what a snob. >> we are not just talking about a four-year degree. we are talking about somebody going to a community college. >> meanwhile, mitt romney's attempt to connect with average votesers backfires again. and hollywood's red carpet date with on cars, the winners and losers and the moments we will not forgets. >> wrap up, i'm wrapping up, i'm sorry. i'm freaking out. i love you guys, i'm sorry, i love you. thank you. >> more on that high school shooting near cleveland ohio a small town outside of cleveland, one student dead and four students are in area hospitals after another young man described as a classmate opened fire, that student was chased out of the school reportedly by a teacher. and now in police custody.

we have a reporter with wtam radio in cleveland, laurie, help us through the story and guide us to what you know great the eyewitnesss. >> we have learned that one of the five injured has passed away at the metro health medical center. two were taken to hill kroecreh. i startsed reporting the story from the on sets, we learned after 7:30 that something happened. i started to call the police and knew that something was wrong. had a busy signal and they were hanging up on me. we learned quickly that something had happened. all the reports that we are hearing throughout the morning is that chardon has handled it to the best of their ability. it was impressive that they got in and apprehended the student and got things so organized. >> we are not identifying the student, i know he has been

identified but you do know the relative age and whether the fatal victim was a boy or girl? >> i believe the initial reports that we had were that the fatal victim was a boy. there were four boys, and one girl. original injured and the reports are one of the boys was killed. we did not get final confirmation on that. if final rumor was that it had been one of the boys. you know, no further word on the gunman as to why this happened and what prompted the shooting. there was words that chardon high school was trending a twitter and there was a hint that something would happen today. >> there was suggestion of bullying or some problem with this young man. but we have yet to get those kinds of details. it started in the cafeteria

before first period, and laurie, there were shots fired elsewhere in the school? >> at least go other areas in the school. he opened fire initially in the cafeteria, and when the whole thing started to play out. one of the local affiliates, had a mother on the phone whose son was in the cafeteria when it happened and told his mother he witnessed the shooting and while she was on the air with our local affiliate, she got a text saying he barricaded himself in one of the rooms with a piano, and he was okay and he loved her. and such a heart wrenching text to get from your child. you know, since then, after that, we have heard that after he opened fire on the cafeteria, he then went to two other areas of the school and opened fire as well. >> i know there have been reports that a teacher helped chase the young man out of the school. chased him out of the school and

so he was apprehended. have you been able to confirm? r that? >> a teacher did give chase. the student did take off down route 6 i believe, was where he was finally apprehended and we were told that he was -- he gave himself in to by standers, he did finally stop and turn himself in. so i don't know whether that teacher gave chase all the way until he was apprehended or the teacher went back to deal with the wounded. but we know that a teacher did give chase. >> thank you so much. and joining us now, jonathan who is a senior at chardon high school and was inside the school. jonathan, tell us what happened. >> well, i was i started my first period in the library with a guided study hall and to get my energy out, i took a waaroun the halls it sounded like

someone was splashing plywood against the tables and then identified it as gun shots. everyone was running and screaming. one kid ran past me just out the door. i thought of doing that but i decided to go to the library because the people were in there. the gun shots were not very loud. soy got in there and -- so i got in there and we barricaded ourselves in the room. a teacher put a chair to the door to block it. >> you must have been all terrified. were you using you're cell phones or texting to get a message out? what were you doing? >> i was sitting there feeling nervous, mostly. i had left all my things in the guided study hall. i had just essentially ran. everyone was texting and a lot of people could not get texts

because a lot of people had verizon and everyone was texts at the same time. there was a computer in the room, so we were getting updates from members of the school. that is how we knew when to get out. >> did you have the sense that students were being targeted that the shooter actually knew and went after particular students and there could have been an incident that caused this? >> i do not know the shooter personally. but the people that were targeted seemed specific. i do not want to talk more about it. >> had there been anything on social media? any indication that something was arye and there could have been an incidents? >> i do not use twitter but i

