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nonessential travel. after more than 19 months of restrictions. i m pamela brown in washington. you re in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. and we begin tonight with the tragedy in texas. two teenagers are among the eight people killed in a sudden and massive human stampede at a music festival in houston. many more are injured after fans rushed the stage during a performance by rapper travis scott at the astroworld music festival in houston. video from the sold-out event shows the moment travis scott pauses and looks on in confusion as an ambulance moves into the packed crowd of about 50,000 fans. witnesses describe the crush of people squeezing against them, leaving them with nowhere to go. and i m going to be bringing in mayor sylvester turner to talk about this. he s in houston. i know things have been rapidly unfolding for you, mayor, since this tragedy happened. if you could, bring us up to date with the latest of what we know, how did this happen? wel ....
the cowardly missiles and drones do not build our country and our future. he is vowing to punish those the possible after a drone attack inside the green zone. americans and canadian citizens finally able to come into the united states for non-essential travel after more than 19 months of restrictions. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. houston, texas. that is where we begin tonight, on the grounds of the enormous nrg park. right now the scene of a massive police and medical investigation trying to make sense of a shocking, and by all accounts, preventable tragedy. tonight we have confirmed the names of some of the eight people killed and new disturbing images of what happened in the hours leading up to the stampede. this is just one shot of the chaos at that houston music festival friday night. the massive outdoor concert crowd surging out of control toward the stage, crushing and ing hundreds of fans who had no way to ....
venue. we, the planning included two separate stages to try to subdivide those crowds. but again, it s the, it was a crowd control at the point of the stage that was the issue. that caused the issue. especially as the crowd started to surge up towards the stage. that s what we re going to be keying on in regards to the investigation. yes, ma am. hold on. yes, ma am. this is in regards to ems and also the kind of ems to administer right then and there onsite. were additional ambulances needed to come in then i just want to we also saw struggling to get to the crowd. was it hard trying to help get to the let me answer your first question first. all our units are completely equipped with all the life safety and life saving equipment. they have defibrillators. even the first response vehicles. so from our perspective, from the houston fire department s perspective, we had the right equipment. the, i can t speak about the equipment that the third party medical co ....
from any light being shed on his activities. reporter: january 6 committee member jamie raskin weighs in. just days before the polls open in virginia s high-stakes race for governor he wants to force you to join a union. he wants to laysraise your taxe. reporter: the candidates are making final pitches with more than a million early ballots already cast. bwe work with reasonable republicans, but glenn youngkin is not a reasonable republican. kids ages 5 to 11 could start getting pfizer s covid-19 vaccine as soon as tuesday. there s a really good reason to have the children vaccinated. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. for the first time since the shooting that left a sinninni to cinematographer dead, alec baldwin is speaking out. natasha chen now, what did baldwin say? reporter: yeah, pamela. baldwin was being followed by cameras. he was with his family, and he stopped his car to get out and talk to paparazzi, really ta ....
members know. powerful pacific storms set to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and strong damaging winds to the northwest and california starting tonight. i travel light so if they say evacuations i just get the hell out of dodge. president trump on the stump for terry mccullof s gubernatorial campaign in virginia slams republicans. why is it republicans don t want you to vote? what is it they re so afraid of? top of the hour now. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. thank you so much for taking time out of your night to be here with us. and tonight a vigil by candlelight about to get under way in new mexico. it is to honor the movie crew member accidently shot to death by actor alec baldwin on the set of a western film. police say baldwin unknowingly fired a live round from what was supposed to be a prop gun. the shot killed cinematographer halyna hutchensins and injured movie director joel souza. cnn s lucy kafanov joi ....