[Church:] Hello, everyone. Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and of course, all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Let's update you now on the main stories we've been following this hour. The borders of Catalan independence are criticizing the Spanish King's visit to Barcelona. Protesters clash with Catalan police Sunday asking Felipe attended a welcome dinner for the 2018 Mobile World Congress. The King is a vocal critic of the independence movement. U.S. is again warning any dialogue with North Korea must leave the regime to give up its nuclear weapons as the Winter Olympics came to an end. South Korea renounced that the North is willing to hold talks with the U.S. but there's no indication Pyongyang would agree to negotiate its nuclear program. Florida's governor is ordering an investigation into the response to the deadly high school shooting in Parkland on February 14th. An armed deputy working as the school resource officer never went inside the building where the gunman was firing at students. There are also reports three other sheriff deputies did not go into the school. And then the wake of the school shooting. A number of Florida lawmakers are urging the governor to suspend the Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. State Representative Bill Hager spoke with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield.
[Rep. Bill Hager , Florida:] Clearly a series of failures at multiple levels. I've identified the sheriff's office probably the most grievous of fault at least based on the reported facts as we can understand so far lies there.
[Church:] The Speaker of the Florida House also tweeted that 73 of his Republican colleagues support the sheriff's suspension. Well, classes at the South Florida High School where the 17 students and teachers died will resume on Wednesday. On Sunday, students returned to the school for an open house and for many, it's the first time they've been back there since the terrifying attack. CNN's Kaylee Hartung was there to see how they're coping.
[Kaylee Hartung, Cnn Reporter:] In the lead-up to Sunday's open house, many students and teachers told me they were feeling anxious. They didn't know how they would feel or react to being back on Stoneman Douglas' campus, but after an afternoon in which many students were reunited with their classmates and teachers for the first time since February 14th and have the opportunity to reclaim their belongings like backpacks, laptops, phones and wallets. Of course it was difficult for some but many telling me there was more happiness then sadness among them. Listen to 10th grader Tanzil Philip described the evolution of his emotion.
[Tanzil Philip, Stoneman Douglas High School Student:] It was it was really scary, I didn't know how I was going to feel when I when I went and I saw the fence around the freshman building. I just and all the windows recovered, I was just like I just I just can't believe something like this happened. And then we all decided to meet in our in our theater room where I was and we just gave each other hugs and I'm just happy a lot of my friends decided to show up because without them I wouldn't have been able to do it.
[Hartung:] When classes resume on Wednesday, teachers telling me it will not be class as usual, it will take a while before academics are the focus in the classroom. Superintendent of this school district telling us that he wants to be as accommodating and as flexible as possible to meet the individual needs of these student and teacher. This could mean counselors in classroom if requested or service dogs perhaps even stress reductions exercises like yoga. The healing process here at Stoneman Douglas is underway but we know there is a long road ahead. Kaylee Hartun, CNN, Parkland, Florida.
[Church:] This certainly is. All right. We do want to turn to the weather now and parts of the central U.S. dealing with heavy flooding and tornadoes and thunderstorms have caused severe damage in the south. Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera joins us now to cover all of that. A lot of really severe incidents there weather wise.
[Ivan Cabrera, Cnn Meteorologist:] No question about it, Rosemary. Good to see you. And in fact, over the weekend, our first major severe weather outbreak again that we tornadic storms as a result just the beginning of course and what typically is a season goes in this direction here. The time we get into May and June, that's when we peak as far as a tornado averages by month but in February, they only average about 30 you don't need quantity to get them to be deadly. That's exactly what happened over the weekend. This was the line that spanned all those deadly tornadoes. We had 12 tornado reports, National Weather Service has been out there of course surveying the damage and we have the Fujita scale which is the damage scale, and they look at the damage and basically by that determine what kind of winds rolled to the region and some of these again were deadly. I want to focus in on Clarksville, Tennessee as we're going to need
[U.s. Church:] Yes, most definitely. Ivan, thanks so much and we'll chat again next hour. I appreciate that. Let's take a commercial break. We'll have more for you when we return.