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Residents say they have raised fire safety concerns regarding the building in the past. nbc s lucy kafanov will join us from the scene. five officials from michigan, including head of health department, face federal charges. michigan s health department director rick lyon was charged with manslaughter and office misconduct. prosecutors say the manslaughter charges connected to the handling of outbreak. they say lyon s failure to act resulted in the death of one person, 12 people in all died in genesee county. how gabby giffords, former congresswoman shot in 2011, paying respect to steve scalise. a check of the weather when we come back. ....
reporter: clinton trying to downplay her sliding numbers. it is no surprise she went to the gun issue. she is hammering sanders for the gun industry hoping it helps with democratic voters. she criticized him for giving immunity to manufacturers and dealers. that is legislation that sanders said he would now revise. clinton won support of the advocate with gabby giffords. she was a congresswoman shot in the head at the event five years ago in her district. with polls tightening in iowa, sanders and clinton will be in the state today. we will see how the gun issue plays out there. john, christine. chris, thanks. donald trump holds a town hall in new hampshire. then he heads to new york to appear on the tonight show. lately, trump is questioning if cruz is eligible to be president because he was born in canada. in nevada, he escalated that ....
Violence is pretty persuasive. the problem i think that we fail to recognize is that while these instances of mass homicide are horrific and they deserve a legislative response, the vast majority of gun violence in this country is not mass homicide. they are handgun shootings. we have not really incorporated that statistic into this broader debate. i mean, we respond politically to these very graphic, awful instances and rightfully so. but this is a much more complex matter than just that. and i just want to point out, there was a ridiculous comment from senator mark kirk about why we shouldn t do anything on gun control in the wake of this. he said something to the effect of we can t legislate after every mass shooting. we haven t legislated after any mass shooting. maybe just do it once and see how it goes. we just haven t done anything. for anyone who s optimistic about gun control, and i don t think i ve met anyone who is, you shouldn t be. that s just the facts. we had a shoot ....
Needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families. we have had too many tragedies in the past few years. partisan bickering seem unimportant. deliberations of the looming fiscal cliff uninterrupted. at pl 10:30 this morning in the oval office the president was notified by the homeland security advisor john brennan of the shooting in newtown, connecticut. at a school. the president, receiving regular updates as more information becomes available. the president has received many of those emergency updates over the last four years. from a congresswoman shot at a super market in tucson, arizona. she survived but six others did not. our hearts are broken by the sudden passing. our hearts are broken. to an aurora colorado movie ....
Are in the middle of what is an unfold and a horrifying situation, so we ll await for the details, but there very quickly becomes a national conversation, not just absorbing these details and warning, but also about some kind of debate about guns in our culture that we never seem to really get around to have. after mass shootings, we say, well, is it not appropriate to have some sort of discussion? well, we ll do it later. we ve had a congresswoman shot. we ll do it later. presidential race comes and goes, no big debate about gun violence in this country. i think we know that those debates get renewed in this town and beyond. that will be part of this. at the moment we re going to be monitoring a breaking situation with all of the horrifying and chilling details. in fact, only 24 hours ago on this program we had people from the brady campaign talking about the fact that 40% of the guns that get out there are sold ....