Happening now, rage and heartbreak and a search for answers, a mass shooting at a Catholic

school in Minneapolis. Two children are dead, 17 people injured, the community shattered. We

will speak to the Minneapolis police chief just ahead. And chaos at the CDC, the director

ousted in a mass exodus by other key officials.

Empty within days.

New reporting about the highly controversial Florida detention center, the Trump administration

has named Alligator Alcatraz.

And Kiev bombarded.

Russia is pummeling Ukraine's capital city in the second largest air assault of this entire war,

killing 18 people.

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

I'm Pamela Brown.

Wolf Blitzer is off today and you're in the situation room.

And we begin this hour in Minneapolis where another American community is grappling with the horror and heartbreak of a deadly mass shooting.

This morning's headline of the hometown paper, the Minnesota Star Tribune, with this headline,

This is Evil.

The shooter targets school kids at church.

Two students are killed eight and ten years old,

14 other children injured,

along with three parishioners, all in their 80s.

And this morning, right outside the Annunciation Catholic Church,

a memorial is taking shape as people bring flowers and stuffed animals to remember so many lives changed forever. The community is coming together in an amazing show of support.

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