. >>> new information about the chaotic scene at this mass shooting in michigan. a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire, killing three, bounding eight others. >> some of the kids managed to escape through a window. shimon prokupecz is there with more. what can you tell us? >> reporter: police saying this shooting lasted five minutes. they say that it was the quick reaction by responding officers enforcing the alleged 15-year-old shooter to surrender, to put his gun down that saved lives. a 15-year-old boy is in police custody this morning suspected of shooting and killing three students and injuring eight others at oxford high school in michigan. . >> preliminary investigation revealed the weapon was purchased november 26th. four days ago by the boy's father. >> reporter: they received 100 911 calls about the incident. . >> the deputies took a suspect into custody within five minutes of the original 911 call. they recovered a handgun from the suspect. tate myre, hana st. juliana and mad sin baldwin. >> this touches us all personally and deeply and will for a long tim

but, look, this is a community in michigan that is in mourning. kids who are not going to be there for the holidays who were just at the thanksgiving table. it's beyond, beyond disturbing. dave cullen, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks, brianna. >>> so we do have breaking news this morning. donald trump tested positive for coronavirus three days before his first debate against joe biden september 29th, 2020. the stunning revelation is in a new book by former chief of staff mark meadows obtained by the guard yann. a positive test the country never knew about. a positive test days before he admitted to the country that he had covid. days before attending event after event after event with vulnerable people. now, there was a negative test the same day. it still raises all kinds of questions about honesty, trans transparency, timing and how they chose to choose one test rather than another. meadows writes he knew each candidate was required to test negative within 72 hours of the start time but nothing was going to stop trump from going o

one last question about the law in michigan. i do know that parents can be held accountable in some cases when child commit crimes with firearms. this was a gun, purchased by the father, we understand, four days before. is there any legal liability, any investigation about what the parents might be responsible for there and not securing that weapon inside the house? >> yeah, sure. you're correct. our information is that the parent purchased the firearm four days prior. obviously the child was breaking the law taking, possessing and using that firearm. how he came into custody of it, where it was and those questions are going to be part of our investigation. and the totality of that will then be presented to the prosecutor for charging decisions. >> sheriff michael bouchard, i appreciate you answering these questions. we appreciate the work that you've done, the entire community really stepped up to keep this from being even worse. but even so this morning, it is a tragedy. and we are grieving with you. >> thank you, yeah. terrib

in rural michigan, inflation has hit harder for the basics like food, energy, and cars, with few options to offset those costs. cnn's vanessa i iyurkevich is joining us live from richmond, virginia. tell us what people are experiencing will. >> we're starting to see some places come down slightly, but when you live in a rural community like this one where there are less options, it makes finding those lower prices much harder. so we visited with a family just outside of richmond. they own a farm. they started a small business during the pandemic. and they are just trying to navigate this roller coaster of a pandemic economy. in the saint sere household, cricket the show cows and trigger the rescue horse are top priorities. >> your animals come first. they eat before i eat. >> reporter: and these gentle giants eat a lot. the price of their food has gone up and with twice-daily feedings, they run through nearly two 50-pound bags a week. >> it was about $16 a bag and right now it's at -- it depend on where you go, where we're getting it, it's about $22. >> it's just one of the price pinches

there's too many in michigan already. hospitals across the entire state are just filling up to the point where literally they're not going to be able to take patients even more, and it's going to get worse. . >> it really is stunning that you've been here and you're here again and there are still people unvaccinated. i have to believe it weighs on the health care workers. exhaustion. >> reporter: seeing their faces -- you can literally see it in their faces. they are exhausted and over it. that's why most are leaving the business. not because of vaccination mandates because they are stressed out or taking higher pair traveling nurses jobs. it's just too much stress. >> yeah, look. they're burnt out. there's going to be a lot of -- already are, nurses and doctors who need mental health help. this is like ptsd waiting to happen what they have been through at this sustained level. miguel, thank you so much for such an essential report. >>> travis scott sitting down with his first interview since the astroworld tragedy. who h

