rain/snow, chicago and detroit. then we get into the northeast, after four to five inches of rains falls across the mid south. we re not exactly sure where the track of this nor easter is going to be, but we re pretty confident it s going to be a large and powerful system on friday. friday morning for that commute. all right, rob, thank you. next, to the students from the high school in parkland, florida, who vowed to take their never again campaign to the capitol in washington. well, they were there today, but will lawmakers propose any changes? mary bruce tonight with what the students and the families encountered. reporter: florida students on capitol hill are pressing lawmakers to act on guns, but tonight, their calls are falling flat. we shouldn t be banning guns for law-abiding citizens. we should be focusing on making sure that citizens who should not get guns in the first place don t get those guns. reporter: there is a bill on the table to reinforce existing backgrou
shooting on capitol hill right now, it doesn t look like congressional republicans will do anything to challenge the nra. first of all, you know, i m not going to micromanage this. let me just say this on we shouldn t be banning guns for law abiding citizens. we should be focusing on making sure that citizens who should not get guns in the first place don t get those guns. of course, we want to listen to the kids and make sure we protect people s due process rights. in tallahassee, florida, state senators rejected a bill that would ban the ar-15. by your vote, the amendment is not adopted. we will go to the next amendment. shame. shame. shame. excuse me. shame, shame, shame i sha the two the issues that seem to getting the most support, arming teachers and fixing
we know there are gaps in the gun laws. we passed a bill to do that, and we think that should get done, clearly. let me just say this on it. we shouldn t be banning guns for law-abiding citizens, we should be focusing on making sure that citizens who should not get guns in the first place don t get those guns. that s why we see a big breakdown in the system here. there is a colossal breakdown in the system locally. let s get straight up to capitol hill and phil mattingly. phil, when you listen to the speaker, you list to whip scalise, pretty clear they re not willing to do anything at all. is there any clear path forward for anything significant? it also relays what i was told by a republican lawmaker about an hour ago. he said people have spent the last week talking about this as some kind of moment on gun control. they were wrong. now, he didn t say that in a taunting manner, more of a reality manner. when you talk about the house republican conference and you listen to where t
system that need to be plugged. we passed a bill to do that and we think that should get done clearly. let me just say this, we shouldn t be banning guns for law abiding citizens, we should be focusing on making sure citizens who should not get guns in the first place don t get those guns. that s why we see a big breakdown in the system here. this particular case, there are a lot of breakdowns. from local law enforcement to the fbi getting tips they didn t follow up on to, you know, school resource officers who are trained to protect kids in these schools and who didn t do that. and that, to me, is probably the most stunning one of them all. there is a lot we have to look at. we want to protect people s rights while making sure that people who should not get guns do not get those guns. teachers. look, as we have sheriff rutledge has a bill that we re looking at as well that addresses this issue. he s a sheriff from jacksonville, as you may know. we re looking at the rutledge
on both the house and senate side, under testimony by republicans and democrats saying yes, they have no doubt at all that russia meddled in the election and intend to do it in the 2018 and perhaps 2020 elections. we have not heard what the white house specifically intends to do about that. we ll see if we do today, brianna. tomorrow marks two weeks since 17 students and staff were gunned down at a school in parkland, florida. it seems the push for major gun reform is diming as congress is back in session. let s take a listen to what the house speaker said today. we shouldn t be banning guns for law-abiding citizens. we should be focusing on making sure that citizens who should not get guns in the first place don t get those guns. we see a big breakdown in the system here. in this particular case, there were a lot of breakdowns from local law enforcement to the fbi getting tips that they didn t follow up on to school resource