happening right now, carlos? reporter: two new developments since we last joined you in the prior hour. the first is we re finally getting reports of some of the damage here in broward we re told a family of five had to be taken from a home up in pompano beach, north of where we are, after a tree fell into their house. we re told the entire family is doing okay. we re getting our first look at the search and rescue teams down in miami. and they ve provided us with some video of one of their teams going, essentially, neighborhood by neighborhood looking for folks that may be stranded in their cars because of all the flooding brought on by this tropical system. we re talking about nearly a foot of rain that has hit parts of miami-dade county. in miami aillone, which is wher we saw a lot of flooding in the downtown area and financial district, cars have been towed the entire night because of getting stalled from 7 to 8 inches of rain that fell in the morning hours. we re told
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Center for edison, health, and society at Vanderbilt University and the author of what weve become living and dying in a country of arms. Dr. Jonathan metzel, thank you for coming to the show. President biden released a statement reflecting on the columbine School Shooting Anniversary and hes asking Congress To do something, so communities wont continue to suffer due to the epidemic of Gun Violence. This year alone, there have been 19 Gun Related Deaths and schools. In your view, what has changed since columbine and what still needs to change . I think it is important to remember that columbine was a wake of the moment for a particular kind of problem that intersected semi automatic weapons. It was a shooting that happened in a suburban area, white children were the victims as well other people. It brought a question of Gun Violence home to a lot of people. I just remember that moment as
Dr. Jonathan metzel, the question occurs to me when we showed a picture of the waffle house shooter. Was he taking a life after that manhunt . Yes, that is the story i tell in the book. Not only was he taken alive, what show is there were five or six incidences before the shooting. He tried to jump the fence at the white house, he came to the attention of the fbi and he jumped make it into a pool and jumped out and shook his gun at people. The story i ask in the book is what does it take to this on a white man in america . That is really the story of the book. It turns out, it is very hard because the loss, the system, people see a white gun as a patriot. He was taken alive after the shooting. He was not killed. Dr. Jonathan metzel, as always, thank you very much for coming to the show. Thanks so much. Up next on the saturday
how the politics of racial resentment is killing america s heartland. jonathan metzel. also the director of the department of health and science at vanderbilt university. thank you. good is to see you. thank you. there are discussions about how to prevent this from happening again and why nothing seems to get done in terms of of an answer for these horrific repeated mass shootings. jeh johnson wrote an op-ed in the washington post calling for what he deemed an emmett till moment. here s what he said, saying something graphic is required to awaken the public to the real horror of these repeated tragedies. why must innocent school children for the rick sest of t lives carry the executions of their teachers and classmates while federal and state