gun reform bills. containing most of what president biden called for in his primetime address. among them a resurrected assault weapon ban. one of the many measures presumed to be for republicans in the senate. where are much narrower package is being negotiated, cast by some as less ambitious but possibly best chance to advance any kind of gun reform. even amid more than more than 20 mass shootings in the last month. still, you must win elections to pass legislation. after the recent shootings in buffalo, eovaldi and elsewhere. this is one of the political realities that democrats must reckon with before the midterm election. along with abortion rights right. the rise in inflation. and the likelihood of even more seismic developments. coming out of the house select committee from january 6th to white house aides of donald trump now having been indicted for defying subpoenas related to the investigation. by the end of the week, we will have seen the first witnesses in the
happening right now, carlos? reporter: two new developments since we last joined you in the prior hour. the first is we re finally getting reports of some of the damage here in broward we re told a family of five had to be taken from a home up in pompano beach, north of where we are, after a tree fell into their house. we re told the entire family is doing okay. we re getting our first look at the search and rescue teams down in miami. and they ve provided us with some video of one of their teams going, essentially, neighborhood by neighborhood looking for folks that may be stranded in their cars because of all the flooding brought on by this tropical system. we re talking about nearly a foot of rain that has hit parts of miami-dade county. in miami aillone, which is wher we saw a lot of flooding in the downtown area and financial district, cars have been towed the entire night because of getting stalled from 7 to 8 inches of rain that fell in the morning hours. we re told
but only on the gun crackdown policies that he supports. instead of trying to find commo ground. the president taking the opportunity to bash and blame republicans. according to a new poll, the majority of americans don t agree with biden. over half don t see school shootings is the guns problem. but that s not stopping biden from trying to strong-arm congress into doing what he wants. president biden: for so many of you at home, i want to be very clear. this is not about taking away anyone s guns, we need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. if we can t ban assault weapons we should raise the age to purchase them from 18-21. the fact that the majority of the senate republicans don t want anti- of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote i find unconscionable . i believe the majority of you will act and turn your outrage into making this issue central to your vote. enough, enough, enough. that s not good enough from some on the left. here ar
oklahoma where a gunman killed four people at a medical office, the president expected to twist the arm of congress, even though he has been awol during the current senate negotiations and is headed to the beach in delaware tonight. the white house getting grilled on how the president plans to press ahead. if the president thinks that congress must act immediately to end this epidemic of gun violence, is he going to bring any of the key players to capitol hill to the beach with him tonight? oh, okay. so i don t have a big part of biden s whole thing that he knows how to get things done. he does. he s beaten the gun lobby before. meanwhile fireworks on kirill as house democrats clash with republicans on new gun legislation being pushed by the left. there s something gun crazed about our country we need to deal with. you are not going to bully your way into stripping americans of fundamental rights. if the supreme court objects we will expand it and we will no
bipartisan policy on gun reform stands this morning. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thursday, june 2nd, i m sorry. still a long week, folks. thursday, june 2nd. thanks for joining us. just over a week since gunfire rang out in uvalde, texas, we begin this morning with another mass shooting in america. and four people are dead, and several others injured after a gunman armed with a rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. the gunman who has not yet been identified apparently also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound according to police. the chief of police there in tulsa said that officers arrived at saint francis hospital at 4:56 p.m., just minutes after reports of a gunfire were first called in. officers heard shots and made their way to the second floor. where they found the gunman and victims. at a news conference, tulsa s deputy police chief praised the quick response of office