. ♪ >>> the mass shooting last week in michigan, teachers, counselors and administrators are now facing a $100 million federal lawsuit filed by an attorney for two teenage sisters who survived the attack. 17-year-old riley franz and her 14-year-old sister bella were coming out of the restroom together when riley was shot in the neck. joining me now is their attorney. thank you for being with us. let me ask you how the oscars are sisters are doing this morning. >> not well, having been shot in the neck at age 17, watching your best friend be shot down dead and viewing all this from the eyes and mind of a 14-year-old. that trauma is life-long. i doubt very much that this is something that can be recoverable over the long-term in any significant way, although you would hope that they can go on with their lives. >> now, your lawsuit alleges what, that the school should have done more to stop it, what? >> in the federal lawsuit, we allege that in effect they created a state created danger, they made it more dangerous by allowing the shooter, ethan crumbley, to continue to be in the school, e

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. >>> the shooting at oxford high school in michigan that left four students dead and several others wounded has once again prompted calls for national legislation aimed at curbing gun violence. the prosecutor in that case took the rare step of charging not just the alleged shooter, but his parents, charging them with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly allowing access to the gun. joining us now is democratic congresswoman alisa slotkin, she is introducing the safe guns, safe kids act which would require gun owners to keep firearms away from children and would impose a penalty of up to five years in prison for parents of a child injures themselves or others or uses the gun to commit a crime. congresswoman, thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> can you tell us about this bill and also tell us how you plan to clear the almost impossible hurdle of getting ten republican senators to support it. >> yeah. well, the bill came out of the last two weeks. it has been over two weeks now since the shooting in oxford and just being at church services and vigils

. ♪ >>> weeks after the deadly shooting at the high school in oxford, michigan, the buildings have been cleared as safe for reopening. a string of violent threats forced the entire school district to remain closed for the rest of the week. joining us now to talk about these security struggles, oakland county sheriff michael bouchard. thank you for being with us. can you tell us about what the district is dealing with right now? >> well, unfortunately it is not just this district, it is districts all across the state and probably across the country. we have had over 135 threats against different school districts across our area. and oxford happens to be obviously one that is especially numb and especially raw from it. so i think they made the decision to close school until after the holiday break to give people a chance to calm their nerves and to make sure that people have a chance to process this unthinkable tragedy. we have checked out every one of these potential threats and deemed none of them to be imminent or credible. and we have arrested a lot of young people from making these t

michigan has an outbreak. they are being pushed beyond the limit already. but i do think there are questions about what vaccinated and boosted people should do. is society still reacting to a previous situation in this pandemic? ? do vaccinated, boosted people now just need to stay home and not visit their grandparents during the holidays? and if they test positive in the nfl, how long before they get back on the field? have we adjusted to the new world? >> this is the crux of the piece that i wrote. vaccinated and boosted people might feel a bit more secure. they might feel i'm not going to hospital, why am i going to change my behavior? and the answer is that we should still take this seriously because we can still, and i'm one of them, ping the virus across to more vulnerable populations quickly enough, because omicron spreads to quickly, to land enough people in the hospital to break our already broken health care system. this is not anything any of us wants to deal with anymore. we're tired. but hard decisions still need to be made. i mean, look, this

cnn's shimon prokupecz live in oakland, michigan with more. shimon, it seems like, you know, it's just deja vu. we were learning there were big red flags ahead of this shooting. >> reporter: yeah. certainly that new information, the red flags, those behavioral concerns all being revealed by investigators about 24 hours after the shooting, investigators not being specific about what that information is. prosecutors saying she is concerned about trying to case and making sure the victims here get justice. the 15-year-old accused of killing four and injuring others at oxford high school is now charged as an adult. >> i will enter a plea of not guilty on his behalf. >> reporter: both the suspect and his parents appearing in court virtually. he faces two dozen charges, including terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. >> in terms of the premeditation required for first-degree murder charge, this just wasn't even a close call, unfortunately. this was deliberate. this was planned. well in advance. and disturbingly so. >> inves

