neighbor s house, a walmart, and now an outlet mall, this time in allen, texas, this time, eight people are dead. this time, a witness tells us exactly what it looks like when the gunfire from an ar-15 hits the human body. because this time he saw it for himself. might want to warn you, his experience is graphic. . i went to the first person i found crouching in the bushes. looked like she was praying, and i felt for a pulse. there was no pulse. so i pulled her head up to look at her face and there wasn t a face. just brain matter. so i went to the next guy, he was already staring straight ahead, eyes were fixed and dilated. no pulse. went to the third guy, he was breathing put my hand on his chest, he chest wentz up and down, he moaned so i started i felt for a pulse, didn t feel a pulse, but he was breathing. but he was bleeding profusely, so i pushed on the guy s chest to start cpr and the blood came out of his mouth and he looked at me and died. there was nothing i co
of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
much for the latest. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america s latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend s blood on her to hide from a gunman. there s a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night, and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates when i went back to the back. he i thought he was going to come back to the room so i got blood and i put it all over me. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. and you think it s
thank you. top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. happening now, former trump add v adviser peter navarro is in court. he refused to cooperate with the investigation, and was arrested by the fbi earlier today. cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is on this story. so let s start by just reminding everyone of the information that navarro has that the committee wants and how investigators got to this indictment. well, victor, navarro was subpoenaed by the house select committee investigating january 6th. back in february, they specifically requested testimony and documents related to plans he was hatching with another trump adviser, steve bannon to delay the certification of the election results. navarro has been very public about his efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 election. he even wrote about this plan in a book that he published not too long ago. he refers to the plan as
a-plus. still got it. (whistle blows) your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. top of the hour on cnn newsroom, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. there was a gut wrenching admission from texas officials about the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde. in the benefit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. there s no excuse for that, again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry, as soon as you can. when there s an active shooter, the rules change. it s no longer, okay, it s no longer a barricade, we don t have time. and by the way, texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency you re from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene. every officer lines up, stacks up