and so we know this was not by happenstance that he first came to edward waters university. lorida's first historically black university and we believe his aim was to come here because this is the bastion and birthplace of black excellence, particular in higher education, in this state and he wanted to send a message by coming here. but, again, thankfully, because of the great work of our students first and certainly our campus police force he was not able to reach our campus and harm our immediate university. now, under florida governor ron desantis, he has banned the teaching of critical race theory in this state, which acknowledges systemic racism in american history. you have been working with the governor since these incidents on saturday. he has given you an extra $1 million for security at the campus. what have your discussions with him involved in the last couple of days? well, to be very frank with you, we haven't had any discussions around policy. i think if we did we certainly would be diametrically opposed. my opinion and my view is certainly one that supports the

also some interesting information from the president of edward waters university, who said a short timelly black university and to commit murderous havoc. but the sheriff of jacksonville tk waters said he did an opportunity to attack people on the campus and didn't take it. jake. >> brian todd in jacksonville, florida. >>> coming up next, the reaction at edwards waters university where the jacksonville gleam was spotted just before his deadly rampage. tourists p photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time.. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish. ♪ but, you also can't leave covered in hair. with bounce pet, u can cuddle and brush that hair off. bounce. it's the sheet. i will be a travel influencer... hey, i thought you were on vacation? it's too expensive. use priceline, they've got deals no one else has. what about work? i got you. looking great you guys! ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪ my brain. so i choose new neuriva ultra. unlike some others, it supports 7 brain health ind

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also, florida governor ron desantis announced a one million-dollar award for edward waters universitynorah: manuel bojorquez, thank you very much. back here in washington, a date is set for donald trump's trial on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. and the date is significant. it's one day before those super tuesday primaries. and with the former president's legal peril growing, cbs's robert costa reports, trump's white house chief of staff took the stand in georgia. >> reporter: tonight, a legal and political collision. the march 4th, 2024 trial date, when trump will face criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will take place the day before super tuesday, when voters in 14 states across the country cast ballots in primary elections. judge tanya chutkan rejected trump's request to start the trial in 2026, telling the former president's lawyers, mr. trump will have to make this trial date work, regardless of his schedule. there are now three criminal trials crowding trump's calendar next spring. >> we did nothing wrong, i did no

movement that inspires. >> edward waters university, a historically black college and the first in thelorida was one of the stops at the jacksonville gunman made before going on his deadly racist rampage. while he was at the university, he was confronted by a security guard, lieutenant antonio bailey. many now say those actions by lieutenant bailey may have helped avoid a further catastrophe that day. he joins me now. lieutenant bailey, thank you very much for being here. >> you are very welcome. i'm glad to be here tonight. >> we are grateful to you for what you have done and the situation that could have potentially saved lives. the students at the university alerted you at first about the suspect being on that campus. what led them to flag you down to confront him? >> they advise that they saw him putting on a tactile vest and gloves and the mask. they advise that we need to check that vehicle out. >> when you got to the scene, just describe for us what you saw and what the suspect was doing, where was he? >> at that time, we were sitting inside the same parking lot of said suspect

today the governor announced the state would set aside $1 million to beef up security at edward waters university. lester >> all right gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> the judge overseeing former president trump's federal election interference case set a trial date today now another trial for the republican front-runner is set to collide with the 2024 presidential primaries. we get more from blayne alexander >> reporter: tonight, request denied that's the ruling from a federal judge to former president trump seeking to delay the start of his federal election interference trial until after the 2024 election. instead, judge tanya chutkan has set a start date of march 4th. prosecutors had requested a january start date, but trump attorneys had pushed for a 2026 start, saying they needed time to prepare. but judge chutkan said, "mr. trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule. today mr. trump blasted it as an attempt to undermine his presidential campaign calling it "election interference." it's yet another collision between the republican front-runner's

we have to get this under control. >> if i am a student at edward waters university i would feel prettyoncerned about the fact that he first showed up there at the historically black university knowing that and the fact that he was turned away. do you think it could have been worse? >> yes. i was listening to cnn yesterday and they brought up something that was important. people like this tend to not want to be confronted. it's possible he could have run into security, could have seen security at the university, and decided to go after a softer target. we don't know. we don't know what was on his mind at the particular time other than just hate and wanting to kill black people and he was able to find an easier target. but certainly students at that university and, of course, historically black universities across the country are wondering and thinking whether or not they will be next. and there is nothing that i am aware of that would indicate this goes beyond what took place yesterday, but there is a very danl rouse environment in our country and we have to find a way to deal with it.

