so when i felt the power diminish a little bit. i came inside here and at this point the water was here. reporter: this is day six since the tragedy hit. the smell is unbearable right now because they re excavating this pile, they believe that someone is dead, someone who lived in a house right here, i can see the toys, children s toys, i can see sandals, i can see all kinds of belongings of a life, of a home. though the official death toll is now well over 600, many survivors believe and some have charged that many more victims could have been rescued. brazil s civil defense teams say they re doing their very best. but given the support available to them. one big factor in this disaster is the government s failure to enforce building codes which raises questions about how flood stricken areas will be rebuilt.
exist. and next week, new york congresswoman carolyn mccarthy plans to introduce a bill that would ban those high-capacity magazines. this is a very personal mission for mccarthy who became a congresswoman after a gun tragedy hit her family back in 1993. i asked her what exactly her new bill would do in tonight s what matters . basically it would go back to reinstate the 1994 the 204 ban on high-capacity ammunition-feeding devices. what people have to understand, the clips that are still would be legal would be a clip with ten bullets in it and of course one in the chamber. so that would be 11 bullets. but we re going to try to get rid of the large-capacity clips. given how difficult it has been in this country to pass gun control legislation, what do you think your chances are here? listen, it s always difficult when you re dealing with a pro-gun house and a pro-gun senate. but when you really look back over the last, gosh, 17 years,
watching see me pull a gun out thinks, second shooter. and in arizona where people keep guns in their cars, somebody could have shot me. reporter: thelma gutierrez, cnn, tucson, arizona. the suspect in the arizona mass shooting allegedly used an extended magazine in his gun to shoot 19 people before having to reload. many gun control advocates don t see any reason for these high-capacity magazines to exist. and next week, new york congresswoman carolyn mccarthy plans to introduce a bill that would ban those high-capacity magazines. this is a very personal mission for mccarthy who became a congresswoman after a gun tragedy hit her family back in 1993. i asked her what exactly her new bill would do in tonight s what matters . basically it would go back to reinstate the 1994 the 204 ban on high-capacity
thinks, second shooter. and in arizona where people keep guns in their cars, somebody could have shot me. reporter: thelma gutierrez, cnn, tucson, arizona. the suspect in the arizona mass shooting allegedly used an extended magazine in his gun to shoot 19 people before having to reload. many gun control advocates don t see any reason for these high-capacity magazines to exist. and next week, new york congresswoman carolyn mccarthy plans to introduce a bill that would ban those high-capacity magazines. this is a very personal mission for mccarthy who became a congresswoman after a gun tragedy hit her family back in 1993. i asked her what exactly her new bill would do in tonight s what matters . basically it would go back to reinstate the 1994 the 204 ban on high-capacity ammunition-feeding devices. what people have to understand,
amazing, right? i am such a lucky man to have the love of my life at my side. reporter: then tragedy hit again. at the end of that campaign, elizabeth edwards discovered a lump in her breast, cancer. she displayed her now familiar determination. i also just have a belief that i m going to beat this. every indication is that all of the news i ve gotten really has been good news. so i feel pretty confident. i m making those plans for the next 40 years. reporter: at first, it seemed she would beat the disease. she wrote a best-selling book about grief and endurance and began championing health care reform and in 2007, just as her husband was gearing up to run for president, more dreaded news. the cancer was back. it spread to her bones. he surged her husband to stay in the race. right now, we feel incredibly