ports so explosives, several items that could be used to create additional weapons. authorities doctor arranged for a mental health evaluation for that boy. joining us now to talk about the shooting in tulsa is democratic oklahoma state representative melissa pravenzano. thank you so much for being with us. can you give us the latest if there have been any updates since last night? certainly. thank you for having me. first i want to express my profound sorrow to the families of the victims here in tulsa. i can t imagine what it would be like to be in that situation, as well as sincere thanks to our tulsa police, the highway patrol, the county officers and our first responders, they got the call and three minutes later they were in that building and we just couldn t have asked for more. so far, you know what i know at this point. we are still just taking a look and seeing, they have not released the names of the victims and we re just kind of waiting with bated breath. i
pushing to when the gun debate. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. at the moment a 16th of y all in fair condition, a ten year old girl in serious condition, and a nine-year-old and condition. little else is known about those who were injured in the a 66 year woman in fair condition. a ten-year-old girl and serious condition. and a nine-year-old girl in good condition. little else is known about those who were injured in the shooting at this moment. meanwhile as parents and you all to begin making funeral arrangements for the 19 children who were killed in that massacre at robb elementary school. president biden and first lady joe biden visited a ski town today, getting thumbs up first responders. as he was performing as well consoler and chief of crowd called for action and demanded that he do something. this is how he responded. we will, we will. after meeting with the families of the victims president biden was seen wiping away tear. we ll have more on biden s vis
it is notable where you are seeing so much gun imagery. john avlon with a reality check. you know the onion headline, right, no way to prevent this as the only nation where this regularly happens. it cuts to the heart of our bloody american exceptionalism when it comes to guns. how did we get here? well, we don t blink at the fact that we had more mass shootings than days so far this year, where the mass shooting last night at a hospital in tulsa, which killed at least four people, is the 20th mass shooting in america since the slaughter of 19 school kids in uvalde, texas, just over one week ago. this isn t about the second amendment, it is not about self-defense and it isn t going to be fixed by thoughts and prayers. we all know on some level the stalemate is because of our politics and culture, gun politics, gun culture. take a look at our political ads. because they have been increasingly gone gun nuts. this is a frog in a boiling pot of water problem. the ads are local, so it can
what has your experience been as an abortion provider in the wake of the republican legislation that all but banned abortion asks us in your state? yeah, this is certainly not something that s new for us in texas, it s been a decade or more, our public and elected officials have been passing abortion restrictions after more extreme as time certainly were in the most extreme place we ve been ever, and we also have a supreme court case that will be decide in the next few weeks as you mentioned has the potential to ban abortion access in about half of the country so it s a very difficult time for us taking care of people who oftentimes will say things like i never thought i would need an abortion i never thought having an abortion but, now we re in a place where we re not in a position to help them by having to get in a state and as you mentioned oklahoma s pass another abortion law that s becoming worse and worse with time unfortunately. how concerned are you about