minutes before the shooting, students at nearby edward waters university, historically black college, lieutenant >> what did they tell you? >> they stated that they seen an individual that was putting on what appeared to be a tactical vest, would appear to be gloves, masks, hat, and that we needed to. >> reporter: the three victims are 52-year-old angela carr, 19-year-old aj laguerre, and 29-year-old jarrald gallion, who had a 4-year-old daughter. >> it is not fair. >> reporter: she is the victim's sister. >> he was a devoted father. he would do anything for his daughter. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi and local authorities continue to review the racist messages left behind by the shooter and say they will eventually make them public. also, florida governor ron desantis announced a one million-dollar award for edward waters university to help bolster campus security. norah? >> norah: manuel bojorquez, thank you very much. back here in washington, a data set for donald trump's trial on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. the date is significant. it is mon

and told me he was going to be sending some money for securing edward waters university. had a short conversation. i thanked him for providing that help for edward waters and thanked him for his call. >> i think one of the reasons why he got that kind of reception is he started off by using the term monkey it up, regarding his first opponent, his african american opponent. and it's kind of degraded from there, saying black history had no inherent value, banning dei, attacking black history, saying black people benefitted from slavery. i could go on. do you understand why he got those boos when he showed up in the black community? >> well, i do. and i dare say he may have expected to have that reception. but i will say that i am personally glad that he was there, because i think it's important that he come face-to-face with that pain. there was a lot of grief, and is a lot of grief in that community, and he needs to see that. and as i said, you know, i'm sure edward waters university is grateful to have the money for security, but we have to go so far beyond that. you know,

at one point, officials say historically black college of edward waters university reported seeing him near the campus library. i won 53 pm, the suspect's family calls the clay county sheriff's office, but by that time the shooting was happening. >> the only thing that i can say is those three people were gunned down because they were black. we are in 2023. we are dealing with racial issues like this. it's devastating. it's absolutely devastating. >> it sure is. this hour, we're going to be speaking with reporters and analysts to get to the bottom of what exactly happened. let's go first to msnbc's george soliz joining us from jacksonville. i understand you're outside the jacksonville sheriff's office. tell me what's happening today. >> yeah, alex, you can see there is a somber mood here in jacksonville, florida. we're expecting an update from sheriff dike waters, and some of the questions, of, course people want to know. they want to see if he will reveal the identity of the alleged shooter, as well as the victim. three tragically lost their life as a result of the shooting. we expect

the shooter first entered a parking lot at edward waters university, florida's first historically blackust happenstance, not on a whim that he chose to come to florida's first historically black college and university. >> reporter: according to sheriff t.k. waters, police haven't found any evidence that he intended to attack the university. >> there were students that stopped me in that parking lot and advised that there were gunman. >> reporter: the shooter drove off after being reported by bailey. >> we preach the same saying every day, you see something, you say something. the students saw, they said. i was able to approach that vehicle. i was sad. that is indeed tragic. >> reporter: the scene now marked by flowers and crosses, a community grieving three killed saturday in the racist attack. >> he hated blacks, and i think he hated just about everyone that wasn't white. he made that very clear. >> reporter: now more information about the gunman identified as 21-year-old ryan palmeter. deputies released this edited surveillance video at the dollar general star showing him in a tactica

desantis just announced this morning that the state of florida will be giving $1 million to edward waters universityyou know, he was booed while at a vigil sunday. what more would you like to see from governor desantis? >> well, further support for the university. a million dollars is okay, but that's still not going to prevent what has happened in this community. we have to have more resources, more counseling, stop the rhetoric and take care of these families that's been hurt by the senseless acts of this racist white serving tichl. >> let me ask you finally over the weekend i spoke with my colleague who used to be an official with the department of homeland security and she told me that jacksonville specifically is a breeding ground of neo-naziism, that they have been tracking this and seeing this. what can you tell me and tell us about the climate in jacksonville with these hate groups? >> i think the federal government and the justice department are going to have to do a better job in exercising exactly where these hate groups exist. i mean, we see these confederate monuments signs, we see the