heard from a news report, i think that the shooter had texted somebody about this. some sort of warning was sent out. but other than that, i'm not sure. >> had you had drills in the school? >> absolutely. we had quite a few drills and we -- a lot of people knew this was not a drill because the principal said immediately lock down. usually they warn us and we lock all the doors. >> there's a pa system, you got an alert, an announcement from the principal's office? >> yes. >> when did you tell them it was all clear? did the police come in and check room by room? >> we got an e-mail that said that the police will escort you to, it said the middle of the school but they were taken to the elementary. >> since we see so many parents

and children being reunited, have you seen your folks? >> yeah. i'm here with them right now. big relief when i saw them. a big relief when i saw all my friends at maple, i gave them all a big hug. i'm glads to be alive right now. >> we are of course relieved for you, and this will be taking a lot of time to absorb, our hearts are with you and your family and your fellow students and thanks for sharing your eyewitness account. thank you jonathan. be safe. and in our daily fix today, turning to politics, down to the wire with less than 24 hours before michigan votes, romney and santorum are sparring over their economic plans. >> i saw this morning that senate santorum wrote a piece in the wall street journal, i'm glad he recognized that this has to be a campaign good economy,

it's time for him to focus on the economy and for you all to say, okay, if t economy is going to be the focus, then who has the experience to get the economy going. >> tell him to watch my speech. >> a romney loss in michigan of course would send the gop establishment into a tail spin. mark joins us now. well, we have got less than 24 hours to go. early voting we know has been welt under way. where do you see the matchup now with so many missteps by both sides? >> neither candidate is closing strong, if you ask the hundred sharpies, most feel that romney pulls it out. i'm not so sure. romneys and santorums have had more energy and the fact that

there's a cross over voting driven by unions, i would not be surprised if either of them won. but romney may win the popular vote and i do not think that either candidate will put it away by any means no mat what are happens in michigan or arizona tomorrow. >> of course, there are more delegates at stake in arizona because you do not have, i think the way that dell gates are awarded and romney has a big lead in all the polls and as of now at "meet the press" and the endorsement of governor jan brewer. let's look at the snob comment. >> president obama once said he wants everyone in america to go college. what a snob. [ applause ] >> i understand why eptss you to go to college. he wants to remake you in his image. >> on top of that, we saw the president responded to that already today by pointing out

without mentioning santorum by name, he was addressing the governors that he has been talking about community colleges and all kinds of training for those in vocational fields. it sounded like santorum was taking the college plan outs of context and we know the difference in earnings capability for those that completed a higher degree and those who have-nots. >> even conservatives like pete winner and kathleen parker have a lot of intellectual sympathy for santorum, point out it's not smart. it may reflect his heart and inspire some part of the base, and the press is interested in pursuing him, but there's a discipline of the mouth required to get elected president and santorum is not doing himself favors talking about it. and we saw earlier today, alice

stewart, his spokes person, and santorum himself yesterday backing off the rhetoric, saying it's not about what people think it's about. to call the president a snob and saying that not everyone should go to college the way he did, it's not enhancing his chances being president. >> and attacking jfk to sbragz of church and states. look at this. >> i do not believe in an american with a separation of church and state is absolute. that makes you throw up. >> it seemed that he was setting up a straw man in. >> again, if you want to make the point that's made about both people and what happens with kids in college, even if i wants to say that religion deserves a

larger space, to say kennedy's words make you throw up, it is bad politics. it's the things that he have said throughout his career that some people like. but if he is going to be the nominee, he needs broader support. and that type of rhetoric is not politically smart and it's in a lot of ways, both remarks, calling the president a snob and saying kennedy's comments made him throw up is not presidential. >> i suspect in the reagan democrats the ones that vote a lot, i would not be surprised if some still have jfk's pictures on their walls. >> you would be surprised if they didn't. >> right. and could democrats try to throw michigan to santorum. michigan has an open primary. unions are in fact urging democrats to hurt mitt romney by

voting for santorum. saying that they will be able to choose democratic delegates at the state's democratic caucuses in may. debbie, good to see you. you have been seeing the e-mails, you know what is going on in the democratic party. talk to me about the strategy. it's a chaos theory? >> well, first of all, i to say that a lot of the democratic leadership in terms of bob king, head of the uaw and myself, dnc member, and others, are saying that democrats should nominate democrats and republicans should nominate republicans. but there's enough of an under current that pollsters are taking at least a 10% democratic turnout in the primaries. there's been more e-mail traffic in the last few days that i've seen of people encouraging people to go to the primary tomorrow and quite frankly the rhetoric of mitt romney being anti-labor has energized a lot of labor to consider doing it

