Approximately 204,000 hate sex, ased on race, are committed in the u. S. Every year. An historic africanamerican church. In 2016, a nightclub in orlando, florida, was attacked. Most of whom were lgbtq and latino. A total of 12 people were killed and 10 wounded during attacks at synagogues in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, and powerade, california. Just last month, a shooter in el paso targeted mexicanamericans who were shopping at a walmart store, killing 22. These horrible attacks have two things in common. They are all hate crimes and all committed with a gun. As these show, guns are a motivatedool of hate violence and intimidation. Hate crimes committed in the u. S. Involved a gun. Despite these grim statistics, our nations weak gun laws give easy access to guns to individuals seeking to do harm. Many of those convicted of misdemeanor level hate crimes remain free to buy and possess guns. These hate crimes include many types of threatening and dangerous conduct including threats of assau
September 11, we thank you that you never give us burdens too great to bear. Continue to remind us that eternal vigilance is the price for freedom. Comfort the families of those who died on 9 11, surrounding them with your mercy and grace. Lord, incline your ears to our intercession. Teach us how to embrace the things that lead to peace as you instruct us on how to fulfill your purposes on earth. Today use our lawmakers as instruments of reconciliation. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak in morning business for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the chaplain opened our senate in prayer reminding everybody what happened 18 years ago today, a
Pelosi held a briefing on gun violence. They urged Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to bring up a housepast background check bill. This briefing is just over half an [indiscernible conversation] hour. Here we go. Senator schumer welcome. Hi. Great. Ok, lets get started. Im very proud to be joined by, of course, my friend and colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative escobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson. Too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport today. A gentleman came over to me and said thank you for what youre doing, i lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odesza, to say hing about the daily lives
Duty. The boats charred wreckage has been brought to the surface, and all of the victims have now been identified. And this is night vision video of authorities closing in on a couple who had escaped a prison transport van and remained on the run for 16 days. A tip brought officers to a Small Community 50 miles from phoenix. Susan and Blaine Barksdale were taken back into custody. The couple escaped while being taken across the country to face allegations of murdering a man in april. Actress Felicity Huffman learns her fate later this morning in a courthouse in boston for her role in the College Admissions scandal. Federal prosecutors are pushing for a jail sentence and a fine. Heres abcs eva pilgrim. Reporter actress Felicity Huffman, who pled guilty to paying 15,000 to alter her daughters s. A. T. Scores, is seeking probation and Community Service while prosecutors are asking for a month behind bars. A source telling People Magazine huffmans main focus Going Forward is repairing her
Left of the airport to just get supplies. The Prime Minister says an estimated 60 of those homes there have been destroyed and cnns Patrick Ottman has been in the bahamas throughout the storm and has the very latest. Patrick, just these stories that youve been telling, what more are you hearing today . Reporter hey, brook, so many more things. We just had a coast guard helicopter literally behind us. And theyve hovered for maybe five minutes, very, very low. Lower than i thought they really could have because they were in that forest behind us, what used to be a forest. And some of the bahamians said they believed they had spotted a body back there, this is how they do it. They spot the body, take some sort of location, and then they communicate that back to the bahamian authorities who will be out here as soon as they can if that was a body to retrieve it. But theyve said theyve seen this repeat itself again [ audio breaking up ]. Being, tokay, the connection awesome understandable wi