before the attack, the shooter was seen at edward waters university, a historically black college. he drove away after a security guard turned him back. on sunday, governor ron desantis spoke at a vigil where he was booed by crowds. one attendee shouted out, "your policies caused this!" florida governor desantis and florida republicans have imposed racist laws, including rolling back diversity and inclusion policies and attacking black american studies. desantis also opposes gun laws reform. as the massacre in jacksonville was unfolding, in washington, d.c., tens of thousands of people gathered for the 60th anniversary of the march on washington, where martin luther king, jr. delivered his "i have a dream" speech. gregory jackson of the community justice action fund addressed gun violence in his speech. >> every year over 138,000 people are killed from this crisis. this is the number one cause of death for all youth in america, for all black in america, the number two cause for all black women in america but yet we have not seen action to deal with the biggest health crisis of our

at edward waters university where they're praising the action. >> i'm doing a day-to-day activity.ents, today the students are the hero, the ones like i said, we preach every day, you see something say something. so they saw something, they said something. to me the heroes. >> >> in moments like this we ask students in this case they did exactly what we asked them to do. the alleged killer's father called 911 that his son hadn't been taking his medication, and then it was already too late at that point, the shooting and the killing had already begun. >> trymaine, thank you so much. we'll keep these families in our thoughts and prayers. appreciate you. >>> five members of the far-right group the proud boys will be sentenced this week for their roles in the capitol riot the group's leader enrique tarrio and three others were convicted of se dashs conspiracy back in may. the justice department is asking for prison sentences ranging from 20 to 33 years in prison. ryan, i know it's been a little while since we've talked about seditious conspiracy, can you remind viewers what that means.

and he was also turned away from edward waters university before the shooting. the gunmen laid out his plans in a series of manifestoes. >> the manifesto is, quite wrinkly, the diary of a madman. he was, i mean, he was just completely irrational. but, with his rational thoughts, he knew what he was doing. he was 100% lucid. he knew what he was doing. >> president biden issued a statement saying in part "white supremacy has no place in america." >>> the los gatos mother facing dozens of charges is back in court. she is accused of throwing wildly fueled alcoholic parties for her son and his underage friends. she was supposed to appear in court last monday but did not make it. for the first time we heard directly from the los gatos mother. she said she was not at court because she was in the hospital the night before. she told us "i have wounds packed full of gauze into locations." she said i've been waiting two years for this moment, i don't want it postponed, i want to move forward. o'connor says that the infection was parked by bug bites. our investigative unit

. >> -- you mentioned earlier that this gentleman here initially went to edward waters university. from your investigation so far, is there any indication why he specifically went there first? >> it looks to me that he went there to change into whatever he needed to change into. he had an opportunity to do violence at ewu. there were people in close proximity. he didn't do anything there. >> sheriff, after reading that manifesto, how difficult is it for you to stand here and process this hate crime that entered your community, very similar, almost a year after the horrific shooting in buffalo, similar in nature? >> it angers me as a sheriff, as a member of this community. no family should have to experience anything like this. anyone who enters a store and does this to innocent people, one doing his job, a couple of customers, is baffling to me. it's difficult for me to watch. i don't ever want to have to see it again. i don't like it. we are going to make sure we work as hard as we can to stop these kind of things from happening again. that's why we're paying very close attention

i want to mention edward waters university, an historically black school. florida's first institution established for the education of african americans on the same road as this dollar general where the shooting occurred, kings road, less than a mile away. they activated while this was going on a campus alert for students to stay in place. no students or faculty were involved in the shooting. >> we have a number of experts to talk about this. juliette kayyem of homeland security, special agent with the fbi, ed davis, former police commissioner of boston, and charles ramsey, former philadelphia police commissioner. chief ramsey, you know, you and i have talked about this so many tips. what are your thoughts after what we heard from the sheriff in the last half-hour or so? it is just outrageous what took place in that community today. by the same token, it is also quit predictable. >> we've seen it happen before and we'll see it happen again, unfortunately. right now there is a lot of hate in this country and there's a lot of rhetoric that stokes those flames

