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makes a difference in this world. i want to sleep. good evening, everyone. im alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . youve seen the video of the brave police officers rushing into a school to save children. tonight well talk to an er doctor who was standing by ready to treat the victims, but none of the ambulances he expected ever arrived. some of our politicians today, saying theres nothing we can do about gun violence. doctors disagree. plus the overdose drug narcan will soon be o...

wounded. today would have been the last day of the school year. instead of making plans for vacations, camps and cookouts, these families, right there you see them, are making funeral arrangements. grief is immeasurable. listen here to angel and how he learned his little girl was gone. >> she was just trying to do the right thing. she was just trying to call the cops. she was so scared of just strangers and things like this. she would lock the door when i would step out to put gas in t...

Ones who vote on background check measures, whether they be in nevada or in maine, swing states where basically background checks really kind of came in at about the 50% market . theyre slightly passing or slightly failing at the end of the day. if voters want to change something, this country, theyre the ones who are going to do it because theyre the ones who control the ballot measures. and there, b. theyre the ones who control the people who serve them in congress and potentially change the l...

One meeting to watch today, the gun reform advocate, chris murphy is meeting with texas republican senator john corner. >> this is not an invite to negotiate indefinitely. make no mistake about it, if these negotiations do not bear fruit in a short period of time, the senate will vote on gun legislation. gun safety legislation. >> lauren fox is live for us on capitol hill. leader schumer saying ill give this time. lets come at it this way. what is possible? what might happen? >> well, what lawma...

Of the wrong people, common sense, sensible. that was as specific as the president got in terms of explaining what kind of legislation he would actually support. and that does leave the president a lot of wiggle room here in terms of what kind of action he can actually get through congress. but it was clearly the focus of the presidents 30-plus minute remarks this morning. he talked also about speaking with the senate and house leadership, democrats and republicans, about taking action on backgr...

Because i think its so important. on the issue of guns, the president suggested linking background check measures to immigration measures. is that something as a democratic vote in the senate you would consider? >> its absurd. again, this is part of the problem. hes linking the issue of basic common sense gun reform that we should be going back into the senate today to vote on with this issue of immigration. because again, he continues to try to demonize people seeking asylum, people needing our...

After he went on, several other candidates, they took the stage and talked about it directly. and kamala harris is here at an elementary school where she brought up to idea, there are kids that are becoming too familiar with shootings and she said that, you know, there was the house of representatives that earlier this year passed two measures, the universal background check measures that the senate has not taken up. pete buttigieg, the mayor of south bend, indiana, he called out white nationali...

Clearly emotional. he was choked and he said he was going to be heading back to el paso. he said that it was sad for the community. theres been tough to watch. as the afternoon went on, several other candidates took the stage and talked about it directly. kamala harris brought up the idea that there is an elementary school cafeteria here in nevada, and kids are becoming too familiar with shootings. she said there was the house of representatives that earlier this year passed two measures, the un...

Maybe back ground checks has been a bill that would make it a little tougher. or incentivize authorities to put more information into the background check measures. it is unclear about the weapons. some of them he seemed to have gotten legally and some illegally. >> what about renewing the assault weapons ban? >> doubtful. the nra is still very powerful. they gave $30 million to trump. you havent heard him talk about that and it is very difficult to see folks, particularly in the house, doing an...