served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sandra day
violence stalks every corner of the nation on any given day. in the last 28 hours in chicago at least 21 people were shot and seven died. last night four people were shot and one died in denver. five people shot in a park in louisville, kentucky. two are dead, four injured after a shooting in gary, indiana. in georgia a man shot and killed himself after killing his wife and daughter and injuring his granddaughter. it s a lot every weekend here that we cover on cnn about these mass shootings. let s go to our capitol hill unit, eva, it doesn t go as far as some gun safety advocates would like. but what do we know about the provisions in this agreement and how it would work. this is modest proposals but still could be quite consequential if the red flag law provision is adopted for instance, it would provide funding to help states create new red flag laws. this allows law enforcement to keep guns away from people found by a judge to pose a threat to themselves or others. but i