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
told me just has not really come up in these negotiations because he said that it is just not really been on the table. they need at least ten republicans to back any deal they get, and he didn t even make any guarantees when i just spoke with him about whether or not they would be able to pass a bill by the end of this work period, which is at the end of june many weeks away. there is still a lot of work to do, and while folks are very optimistic in their public comments about trying to find a compromise, it s clear that they still have many issues that they have to work through. victor and alisyn. lauren on capitol hill watching those talks. thank you very much. joining us now is california congressman, ro khanna, a member of the house oversight committee that hosted the hearing on gun violence this morning. that s where i want to start. when you hear from miah, and welcome congressman, thank you for being with me. where does her voice fit in the
we heard from parents who laid out the realities, not just of what happened a little bit more than two weeks ago now, but the realities of what persists day in and day out dealing and maybe even second guessing decisions that were made that day. one, miguel sorio, who is the father of a survivor, miah who also testified, and also from kim rubio, who is the mother of 10-year-old lexy rubio who was killed, and i want you to take a listen to what both of them had to say. i come because i lost my baby girl. she is not the same little girl i used to play with, hang around with and do everything, she was daddy s little girl. we promised to get her ice cream that evening, told her we loved her, and we would pick her up after school. i left my daughter at that school, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of my life. is somewhere out there, there s
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 going to happen again. just awful on every level. cnn correspondent omar jimenez is in uvalde for us. miah was one of a handful of witnesses. she gave that incredibly unbearable heartbreaking testimony. tell us about what happened today? tell us about the others. reporter: we also heard from a pediatrician here in uvalde who described what he saw in particular with two children whose bodies, as he described, were so pulverized and decapitated by these bullets, they were only recognizable from the cartoon prints on their clothes.