Upper hand. The debate over gun control is heating up again, following mondays naval yard shooting. The white house sending a strong message saying this latest mass shooting reaffirmed the need for Better Health mental screening. Reports say alexis had a history of mental illness, and complained of hearing voices. On tuesday, president obama met with the he called for a review of security at all federal agencies and military installations around the world, and also learning more about the 12 People Killed in that shooting. Police have identified each of the victims. Randall pinkston is live in washington. Authorities say they know exactly how the shooter breeched security before committing this mass shooting monday. I know you have more on that. Rah chel, thank you, yes. They do know that, but this morning investigators are focusing on something else, because for nine years he had a series of run ins now investigators want to know, how with that kind of background he was able to obtain
They loved the navy. They loved the fleet. The fleet that they helped build and sustain. Once again, they have the ceremony under way. One week since the gunman open fired at the nation navy yard e nations capitol. Well live in. The report that no service men were killed. Just civilians and contractors. And that is flat wrong. These patriots designed and built our ships. They sustained and set the standards for our ships. They connected us to each other and to the fleet, and they protected and sustained our headquarters. These 12 members of our navy team, our navy family, they were killed in the line of duty. They died in service to our navy, in service just a that the committed to just as any of us in uniform. For that service we honor them. For that service we will never forget them. I salute these american heroes. I want to bring in my colleague who is joining us from washington, where she is just outside of the ceremony. If you will, jeanne, give us a preview of what we can expect
I rise to engage to join in a colloquy. I appreciate his willingness to are come debate when there Natural Disasters and i appreciate your efforts. In colorado, we are experiencing a major flood that has impacted his team counties, crossing over approximately 2000 square miles. Certain areas have received over 20 inches of rain. Damagedomes have been or destroyed in the destroyed count is above 2000 homes. Many areas are still in crisis trade federal Emergency Management agency will be unable to provide an accurate Damage Assessment or at least early days. Additionally, the Colorado Department of transportation estimates cost could exceed the 100 million cap that would exceed the cap on funds in a Disaster Relief act. The tragedy and devastation caused by this severe flood the federal government. Will the gentleman yield . I yield to the gentleman. I want to thank the gentleman from colorado for all of his efforts to help colorado through all of this turmoil. Im awareisaster area of th
What we are hearing is not a complete story of what is going on in kenya. There are a lot of questions of how many hostages have been freed and who may still be held hostage and what type of death toll we could be facing during this type of assault and whether any kenyan soldiers were killed. How many of the gunmen are alive . There are a lot of questions still. The good news is that at least some if not many of the hostages are free. They are seven hours ahead of eastern time and we are dipping back and the midnightni hour now and they havur said we are going to try to bring this to a halt, the Kenyan Special forces, as the night wrapped up. Now we are we seeing change. We will come to you as the news warrants. Now we will go back to the Memorial Ceremony for those who were killed and injured, the vice admiral is speaking now. Lets watch and listen. They were killed in the line of duty, they died in the service to our nation, the service to our navy. In service they were just as commi
We didnt expect it to be like this been pray for the communities affected and to be patient and i think until now theres been no way not even a chance all of our houses around forty nine of them were destroyed. We know that there are still a lot of things to do the agent leave but with conditions as they are thats not possible right now. In the. Burial today in the pub or unsanitary and pollution. And weve dug holes for one thousand people that. Were. Also coming up police were suspected right wing terrorists calling itself revolution cabinets prosecutors say they were plotting an attack on Germanys National day in just two days time. In the communications also show that they had a clear plan. When the attacks in kenya its on the fourteenth of september were a practice run for an attack on the third of october. Indonesia has begun to bury hundreds of dead in a mass grave following last weeks devastating earthquake and tsunami the death toll stands at almost eight hundred fifty but its