patient. just in the past hour officials told reporters the shooter bought an ar-15 style weapon a few hours before going into the hospital and found a letter making clear he came in to kill a specific doctor for pain after a back surgery. the mayor detailing the horror of minutes. i spoke with an officer yesterday who s a seasoned veteran of the department and he was one of the first people to get here. and he said, mayor, it was like the beaches of normandy out there. everywhere i looked to my left and right officers jumping over bushes. getting there police say it was a catastrophic scene. yet again amping up the pressure on the white house and president biden. will it move congress to action? democrat chris murphy driving gun legislation talks in the senate right now was asked about the chances to get something done today on morning joe, specifically ten republican votes in the senate. i cannot say i m confident. i m confident in the negotiators and the question t
making reporter: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it goes against every fiber in our being, having to bury our own children parents in uvalde, texas now facing that grim reality, beginning to lay their children to rest in a world no safer today than it was a week ago when their children became victims of mass murder this holiday weekend, nine people were killed and more than 60 hurt in mass shootings across the u.s. overall, at least 156 died by gun violence hundreds left wounded. but in the tiny texas town of uvalde, still mourning the 19 children and two adults who were ruthlessly murdered last tuesday, we re still learning about the timeline and what officers did or didn t do to try to save them but today s focus, the first of 21 funerals celebrating the lives lost our morgan chesky is there. reporter: tonight heartbreak hitting home, with hundreds saying final goodbyes. you feel sad, man, it hits you hard reporter: 21 funerals over the ne
course. saying the united states will in fact send advanced rocket systems to the war torn country. we will have more on what led to the presidents change of heart. good morning, welcome to way too early, on this wednesday june 1st. i m jonathan lemere, thank you for being with us. the official account has changed once again. concerning how the gunman who massacred 19 children and their teachers entered the texas school. last friday, the director of the texas department of safety, said a teacher propped open the door. in which of the gunman used to enter. now the agency says the teacher had come back to close the door, but had failed to locked. the new account comes after a attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news, that the teacher did prop up an the door. using a rock, so she could carry food from her car into the school. once you saw the gunman crashes car into a ditch. she went back inside the school to get her phone to report to crush the police. t
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t
especially in new york city, to have a wholistic view of crime. what we will start to see is democrats like me who have experience in law enforcement but also understand the problems with our criminal justice system all working together. you look at texas. texas passed a law over the objection of every single law enforcement body in texas. the democrats were against it. the republicans passed an even more lenient gun law. and law enforcement was against it. at some point that alliance is going to crack. we saw it on january 6th where people were hitting police officers with blue lives matter flags. the republican party is not the party of law and order. as democrats, we need to embrace law and order in a compassionate and empathetic way. daniel goldman, now officially a candidate for new york s newly formed tenth district. thanks for being here, dan. it is just past the hour now. it is 9:01 in the east, just after 8:00 a.m. in uvalde, texas, where we continue to learn new