the top stories tonight, a former wisconsin judge is killed and we re learning the suspect had a list of other targets including two sitting governors and senator mitch mcconnell. 11 days after a gunman entered a uvalde, texas elementary school, a young student wounded in the attack finally goes home. the gun violence epidemic in america. a look back at the week that was. gas prices nearing $10 a gallon at one station in california. when could drivers see any relief? you re in the cnn newsroom. amid the heartbreak in uvalde, texas, we have a small but very welcome bit of good news. university health in san attorney just tweeted that a 9-year-old girl injured in the texas school shooting was been discharged from the hospital. this news comes as funerals are being held this weekend for three more victims, all fourth graders. what can you tell us about this 9-year-old who was just discharged from the hospital? reporter: good evening, pa pamela. we know we got an update
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. This. How seriously are you thinking ab it . Welcome to the ae files. Good to see you. Were here in your hometown of new orleans. In a Cafe Reconcile. Tell me why this is such a special place to you. Well, when i grew up, there was a Jesuit Priest who Half Finishing that run actually became the pastor of a downtown Inner City Church and started talking about ways to help kids and to connect people with money with people who needed money and he wanted to start a place where kids could have a Better Future and he said look, weathve got go to the toughest of the tough places and find the people who need help most. And the children and young people that are working here, kids that have lived the toughest of the toughst lives in america, some have been shot. Some of them with parents of children who have been shot. Some of them are young men and
against jim crow laws. Came to city council, led the fight to get the
i went to bolton colored school. we had no indoor plumbing. obviously, no cafeteria, no library. reporter: until he got to the private deseg regated power in 1964. the place where black power found its voice and thompson found his. martin luther king junior. sitting in this very building, mississippi at that point did not allow black and white people to assemble in public buildings. for me having never gone to school until i got there with white student. never ? never. reporter: it was revelation of sorts. he was determined not to be one of those people who got an education and left. he was going to get it and use it at home. he started by registering voters. i told my mother how excited i was to go to sunflower county
against jim crow laws. came to city council, led the fight to get the confederate flag out. became mayor and deseg regated the workforce. you grew up around this, this issue. all your life. yeah, i can t remember a moment in my life where race was not a part of it. it wasn t all reconciliation. it was a lot of battles. my dad really was very interesting because he was 29 years old. married. he had four babies at home. my mother, who was the same, had nine children in 11 years. both still alive. both happy. they have 38 grandchildren now, but back in 1960 when things were really intense, how he found the courage to vote against the segregation. he was only one of two legislators. i asked him, what were you thinking about? he said well, i was really fighting for my friends. he had befriended a young man on the first day of law school
about hoxley, arkansas, which is a small town that voluntarily segregated for financial and moral reasons, and then on espn, they have a story about a team that deseg regated and the tension that happened there. and my mom who went to brigham young university said that the mormon church changed their mind about folks when the football team started to lose. she speaks the truth. and chris, i wanted to come back to you, because, you know, obviously part of what you all do is that you try to address children where they are, and you nknow know, despite the injustices, and how do you on the one hand think about the broader system, and yet meet young people at the moment where they are without having to wait for a new system? right. and that s the tension. that s the tension that you live in an imperfect reality, and so