millions of americans? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from the mouths of babes, 11-year-old girl appearing by video before a congressional hearing today describing in spellbounding detail her desperate and agonizing efforts to save herself from a gunman inside her school smearing herself with the blood of a classmate, pretending to be dead to survive. young miah cerriillo telling lawmakers i don t want it to happen again as the house prepared to vote on a series of gun control measures, families and survivors of the uvalde school massacre appeared in washington to demand new gun laws insisting lawmakers know the depths of their sorrow and their loss their testimony incredibly moving but not necessarily moving republicans from their opposition to new restrictions on guns and those who wish to own them gabe gutierrez was inside the hearing room reporter: in one of the most chilling firsthand accounts so far of the uvalde massacre, 11-y
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from the outskirts of the city. tonight with the context, in london daily mail columnist sarah vine, and from washington, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics. hello, a warm welcome to the programme. zeneta everhart is the mother of a 21 year shop worker who survived the mass shooting in east buffalo. his name is zaire, and each day for the past three weeks, she has been dressing his wounds. he has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back another on his left leg, and when she cleans his back, she says she can feel pieces of the bullet that was fired at him from an ar15. the gunman was 18 years old. today, zeneta gave evidence to to a congressional committee ahead today, zeneta gave evidence toa congressional committee ahead of a house vote on gun reform. we continuously hear after every mass shooting that this is not who we are as americans and as a nation. hear me clearly this i
being warned of a 13 hour wait to see a doctor in a&e. the mass shooting in uvalde in texas two weeks ago which left 19 children and two adults dead. us lawmakers hear harrowing testimony from survivors. he and the artist who depicted fantasy and her own life, dame paula rego, has died at the age of 87. and coming up on the bbc news channel: it s one of the most lucrative and controversial tournaments ever. six time major winner phil mickelson is due to tee off at the first saudi funded liv golf event in hertfordshire. good evening. motorists and rail travellers are bracing themselves as rising prices and consequent demands for pay increases combine to create a perfect travel storm. the price of petrol is soaring, largely due to the war in ukraine and the rac is predicting the cost of filling a typical family car could go above £100 tomorrow. 0n the railways, the rmt union says the cost of living crisis, with inflation running at 9%, has prompted a planned series of wa
an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution. and the image that s gone round the world of a 16 year girl old in her prom dress in front of her bombed out school. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, ”pm in london, and 6pm in washington where lawmakers have been hearing searing testimony from the victims and families of those caught up 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 this is the last photograph of lexi rubio, getting a school prize just hours before she was shot dead, the last time her pa