shooter. they ran past. went back inside. what were you thinking as you were hiding in that bathroom for so long? i think i was just like, trying to be still. not like, just crying in my head, saying, don t make any noise. in the span of ten days, to 18 year old man allegedly killed 31 people 19 of them children, in two separate mass shootings on opposite ends of the country. the shooters in both massacres, a lot and they won in uvalde, texas uvalde, texas, legally purchased semiautomatic rifles. assault style weapons, they can buy, but they are not legally old enough to buy a call. this is not the american dream, it is the american nightmare. our nation is under siege. we are not even six months into the year and according to the gun violence archive, there have been 217 mass shootings. 24 of them were at schools. the centers for disease control says that guns are now the leading cause of lessons in america. we have endured gut-wrenching mass shootings this month, bu
shortly before entering that facility. as the investigation proceeds the politics of gun control rise again to the surface. emotional cries for new legislation and those who encyst more laws will not prevent these kind of tragedies from happening. we will cover it all tonight from all angles. we begin with correspondent jeff paul in uvalde. good evening, jeff. yeah, bret. tonight we are learning from authorities that 30 minutes before the shooting the suspect apparently sent some messages on social media. we don t nowhere they went and who they went to and when they opened them up. but two of those messages, according to officials, talked about shooting his grandmother. talked about wanting to go to an elementary school to shoot it up. authorities did confirm that after shooting his grandmother, the suspect then drove away from that scene crashing his pickup truck near robb elementary school. we are told there was an armed school police officer on campus but didn t stop the
the assailant twice, he had on a bullet proof vest and he lost his life in the process. no one understands more than all of you here today the pain and anguish those families in buffalo feel. when it happens, at least in my experience, it feels like you re pulled into a black hole inside your chest, and everything everything. you can t. it s hard. but you know you are part of a special community, because the firefighters and police officers will always be there for you. i know it s a small consolation, but they will always be there for you. and your family and children and grandchildren and the whole family. to talk about law enforcement being a family, and firefighters being a family, it s a real. just like being a military family, it s unbreakable. there is a headstone in a cemetery in ireland that reads, death leaves a heartache no one can heal. love leaves a memory that no one can steal. families of the fallen, no one can ever steal the memory of your loved one. i hop
Hearings. What he thinks the Supreme Court will want to get involved in his case. In georgia, all of the 19 codefendants accused of conspireing to overturn the 2020 election down there have now waived their arraignments. What happens next . We have news on a just scheduled hearing Recording Sydney Powell and Kenneth Cheesebrow and when will we hear from the judge about moving mark meadows case from State Court To Federal court. Hes been deliberating for more than a week. What that will mean for the president of the United States. Lets get do it. Joining us now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, whos outside of the courthouse. Garretts The Lucky One who got to get inside to see airconditioning. Sorry, ken, out there sweating it out. Talk to me about tarrio and what the prosecution is asking for. Reporter theyre asking for 33 years but they wont get it based on what the judge did with the other proud boys leaders last week. The judge sentenced them to betwe
An expanding manhunt and a community on edge. Police widen the search for a convicted killer who busted out of prison. A new sighting suggests he may have gotten farther away than expected. And the potential danger has schools shutting their doors. A new target for the Special Counsel. A cnn exclusive. Jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election could be getting wider. The new focus includes fundraising and voting equipment. New indictments could be on the table. Plus, overwhelming demands. The maker of a popular Weight Loss Drug tells cnn it could take years, years for them to make enough for everyone who wants it. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We begin with the urgent manhunt for an escaped killer in pennsylvania. Police releasing these new images of Danelo Cavalcante. He was spotted on a Botanical Garden Security Camera just a few miles from the plinz e. Escaped from last thursday an