victims of recent mass shottings testifying before congress today. we heard from the mother of 21-year-old zaire goodman who was wounded and survived the mass shooting at a buffalo grocery store last month which was motivated by racist hate. she described her son as pure joy and calling the person who shot him a domestic terrorism and says domestic terrorism occurs is because america is inherently violent. my son has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg caused by an exploding bullet from an ar-15. if after hearing from me and the other people testifying today does not move to you act on gun laws i invite you to my home to help clean my son s wounds so that you may see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. we then heard from dr. roy guerrero, the only pediatrician in uvalde who described the horror that he witnessed two weeks ago in the city s emergency room. two children whose bodies had been
violence associated with the supreme court s eventual decision on abortion rights. this warning comes as the senate is holding a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism, and lawmakers are still talking, trying to find common ground on something to combat the gun violence epidemic in the country. this morning, a teacher who survived the elementary school massacre in uvalde is speaking publicly for the first time. every single one of his students in his class were killed. i lost 11 that day. and i tell the parents i m sorry, i tried my best. it s what i was told to do. please don t be angry with me. just gut wrenching. we ll have much more of his story in that interview in a moment. let s begin with this new threat bull fin. what more are you learning? reporter: this is the sixth time that dhs has issued this terrorism bulletin that makes clear that terrorism risk comes from within the united states, before january 6th, these advisories focused on terrorism from eithe
i m going to talk to a city council member who said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we get you up to date on what happened in tulsa this evening, we re not going to forget for one moment what s going on in uvalde, texas. how can we? and we re going to look at all the important questions that we re asking there tonight later in this hour. but we cannot turn away from the reality that this is happening all across this country. gun violence, as an epidemic, only seems to be growing. and tonight, it is throwing yet another american city into mourning. and right now i want to bring in katherine richard nealen berg of the tulsa police department. captain, thank you for joining me this evening. it s really stunning that here we are again and perhaps for many people not stunning of the state of affairs today because no one believed it would happen in their town. and here it is in tulsa. what is the latest? what do you know about what s happe
it s investing 101, reimagined. i m laura coates this is cnn tonight. frankly, our breaking news this hour is awful. we re still trying to find answers what happened in buffalo and get answers to questions in uvalde and now we ve got another mass shooting in america tonight. this time in a medical building on the campus of the st. francis hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, at least four victims are dead, the shooter is also dead. here s video of the early moments of the police response, officer s pulling out their long guns and women who saw emergency vehicles racing to the scene and rifles pulled out couldn t help but get emotional. frankly, it s hard to not be emotional from yet another mass shooting in this country. talking to a city counselmember said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we update you on tulsa we re not going to forget for a moment what s going on in uvalde, texas, how can we? and we re looking at all of the important que
possible way forward on gun safety legislation. the senator leading those talks, chris murphy of connecticut, will join me a little later, but after yet another community has been devastated by yet another mass shoot, we twin the reidout tonight with a hard conversation about the gun because we need to understand how we got here, and we can in the avoid talking about the ar-15 and the industry that gives murderers the tools to success. former prosecutor ryan busy explained how the ar-15 conquered the american market. prior to about 2010 or 2012 there was never a gun sold in the united states commercial market that was desert tan color. now a significant percentage of guns are sold in desert tan color. why? iraq and afghanistan? adding about 1999 in the columbine shooting, the nra set its political course. we re in the culture war business. then you have these you have these wars happening, ar-15s, patriotism, islamophobia all of that in the culture at the same time. busy