be an artist. and this was 10-year-old jayce identified this evening. and another 10-year-old, makenna lee elrod. her family confirmed she too died in the attack. for them and for all the victims, we now must ask some very tough questions after what we heard today. i know i m an anchor. but i m also angered in the fact that i m a mother of a second grader, of a third grader, an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old, who sends my children, just like you, to school every single day. and i want to know, did the texas school gunman effectively have total freedom to walk in and start killing those 19 children and two teachers? and despite the massive law enforcement response, when you hear me say words tonight like, or you hear the words said like, police say, over the course of this hour, i want you to keep those words in mind more than you might otherwise. because the official version of what happened is changing. and we re going to now examine all the new questions that are coming in as
County executives from around New York State were at Turning Stone Resort Casino this week for the New York Association of Counties annual fall conference.
well, the national rifle association is still going full steam ahead with its annual meeting. and it begins tomorrow in houston, texas. and that s just a four-hour drive from the latest mass shooting site. former president donald trump and other leading republicans scheduled to speak at the three-day event. the nra says it s gearing up to, quote, reflect on these events, unquote, in uvalde. but i wonder if this is just code for deflecting, not reflecting, and maybe denying the tragedy at hand. at least in a way that s productive to the american people. i want to bring in ryan bus si, former firearms executive and author of gun fight: my battle against the industry that radicalized america. take us inside the gun industry s mindset and perhaps most importantly the way forward. ryan, thank you for being here. when you hear about this conference happening and again, this was obviously
press teeingic to make it in front, i don t want to be part of that. sadam we will have the responsibility to balk with as is the biggest conference happening. numbers of congress pranin plan planning to breakdown the speech. what s the breakdown in the numbers? it is fluid. never make a cont before you have the count. i want to tell you vice president joe biden has a previous engagement. however other notables will be there harry reid chuck schumer, barbara boxer. the last tally is not yet final. they are trying to take a stand with the white house that the invitation was nothing more than a stunt.
spending money in the community, spending money in community owned banks and those type of things. those are the that have gotten the biggest response. it does boil down to jobs, jobs, jobs. a conference happening in harlem, could be happening anywhere in the country. talk about the discrepancy between the loss of jobs in the black community over that of the hispanic community, asian community. reporter: what we ve seen and forgive me they are taking a break now you ll see people moving about. national unemployment has stayed teddy for a couple of months at 9.7%. unemployment in the african-american kmupt has risen. it was about 15% in february, went up to 16.5% in march. you re seeing things stabilize in the national but worse in the african-american community. jobs is the huge issue in getting people back to work. one thing has been surprising to