tomorrow. i am one of those people that think it could be a factor tomorrow. >> especially in a close race. what about the nra, have they been involved? >> interestingly, a lot of people have talked about it and romney has had a better game, but the nra is known for their turnout and they have been energized this weekend and in one of the strongest nra messages that i've heard and i've heard a lot of them. my husband who i love dearly was a past board member of the nra, have really called mitt romney a danger to nra members. and are really energizing the vote for rick santorum. it's not something that i would take lightly. >> debbie dingell, you know of which you speak. you have what is known as a mixed marriage when it comes to the nra. thank you. >> that is true. >> good to see you. and up next, what happens if

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with dis dissatisfaction toward washington at an all-time high, is this the year that a third party candidate has a shot at winning the white house. david, good to see you, first of all, you are out there because tom freedman in the new york times suggested you as a third-party candidate, do you have any interest in filling that roll? >> i am not a candidate and i do not expect to be.

there are people that feel they need to have reform in government, but i do not expect to be a candidate. if i was going to be a candidate, i would not be leaving the country for three weeks which i'm doing on friday. >> when you say you do not expect to be, you are leaving a wide opening there. so you are not ruling anything out. this would be enormously difficult to pull off. >> i agree, i'm not intending to signal anything. my mom taught me never say never. i do not expect to be a candidate. i decided to run for the u.s. senate in november, so i do not expect to be. >> why do you think we need another ross perot type campaign? >> if you look 20 years ago when he ran, he ran on fiscal irresponsiblity, political dysfunction and declining trust if government and declining trust in the future.

we are demonstratively worse off and we are losing ground. there's a story, he woke up the american people and made sure the debates were more solutions oriented and he helped to set clinton's agenda. we need to do that again. and i believe that can be done without running for president and i'll continue to focus on an issue based campaign as i have been in the past, with did hope that -- with the hope that the next president, whoever it is, will make this a top priority, so we do not end up like the countries in europe. >> are you suggesting a campaign where the candidates are talking about whether or not there's value in a college education or what would you do about contraception or whether the trees are the right height in michigan. do you suggest that there's something wrong with the republican campaign? >> i'm suggesting that there's something wrong with it period.

we are not getting enough substance or solutions. the things i've heard recently are things that frankly we should not be hearing in a presidential campaign in my view. >> what about the fact that one of the candidates if not more are suggesting that they could bring us inexpensive kas lean? >> there's no question, that there are things that need to be done to improve our security and in order to be able to reduce gas prices over time. the things that need to be done are strategic policies that will take a number of years to emp-- put in place. we ought to have a discussion about what energy policy should be, rather than current, you know, current prices, what will do you in order to provide more security and reduce prices over time. >> david walker, thank you very much. safe travels.

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still preferred by most voters who view those as their major issues. i think that again, polls are snap shots in time, but can only be good news for the white house and explains why they are happy about the possibility of a drawn out republican fight going on for the coming months. >> and as you point out a lot can happen between now and then, he has at least a ten-point lead over romney. >> that is right. that is striking since romney's whole selling point has been the economy. the numbers i think are particularly striking in romney's case in that independents, for instance, and we have seen it in other polls, his negatives are going up. during the course of the primary. his numbers with independents, his negatives have risen, it's a problem for him to be selling himself. >> and santorum has more negatives? >> that is not entirely surprising that he has not done himself a tremendous amount of

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separate areas, the student was chased out of the school by a teacher. a referendum was held sunday on a new constitution. secretary of state hillary clinton dismissed the vote as a sham. under intense pressure in egypt, egypt has postponed the trial of six americans. a judge said that a two-month break will give the lawyers to res review the documents and give the defendants access to the interpreters. an issue that rasks a major break between the u.s. and egyptian authorities. more bloodshed in afghanistan, a week after the u.s. troops burned copies of a