. >> reporter: the shooter first went to the nearby campus of historically black edward waters universitya security guard there turned him away after he refused to identify himself before police say he went to the dollar general. >> i am very, very angry right now. i'm emotional. you know, we've got kids in this community seeing all of this. and this is unnecessary. >> reporter: the sheriff told me the assailant left behind ramblings addressed to his parents, the media and the fbi, but that those hate-filled messages do not represent the jacksonville community. jericka? >> christian, thank you. >>> to australia now where there was a deadly crash today involving u.s. marines. they were killed when their as pr osprey aircraft crashed on a remote island during military exercises. cbs's elise preston is outside camp pendleton where cbs news has learned some of them are based. elise, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, jericka. an investigation is under way into what caused the deadly crash. this as some of the seriously injured marines are being treated at an australian hospital.

the dollar general store is located less than a mile down the road from edward waters university privateistorically black christian university with about 2000 students per this is significant because jacksonville local news station, news for jx multiple sources say at 12:45 p.m. today a suspicious individual was seen behind the on-campus library putting on a ballistic vest a great security chase that individual tried to catch them for the suspect fled and went inside the dollar general store but we do not know the identity of the shooter or his motivation. but this reporting from a news report jx is accurate and raises questions where the suspect had initially wanted to target the college for instance. the edward waters university campus safety alert sent an alert about two hours ago reading in part this, quote earlier today there was a fatal off-campus shooting on kings road near the ew you campus right reports do not implicate the involvement of students faculty or staff, the jacksonville sheriff's office is at the scene and our campus police have secured all campus facility students a

the foregoing to the convenience store, the shooter first went to edward waters university but was turnedy after refusing to identify himself. karine john p.r. said the u.s. most everything it can to keep guns out of dangerous hands. >> we must state that white so jose has no place in america. the president said, we must refuse to live in a country where black families going to the store or black students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin. hate must have no safe harbor. silence is complicity. we must not remain silent. >> donald says he will appeal the trial date set by a federal judge in washington, d.c. the judge has set that date for march 4, 2024, one day before super tuesday. mr. trump announced his intention to appeal on social media. his lawyers had previously pushed for a date in 2026. this is just one of four criminal prosecutions the former president faces. his arraignment for the georgia case will be september 6, but he is not required to appear in court. spain's football federation has asked its president luis rubiales to resi

well, this event was supposed to be at edward waters university.unfortunately, there was a pipe that burst, and some air conditioning issues. of course, we were able to get that event moving at about two miles away at the state college. but had not that catastrophe happen at the school, we would have had hundreds of people there, black and brown people, of a unique income circumstances, trying to get home ownership. and, it doesn't run past me, that we've been promoting this event for a while. and not many people, unless you are registered, knew that we were going to be -- so we've got to do better with making sure. >> there is work to be done. >> there is a lot of work. and some of. >> there is work to be done. >> and simone, i am so thankful for you, continuing to do the work. i cannot tell you enough, thank you for all that you do. >> thank you councilman. jacksonville city councilman rahman johnson, we appreciate your time. and we are praying for your community, and we know that you are all looking fraction. coming up later in the show folks, i

police say this video shows him at nearby edward waters university, a historically black university where he was spotted putting on a bulletproof vest and was confronted by campus security. >> he had an opportunity to do violence in ewoo. he did not palmetto quickly, leaving the campus. >> officers then alerted police, but it was too late. the fbi now investigating the dollar. general rampage as a hate crime . investigators say the gunman had writings on him that were racist along with the swastika painted on one of his weapons. >> the manifesto is a is quite frankly, the diary of a mad man , but with the irrational was irrational thoughts. he knew what he was doing. he had 100% he was 100% lucid. police say palmetto had no prior criminal history, but in 2017 he was held at a mental health facility. >> investigators not elaborating. and in a previous incident, police responded to his home for a domestic violence call. still, officials say palmetto bought the firearms used in saturday's shooting. legally, the attack follows last year's shooting at a buffalo supermarket where white supremac

