dresses his wounds as well as the pediatrician of the town of uvalde and he was there with the families at the moment they learned their child would not come home. he will never, ever get those mother s screams out of his head. i raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling children s names in desperation and sobbing as they begged for any news related to their child. those mothers cries i will never get out of my head, but what i did find was something no prayer would ever relieve. two children whose bodies were pulvarized, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart that the only clue was the blood-spattered cartoon clothes clinging to life and finding none. i can only hope these two bodies were a tragic exception to the list of survivors and as i waited there with my fellow uvalde doctors, nurses, first responders and hospital staff for other casualties we hope to save, they never arrived. all that remained was the bodies of 17 more children, the two teacher
with primary races under way in seven states. california, iowa, mississippi, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota. polls are just opening now in california. one of the races closely watched is the los angeles mayoral race in which democratic congresswoman karen bass is facing off developer rick caruso. in montana, ryan zing ki who left congress to become the terror secretary is trying to return to the house representing the state s congressional district there. a top gop target this fall, iowa s third congressional district, the three candidates facing off in the republican primary hoping to flip that house seat this fall. joining us are national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board and steve patterson in los angeles. let s start with steve kornacki, good morning. what are you keeping an eye on this morning? a lot to watch today, jose. there are seven states holding primaries. you can see this is actually kind of a super tuesday. this is the b
described frantic people running for cover, amid the gunfire. the shooter was a young man, and one of the people that he tragically shot was a 39 year old woman, she died as a result of those injuries, and that is what happened just this past sunday in taft, oklahoma, where a mass shooter started firing during a memorial day festival. seven people were injured, one woman lost her life. in chattanooga tennessee, it was six people. six people were shot in another mass shooting that took place on saturday. all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reported over the weekend that four of those children were expected to survive, two of them sustained life-threatening injuries, we did not know what condition those two children are as of today. in benton harbor michigan, six people injured, 19-year-old, one of them was a 19-year-old, he was killed when gunfire erupted at a liquor store. now, in philadelphia, a 16-year-old girl and a 21-year-old woman w
all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reported over the weekend that four of those children were expected to survive, two of them sustained life-threatening injuries, we did not know what condition those two children are as of today. in benton harbor michigan, six people injured, 19-year-old, one of them was a 19-year-old, he was killed when gunfire erupted at a liquor store. now, in philadelphia, a 16 -year-old girl and a 21 -year-old woman were killed, and two others were injured in another mass shooting. in all, there were 16 mass shootings over the memorial day weekend. 16. that is according to the gun violence archive, it s a nonprofit research group which chronicles mass shootings in which four or more people are injured in this country. now, this deadly weekend in america, it follows the horrific killing of 19 school children, and two teachers at an elementary school in uvalde, texas. which took place just one week ago today. that tr
states to delve into more specific gun legislation that they thought was necessary. obviously what is going to work in california and what is going to pass in texas two very different outcomes there. but very significant that you had cornyn talking about this yesterday, in texas, that lawmakers are going to be having these discussions. and i m told the goal and hope is that they might be able to have some framework when they return from their recess. now, that s not very much time, but as you know, time can really be an enemy if you don t come up with some kind of solution in the interim when there is this kind of momentum to find an outcome. this is on the senate side where gun legislation the past ten years has died. on the house side, lauren, i do understand we just got word that the house judiciary committee is going to mark up gun legislation on thursday, the english translation of that is they re going to move ahead with the actual legislation on thursday. what exactl