millions of americans? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from the mouths of babes, 11-year-old girl appearing by video before a congressional hearing today describing in spellbounding detail her desperate and agonizing efforts to save herself from a gunman inside her school smearing herself with the blood of a classmate, pretending to be dead to survive. young miah cerriillo telling lawmakers i don t want it to happen again as the house prepared to vote on a series of gun control measures, families and survivors of the uvalde school massacre appeared in washington to demand new gun laws insisting lawmakers know the depths of their sorrow and their loss their testimony incredibly moving but not necessarily moving republicans from their opposition to new restrictions on guns and those who wish to own them gabe gutierrez was inside the hearing room reporter: in one of the most chilling firsthand accounts so far of the uvalde massacre, 11-y
house oversight committee on gun violence. there have been nearly 250 mass shootings happening nationwide so far this year and the hearing takes place just weeks after the mass shooting in buffalo, new york and uvalde, texas. a fourth grader who covered herself in blood and played dead to survive the massacre is also scheduled to attend the hearing. caroline maloney from new york is here. what can we expect to hear during the hearings? this can be an opportunity to listen to people who know more about gun violence than anybody, because they ve experienced it. a mother lost her son doing his job in buffalo. an 11-year-old girl saw her teachers and fellow students murdered. it would be a parent who was just celebrating making the honor role. hours later a pediatrician lost five of his patients in one day. we hope their heart wrenching stories will open the minds and hearts of the members of congress to vote for the protecting our kids act, which would move forward some form o
of her eyes, she is not sleeping much. as you might imagine, her dad says she s not doing too well. so it would be an extraordinary act of courage for anyone, let alone a little girl who should be enjoying summer break right now, to put aside her own struggles and relive what she went through. but that s exactly what miah did, videotaping testimony for a house hearing on gun violence today. here s miah and her dad. there is a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the he shot my friend next to me and i thought he was going to come back to the room, so i got blood and i put it all over me. if there is something you want, that you want to know about that day, you know, things you want different, what would it be? to have security. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. you think it s going to happen again? i come because i lost
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