we re now going to go to janice orlowski, the coo at the hospital in washington. janice, i watched a very powerful moment where you i guess, expressed your fury and distress about having to deal with these mass shootings. tell me, what prompted you to react like that and expand on what you said. well, you know, piers, i am a doctor. i work every day and deal with facts and figures and people and persons. and at some point at the end of the news conference, someone you know, sort of threw out a question regarding what is it like to deal with people at a trauma center? and i have to say, i had a moment where i told you exactly what i think. i wish that we didn t have to deal with senseless trauma. i wish that we had a way to close a trauma unit for
0 glass-steagall-like entities, if it wanted to. and that power actually remains, and i think that s the underappreciated aspect of who the next person s going to be. incredibly important position, the most important economic position not just in the country, in the world. heather mcghee and alexis goldstein, thank you both. all right, that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris. thank you very much. and thank you for staying with us this hour. today s mass shooting at the navy yard facility in southwest washington, d.c., makes today the deadliest day in our nation s capitol in more than 30 years. january 1982 was when a 737 that had taken off from national airport, what we now call reagan airport, crashed into the 14th street bridge in washington and then into the icy potomac river. 78 people were killed in that crash that day, including 4 people who had been on the bring or on the ground and were hit by t
0 expert on this. we are. we do it well. very extreme surgeons at the clinic, whether they were doing their surgery on other things, and so, it s a great city, it s a great country, and we have to work together to get rid of this, because we just cannot have, you know, one more shooting with, you know, so many people killed. we ve got to figure this out. we ve got to be able to help each other. we re dealing right now with three innocent people, but my prayers and my thoughts go out to those people who have died as a result of today and, you know, their families and what they re going to have to go through. i have to say, you know, it s a challenge to all of us. let s get rid of this. this is not america. this is not washington, d.c. this is not good. so, we ve got to work to get rid of this. dr. janice orlowski is the chief medical center of the medstar hospital in washington, d.c., which deals with lots of gunshot injuries all the time. the doctor there making an emotional plea abo
0 that is it for this hour of 360, we ll see you an hour from now for ac360 later. more details to come, more questions, obviously, still unanswered about what exactly happened here in washington, d.c. thank you for joining us, piers morgan tonight starts now. this is cnn breaking news. this is piers morgan tonight, welcome to our volunteviewers around the world and the united states. breaking news, deadly shooting in the nation s capitol. at the washington navy yard, that toll includes one suspect, aaron alexis, a 34-year-old military contractor, a referist from texas, the navy said he was awarded the national defense service medal and the war on terror service medal, but he was discharged for misconduct. call fbi with information. he was armed with an ar-15, another rival, and a semiautomatic glock. they believe he used the semiautomatic for the shooting, that gun was legally purchased. no word yet on the motive, but it targeted high-level navy personnel. the entire cnn t
0 have to work to try and eradicate. why aren t we looking at frequency of approaches per person. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. you re murdering somebody in cyberspace. in a sense, you re performing the act, like it or not. earlier this year, 91% of the american people supported expanded background checks for gun purchases. congress voted the measure down. let s go pass a piece of legislation restricting either this type of weapon or this capacity of magazine, and there won t be anymore of these. that is an absolute and total folly. how much are we really giving up if we said this kind of weapon should not be readily available for anybody who wants to buy one? good to have you with us tonight, folks. fergus falls, minnesota. middle of the country. this was just decades ago, not very long ago, back in the 70s and early 80s. kids used to go to high school and go hunting in the morning, then they would have their shotgun in the ba