goes unchecked in mexico. it s disgusting. and what happened was these three women can caravanning and dot the thing caravanning together knowing of the drug cartel in mexico. they d nerve her a run-in with them. the cartel did not have any problems with them. i talked to a family member who has said that, you know, it s been, like, over 100 years, they ve had no issues. so they are farmers down there. they are generous. they are kind. they love where they re at. two of the women were going out to the united states to their origin of homes, and the other woman who is my niece was going to a wedding, and they all lived together in the suburban the family member who is the brother to my niece s husband had i
one of the cars. taylor langford says it belonged to his cousin. he says she and four of her children were inside, including twin babies. they were ambushed, shot, and burned alive. helpless families are being innocently killed down there. there was an attack on families, women and children. joining us now is nbc s sam brock. sam, are there any more details about the attempts to capture the cartel members, anything new? reporter: andrea, this is so disturbing, the details of this are so disturbing, it s hard to even repeat. here is what we know at this hour. there are three parents and 14 children in three different vehicles. they were caravanning all together. the reason they were doing that, ironically, is for their own safety. they thought they would be more protected if they went in that arrangement. but the mexican deposit came out this morning and saying that cartel, potentially a rival
protests. taking it outside of social media for real social change. maurice mitchell helped organize the events and is joining me now. i want to note you organized all of this before the death of sandra bland and that story making national attention. 800 people are expected to attend your event this weekend. what s the goal for the event? well, it s good to be here thomas. and this event is it s a convening where us as black people who have experienced untold trauma over the past year and over the past generations are coming together to heal, to build, to a have meaningful conversations about moving forward both online and as you said, off line in our communities. and we re really excited about the outpouring of support. people are caravanning from every corner of this country to come to cleveland and to articulate our greatest desires at this particular moment. that s a big deal with trying to articulate the purpose of what you re doing and getting
up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. this fire is advancing at least at 2,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad. plus, you now know several thousand m
reporter: hi, soledad. yeah, this fire has really amped up in the last just couple of hours. a fire official told me less than an hour ago if he told me an acreage amount, it would be wrong in ten minutes. it s advancing 10,000 feet every hour. the last four days this has been burning, they counted on the wind to at least burn it in towards the interior of the forest and away from populated areas. just within the last half hour, that has completely changed. the smoke is now coming towards us, towards the city of colorado springs. now, it doesn t seem at this moment there s any real danger to the city itself. but so far as of a couple hours ago, they miraculously i think not lost a single structure. i was in the interior of this fire and they had fire lines around individual houses and every single one them had held. this is going to make it a lot more difficult with this change in the wind direction. that s what prompted that additional evacuation of 7,000 people, soledad.