This is CNN breaking news.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Amonpour.

I'm Bianca-Ladriga, New York, sitting in for Christiana Amonpour, and we start with the developing

news out of the U.S. state of Minnesota, where at least two children have been killed and

17 more people injured at a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

The Annunciation School serves students from preschool to eighth grade.

Law enforcement officials say the shooter is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Here's what Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye had to say earlier.

Do not think of these as just somebody else's kids.

Those families are suffering immense pain right now.

Think of this as if it were your own.

Every one of us needs to be wrapping our arms around these families, giving them every ounce that we can muster.

These were Minneapolis families.

These were American families.

And the amount of pain that they are suffering right now is extraordinary.

Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids

were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Let's bring in former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Andrew, we have covered these

types of uniquely American tragedies

way too many times. And the fact that it is related to children, young children here,

the victims, two had been murdered by this shooter at the ages of 8 and 10 as they were attending the first school mass of the year.

And some of the details from the police chief are just horrifying. The fact that he hunted

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