tell you what we know about those who were murdered about their lives, not just how their lives ended. three adults and three children at the school were killed yesterday. mike hill was the school custodian. students called him big mike. he loved the kids at the school and his job and he loved his own kids so much. there were seven of them in his 14 grandchildren as well. love to spend time with them and to cook. his family says he was just 61 years old. cynthia peak also was 61. she was a substitute teacher at the school family friend tells local station wsmv she lived most of her life in alabama recently moved to nashville with her husband. she had three children of her own. katherine coons was head of the school. she was 60, a former student with learning disabilities, said that ms coons never gave up on him telling w s m v that there are too many educators who do the world, he said, needs more people like her. how the scruggs dad was the pastor of covenant presbyterian ch
and to, quote, connect the dots between the former president s election lies and the violence that unfolded that day. images are still so shocking. tonight is expected to include never before seen video leading up to the capitol attack and as it unfolded, as well as clips of taped interviews with trump administration officials and family members, their testimony. we also expect to hear live witness testimony from two people who had an upclose view of the rioters. and this is just the first round. more hearings are scheduled over the several weeks coming with the committee releasing a final report in september, that, of course, a couple of months before the midterms. let s begin with lauren fox on capitol hill. so, lauren, walk us through what we expect on the first day of these hearings tonight. reporter: well, this is the first opportunity for this committee to come back after months of work behind closed doors. we expect all of this is going to kick off with an opening
now the people at the center of them are begging and pleading with their elected leaders to do something and do something now. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has been trying to strike a narrow, modest deal on gun reforms, one of the lead negotiators telling me in the last hour he is cautiously optimistic that they can get something done. despite ongoing talks on capitol hill today, it is still legal in most states for an 18-year-old to buy a semiautomatic weapon. josh campbell went to a gun range to show us just what such a weapon can do. they are known as assault style weapons. and have been used in some of the country s deadliest shootings. from uvalde, tulsa, and el paso, to parkland, san bernardino, and sandy hook, it has been the weapon of choice for many of the killers. line is hot. the los angeles police department demonstrates an ar-style semiautomatic rifle for us on the department s gun range. you have a 16-inch to 20-inch barrel. you have a stock that
peter, talk us through this decision, 22 years behind bars. yes, this is the longest sentence of all of the proud boys sent to prison over the last four days, there were four people at the end of last week and now we have this sentence for what the judge described as the ultimate leader of the conspiracy, the leader of the proud boys, the person who was really at the centre of the conspiracy, the organisational centre of that assault on the us capitol. he and others from the proud boys shortly after the proud boys shortly after the 2020 election, during that period before january the 6th when there was uncertainty over what was going to happen, but he and others were sending it social media messages threatening that there would be violence if donald trump left office. and then on the day, as you say, he was not actually in washington because he had been stopped by the police two days earlier in possession of high capacity ammunition, which is against the law in washington, dc
the riot, after he had been arrested and stopped from coming to the city two days earlier, the prosecution said enrique tarrio organised, orchestrated and took credit for what happened that day. the 39 year old was dressed head to toe in a prison issue orange jumpsuit as he listened to his lawyers urged the judge for clemency. the state had asked for 33 years in jail clemency. the state had asked for 33 years injail but clemency. the state had asked for 33 years in jail but as tarrio himself took the stand, he sounded contrite, he apologised for his actions and said he was embarrassed by what he had done. he also said he now believed donald trump had lost the 2020 election. nonetheless, thejudge lost the 2020 election. nonetheless, the judge said lost the 2020 election. nonetheless, thejudge said he should be sentenced to 22 years in jail, should be sentenced to 22 years injail, and thus the most important and most senior member of the proud boys to take part in the riot of j