speak out the night breaking news on pope francis in the hospital, what they are saying about his condition. also what authorities now believe about the shooter at that school in nashville. tonight authorities were billing police stormed the school and took down the shooter within minutes but what they witnessed involving the suspect and what they were dumb i believe it reveals about the shooter. investigators have questioned the shooter's parents, moments ago the first lady in nashville to honor the victims. also developing at this hour, pope francis hospitalized in rome, what they are now saying about what he's fighting. here at home, authorities very concerned about this new storm system that could bring tornadoes and dangerous winds to

the same part of the country it with those deadly tornadoes days rob marciano timing it out to. we make it to a town 100 miles from rolling fork also hit in mississippi. they are now bracing for another dangerous system coming through coming through. overseas, news on russia tonight to pick at the notifications, communications with the u.s. on nuclear weapons. communications required under the new start treaty. tonight at the white house responding to all of this and martha wright at standing by. in the u.s. the veteran pilot in another plane helping a student pilot to make an emergency landing. you will hear the communications back and forth. what he learns about that young pilot as she tries to land the plane. news tonight involving the case against alec baldwin, a surprising move from the santa fe d.a. who charged him. dozens of swimmers are now facing possible federal charges for allegedly harassing the dolphins. and the diane sawyer exclusive,

the first interview with actor jeremy renner, the superhero action star run over in that snowplow accidents. jeremy renner in his wheelchair talking to diane after breaking more than 30 poems because a long recovery ahead, who he was trying to help that day, why he says he would do it all over again. ♪ ♪ >> from "abc news" world headquarters in new york, this is world news tonight. >> it's great to have you with us on a very busy wednesday night. breaking news on the pope hospitalized tonight we have news on his condition in just a moment. new developments tonight involving a shooter at that nashville school. why authorities believe the suspect had training at new details on some of the training outside for recess and their own escape. how quickly those hero officers ended the threat. authorities pointing out the brave children, this surveillance of suspect audrey hale driving into the school

parking lot, children on the playground and on the swings. authorities now believe those childrendst that shooting, they ran, some running into the woods pickle police tonight on why they believe the assailant may have had some weapons training as we also learned it was 2 minutes after entering that school they shot the suspect. him tonight that community and the nation remembering the victims. the 9-year-old's william kinney, as well as school and civil katherine koonce and substitute teacher cindy peak. her family saying she gave her life to protect the students they love. just before we came on the air, first lady jill biden joining the mourners in nashville. >> tonight abc lose learning that dramatic police takedown of the company at school shooter just minutes. that first call coming in a at

10:13:00 a.m., officers arriving at 10:at 218 minutes later. going in at 10:at 23:00 a carefully going room to room encountering the heavily armed suspect, 28-year-old audrey hale, firing on the second floor. 10:at 25:00 a.m., the officers engage. [gunshots] by 10:20 minutes, hale was declared dead. authorities now in the deep faces of the investigation into what motivated a former student to target covenant school killing six people including 39-year-old children. >> we don't have any indication there was any problems at the school or at home periods >> reporter: police say they wee shocked to learn there was a lethal arsenal of seven guns hidden in their house including the three used as in monday's

massacre, telling investigators hale was under a doctor's care for emotional disorder pick authorities say they were not aware of hale's condition before the shooting noting hale had no previous criminal record but based on hale's ability to evade fire from the second-floor window and hit these police cruisers, authorities say they believe hale kno knew how to use those weapons. >> we believe there is some training on being able to shoot from a higher level. >> reporter: zooming and you could see young students on the playground outside as hale arrives, playing outside a man helped those students get the safety faster, some running across the street into the nearby woods. >> i was told there was kids that evacuated into a wood line and had the presence of mind to do that. >> reporter: katie robbins who lives nearby ran outside when she heard the gunfire encountering a teacher and terrified children running. >> this little boy looked up at me and i will never forget the look in his eyes pick up he said

