gun violence epidemic: the staggering numbers of deaths and school shootings in the years since columbine. plus a debate on gun legislation in the age of partisan gridlock. and anguish in america: we speak with angel garcia, after the loss of his 10-year-old daughter, amerie. i just want my baby back. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting tonight from uvalde, texas. dokoupil: good evening on what is really anything but a good evening. and thank you for joining us. i m tony dokoupil, in for norah who is recovering from covid, and tonight we are here in uvalde, texas, a community shattered by one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. 21 victims, 19 of them innocent children. they ranged in age from 10 down to as young as eight. one victim described by family as the sweetest little boy i ve ever known, so full of life. others loved baseballs, they loved swimming, loved dancing to tiktok videos in other words, these are your eve eve
because if i don t i am killing me and i won t be able to go forward if i don t forgive him. we will talk about the warning signs missed along the way. plus the end to the baby formula shortage could be months away. what can parents do and what can the government do? xavier becerra will join me later to tell us. and also another wild twist on the eve of a pennsylvania primary. plus, an update on the democratic senate candidate, john fetterman recovering from a stroke with the primary tomorrow. and then let s start in buffalo. this is a horrifying result of racism and access to guns and hateful internet culture coming to a head and what makes it worse is this supermarket is the only supermarket in this neighborhood, meaning he did not just target the people inside that target but he targeted the only community. reporter: officials said this becomes a food desert, so it s like dumping salt in a horribly wide open wound right now. this is the front page from the buffalo news
numerous bodies and bullets and everything. utterly chilling. that s tragedy released on a predominantly black community in buffalo, new york. at this hour, vigils and minerals are taking place around the city to mourn ten people killed by a lone gunman. who they say subscribe to a white supremacist ideology. let s go right now to nbc s jesse courage, she is on the scene there in buffalo. joining us right now. jesse, houston is that community? less than 24 hours after this initial attack, folks go grocery shopping on a saturday afternoon. ten of them do not make it home. yes alex. i think there is a question of how this alleged makes its way into this community, this country. this is become a place of memorial. you have flowers here, candles. this memorial has grown throughout the day. i saw somebody put an american flag there earlier. i ve seen people staring at the supermarket just behind where i am right now, there are still crowds milling about here. i want to show