uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t
everybody in that community in those somebody who lost a loved one, and at the tops market in east buffalo. it is just a tragedy that we will deal with, and in the way that we do. and the way we have before. and it s just a horrible familiarity to this ritual which we re going through now. yeah, i mean we are a country that has an incredible problem with mass shootings. we also have an incredible problem with political violence, particularly racially motivated, politically motivated violence. and that is something that we are never going to be new to, and it s not getting better, it s still getting worse. but it s very hard on these for days, particularly talking with people in that community, the tight-knit community who really are in a position when they know someone who was affected. we re gonna have some of the people who know somebody during this hour. thank you, rachel. thanks lawrence. thank you. thank you. i love buffalo the first day i arrived there in 1988,
since we ve been on the air this past hour, we ve discovered more details about president biden s planned trip to buffalo tomorrow, and the first lady are expected to meet tomorrow, the families of the families of the victims were killed in the mass shooting this weekend. they ll also meet with law enforcement and first responders and community leaders. we ve also learned tonight that the bidens are expected to visit that memorial that has popped up outside the tops market, where the massacre occurred. a white house official telling nbc news tonight that during tomorrow s visit, president biden will call on congress, to enact gun reforms. he will call on them to take, quote, weapons of more of our streets. that is all planned for tomorrow, in buffalo, new york. that s gonna do it for us for tonight. and it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. i took a note during your hour. that line, everybody knows somebody was really the