before the shooting, police say the gunman was spotted at the historically black edward waters university. the fbi has opened a civil rights investigation. gallion had planned to spend the weekend with his 4-year-old daughter. instead, his family is planning his funeral. the white house says president biden spoke to jacksonville's mayor and sheriff to offer his full support to the people of the community. >> okay. wendy gillette in new york. thank you so much, wendy. >>> well, there was a deadly air crash involving u.s. marines. it happened yesterday during a multinational military exercise when their osprey aircraft crashed on a remote australian island. elise preston reports from outside camp pendleton where cbs news has learned some of the marines are based. >> reporter: the military aircraft carrying 23 american marines crashed near darwood, australia, second after the pilot radioed in an emergency. the osprey, similar to these, went down during a training exerts at 9:30 a.m. australian time on melville island, killing at least three. >> this is a terrible incident. >> reporter: helic

. >> reporter: he then stopped at edward waters university, a historically black university down the street. this video being used in the investigation showing the suspect donning a tactical vest and blue latex gloves. students flagging down a security guard. what's going through your mind? >> that there's something wrong. i was not able to see a weapon at that time. however, i did see what appeared to be a tactical vest, a mask, along with a hat, covering his head at that time. >> reporter: authorities say the suspect hopped a curb and fled, driving to this dollar general store, where he began an 11-minute rampage. surveillance video shows the shooter without warning firing 11 rounds into 52-year-old angela michelle carr's kia, killing her. he then walks into the store, armed with a handgun and an ar-15 style rifle that authorities say he bought legally. the suspect shooting 19-year-old employee a.j. laguerre, jr. multiple witnesses fleeing out the back of the store. and then later, 29-year-old jerrald gallion enters. the shooter killing him, missing his girlfriend. and ten minutes

has said financial support will be provided to bolster security at the historically black edward waters university near where the shooting happened. 2 people were killed and 4 other people were injured when a helicopter in florida crashed into an apartment building. the crash was caught on video and we want to warn folks, this may be difficult to watch. >> it's passion. >> the broward county sheriff's office fire rescue helicopter was responding to a call when it suddenly spiraled down into an apartment building, you can see it go through the roof there. this is in pompano beach happened just before 6 o'clock am our time. so 9 there, one person on board was killed along with another person on the ground. other crew members and 2 civilians were taken to the hospital in fair condition. it is not immediately clear what caused the crash. the ntsb, we'll be investigating. here's the scene in tampa as tropical storm heads towards florida's gulf coast. forecasters say the storm is strengthening and could make landfall as a category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of at least 111 miles an hour. it's expe

it is edward waters university where he pulled in behind the library there. we know he used it at least as a staging area, putting on a tactical vest and mask. and then was confront by campus security. there was an exchange. not sure what was said but he decided to leave. even though the jacksonville sheriff tells us that he did have an opportunity to open fire there. he chose not to and drove a mile to the store that is just behind us here. this investigation is continuing and will for quite some time. the fbi now involved in the process. that's the latest from here in jacksonville. i'm jay gray. back to you. >>> a trial date has been settle in former president trump's election interference case. it is march 4th. >> first he's due in court in georgia a week from this wednesday. that's when he will make his first appearance in state court over the election interference case there. >> good morning. there are so many cases both criminal and civil. the calendar will be very tight indeed. a federal judge set march 4th for the trial of the united states of america

his first stop though was at edwards waters university. he was confronted by security there.est and mask. a sheriff said he did have an opportunity to open fire at that university, chose not to, instead driving to this location about a mile away. >> just horrific details of this story and explicitly racially motivated. jay gray there in jacksonville, thanks so much. >>> jonathan, the president put out a statement last night said he was praying for the victims and also added we must say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy has no place in america. >> yeah, the president very strong with his language there. certainly sadly familiar tale that another moment of this, the nazi swastikas emblazoned on the gun, online manifest at the full of racist and vile imagery, fueling this attack. and reverend sharpton, as you noted, it came as you were participating in that march in washington suggesting how much further we have to go. and it was so reminiscent to me of the shooting in buffalo a year ago. i was with president biden when he went to this scene, that grocery store, the si

