girl in her prom dress, in the ruins of her school in kharkiv. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington where lawmakers have been hearing searing testimony from the victims and families of those caught up in several recent mass shootings. among them was an 11 year old girl, mia cerrillo. a student at the robb elementary school in texas, she described how she smeared herself in blood and played dead to avoid being killed along with 19 other children and two teachers. the shooting, carried out by an 18 year old gunman, has provoked a nation wide debate about the sale of firearms. our north america editor sarah smith has more from washington we should warn you, her report contains some graphic testimony which some may find distressing. this is the last photograph of lexi rubio, getting a school prize just hours before she was shot dead, the last time her paren
when she saw the gunman come in, saw the gunman shoot her teacher and her classmates and how she needed to, decided to rub the blood of her friend on herself in order to try to survive. as this hearing continues, there are also developments on the bipartisan talks on gun safety. another part of the capitol. cnn learned senate republican leader mitch mcconnell privately expressed openness to raising the age limit to 21 for buying semiautomatic rifles. they ll be back to meet and negotiate again this hour. let s start with cnn s lauren fox live on the hill watching this hearing and seeing this emotional testimony happen. lauren, it was going to be hard to hear a child speak like this no matter what. it was very painful to watch. reporter: yeah, kate, there are always experts that come up to capitol hill and testify but it is so hard to watch and see a fourth grader be an expert on gun violence and carnage in this country and i think that that testimony and the testimony of pa
two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. the only clue of their i decent is cartoons clinging to them and finding none. i thought he would come back to the room, so i put blood on me and what did you do when you put the blood on yourself? to stay quiet. what did you tell 911? i told them we needed help. because i could have lost my baby girl. she s not the same little girl i used to play with, hang around with and do everything. because she was daddy s little girl. some part of me must have realized she was gone. amidst the chaos i had the urge to return to robb. we had our car at this point and traffic was everywhere. so i then ran barefoot with my flimsy sandals in my hand. i ran a mile to the school, my husband with me. we sat outside for a while before it became clear we wouldn t receive an answer from law enforcement on scene. a san antonio fire fighter eventually gave us a rid
much for the latest. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america s latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend s blood on her to hide from a gunman. there s a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night, and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates when i went back to the back. he i thought he was going to come back to the room so i got blood and i put it all over me. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. and you think it s
rifle from 18 to 21? the answer no. also tonight, the arrest. authorities capturing an armed man allegedly threatening to kill supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. authorities on what they say he had with him. breaking as we come on the air, reports of a deadly military crash. martha raddatz with late reporting. the pandemic, and tonight, the major news on the next booster shot. moderna now saying tonight its new booster is up to eight times more effective against omicron. the prime time hearings live tomorrow night before the nation. nearly a year of investigating the january 6th attack. jon karl tonight with new reporting here. what can americans expect from the committee tomorrow night? jon on two of the witnesses americans will hear from. and ivanka trump and the trump children and videotaped depositions. jon karl is with us. the tornado watch across several states at this hour. flood watches and heavy rain from the south all the way up through washington, d