koran ined a veter koran, nine afghans were killed. to date, 40 people have died, killed in protests and attacks, including four u.s. soldiers and two of them officers shot at point blank range. as a rule, civilians have been withdrawn from their afghan posts. >> what are the u.s. and nato officials saying today as to how to proceed from here on? >> reporter: there's a lot of confusion, the forces know they have to move forward and they say they will. they still believe in their slogan, meaning shoulder to shoulder, they will continue to work with their afghan partners, but can they trust each other at

the moment? there's a lot of tension between the two, there's mistrust going around on both sides. the afghans still outraged at what happened at the air base last week. the afghans take it as a big insult and it's coming along the lines of a long line of instruments, if we remember a pastor in florida last year, burning a koran, u.s. marine video showing the troop s urinating on bodies, that has fueled the fire. >> thank you. and jim i know you have just had a briefing from george little, the assistant secretary for leon panetta. how can we proceed if we cannot work side-by-side with the people that we are supposed to be -- to be training. >> included in that is john

kirby, he said that tensions there in the capitol are still high and the stop military commander there, general john allen la-- has not decided it's safe enough for the u.s. military personnel to return to the ministries where two officials were shot to death. here a we can after the korans were burned, when it was promised that within a day or so we would get results from the investigation, still no answer as to how the commanders there at the air base could have ordered, the burning of the korans. you know the troops in the field don't have -- side-by-side with those armed afghans and it's unclear in terms of what exactly

kind of elevated force protection measures were taken. because, as was mentioned a moment ago, a large part of that trust that is essential to that training mission, so much of that mission is based trust and it's clear that it's not entirely there yet. >> thanks so much and the civilians as well, the diplomats have been -- the attacks on u.s. troops are calling for a speedier exit from afghanistan. >> these are terrible tragic ed and worthy of the attention they have received but it's not time to decide we are done here. we have to create a situation where al qaeda is not coming

back. >> susan rice joins us from new york. ambassador, what is the next step here? you have heard from other democrats as well as republicans, some saying that this means we have to redouble our efforts and you have dick durbin the number go ranking senator saying this should hasten our withdrawal, that we cannot accomplish our purposes in afghanistan with this kind of threat and lack of trust. >> well, andrea, obviously, this is an enormous tragedy and we condemn in the most severe terms what has transpired in the violence against nato personality. but the reality is that we are there to disrupt, dismantel and defeat al qaeda. and we have to continue to do that along the timetable we have committed to, we have had difficult times over the past decade in afghanistan in the past. we are having a difficult and

challenging period now and no doubt we will have it in the future. it cannot lead us to curtail our mission. >> don't we have to reassess our current withdrawal strategy. you have a nato meeting many cog up in may -- meeting coming up in may and the french are talking about getting out. how do we know that we are to right glide path to get out if we are not showing more progress in training the afghan partners who some say are not partners. >> i think it's not a accurate characterization, that's are a horrible set of incidents and they are deeply troubling and our hearts are with the families of those on the american and allied side that are lost, but the reality is we have an

timetable and progress has been made in bringing up to capacity the afghan national security forces. the incidents that have occurred over the last week and indeed, isolated instances prior to that we do not think represent a pattern of deterioration that is imsurmontable, and in fact, progress has been made in building afghan capacity that, is what is necessary for the afghans to secure their country for the nato mission to come to a successful conclusion. so, we remain committed to that. >> i want to move on to syria, but finally just ask you makes you or the administration or the president think that we will accomplish our goals or that we will be able to leave afghanistan at this rate? >> we have been clear, that we

are making a transition along an agreed timetable, grethat by th end of 2014 the transition to full afghan security lead for the country will be accomplished. we think that remains very much relistic and we are moving that way. >> a 90% favorable vote for the constitutional change, how surprising is this vote in syria? what are we learning from syria as the level of violence continues and as we have little hope of a united in view of what russia and china has done? >> the referendum was clearly a

sham, it was conducted in the climate of a hot war where people could not express themselves freely or move around freely. we have seen reports from various locations that people were forced to go to the polls forced to vote a certain way. so we do not take that result seriously and we think it's almost a mockery of the goals of the syrian people that the assad regime would push through a referendum of that sort under the circumstances. the larger reality though, is that the international community as was demonstrated two weeks ago here in new york through an overwhelming vote by the general assembly and again, on friday, in tunis where 70 countries came together to make clear that the political transition in syria must occur. assad must go, there must be an end to the violence and we have