. >>> just ahead, we'll speak live with the sheriff investigating the deadly school shooting in michigan, what investigators just found on the teen suspect's phone. >>> plus, the first case of the omicron coronavirus variant detected in the united states. what the white house is now doing to respond. >>> but first, three months after hurricane ida barreled through louisiana, a rural community is pulling itself out of the destruction and despair with some help from habitat for humanity. it is today's impact your world. >> it took me four years to get where i was at. and to see that, it only took a matter of hours to lose it all. >> hurricane ida was our hurricane katrina. a big portion of lafitte became homeless overnight. the decisions to build l levees all around us, people don't have insurance, the price of the insurance, don't qualify for fema, they need funds, people to come help build the homes and put their roofs back together. >> we started distributing tarps to people to prevent further damage. but that's not where habitat really shines. it is long-term recovery and helping peopl

. >>> the suspected school shooter accused of killing four teenagers in oxford high school in michigan has been charged with four counts of first degree murder and terrorism and is being charged as an adult. 15-year-old ethan crumbley made his first court appearance yesterday in the oakland county prosecutor said the investigation is ongoing and additional charges could be brought soon. let's talk about this now with oakland county sheriff michael bouchard. sheriff, first off, i want to focus in on this meeting, two meetings. we know that the suspect had a meeting with school officials the day before the shooting. and then just a few hours before the shooting he had a meeting where his parents -- there -- his parents having a meeting with school officials. what prompted that meeting? >> on the day prior to the tragedy, a teacher in the classroom where he was a student saw and heard something that she felt was disturbing in terms of his behavior. and they had a counseling session about it with school officials. and a phone call was left with the parents. the day of the shooting, a diffe

an emergency room physician in michigan. doctor, thanks so much for being with us. thank you for everything you're doing. this newly approved pill from pfizer, this anti viral that can reduce hospitalizations by nearly 90%, how much promise do you think this holds for you? i suppose in the long term and in the short-term. >> i think in the short-term it will be a challenge because of supplies. and in the long term i think it's a challenge because of just the inequity in our system that is built in. 30 million americans still don't have insurance. and this bill requires a prescription from a doctor. it requires a positive test. and i don't have the exact guide answer, but i don't think that is a positive at-home test. i believe it will be a test in either a pharmacy or health care facility. it will require people getting to those places, getting an order from their doctor perhaps at a hospital or a clinic. so i think there's going to be logistic challenges for people. i know where i practice it's rural, high uninsured rate. we have to say even though the 89% number i

there was a backup plan to hold a week-long trial and kill members of the michigan legislature. there is a streak out there that is very dangerous. you showed us a sample of it. people should take it seriously. fbi, homeland security have been warning about this two decades now. this is a real problem, not made up. this is something we have to confront as a nation. when lawmakers are being threatened in the way you just displayed, we should all be alarmed >> kirsten, what do you think? >> oh, i was like, wow, this is really -- i don't get the vase nails. i get the emails. i said, wow, these are my people. the thing is that anybody who is in the public eye in the trump era can tell you, especially having been on tv pre-trump era, something really happened after he came into office where these kinds of, you know, emails and voice messages have become pretty commonplace for a lot of people, i think particularly for women who are on tv. and any time in the public eye, if you're a member of congress. debbie dingell, you have to remember, is not a particularly controversial person. sh

and at home saturday hopefully to start preparation for a championship game meeting against either michigan or georgia but you can't look ahead. you have to take care of business here with the cincinnati bearcats first. >> one game at a time obviously. i'll be rooting for my team very hard and hopefully see you in indianapolis. >> always a pleasure. we're so proud of you here in alabama. keep up the great work. >> thank you, eli. have a good one. >>> time now for 5 things to know for your new day. today more than 2,000 more flights have been canceled globally including more than 600 flights as the fast-spreading omicron variant wreaks havoc on air travel. airlines say the virus is forcing staffers to call out sick and causing travelers to rethink their plans. >>> in manhattan day three of deliberations in the sex trafficking trial of ghislaine maxwell, close companion of the late convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein pleaded not guilty to the six charges against her, facing up to 70 years in prison. >>> tributes are pouring in for archbishop desmond tutu, a hero in the fight against aparth

