florida courtroom as the sentencing trial for the parkland high school gunman nikolas cruz gets under way. this penalty phase comes after months a few months after cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. and so the jury will now decide really just one question, does he get life behind bars or does healtypenalty. leyla santiago has more. reporter: tears wiped, disbelief could not be masked. closed eyes and deep breaths, some forced to leave the courtroom to escape the horror of their reality. family members of the victims hearing for the first time the graphic details of how their loved ones died. peter wang was shot 13 times. reporter: 23-year-old nikolas cruz pled guilty in october to killing 14 students and three staff members on valentine s day in 2018 at marjory stoneman
to see happen to nikolas cruz? what the families who were devastated in our community, was devastated by the marjory stoneman douglas tragedy, they want to make sure that the focus stays on their children and the three adults that were murdered in cold blood by this vicious killer, and he had no regard for their life, and so focusing on making sure that we can honor their memory is important to them. and the way we can do that is by taking legal steps like passing legislation that we ve passed already out of the house to increase and close all the loopholes in terms of background checks by passing hr 8. by passing jamie s law, which i ve introduced to make sure that we can enforce the law that already exists, because you can t buy ammunition for the same reasons if you are prohibited from buying a gun, and we need to make sure we do background checks on ammunition purchases as well. we have to make sure that something like this never happens again, and honor and that s the best way
restrictions, if you remember on the late term abortion ban that was attempted by the republicans, and we won we re opportunity to draw that contrast between the extremism on the republican party on voting rights, on trying to overturn democratically held elections and dramatically trying to restrict women s reproductive rights. i think we re going to have a lot of folks come over to our side that might not normally. i want to get something that hits very close to home as well because this week brought a pretty new development in the 2018 mass shooting at the marge rhode island stoneman douglas high school. the gunman nikolas cruz entered a guilty plea on 17 counts of first degree murder, 17 counts of attempted first degree murder. he apologized to the victims as well, but do you have a sense of how the families are viewing that apology and what they want
douglas high school in florida. it received tips about gunman nikolas cruz before the shooting. the fbi is adding 12 special agent positions and 50 professional staff positions to the public access line division. it is adding training on identifying pre-attack mental health indicatoindicators. a driver in los angeles tried to run down two men outside of a synagogue. take a look at video of 32-year-old mohamed mohamed. he was driving to the men outside of the services. one of the men said he yelled anti-semitic statements. he was screaming [ bleep ] jew. you could see it in his face. he wanted to do something. minutes later, video captured
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