legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. why do you think people need to have ar-15s in this country? you are talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. if we can introduce to them safely, they normally say that thing s not even scary. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. wednesday, june 8, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will hear the testimonies from the families of mass shooting victims reflecting on the lives they have lost. while gun policy, talks on a bipartisan deal, carry on, many believe it is not enough for the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. on tuesday, the u.s. senate heard from some of those families, they called on congress to take action on gun reform and hate crimes. one man s mother was killed when a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, new york last month. he remembered his mother as the heart of the family. what i loved most ab
semiautomatic rifles used in many mass shootings and raising the age to 21 to purchase those weapons even though the killer in uvalde, texas, was only 18 years old and wielded an ar-15 style weapon. why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semiautomatic rifles? we re talking about a lot of things, and what we re talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus. why don t you have agreementd greement on that. we have a lot of people in the discussion. we have to get 60 votes, hopefully we can get 5. why do people even need ar-15s? the challenge you have on that is there s 20 million of them in the country already. they are a sporting rifle. and it s something that a lot of people, for purposes of going out, target shooting. in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmint. i think there are legitimate reasons peep want to have them. what also might not we be included, expanding backgr
11:00 a.m. eastern. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin with that breaking news from the northeast just in the last couple minutes. a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in new jersey. it was centered in new jersey. rattled residents from philadelphia all the way up to boston. any injuries as a result are unknown at this time. in new york city where it was felt and felt pretty intensely, governor kathy hochul said her team is assessing impacts and damage that may have occurred. i want to dip into wnbc our coverage in new york. let s listen in. this morning in the area of new jersey. what we re waiting for is secondary information about how shallow or deep this earthquake was because certainly it was felt far to the east, far to the north, to the south and southwest around our area and, of course, certainly within the five boroughs of new york. the last quake in new jersey was at white house station on march 14th. that shows you how often we feel some sort of earthquakes in the tri-state ar
i m pamela brown in situation room, i ll be back here tomorrow. erin burnett outfront starts right now. up next, fed up. families of hostages asking about their loved ones. not answer. the father of two girls being held right now by hamas will tell a story and the israeli government official responds here tonight. as trump s gag order is about to reinstate? plus the biggest name in artificial intelligence fired by his company and then hired by a rival. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight. demanding answers. the families of hostages are demanding answers from prime minister netanyahu. we re told more than 100 family members met with the prime minister today with hours. they went in saying this. translator: i demand their commitment that everyone is returning home. all the hostages. we must get answers. translator: we have big concrete questions that we expect them to answer. the prime minister came out of that meeting said returning hostages was a sac
sandra: any moment we are expecting an update over the death of paul kessler, 69-year-old jewish man who died after he was involved in a physical confrontation with at least one pro palestinian protestor. sandra smith in new york. john: john roberts in washington. the shocking incident outside of los angeles, duelling protests over the israel-hamas war. paramedics attending to kessler after he fell backwards from the altercation and struck his head on the grounds. kessler was rushed to the hospital where he died a day later. sandra: and the news conference is underway now, dip in and get the news. integrity of that investigation, i want y all to know we sincerely value your role in delivering messages to our community. in today s case, not only speaking of the community here in ventura county but the world. investigative unit and the public information officer team. to members of the public at the event, if you have videos or photos of the incident, we encourage you t