so central michigan will relocate to he will pass so he to play washington state on friday. meantime 96 nfl players tested positive for the coronavirus yesterday alone. saints had two 2s 20 men on the reserve list. and ian book, fourth starting quarterback of the season was harassed all night by the dolphins defense, picked off twice, sacked eight times. big moment, but he wasn't ready. and jalen waddell on the other hand had a pretty big night, a touchdown on this misdirection play. so the dolphins pick up the win and they have won seven straight after losing seven straight. no team in nfl history has had streaks like that in the same season. and just one other note for you with the cdc shortening of isolation guidelines, the nba is now allowing vaccinated players and coaches to shorten their time in quarantine as well from 10 days down to 6 if they are tested and no longer deemed infectious. >> all right. thank you so much, your day continues right now. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, decembe

the nurse who was getting ready to retire in michigan, in lansing, michigan, whose hub was d dealing with a health issue an she got me into tears. i cried more in the last two years talking to people and how difficult it is for them to come to work every single day and deal with the same thing over and over and over. >> that's what we do. and that's what you do in telling their stories. it is all about telling a story about something bigger than ourselves. that's one of the things this pandemic has taught us and you helped show us. thank you, miguel. >> miguel, thank you so much. you did such good work for cnn and it really showed. and it was really powerful for someone to go in there to show what it was really like. i think it was a big lesson for a lot of people at home who were maybe like that woman and didn't think it was a big deal at first. and then realized quickly how serious it was. >> oh, yeah, thank you, guys. >>> all right. >> now it is time for the good stuff. and the power of social media and how it helped one man find his lost wedding band. bob mann and his wife were e

in michigan, they proved this is right yesterday. ohio tried a constitutional amendment for an independent commission, it failed 70-30. that's why we went with the changes that ultimately passed. but there is no doubt if you get the politicians out of the room completely, that the average -- if you pick seven viewers, they would do a better job. they don't have the inherent conflict of interest of people trying to rig their own election. >> before we go, i want to talk about your book "laboratories of autocracies" about how state legislatures divide the country. tell us about the state of play and when it comes to election subversion, what you think can be done about this. >> so, yeah, the title basically is describing the reality in our country today, state houses and many of them, like ohio's, have become undemocratic essentially and they're polling down the entire nation's democracy. we have to fight back. if we don't, they'll succeed, there is federal solutions like the freedom to vote act. as i put in the book, there are many th

and i thought that must have reached the news and then heard about michigan. i was absolutely devastated yet again. >> and, look, it's this horrible club that you and other parents are part of. you know, to understand what this is for these parents. you know, like in the case of sandy hook, there were clearly warning signs here, right? what do you think about learning that? >> there are almost always warning signs. and i say that every school shooting is 100% preventable. you know, that requires us to change the tired narrative that we've been perpetuating in our society. we really need to change our focus from the actual problem to the root cause. and the root cause of these shootings is loneliness, isolation, disconnection, lack of emotional management and relationship skills. these are called essential life skills. we're not born with them. we have to learn them. and we learn them at home. but they absolutely have to be reinforced and practiced at schools. and we know that schools that prioritize practicing these essential life skills are the safest. >> yea