up to the shooting saying that before going to the dollar general, the -- was spotted at edward waters university a, historically black college. but, security chased him away and alerted authorities. jacksonville sheriff's office to showed security images showing the gunman and the dollar general parking lot just minutes later. the shooting at a car 11 times killing his first victim. he then stormed into the store and you can see that here, wearing a taft vest holding an ar-15 rifle with swastikas on them. police say the weapons he used were purchased legally, we're going to talk more about that in a moment. but, i want you to hear with sheriff t.k. waters said today about the shooters who disgusting ideology of hate. >> the manifesto is quite frankly the diary of a mad man. he was, i mean he was just completely irrational. but, was it irrational thoughts, he knew what he was doing. he had 100%, he was 100% lucid, he knew what he was doing. again, it is disappointing that anyone will go to these lengths to hurt someone else. >> in a statement today, attorney general merrick garland to the justice

the shooting, the suspect, identified as 21-year-old ryan palmeter was spotted outside of edward waters universityly black christian college. this video showing the suspect donning a tactical vest and blue latex gloves. students flagging down a security guard. what's going through your mind? >> that there is something wrong. i was not able to see a weapon at the time. however, i did see what appeared to be a tactical vest, a mask, along with a hat covering his head at that time. >> reporter: authorities say the suspect then hopped the curb and fled, soon arriving at the dollar general. surveillance video capturing the deadly rampage, which lasted 11 minutes. the shooter, without warning, firing 11 rounds into 52-year-old angela michelle carr's kia, killing her, and then walking inside and killing anolt laguerre jr., an employee who was shot as he tried to flee. >> i really want the world to know who aj was. low maintenance guy that is so genuine and so pure. all he was doing is just at work. he was just at work, man. >> reporter: minutes later, 29-year-old jerrald gallion entered the store with hi

students asked to stay in place at nearby edward waters university as a precaution, as yet another communitys left looking for strength in each other, with little answers to a tragedy seen all too often. >> i'm emotional. it's unjust that we can't -- we can't even walk on the sidewalks. we're not safe in any stores. >> marissa is with us now. we just got an update on the death toll? >> reporter: yes, so, the press conference just began within the last few minutes, jose, and what they said is that three people are dead, that is not including the shooter, but of course, still so many questions, including, what prompted all of this? hopefully some answers will be coming swiftly tonight with the press conference that is unfolding as we speak at this moment. jose? >> marissa parra, thank you. >>> and that's not the only shooting we have to report on tonight, with violence breaking out at two sporting events. gunfire erupting at a major league baseball game and at a high school football game. in all, five people were shot, one fatally. george solis has details. >> what is going on? >> reporter: th

the shooting happened less than a mile from edward waters university, a historically black university statement the school said they believe the suspect was on campus earlier in the day, but left after being confronted by a security officer. >> that was christian ben vitas reporting from jacksonville. >>> we want to turn to politics and former vice president mike pence who joins us from indiana this morning. mr. vice president, thank you so much for being here . >> thank you, nancy. thanks for having me on. >> absolutely. i want to start with this shooting in jacksonville. you know, here we are, it's the eve of the 60th anniversary of the march on washington and yet we're appearing to witness a rise in racial hatred, in white supremacy across the country. what can you do? what can your party do? what can the nation do to address this? >> well, there's no place in america for racially inspired violence, and i condemn what occurred in jacksonville in the strongest possible terms. that wasn't a criminal act. that was an act of evil, and -- but i -- and our prayers are with the families w

minutes earlier, police say this video shows him at nearby edward waters university, a historically blackversity where he was spotted putting on a bulletproof vest and was confronted by campus security. >> he had an opportunity to do violence and egwu he did not palmetto quickly leaving the campus. >> officers then alerted police , but it was too late. the fbi now investigating the dollar general rampage as a hate crime . investigators say the gunman had writings on him that were racist along with the swastika painted on one of his weapons. >> the manifesto is a is quite frankly, the diary of a mad man , but with the irrational, what is irrational thoughts? he knew what he was doing. he had 100. he was 100% lucid. police say palmetto had no prior criminal history, but in 2017 he was held at a mental health facility. >> investigators not elaborating. and in a previous incident, police responded to his home for a domestic violence call. still, officials say palmetto bought the firearms used in saturday's shooting. legally, the attack follows last year's shooting at a buffalo supermarket whe