come together to work along three very important lines of action to accomplish that. in the first instance, upping the pressure and squeezing the regime more and more each day. today's action by the european union which is mirroring what the united states has done to freeze the assets of the syrian central bank to freeze the assets of syria is an important part of the economic pressure which was reaffirmed in tunis and secondly trying to foster a more unified opposition so their political efforts can succeed and the syrian people's will be served. and the humanitarian assist answer. we are using every effort to try to open up space so that access

can be broied to those who are delivering assistance. >> susan, rice, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and we now have a statement from the family of the one victim, the one boy who did die in that shooting today at chardon high school, the family says we are shocked by the sense also tragedy, that danny was a bright young boy. this is danny parmenor named by his family, a boy that had a bright future ahead of him. we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time. and we will be right back.h em. can febreze remove it. [ moderator ] describe the smell. it's very pleasant. some kind of flower maybe? awww, oh yuck! [ male announcer ] febreze air effects doesn't mix, it actually removes odors. so you can breathe happy.

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live and gas prices surging 18 cents in the past two weeks, we will talk to a democrat who wrote a letter to president obama saying it's time to tap into the oil reserves. will that help bring down the cost of gas, we will talk about that more straight ahead on "newsnation." and oscar night was a big victory. "the artist" which won five statutes. of course best actor and picture. >> if george valentine could speak he would say -- >> i love you. >> first silent film to win since 1929. and christopher plummer was the oldest winner at age 82, just two years younger than oscar

himself. we ha let's talk about last night. what did it mean and what did you think of the overall performance? >> you know, i thought it was one of the worst oscars i have every seen. how did you do on your oscar pool though? >> i did not do well, but i did well on "the artist." i thought it was sort of flat, i'm a big bill cyrystal fan, bu did it seem old? >> it did. he has hosted the oscar more times after bob hope. people were looking forward to it. he felt old and everything that he did looked like we were watching seemed still. >> one thing that i loved was merylstreep, this was her in her

acceptance, many times nominated but her first since "sophie's choi choice." >> i had a feeling i could hear half of america going oh, no, come on, why her? again? you know. but, whatever. [ applause ] >> so, main some people were surprised by her for the "iron lady" but still it's meryl. >> it's her third oscar and she won for a movie that was not so great. not many people saw it. the favorite was "the help" when was a movie that people saw. >> a love people saw it, but controversial in some quarters. melissa harris perry had a very

interesting program talking about "the help" the book and movie and what it really means in terms of historical accuracy. butmovie. that's another whole story. what about the best actor award. did you have any problem with that? >> well, i think "the artist" is a great movie. i was hoping for brad pitt or george clooney. it was a fun speech. it was a good performance. it's oscar. that year they tended to go away from the mainstream. they weren't going after the stuff the masses were attracted to and held embraced. >> i'm with you. thanks so much. very good to see you. what political story will make headlines in the next 24

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? jonathan capehart is an editorial writer for the washington post. we could do sports and oscar fashions, but we have an election tomorrow. >> it's michigan and arizona primaries tomorrow. >> when we look at michigan and the importance of michigan right now, it really is mitt romney won't get a whole lot of credit if he wins it because the argument will be its it's him state, but if he loses, what's going to happen? sglo the >> will be serious doubts about his nomination and whether he's the one to go up against president obama.

michigan is his home state. he was born in michigan. he was raised in michigan. his father was a car company executive and three-time governor from the state of michigan and presidential candidate. if you cannot win in your home state and in a home state where your roots are that deep, it says a lot about you and your candidacy when the people in your own state decide not to give you the nod. in the latest poll he and rick santorum are tied. that shouldn't be. >> we'll update tomorrow. thank you very much. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell report reports". follow the show online and twitter. craig melvin is in for tamron hall. hi. up next in our hour, we're going to continue following that breaking news on the deadly school shooting in ohio. one student has been killed. we're learning any details about

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i'm craig melvin in for tamron hall. one student is dead, four others are injured and a teenager is in custody after a high school shooting in chardon, ohio. the gunman opened fire in the cafeteria around 7:30 this morning. a faculty member chased him out of school, and he later turned himself in. student s have been reuniting with t