"help me get inside here, how do i get inside here?" >> reporter: the frustrated mother who made news with immediate was gathered asking -- her son survived the shooting in illinois and they were on vacation in nashville. beasley telling us she was so angry, she took the microphone demanding where is action? >> aren't you guys tired of covering this, aren't you tired of being here of having to cover all these mass shootings? i'm from illinois, my son and i survived a mass shooting over the summer, i'm in tennessee on a family vacation with my son visiting my sister-in-law. i have been lobbying in d.c. since we survived a mass shooting in july after kalb we have to make our lawmakers make change now or this is going to keep happening and it's going to be your kid and/or kid next because it's a matter of time. >> reporter: behind me here

you can see the flowers and balloons, the memorial for the victims continues to grow. srt gonghose whotopped by to pay their respects. this community is coming together. >> david: a familiar scene yet again, the first lady visiting the scene of a tragedy in this country. we're going to turn in the meantime t to the celebrating headlight tonight involving pope francis in the hospital tonight with a lung infection. here's our foreign correspondent with late reporting tonight. >> reporter: a tonight prayers around the world for pope francis who has been hospitalized in rome for a lung infection, the vatican revealing the 86-year-old pontiff complained of respiratory difficulties in recent days and went in for tests. several days of appropriate medical treatment. as a young man he had part of a lung removed after a sever case of pneumonia. >> the less lung capacity you have the less pulmonary reserve you have and that may contribute

to risk for this particular infection. >> reporter: today's news comes after the pope's weekly audience where he appeared energetic and engaging, in st. peter's square kissing babies and posing for photographs. >> since he was out and about this morning that would imply that he had outpatient pneumonia which is not necessarily serious. however, he is the pope and you might want to have them in the hospital until things clear up. >> reporter: he has been facing other health challenges, he's relying on a cane in a wheelchair to get around after knee injury and he's been dealing with the return of a condition after intestinal surgery back in 2021. tonight, the faithful are praying for his recovery. >> this pope, i love him, i adore him. we want to pope francis to get better. >> reporter: the vatican says the pope is touched by the many messages he's received and is touched by the gratitude.

it's not clear how long the pup is going to be hospitalized but the catholic church is heading into its busiest time of the year, they're all kinds of celebrations to be presided over and that starts with palm sunday this weekend. >> david: a lot of prayers for the popes tonight. back here in the u.s., there is growing concern over this major new storm barreling across the country, concerned that it could bring tornadoes at dangerous winds to that same part of the country hit with deadly tornadoes days ago. let's get right to senior meteorologist who is tracking this storm for us, familiar path all over again. >> similar to last friday, the storm coming to the west right now. strong dynamics, it will have no problem going across the count y lifornia.evereeaer acrs rts of one or 2 feet, wyoming will get heavy snow as well.

thursday there will be severe weather but the big threat is going to be friday afternoon as far north as des moines, iowa, down through memphis and it's the hard-hit areas of northern mississippi damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes possible. >> david: unbelievable what they could face again. there's a town even smaller than rolling fork mississippi 100 miles away were so much was destroyed to, they are now bracing for this new system about to hit. >> reporter: tonight, 100 miles from rolling fork, they are worried about new storms. they still can't forget the ones that just struck. >> lights went out and all of a sudden you could hear it coming. >> d'angelo white can still hear the tornado coming. >> my cousin, my two kids and i we all felt the same time. >> they survived with three family members did not. >> my mom was over here. i walked right past.

>> reporter: 's mom helen come his stepfather at 14-year-old brother were all killed periods twin brother survived. >> i called her number last night, not realizing i wasn't going to get anyone. >> reporter: the family finding that phone in the wreckage, helen's sister showing me. >> this was a cover? >> we was looking for the dog. >> reporter: a little more than 300 people live here, 32 mike 40 of them related, they are all now rallying around deangelo. >> we don't we are walking on faith. >> reporter: the funerals are scheduled for sunday, not far from here at a school.

helen was a teacher for 27 years but with these new storms coming in, even that is uncertainty in their lives tonight to pick out we've learned that president biden in the first lady plan to visit storm damaged areas in mississippi friday >> david: oversees tonight into russia and an alarming new turn with u.s. relations to moscow. the kremlin suspending all notifications involving nuclear weapons.% communications required under the new start treaty. the white house is responding it does this leave us? here is martha raddatz. >> reporter: tonight a struggling standoff, russia refusing to give advanced warning to the u.s. about missile tests or to provide data about its nuclear arsenal as required by the start nuclear arms agreement. and move that has now prompted the white house to do the same.