grandchildren in the meantime, state officials have announced more security funding for edward waters universityat's the historic historically black university that the gunman visited before the shooting. police say he fled the campus after being confronted by an officer. >> a top doctor who took center stage during the pandemic is now sounding the alarm about the nation's covid preparedness. dr. deborah burkes told abc's start here podcast that government leaders are currently living in a, quote, fantasy world amid a surge in covid cases with 15,000 people currently being hospitalized each week. burke says not enough people are being tested and booster shots are not being made fast enough to keep up with new variants. you can listen to the interview on start here available wherever you get your podcasts. >> time now for a look at your tuesday weather. good >> we're tracking idalia move toward the gulf coast of florida. this is going to be a big one. we are watching intensification in the models by the time we get to wednesday morning, landfall is likely in florida's big bend as a category three

the shooter went to a campus of edward waters university.ecurity guard turned him away after he refused to identify himself before police say he went to the dollar general. >> i am very, very angry right now. i'm emotional. you know, we got kids there this community seeing all of this. this is unnecessary. >> reporter: the sheriff told me the assailant left behind ramblings addressed to his parents, the media and the fbi. those hate-filled messages do not represent the jacksonville community. >> thank you. >>> to australia. there was a deadly crash involving u.s. marines. they were killed when their osprey aircraft crashed during joint military exercises. we have learned some are based in camp pendleton. >> reporter: good evening. an investigation is underway into what caused the deadly crash. this as some of the seriously injured marines are being treated as an australian hospital. the military aircraft carrying 23 americans crashed seconds after the pilot radios in an emergency. the osprey, similar to these, went down during a training exe

his first stop was at edwards waters university, where he dressed in a tactical vest and mask before driving about a mile to the dollar general here. law enforcement releasing this video of the suspect as he walked inside. witnesses say in the store, he allowed several people to leave before killing three, then turning one of his weapons on himself. investigators have read a suicide note and several writings described as hate-filled manifestos from the gunman. jacksonville sheriff t.k. waters describing them as the diary of a madman, which leaves no question his attack was racially motivated. and we now know carried out with an assault rifle and pistol legally purchased by the gunman. >> there was no flag that could have come up to stop him from purchasing those guns. as a matter of fact, it looks as if he purchased those guns completely legally, and all the ffls did what they were supposed to have done to make sure that there were no issues. >> reporter: we also learned today the suspect had no prior criminal record. there are stepped-up police patrols not only in this neighborhood

. >> reporter: nearby, edward waters university issuing a campus-wide stay in place order. this alert shared earlier this afternoon says a fatal off-campus shooting happened near the campus, with preliminary reports indicating no students, faculty, or staff are involved. >> rachel: jaclyn lee joins us life now. jaclyn, what else can you tell us about this investigation as it's unfolding? >> reporter: rachel, we've learned the mass shooting occurred inside and outside a dollar general store and the shooter is dead. we are expecting to hear from officials soon. rachel. >> rachel: we'll stand by for that. jaclyn lee on that breaking news tonight, thank you. >>> we turn to the over developing headline also out of florida tonight. the gulf coast under a state of emergency. the storm could approach the area some time on tuesday. governor ron desantis said he declared a state of emergency in 33 counties out of an abundance of caution. meanwhile, more than 90 million americans from california to florida are under heat alerts. that extreme heat fueling wildfires, including this one

officials say before the jeweler general, the shooter stopped at edward waters university, a historicallye gunman getting ready with his bulletproof vest. at 12:57 pm, authorities say the shooter leaves campus, drives to the dollar general, and minutes later fires 11 rounds into a car outside. >> the suspect on video in the parking lot in front of the store, shooting into a black here, and the first victim. >> they say the gunman entered the store, and continues firing, killing two others. >> they left several people out of the, store why, i did not know, but i believe there was a culprit that we are not -- >> at 1:18 pm, the shooter texas father to enter, what he found was almost 30 pages of writings in their suicide note on his laptop. meanwhile, one forsman say they arrived 11 minutes in the government's rampage right before he took his own life with his own gun. >> where did those firearms come from? where the illegal guns? were they legally possessed? >> there were 100%, legal as i stand here with you today, they were legally possessed. >> the heart break in jacksonville, the latest