and these families in michigan, these four kids, they deserve an answer. because we shouldn't be learning lessons out of these after parkland and sandy hook and vegas, santa fe, santa clarita. what are we doing with this information, totally ignoring it? . >> what action specifically do you want the president to take? . >> i've been hearing the president can do anything. what do you mean? if the president can do anything, then who can do something? we have a total division in congress. a total division in senate. the president can do many things. he can write an executive order now and ban assault weapons, for example. and will that make everybody happy? no. but it will save a few lives for that period of that executive order being there. so this is an easy question for someone that lost its son. and i'm telling you something, 150,000 families have lost someone since i lost joaquin. i know their feeling, i know the pain. i hear people saying enough is enough. that's not enough. enough is enough and then doing something. i'm here. . >> you tried to get into

michigan is hitting pandemic peak hospitalizations this month. the state's department of health now says it will not be adopting the shorter isolation and quarantine guidelines until it reviews this evidence. while it wants more information from the cdc, specifically for populations in high-risk settings. michigan health officials say this is not the time to relax. >>> let's get to cnn's polo sandoval. what are you seeing this morning? >> we heard yesterday from the chief of disaster medicine at george washington saying the spread of omicron is unlike anything he has ever seen before. we are now averaging well over 300,000 new covid cases a day. that's a new pandemic high. a wave of new covid cases hitting the u.s. >> it's unlike anything we have ever seen. >> reporter: as the cdc predicts 44,000 more people could die of covid in the next four weeks. hospitalizations are predicted to increase for the sixth straight week as the pandemic rages on. . >> what we are experiencing is an absolute overwhelming of the emergency departments. >> reporter: d

the problem michigan is having is will it knock out too many essential workers not only in the health care industry but fire and rescue, et cetera. it will be interesting to see how that works out. >> interesting is one word for it. before we go, i want to just dig in deeper to the vaccine, you and your team at the baylor college of medicine have been developing. patent-free vaccine called corbavax which you are giving away to people in the world. >> the southern hemisphere is unvaccinated. we have seen how, you know, delta arose out of unvaccinated population in india. omicron in south africa. until we vaccinate the southern hemisphere, we're going to continue to have new variants. and the one that i'm worried about is something like omicron that produces more severe illness, not less severe illness. so the only way that is going to happen is if we vaccinate the world. and things are just moving too slowly. so texas children's hospital and baylor college of medicine, with my science group, lead a group that make the vaccines that the big pharma companies won't make. about 10 years ag

now, michigan is one of several states hitting pandemic hospitalizations this month. the state department's help now says it will not adopt the shorter isolation quarantine guidelines until it reviews the evidence. while it waits for more information from the cdc, specifically for special populations, and high risk settings. michigan's health officials say this is not the time to relax. >>> let's get to cnn's polo sandoval on what we're seeing nationwide. these numbers sure are alarming, polo. >> they are. here in new york state alone the state obliterating the daily record with some 67,000 new covid cases just yesterday. nationally we have heard even from the world health organization, also by the way who is describing this as a covid tsunami and something that many health officials have never seen before. a wave of new covid cases hitting the u.s. >> it is unlike anything we have ever seen. >> reporter: as the cdc predicts more than 44,000 people could die of canovid in the next four weeks. hospitalizations are expected to increase for the sixth straight week as the

orange bowl is featuring return to glory for michigan. huge win over ohio state. wolverines haven't won the title since 1998. coach harbaugh played were quarterback there. now a chance to win a title for his alma mater. georgia's title drought lasted for decades. they have to bounce back by getting blasted in the title game. it takes us to the cotton bowl. crimson tide will collide with cincinnati. they are tpaoeuft y. only lost one game since 2019 barely to georgia in the bowl game last season. players feel shunned, often overlooked, so they play with a big chip on their shoulders. they have earned a date with the fighting kaitlan collins, defending national champs seeking their second title under coach saban. they took a while to get up to form. coach was asked if his patience was tested early on this season. here's what he said. >> i don't have any patience, so anything that happens is a test of my patience, including sitting in this chair right now.

