fighting near daily battles against palestinian militants. including these gunmen from the al-aqsa al-aqsa martyrs brigade. when they raid we're ready for them, he says. looming over us, posters of their comrades killed. was it worth it? did they achieve anything?

you're seeing the stars of the martyrs. they are defenders of freedom, defending themselves on our people men prepared to kill and die for their cause. >> our thanks to raf for that report that wicked weather that many of us have seen lately is in the rear view nbc meteorologist angie lassman is here with warm weather in the forecast hey, angie, good morning >> we're going to turn our attention to more spring-like conditions, but we are waking up a little chilly in some e smarts parts of the carolinas we'll continue to see the warmer temperatures, though, settling in for much of the country in the coming days. these temperatures from coast-to-coast are running way warm 10-30 degrees above normal for this time of year. phoenix ends up at 93 degrees. st. louis, 79 by the time we head into the afternoon hours today, and it's not just today it lasts through the rest of the

workweek basically chicago, 80 degrees tomorrow, cincinnati at 75 and we head into the weekend with 82 on thursday in new york. 85 on friday and even as we head into saturday, temperatures will still be into the mid to upper 70s. we'll take oy skies and new york ends up at 73, also dealing with a mix of sun and clouds. meanwhile, on the gulf coast, though, guys, we're going to watch for unsettled weather as a low pressure system develops we'll talk more about what that means for rain chances in the coming days. >> it can't be perfect everywhere so close we're back in a minute as we're back in a minute as taylor swift reready to shihine fromom the insidide out?

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