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
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