report concludes that is likely how the pandemic first began. in a house select committee heard testimony today from a former top u.s. intel official that a chinese lab leak is the only explanation. our money to a lab in china that wasn t up to code that was doing gain of function research and that s where this thing came from. that s what they didn t want us to know. do you agree with that mr. ratcliffe. i do agree with that. communist china the target of bipartisan criticism in washington on tuesday. china has not been forthcoming. where a house select committee held a hearing on the origins of covid-19. i can very well argue the lab leak theory because, you know, china cannot cooperate. former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, who began his term two months into the pandemic, also pointing the finger at china. a lab leak is the only explanation credit dibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense. the chinese embassy
fears that nowhere is safe, not in your car, not even in your own front yard in north carolina, a 6-year-old was hit in the face by bullet fragments. her father shot in the back by a neighbor, a i ppparently becaush girl s basketball rolled into his yard. why did she shoot my daddy and me shoot a kid s dad. the suspect in that case, robert louis singletary is still on the loose being hunted by police in maine, a man freshly released from prison allegedly shot and killed his parents and two of their friends, then began firing ran domly at passing car on i-295 a father and his two adult children were hit. his daughter is in critical condition. the suspect in court this morning. in downtown columbus, a man was shot in the face while just walking alone, and in philadelphia, a teenager was shot in the back by a masked gunman while he sat on a bench outside a rec center taken together, all of these incidents plus the recent shootings of ralph yarl, kaylin gi gillis, and pay
ago and now a week later more and more criticism and more and more questions over the police response and the decision to wait an hour before storming the classroom. we re waiting for updates from the department of justice on their review of thattins spo. we re also live in uvalde and in washington where president biden is saying this afternoon he plans to meet with lawmakers on gun reforms. the reality check on where those stocks stand with an emergency hill meeting on thursday with some new proposals. i m hallie jackson in washington among with our nbc news team. liz mclaughlin is live for us in texas, and our investigative reporter is on capitol hill. liz are let me start with you, this is just a horrific, you could call it a milestone and maybe another step in what s going to be a lifelong healing process perhaps for these families dealing with grief, dealing with anger about this police response. hallie, so many intense emotions here. this community will never be whole
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