texas, and tulsa, oklahoma and congress debating what if anything to do, president biden spoke to the country, calling for a restoration of the ban on assault weapons or failing that, raising the age for purchasing such weapons. also, banning high capacity magazines, instituting tighter red flag laws and repeal of liability shield protecting gun manufacturers from prosecution or being sued following mass shootings. it must end. lit there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in ub auld, who smeared blood off her murdered friend s body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in the classroom and pretend she was dead in order to stay alive. imagine what it would be for her to walk down the hallway of any school again. imagine what it s like for children who experience this kind of trauma everyday in school and streets and communities all across america. imagine what it s li
that s a case of five mass shootings a day, upwards of 10 every week, after three especially deadly acts of gun violence, buffalo, uvalde, texas, and tulsa, oklahoma, and congress debating what if anything to do, president biden spoke to the country, calling for a restoration of the ban on assault weapons or failing that, raising the age for purchasing such weapons. also, banning high capacity magazines, instituting tighter red flag laws and repeal of liability shield protecting gun manufacturers from prosecution or being sued following mass shootings. it must end. let there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in uvalde, who smeared blood off her murdered friend s body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in the classroom and pretend she was dead in order to stay alive. imagine what it would be for her to walk down the hallway of any school again. imagine what it s l
expected to press washington to take action after the rash of deadly mass shootings. we ll bring you his speech when it happens this hour live, let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin bur e, burnett, biden about to discuss gun violence in the united states, looking at pictures from the white house in a moment where biden will be speaking in about 30 minutes. his prime time speech follows what, of course, in the past few weeks has been mass shooting after mass shooting that have taken the lives of children, teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends, in so many different settings. hospital, grocery stores, schools, just some of the faces of those who have lost their lives, in buffalo, uvalde, and now tulsa. police say two doctors, receptionist and a patient were killed in a rampage at a medical building. the gunman, according to police, purchased the ar-15 style rifle three hours before he went and murdered all those people, went to the hospital with th
chief of police for the uvalde school district who was incident commander that day, meaning the person authorities said made the decision to not have officers immediately go into that classroom and stop the shooter even though he knew it was an active shooter situation, he, according to our reports, has not responded to state investigators for two days. so keep that in mind as you listen to this recording obtained by kate, at ksat, went out 12:20 local time, in other words, as the shooting was happening and as police were standing nearby in a texas town for a tactical team to arrive, assemble, gear up, and then go in. no one was confronting the shooter during that time. police were standing outside. adjoining classrooms where kids were wounded, possibly dying still, and some hiding, smearing themselves with blood in order to appear dead as one girl did or calling 911 for help. those police officers were not going in. with uvalde ciac, uvalde ciac parents, there is an active
classroom, where all those 21 victims were killed. but in an exclusive interview with cnn this morning, chief arredondo is contradicting that. he says he is in touch with the department of public security. let s go straight to cnn producer aaron cooper, he just spoke with arredondo. aaron, what did he tell you? reporter: it was just that, he told me that he is in touch with the texas department of public safety every day. i asked him about the comments that they had been hoping to speak with him, to have an interview with him, and he had not been responsive, he repeated that he was in contact with them every day. he said he was focusing on the families. he was not did not want to talk about the investigation, did not want to talk about details of what was going on, but wanted to focus on the families. i asked him about being sworn in as city council member here in in his hometown in texas, last night. he told me that was a private affair, not something they wanted publi