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mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the whi ....
weeks to the day of the massacre of rob elementary school murder of 19 children and two teachers learning tonight the police chief daniel rodriguez was on vacation during the mass shooting . when this initially took down, the chief wasn t in town. he canceled vacation and flew back the next day. reporter: who was in charge of the police department at the time. he had assistant chief, i ll have to find out who that s uvalde s mayor there also calling for transparency, owing to the victim s families. after two americans, including actor mcconaheigh who grew up in uvalde, he honored the viktds and spoke forcefully for reforms. we also met anna and danila, the mom and step dad of nine-year-old maite, now maite wanted to be a marine biologist, already in contact with corpus christi university for future college enrollment. nine years old. maite cared for the environment so strongly, when the city asked her mother if they could release balloons into the sky for he ....
for 77 minutes, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. reyes had to listen as the gunman went on to kill 19 children and 2 teachers in that elementary school. reyes said at one point, he heard a student in the connecting classroom call out for police to help. but the police had retreated. and he is outraged over the lack of action by police. he says it s unforgivable. just bullets everywhere and then i just remember border patrol saying, get up, get up, and i couldn t get up. did you feel abandoned in that moment by police, by the people who were supposed to protect you? absolutely. after everything, i get more angry because you have a bulletproof vest. i had nothing. i had nothing. you re supposed to protect and serve. there is no excuse. for their actions, and i will never forgive them. i lost 11 that day, and i went to my parents and said, i m sorry. i tried my best. with what i was taught to do. please don t be angry with me. can you imagine what that man ....
nick queststead. he will be one of the key witnesses on thursday and he is expected to reveal more previously unseen video of the proud boys that day. we are also expecting to hear from u.s. capitol police officer caroline edwards, who was injured in the attack. she told nbc news garrett haake in october january 6th felt like a war zone. they started ripping down barriers. that s when the moment i knew this is not like any other protest. they approached our line. they injured me and a couple of officers by tearing down you know our barricade and then the fight on the west front began. it was chaos. i ve never seen anything like that. and now breaking just a few minutes ago, new reporting from the washington post that president trump had been insisting for two weeks before the insurrection that he wanted to march alongside his supporters to the capitol. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly, politico investigative reporter josh to besee and luke ....
what we ve now learned tonight. marcus moore standing by in uvalde. also tonight, a small group of democrats and republicans meeting on zoom today in the wake of the shooting. what s on the table now and would it stop a young person turning 18 from buying an ar-15-style rifle the next day, like the suspect in texas? rachel scott with a reality check on the hill tonight. the severe storm threat as we come on the air, from texas to michigan. damaging winds and the potentially dangerous system moving into the northeast tomorrow. ginger zee standing by to time this out. overseas tonight, the fierce battle under way right now. the last key city in one part of the donbas, in luhansk. russian forces gaining ground. the white house pressed, will it send rockets, and if so, how far will they go? ian pannell in ukraine tonight. this evening, the pilots on a flight from jfk airport in new york to rome. did they both fall asleep? air traffic control saying it lost contact ....