an edward waters university security guard engaging and forcing the alleged shooter to drive away. >> it looks to me that he went there to change into whatever he needed to change into. he had an opportunity to do violence and he did not. >> reporter: the sheriff say the 11 minute rampage began saturday afternoon. at 1:08, surveillance video outside the store capturing the shooter without warning raising his weapon and firing 11 rounds. >> shooting into a black kia and murders the first victim. >> he then walked inside, gun drawn, wearing a tactical vest. >> he enters a dollar general store and engages the second victim, a young 19-year-old. >> reporter: one of his guns with a white swastika painted on it. authorities saying minutes later, jerrald gallion entered the store with his girlfriend, the gunman killing gallion and missing his girlfriend. at 1:18, 10 minutes in to the shooting, the gunman allegedly texted his father telling his dad to check his computer. >> the father enters the room and finds a last will and testament of the suspect along with a suicide note on his laptop. >

before going to the convenience store, the shooter first went to edward waters university, a historically to identify himself. white house press secretary karinejean pierre said the us must do everything it can to keep guns out of dangerous hands. we must say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy has no place in america. as the president said in his statement yesterday, we must refuse to live in a country where black families going to the store or black students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the colour of their skin. hate must have no safe harbour, silence is complicity and we must not remain silent. former us president donald trump says he will appeal the trial date set by a federaljudge in dc on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. the judge has set that date for march 4, 202a. that's one day before before super tuesday, when more than a dozen states vote in the republican primary to pick a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. mr trump announced his intention to appeal on social media. his lawyers had previous

university. a edward waters security guard spotted him near the library and that guard engaging and forcing the allegedhooter to drive away. >> we feel tremendously blessed that this crisis did not extend to the edward walker university campus. >> reporter: the white house says that president biden has been briefed and florida governor ron desantis has called this shooting a very cowardly act. gio? >> gio: alex, thank you. joining us now is the sheriff of jacksonville, t.k. waters. sheriff waters, thank you so much for joining us here on "gma." last night you said you had not been able to identify the shooter. are you any closer this morning? >> yeah, we're very close. we were close late last night. i should have some results today to release to the public. >> gio: okay, and we'll be watching for that, and you say this was a racially motivated crime, that there were swastikas on the shooter's guns, and you also found some of his writings. what can you tell us about those? >> they were quite frankly writings of a madman. they were the rather liberal use of the "n" word several times. it was clear that h

he was not there for long, and then he goes to the campus of edward waters university just a few blocksdeo shows him putting on a tactical vest, and then a security officer approaches hima and the suspect speeds off and jumps a curb and almost hits a column, and also video of the suspect pointing a gun at the car behind the dollar general, and then pointing a gun at someone inside of the store, and then another sequence released by police of the officers going inside of the store, and physically flinching, and that is when they believe that the shooter killed himself, boris. >> excruciating details there, brian todd. thank you. rahel. >> a rare look inside of the russian prison where paul whelan has been wrongfully detained for over four years and what this means for paul whelan next. i'm saving with liberty mutual, mom. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. you could save $700 dollars just by switching. ooooh, let me puta remin. on the top of the pile! oh. only pay for what you need. ♪ liber. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> woman: why did we choose safeli

. >> and what do you say to these young kids, adults, who were moving in to edward waters university yesterday, this weekend, getting excited about planning and building for their future only to be subjected to a lockdown, to be subjected to the fear that someone has come to our campus who wants to bring harm and wants to kill us and now, you know, they want to go back to school but this is hard. >> and they should go back to school. what i would say is don't be derailed. when i started law school in the early 90s, we had a racial incident on our campus. i spent the whole semester protesting about that and actually missed a lot of important classes that i wish i hadn't missed now later in life, i might have been a better lawyer when i got out of school. my only point is that, yes, stand up, yes, hold each other but excellence is the best weapon against bigotry. excellence is your best weapon against bigotry. he didn't want you to be excellent. he didn't want you to learn. stay folcused on your studies, f course use your voice but also use those books, use your brain, use that faculty