at this hour, the usual suspect, the federal arrest made possible by an unlikely source, the dna left on a partially eaten burrito. the senate just voted to repeal authorization for the gulf and iraq wars, but how likely is it to pass the republican-led house. also, home prices are cooling for the 7th straight month. we ll dig into latest numbers. and gun safety bills were just introduced in the last couple of hours. we have an exclusive interview with the congresswoman behind them, and two gun violence survivors from her district. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. let s start in d.c. where congressional lawmakers are deadlocked when it comes to gun laws. that doesn t mean they aren t doing anything. nbc s julie tsirkin is on the hill with new action this afternoon. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i actually just sat down with congresswoman slotkin, who was in a press conference with two students from her district
even as those parents, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, outside pleading for action. even as the kids, the heroes, the warriors inside, called 9-1-1, over and over and over again, one of them calling 9-1-1 flex after time, begging for help. time wasted. that may have saved some of the 19 children into teachers that are now dead. the anger is palpable. i talked to the brother of ten-year-old victim xavier lopez, as well as his girlfriend. take a listen. are you guys frustrated at all by the way the police handle? this very. which frustrates you the most? they didn t do anything. they just standing around the whole time. they didn t do anything. that is much of what s the community is saying. they did not do anything. they were standing around the whole time. why did they not act? could babies be alive today had they acted sooner? while officials released a new timeline of events, there are still so many unanswered questions. in fact there are more. questions they still
the kids who lived and died there, the distraught parents and community trying to rally around them. a lot we haven t learned yet, maybe we never will about motive behind this senseless killing and the police response and time line of what happened in small town on awards day at the end of the school year. all those families that will never be the same again. she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mom and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was creative. she made things for us. she never got in trouble in school. i just want to know what she did to be a victim. that s one of the interviews i mentioned to anderson. it s heartbreaking. a small town that will never be able to forget what happened. ever. there s so many unanswered questions tonight but we re learn more about the 18-year-old shooter and what happened yesterday morning an exclusive details about chilling warnings minutes before shooting started. the gunman texting with a te
nbc s julie tsirkin is on the hill with new action this afternoon. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i actually just sat down with congresswoman slotkin, who was in a press conference with two students from her district who survived shootings at oxford high school and michigan state university. she introduced a series of bills along with senator ed marquee here in the senate that would essentially have to do with firearm transfers. that s all they have to do with, and in addition, additional funds they want to see with the cdc to boost research for firearm safety and gun violence prevention. we sat down after that interview, and i asked her, when did you start working on these bills because of course she did not start working and after the nashville shooting monday, these are bills she has been working on since the shooting at michigan state that happened in february. i sat down with her as well as the two students, dillon and daniel. take a listen to one por