lots of screaming. lots of gunfire. they had a demeanor like they owned the place. panicked moms protecting their kids. i just kepting telling them to be quiet, like a mouse. kids forced to protect one another. you grabbed your brother. yeah, and just run. from out of the blue a hero. she starts running. could he rescue the very smallest of victims? when portia got up and ran, did you have a moment where you thought, oh, my god? hello and welcome to dateline. new ton, orlando, las vegas. it seems like mass shootings have become all too frequent in the u.s. and overseas at a mall in nairobi, kenya, masked assailants carried out an even deadlier attack. it was an otherwise normal saturday afternoon of shopping, but gunman turned it into a scene of bedlam and bloodshed. but what also emerged were remarkable stories of courage and survival. here s kate snow. it s the modern day town square, a gathering place that fulfills our every need, shopping, eating
another act of violence targeting a member of congress. two people in virginia, in democrat jerry connolly s district office, are attacked by a man with a metal baseball bat. this is a gentleman with a long history of mental illness. he has been engaged in bizarre behavior in the past, including violent. he decided today for whatever reason to come to us and inflict more of the same. a trump justice department special prosecutor investigating the fbi over the russia investigation for bias issues. his report after four years. not recommending any indictments. i will speak to andrew weismann about the results. mike pence and florida governor ron desantis making big moves ahead of expected announcements to take on donald trump. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. this afternoon, the second big showdown between president biden and house speaker mccarthy over the debt ceiling. a critical moment says the treasury secretary, as the president is about to leave for a
are investors starting to act on their doubts about a deal? and campaign endorsements and super pacs, they re great. but do they matter if you can t throw a punch? that s the question hanging over ron desantis and mike pence as they try to figure out how to take on donald trump. but we start with new developments surrounding a pair of mass shootings in texas and new mexico, carried out nine days and nearly a thousand miles apart, but sharing a critical heart breaking detail. both targeting people doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary turning what should have been a normal day into a nightmare. in new mexico, three people are dead, along with a teenage suspect, after police say he opened fire on a residential street yesterday. apparently just shooting at random. it was the 225th mass shooting of the year in this country. roughly one every 15 hours. and in just about one hour in texas, we re expecting an update on surviving victims of the shooting at an outlet mall.
of our country. they re trying to block the system. this looks like a celebration, there is no celebration yet. the flow of migrants into the u.s. is slower than expected. a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus earlier in the week. this week has seen more crossings than any week in our history. we re still on high alert. governor ron desantis was back in iowa trying to get his 2024 groove back. we must reject the culture of losing the time for excuses is over. for many republicans, they view the next election as important. can ron desantis bring it? white house officials say talks have continued. we need an outline in hand by the end of the week. i really think the desire on their part as well as ours is disagreement. it s time to bring spending levels back to pre-covid and then talk about raising the debt ceiling. tatum knocks done another! incredible! the tornado continues. 51 for jayson tatum in game seven. i had to put on a special p
i went to the first person i found crouching in the bushes, looked like she was praying. and felt for her pulse. there was no pulse, so i pulled her head up to look at her face. and there wasn t a face. just brain matter. so i went to the next guy. he was already staring straight ahead. his eyes were fixed can dilated. felt for a pulse. no pulse. mass murder has become a regular occurrence in red states like texas. as republicans keep trying to gaslight us about how the guns somehow have nothing to do with it. plus, new information on the eight victims including three children. also tonight, the new more conservative cnn has decided to give a mega phone to donald trump at the same time that he s being investigated for fomenting an insurrection among other alleged crimes. plus, the blowback from parts of the british commonwealth, especially in the caribbean, following this weekend s lavish and an acronistic coronation. we begin tonight with a question. is it safe t