from the president. plus, i would ask politicians in texas and washington how we get past empty platitudes of thoughts and prayers to create real change. i m a gunman, i have guns, i m a former police officer, i m a former army officer. these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets where this is gonna keep happening. or this is gonna keep happening. also, this hour, new legal questions surrounding former president trump. what did he really know about the classified documents in the basement of barr law go? we re gonna dive into what the special counsel was trying to learn. the surprising reason why it s great test scores and u.s. history are dropping around the country, a hint, the nation s covid lockdown three years ago is only partly to blame. and then, coming up in our next hour, one man is doing everything he can to help migrants left on el paso streets. my conversation with his concerns for so many people right now and when title 42 ends in just four days time. we w
i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re following two tragedies in texas, each centering on a flashpoint dividing our country, guns and immigration. first, the breaking news in brownsville, texas, where we expect to hear from police this morning after an suv crashed into a crowd outside a migrant shelter. the death toll rose to eight overnight. what we re learning about the driver and whether this incident was intentional. that horrific scene coming as thousands of migrants enter the u.s. with covid restrictions set to expire in two just two days. the mayor of el paso, who has already declared a state of emergency, will join us. new details in this weekend s mass shooting at a texas mall. what we re learning about the suspect who police say appears to be a neo-nazi sympathizer. he could have done that here. we don t know. why did he choose the mall in allen? it makes no sense at all to any of us. later, intensifying protests in manhattan. new yorkers shutting dow
later this hour, for now, let s go to rosy flores. it s a little grainy, a little difficult to make out, but my goodness, what it tells you is these migrants were the folks who were waiting here on the side of the street there, really didn t have any chance whatsoever to get out of the way, it happened that fast. reporter: it was so fast. and i talked to the director of the shelter. he says that he was able to capture a different angle from his shelter, and he says what he witnessed happened at about 8:30 central time this morning. he said that it captured about 20 to 25 migrants who had just minxed breakfast at the shelter and had crossed the street and were sitting on a curb waiting for a bus. then the video shows a 2007 range rover at a very high rate of speed ran the red light and hit the curb about 30 feet from where the migrants were and the vehicle got out of control. this director said some of the migrant witnesses say it looked like an intentional act. i asked him
we are following two major stories unfolding aat this hour. in texas, a killer revealed. we re learning more details about the gunman in the deadly shooting, eight people shot. a car hit a group of people outside a homeless shelter outside brownsville, texas. but we begin this hour in allen, texas. first, a warning that some of the things you re about to see are disturbing. cnn obtained this photo that appears to show the dead shooter heavily armed and dressed in tactical gear. a senior law enforcement source familiar with the investigation tells cnn that the suspect, the gunman, is 33-year-old mauricio garcia. a dash cam video captures the moment the killer hops out of his car. we re pausing it before you see him gun down men, women, and children on that by busy sidewalk at that outlet mall. this is the sound of terror and gunshots and people frantically running for cover. a police officer already at the mall on an unrelated call kills the gunman. ed lavin deare row is at
is. welcome to you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for christian sing live at msnbc headquarters. today authorities in a pair of texas towns are grappling with a ton of unanswered questions as they investigate the deaths of 16 people, half guild in a hail of gunfire in the city of allen, the other half killed when a vehicle drove into a crowd in brownsville. we got an update on the second incident near the border. we ll bring you that in just a moment. meanwhile, the attack at a mall in a dallas suburb underscoring this chilling reality, that we re seeing more americans every single day who have had to live through a mass shooting. in a minute i ll speak to one man whose decision to go shopping on a saturday afternoon nearly cost him his life. with a potentially historic default looming 3 1/2 weeks ag way, the president and kevin mccarthy brace for a meeting at the white house. what is the president s new plan to pressure republicans into cutting a deal? we ll get into that.