. >>> in michigan, the parents of the oxford, michigan school shooting suspect are in custody. we have learned they are both on suicide watch after being held on half a million dollars bond each. police arrested james and jennifer crumbley at a wear house in detroit 40 miles from their home after law enforcement spent hours searching for them. a man who assisted the crumbleys has come forward and is cooperating with authorities. >>> a diplomatic boycott of the olympic games in china. sources tell cnn the biden administration is expected to announce this week that no u.s. government officials will attend the 2022 beijing winter olympics. that's just a couple of months from now. it would allow the united states to send a world stage of china about human rights abuses. joining me now is s.e. cupp. and mara. it isn't everything the united states could do. the united states could boycott the winter olympics in beijing. it is a clear signal that china, we do not approve of what you're doing. >> it is. as you say, it's not all, but it's something. and it is registering with china. chi

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. >> so michigan doesn't have a safe storage law. does that hurt the case here? >> well, it does not have a safe storage law and hopefully that will change soon, but no, it doesn't. this is a charge based on gross negligence and failure to perform a duty. there's a lot of evidence and some has been made public and some has not. i do want to say these are mere allegations. they are innocent until proven guilty. however, i can comment on what has been made public and swear to in open court. there was absolutely evidence to suggest that there was an indication he might harm somebody and even kill somebody. you know, we have a responsibility as a community, as a state, as a nation to hold people accountable. we can do a lot in training and we can try to prepare for these things but as a mom and a prosecutor, i'm interested in trying to figure out how they don't happen at all, and that goes back to the weapon. i'm not saying people shouldn't own guns. i grew up in a house, my dad was a hunter, we have guns. i have lots of friends in law enforcement and peers that own

but i think of four beautiful kids in michigan who are not there with their parents. . >> yep. . >> who were on the other end of the gun. i just wonder about the indecency of a member of congress putting this out there as they are suffering ahead of not having their kids for the holiday. it's just unbelievable, chris. . >> totally agree. . >> thank you. >>> and "new day" continues right now. >>> i'm brianna keilar alongside john berman on this "new day". the january 6th committee casting a wide net issuing subpoenas for the phone records of 100 people, also losing the cooperation of a key witness. >>> and a tense two-hour call with vladimir putin. what do we know about whether this call made a difference. >>> as the world scientists are tracking the impact of the omicron variant, we have brand-new data on how effective the pfizer vaccine and the pfizer booster is against it. >>> a suspect is in custody after a huge christmas tree in midtown manhattan is engulfed in flames. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, december 8th. i'm brianna ke

. >> reporter: from all the way from michigan to california. how will these ski resorts, many of them aren't open. or 5% is open. difficult travel. this weather brought to you by servpro. number one choice in cleanup and restoration. this is only the first of two storms that will affect us this week. there's the storm right now in the west making snow. salt lake city seeing snow. smokey pictures this morning. even to the west of denver, very heavy snow. could see two feet in some of the ski resorts, spreading into the great lakes. we could see severe weather on the tail end of this storm. really it is going to be a significant rain and snow maker for many. here's the rain to the east, snow to the west. rain in lower elevations. the snow stays around longer. here's the potential for severe weather for tomorrow and tomorrow night. be ready for tornados are possible, john. >> watching it closely. thanks so much, chad. >>> a teacher who survived the 2018 marjory stoneman douglas shooting in parkland, florida, is speaking out at michigan's oxford hi

and they are rising in michigan. the third thing was overall mental health. do you buy any of the explanations? >> no. no, not by my means. the only explanation they gave to the parents was they needed more time to wipe things down. as far as mental health, i really think they allowed these children to go back to normal, that we wouldn't have such a need for mental health. if the teachers didn't have quite a strain on them to adhere to all of these protocols, which i do understand the protocols. kids are dirty in the wintertime. this he get sick. that's the way it is. but at the end of the day, you know, this is only going to be hurting the kids. when i was growing up, and i know when many of the listeners can say when they were growing up, is custodians came in near the end of the day, they cleaned when the kids were gone because that's when they could be the most effective. to need an entire friday, i just don't buy it. . >> i learned of this yesterday from a "new york times" story. "the times" says in the bigger picture around the country it is happening i