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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Straight ahead on DAYBREAK, a deliberate and deadly rampage. A community left in shock and asking why.
Also, what if that were me? A lot of you are asking that question as Terri Schiavo's life hangs in the balance.
It is Tuesday, March 22.
You are watching DAYBREAK.
And good morning to you.
From the Time Warner Center in New York, I'm Carol Costello, along with Chad Myers.
Now in the news, 10 people are dead and 13 wounded after a shooting rampage in Minnesota. Authorities say a high school student killed two of his grandparents and seven of his schoolmates before killing himself. We'll have a live report for you in two minutes.
The convicted sex offender charged in the death of a 9-year-old Florida girl heads back to court in about an hour and a half. The girl's father said last night he hopes John Couey gets the death penalty. We'll have more from Florida in the next half hour of DAYBREAK.
We'll see if Michael Jackson arrives late again today for his child molestation trial. He said yesterday he's taking pain medication for his ailing -- see how slowly he's moving. And he almost threw up in court. But he didn't. Today's proceedings will take only half the day.
It looks like you're filling up despite some pain at the pump. The Energy Department says fuel demand is still rising, even though gas prices have shot up nearly $0.13 in the past two weeks -- good morning, Chad.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I had a shocker today.
COSTELLO: You did?
MYERS: My $1.97 gas station went up to $2.05 overnight. So that was my cheap gas. Forget about that now. And I know some folks are really hurting at $3, but if you even looked across the border, up into Canada, they're paying like $0.80 a liter, or, in some spots, $1 a liter, which is nearly $4 a gallon. So, you know, it's...
COSTELLO: Yes, but we don't live in Canada.
MYERS: Well, I know. It's all about the taxes in some spots, isn't it?
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: This morning people in Red Lake, Minnesota are struggling to come to terms with a high school massacre. Ten people have been shot on an Indian reservation, a high school on an Indian reservation, I should say. More than a dozen others are wounded. The chairman of the Red Lake Chippewa tribe calls it the darkest hour in the tribe's history.
CNN's Robin Meade has more on the shooting.
(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)
ROBIN MEADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Once again, a community forced to cope with violence in the schools, this time Red Lake, Minnesota. Authorities say that the high school student first shot and killed his grandparents in their home, took more guns from there and headed to Red Lake High School. Near the school's entrance, he shot and killed a school guard, say authorities, then walked down a hallway and shot a teacher.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We heard boom, boom.
MEADE: Witnesses say that he'd point the gun at a student, grin, wave and shoot, then point again and open fire, over and over and over. As he went from classroom to classroom, banging on doors, terrified students tried to hide. Some used cell phones to call parents and police.
PAT NELSON, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY: We did receive a call at 2:55 this afternoon, a 911 call, that there was a shooting at the hospital. Our officers did respond almost immediately.
MEADE: When police arrived, a shootout ensued, the young gunman apparently killing himself. When it stopped, 10 people were dead, more than a dozen others wounded and another town wondering why.
Robin Meade, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEO TAPE)
COSTELLO: And CNN is expecting updates from a hospital where some of the shooting victims were taken around 11:30 a.m. Eastern time. Police plan a news conference from the Indian reservation later this afternoon. Also, a Native American prayer service will take place on the steps of the state capital in St. Paul at 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon. That's Eastern time.
The Red Lake massacre now becomes the nation's second deadliest school shooting. The April 1999 Columbine shooting in Littleton, Colorado tops the list. Fifteen people were killed, 23 wounded. The death toll includes the two shooters. Of course, they killed themselves.
March of 1998 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, five dead, 10 wounded. Two heavily armed boys tripped a fire alarm at their middle school and then they gunned down students as they exited the building.
And two months later, May of 1998, four people were killed and 20 wounded. A student opened fire at the high school cafeteria in Springfield, Oregon. Two of the dead were schoolmates. The other two were the shooter's parents, whose bodies were later found at their home.
Now to the legal and political twist and turns over Terri Schiavo's life. The brain damaged woman is entering a fourth full day without food and water. Her dying process has begun, as both sides await a federal judge's decision on whether to order her feeding tube reinserted.
Her husband is expressing outrage to CNN's Larry King.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM CNN'S "LARRY KING LIVE")
MICHAEL SCHIAVO, TERRI SCHIAVO'S HUSBAND: Every person in this country should be scared. The government is going to trample all over your private and personal matters. It's outrageous that these people that we elect are not letting you have your civil liberties to choose what you want when you die.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Terri Schiavo's parents insist that being denied nutrients and water until she dies is not something their daughter would want.
This case has taken extraordinary turns, all the way to the White House.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In extraordinary circumstances like this, it is wise to always err on the side of life.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: As you know, Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years now.
Making "News Across America" for you.
All 20 people who were abroad a grounded ship are now safe. The Coast Guard is working to free the sailing ship that became stuck on a sandbar off the coast near Oxnard, California. Rescuers plucked some people out of the water after they were either washed overboard or jumped. The man accused of plotting to kidnap David Letterman's son is expected to appear in a Montana courtroom today. Kelly Frank is charged with felony solicitation. He also faces charges that he overcharged for work done at Letterman's Montana ranch.
Letterman took time out of his show last night to thank those involved in foiling the alleged plot.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, COURTESY CBS/WORLDWIDE PANTS)
DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: I want to thank FBI Special Agent Jim Wilson, FBI Special Agent Aaron Vanhoff (ph), Teton County Sheriff George Anderson, Teton County Attorney Joe Coble and the great people of Choteau, Montana. They have always made me and my family feel entirely welcome and as though it were our home, and that's how we think of it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Three children are presumed dead after an explosion at a Colorado ski lodge. They were attending a family reunion at the Electric Mountain Lodge in western Colorado. Several other members of the family were hospitalized after the blast, which completely leveled the building, as you can see. The cause of this explosion still under investigation.
Baseball has been very, very good to them -- Chad.
MYERS: Yes, it has.
COSTELLO: I know.
MYERS: The fans are lukewarm.
COSTELLO: They are lukewarm. Polls not so good, actually. A new CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll is out in the wake of last week's Congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball. And guess what? Well, before we get to the numbers, let's talk about what happened.
Mark McGwire testified. As you know, he declined to answer questions about whether he used steroids. But the poll shows his image has taken a hit.
MYERS: Well, of course it has. You can't plead I'm not going to say and then -- because people just assume it was a yes.
COSTELLO: Oh, but wait. They might have slipped, but 53 percent of those surveyed still have a favorable opinion of McGwire.
MYERS: I wonder if those million dollar baseballs are still worth a million dollars.
COSTELLO: That's an interesting question.
Now, that 53 percent, of course, down from 1998, when McGwire broke a home run record; 25 percent, they have an unfavorable opinion of him; 22 percent, they just can't decide.
MYERS: I think I'm undecided as well. Maybe I'm just...
COSTELLO: I'm not.
MYERS: Maybe I just don't care.
COSTELLO: I think he looks bad.
Sammy Sosa, as you know, also testified. And it looks like his poll numbers have gone down, too -- 55 percent favorable; 21 percent unfavorable; 24 percent say I don't know, I'm not sure.
MYERS: You know what, Carol? Other than Alan Greenspan, I don't know anybody who can testify in front of Congress and not have their opinion go down a little bit. You're not in Congress because you did something good, usually.
COSTELLO: Usually not.
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