Developing story out of china where a massive explosion has left several dead and virtually leveled part of a city balk. And all of the queens president s ahead of the bidens meeting with the queen, we take a look back at the nearly 70year history between Queen Elizabeth ii and americas first families. Thank you so much for waking up with us bright and early this sunday, june 13th. Were thrilled to have you. Amara, good morning. How are you doing . Im awake and my coffee is working. How are you, boris. Thats what matters most. Ive got apple juice and were ready to go. Apple juice . Yeah. No coffee . Im not a coffee guy. Got it. Sadly we start this morning with another weekend of Senseless Gun vie olence across the United States. For context, cnn defines a Mass Shooting where at least four have been shot. Since friday as you see on this map, the violence spreading across six states from georgia to washington state, leaving nearly 50 people . And two of the youngest victims are in cincin
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of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
testimony from victims of the recent shootings. this student described watching her friends and teachers die and saying she s afraid to return to school. the devastating story of kimberly and felix rubio who lost their daughter. we told her we loved her and we would pick her up after school. i could still see her walking with us toward the exit. in the reel that scrolls across my memory, she turns and acknowledges my promise. then we left. i left my daughter at that school, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of many i life. we don t want you to think of her as just a number. she was intelligent, compassionate and athletic. she was quiet. shy unless she had a point to make. when she knew she was right, she stood her ground. she was firm, direct, voice unwavering. today, we stand for lexi and as her voice we demand action. somewhere out there, there s a mom listen to our testimony, thinking, i can t even imagine their pain. not knowing that our reality will one day
authorities say they are not ruling out that this was possibly a hate crime. president biden has ordered all federal flags to be flown at half staff in honor of the victims, and he will head to georgia tomorrow. and as the president said, as vice president harris said, as atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms said, whatever the motivation here, the fact is attacks on asian americans are on the rise. people are rightfully scared and we need to do more to combat that bigotry and violence and stand together. to that point, today in congress a house committee held its first hearing on the rise of anti-asian discrimination in more than 30 years. but things quickly took a turn when republican congressman chip roy of texas first said that all americans deserve protection and to live in a free and secure society. then he said some more things, and i want to warn you, some of this language is offensive. we re only going to play it once, and we re going to play it once because it not