Nevada School Shooting; Woman Blows Up Bus
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: The Obamacare sign-ups, a fiasco, a disaster, a total mess. Whatever you want to call it, the president himself is calling in his techies and we're talking to one of our own. The question we're asking: How will you fix it? I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now. A mom goes on national TV saying her daughter would never bully. But now, new video uncovers the mom's secret.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.</s>BALDWIN: A mysterious blonde girl found inside a gypsy camp. Abducted or adopted?</s>EMINEM (rapping): Just about to kick off this party.</s>BALDWIN: Is Eminem getting a free pass for homophobic new lyrics. And --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She loved SpongeBob.</s>BALDWIN: A family orders a special headstone for their daughter's grave, but the cemetery now says it's coming down. Hi, there. I'm Brooke Baldwin. We begin with breaking news on this Monday. Some horrific news to pass along out of Nevada, a deadly school shooting. Here's what we know right now. Two people are dead and police say their bodies were found when they arrived on the scene at Sparks Middle School. We also know two others right now are listed in critical condition. Press conference just began. Let's take a listen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Emphasize at this point that information is preliminary. I will confirm that there are two deceased and two individuals injured. I want to emphasize that the students are safe and the community is safe. There are no outstanding suspects. The students are in the process of being reunited with their parents at this time. Sparks Police Department will be the lead investigating agency, with the assistance of the Reno Police Department, Washoe County Sheriff's Department and the Washoe County School District Police. I want to thank all the agencies that responded so rapidly to this unfortunate situation. We really appreciate their assistance so quickly. At this point I'm going to turn it over to Chief Mike Mieras of the Washoe County School District Police.</s>CHIEF MIKE MIERAS, WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICE: I'm Mike Mieras, the chief of police for the Washoe County School District. We've finished up our parent reunifications. Finishing up right now at Sparks High School. An excellent job by the Sparks High School staff of reuniting the Sparks Middle School students back with their parents. The -- two of the injured students have -- one has gone through surgery and is out at this time. The other individual is doing well. The one deceased is a - is a staff member of the school, of Sparks Middle School. The other deceased individual at this point in time appears to be a student/suspect in this case. The parent reunification, again, went very well. The school did an excellent job on going into their emergency management procedures. And if the parents do have questions or concerns, if they do want to call, I'll give out three numbers here that they can call, and we have counselors working those switchboards and working with parents. We are setting up, later on this week, we're setting up a parent - or a student service at the school, which we will have additional counselors there. So those numbers are, the first one is 789-3804. The other number is 789-3802. And 333-3786. Thank you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning. First of all, our heart and prayers go out to all our staff, children that have been affected, and our parents. I want to thank the Sparks Police, the sheriff's department, the city of Sparks. We have our mayor here. We have our trustees here with us. This is just a very sad day for us. A very tragic day. We'll be working with our children and our parents throughout the week to try to get them through this ordeal. But again, I just want to thank the community for coming together behind - behind this tragedy. I'm going to have President Clark - oh, I'm sorry, Mayor Geno come and speak next.</s>MAYOR GENO MARTINI, SPARKS, NEVADA: Thanks, Pedro (ph). And thank you all for being here today. Again, it's been sad. It's a tragic day for the city of Sparks. Our hearts go out to all those that have been affected, the students, the families, all those people involved. But I want you - I want to reiterate again that the city itself is very safe. This is just an isolated incident that I don't believe this is any kind of spree that's going to go on or anything like that, crime spree. Again, it's very, very tragic. I'm saddened to be here, saddened to have to come before you and talk about this. But it's happened. I want to thank all the local law enforcement. What a great response came from all these folks, all these folks all around. Not only from the Washoe County and Reno and Sparks, but the highway patrol was there. So everyone was very good in coming together to help us respond to this tragic day. So, again, I want to reiterate, the city is very safe. This is an isolated incident, and I apologize for having to be here today to speak about this, but it's one of those things that happens. Thank you. Barbara Clark.</s>BARBARA CLARK, PRESIDENT, WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD (ph): Hi. As president of school board, on behalf of my fellow board members, I want to say how tragic this is and how saddened we are. Our student safety and our staff safety is of utmost, paramount concern to us. And we are doing everything that we possibly can to assist the police, as well as our parents, our students and staff, by providing interventions and counseling, and we will be here and do whatever is necessary to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to have their needs met. I would like to say the governor has called as well and expressed his sympathy. We appreciate everything that the police have done. And we are going to pursue this to see what measures that we need to take. Again, our most heartfelt to all of our students and our families. Thank you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Another news briefing will be held at 4:00 this afternoon here at the Sparks --</s>BALDWIN: Clearly an incredibly difficult day for school officials, for members of law enforcement in Sparks, Nevada. Learning some new information there in that brief press briefing. The fact that they mentioned, this is according to the chief of police, those two who were injured in this school shooting at Sparks Middle School. They were both students. One of whom has just undergone surgery and the other is, quote/unquote doing well. As far as the two who are dead, according to the police chief, he said one was a school staff member, and the other, this is how he described this individual, appears to be a student/suspect. And just quickly, a little color from this newspaper from the "Reno Gazette Journal." That a 13 to 14-year-old person wearing a Sparks Middle School uniform was the one, according to eye witnesses there at the school, firing the shots near the basketball courts. And, quote/unquote, fired a shot at the teacher. And this newspaper reporter asked, was he a young kid? And the answer was yes. We're keeping a close eye on this tragic story out of Sparks, Nevada. Stay tuned to CNN, we'll pass more information along as soon as we get it. Now this. A woman blowing herself up on a bus in southern Russia today, and the whole thing was caught on dash cam video. Here it is, the horrific moment this explosion rips through the bus. You see just smoke here. People running moments after the woman detonated this bomb. At least six people were killed, and more than 30 other were hurt, many of them critically. CNN's Phil Black joins me now from Russia. And, Phil, what exactly are we seeing in the video other than this smoke and this bus blowing up? And who is this suicide bomber?</s>PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brooke, it shows the bus just moments before the blast on this dash cam video. A lot of Russian drivers have these. So you can see the bus. Then you see the moment of the explosion. The debris thrown across the road. The car with the camera slows, eventually stops. And further on down the road, where the bus stops, you can see the survivors fleeing from the vehicle, running away. Investigators here have said that one of those survivors told them that the blast took place just moments after a woman boarded the bus. So investigators believe it was a female suicide bomber. A 30-year-old from the Russian Republic of Dagestan. Now, Dagestan is in the northern caucuses region of Russia. This is a part of Russia where there is an ongoing Islamic insurgency. Where militants are fighting to try and establish their own independent Islamic state. And it is relatively close to the city of Sochi, where Russia will host next year's Winter Olympics really in just a few months' time, in February, Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Phil Black for us in Moscow. Phil, thank you very much. Coming up, President Obama is mad, and he wants the entire world to know about this. Find out how he plans to fix the Obamacare rollout, and hear what one tech expert says is really the biggest problem with this website. This is CNN. Stay with me.