still ahead, the hero who helped stop a terror attack on a french train is stabbed in california. we will give you the details on what happened. and hillary clinton unveils a new plan to reform wall street days after coming out against a major trade deal and the keystone pipeline. her strategy. the gun control debate. a new push from democrats one day before president obama travels to oregon, the scene of the latest mass shooting. this should be so easy. the american public overwhelming supports background record checks. gun owners like me overwhelmingly support background record checks. no matter where they are. the microsoft cloud gives our team the power to instantly deliver critical information to people, whenever they need it. here at accuweather, we get up to 10 billion data requests every day.
this is time to step up. it is on tv, but in terms of the contacting my office, i got a mailing this week at home from some innocuously named group that s actually the gun manufacturers, industry group saying the senate is going to end the second amendment as we know it. it is important for the reasonable majority to be heard. what s happening with joe manchin s efforts. does it look like it s going to happen? at the end of the day, late yesterday, what i was hearing, i haven t had a chance to talk to joe for a couple of days is that it was very, very close. as it s been described, i think it would be a very good step forward. it might not be completely the comprehensive background records check i would want, but if you do background record checks at gun shows and private online sales, that s a huge portion of this, 40% of the weapon sales happen without background record checks. and by the way. all kinds of felons can get guns that way. that s the compromise, isn t it? the