before moving in on the shooter. this despite records showing that the local police chief completed active shooter training in december that calls on police to do the exact opposite. meanwhile, president biden fresh from his visit to uvalde has promised action on gun reform. the question this morning, will congress follow through. and will this latest tragedy actually move republicans the president in the last hour seems to think so. i haven t spoken to them, i think they ll have to take a hard look. plus, more heartbreaking stories are emerging from the violence, including one from a teacher, who told her students to hit the floor, just seconds before bullets ripped through her classroom windows. i just kept hearing, boom, boom, boom. it kept going off, it felt like an eternity. and i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. and nbc s ken brock is here with me. nbc s julia ainsley will be here in a moment. sam, you ve been here the last couple
you. okay. so again, to reiterate, at least one capitol police officer injured, kelly. that is the report. i don t know if that means injury as in gunshot wound or injury as in some related melee type moment. again, that s coming from a spokesperson from the u.s. capitol police. no confirmed numbers. again, early reports but we re tracking this down. okay. thank you very much. again, to catch our audience up, those of you just tuning in here, the capitol has been placed on lockdown after shots were fired, apparent shots fired on the west front. the house floor has gone into recess while it s locked down. our own luke russert essentially looking out of his office window heard what he described as at least three booms and at least 40 to 50 people he described as tourists hit the ground and at some point many of these people started running. the fbi, according to pete williams, sending agents to respond to reports of shots
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she gets the last word. as she should: you guys are going to finish up the show in a few weeks. you go back to vegas, you got a long term there at the flamingo. correct. mike: what will they see in vegas? we chose the flamingo because they live in flocks of 10,000 like osmonds. it is very inmeant theater. we get the intimate theater, we get the audience involved. we grew up with sammy davis, and people like that, to warm that audience up, bigger places are easier. i learned that from elvis presley. we were following him at the international. to his closing night. here s the king on stage. he has the audience in the palm of his hand. he was the king.