>> to be compliant with that particular modality, decided to likewise do not share that data. >> reporter: the new start agreement limits each country to 1550 deployed nuclear warheads with inspections to verify compliance. last month, vladimir putin called off inspections because of u.s. support for the war in ukraine. how they have taken it even further, calling off all notifications of missile tests. this all comes as russia begins military drills and pollutants announcement he will deploy% tactical nuclear weapons to ukraine's neighbor belarus. the pentagon believes this is just saber rattling although failing to share data about missile tests means there is greater possibility for miscalculations. >> david: not to the veteran pilot coming to the rescue of a

young pilot on her third solo flight. on the ground when you take off when he saw part of that young pilots landing gear fall off. what he learned about her as he helped her land that plane. >> reporter: a rookie pilot making this incredible emergency landing that may not have been so smooth if it wasn't for another hero pilot. >> loss to the tire on the runway. >> wow, thank you. >> reporter: taking off from pontiac, michigan, suddenly receiving terrifying news. her front landing gear had fallen off and it was only her third solo flight ever. >> something is wrong with my plane and i have to figure out what i'm going to do. >> that's when veteran pilot chris gates who was about to take off himself saw the wheel bounced down the runway and he jumped on the radio to help. that nervous pilot shared the same name as his daughter.

>> this is chris, my daughter's name is taylor and i taught her to fly, we are going to be just fine. >> thank you very much. >> i was terrified that combing voice was pretty much exactly what i needed to. >> i wanted to get this kid back home and i knew how to help her do it. >> the net moments. nerves of steel guiding taylor to a safe landing. >> back gently, nice job. the nose is going to come down, you're okay, talk to me. i'm proud of you. >> it could've been a lot worse, i was hoping that airplane didn't end up on its back upside down and it didn't. >> reporter: taylor says she will keep training to someday fly corporate jets just like chris. >> david: on capitol hill today the former ceo of starbucks defending the company

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diane works on her special come at a first look. revealing the extent of his injuries telling diane he chose to survive. >> do you remember the pain? >> i was awake through every moment. i would do it again. it was going right up my nephew. >> you have a video which is haunting. it's january 1st at 8:42 in the morning, 30 minutes away. >> someone got run over by a snow cat, he is getting crushed. >> keep breathing, keep fighting, hang in there. >> eight ribs broken in 14 places, right knee, right ankle, left leg, to be a broken. left ankle broken, right clavicle broken, right shoulder broken, eye socket, jar, mandible, lung collapsed, pierced from the rib bone, your

liver -- which sounds terrif terrifying. >> what's my body look like am i going to be a spine and a brain like a science experiment? >> i heard and sign language you said to your family i'm sorry. >> yeah. i chose to survive. it's not going to kill me, no way. >> do you dream of doing stunts again? >> i've lost a lot of flesh and bone and this experience but i have been refueled and refueled with love and titanium. >> you look in the mirror into do you see the same face? >> i see a lucky man. >> david: he said he was saving his nephew. jeremy renner, the diane sawyer interview next thursday night,

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>> he wrote this emailed as an update on the jasper case. 23-month-old jas life to a stray bullet. >> rival gangs were having a rolling gun battle on highway 880. >> three men have their preliminary hearing on murder charges in three weeks. a member of the community asked the district attorney for an update on the case. she sent this emailed yesterday that reads in part we are working in partnership to support victims of violence in ways that open up broader possibilities for healing. non-carson role forms vulnerability. >> if i were jasper's