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that event in just a few minutes. but, first, breaking tonight, ♪ the average price for a gallon of gasoline in this country is soaring past the $5 mark, a figure never before seen in the u.s. wall street took the skyrocketing inflation hard. the dow losing almost 3 percentage points today. the s&p 500 dropping nearly 4. the nasdaq losing four and two thirds. president biden continues to put the blame on others, vladimir putin, oil companies, but an increasing number of americans are...

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now the people at the center of them are begging and pleading with their elected leaders to do something and do something now. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has been trying to strike a narrow, modest deal on gun reforms, one of the lead negotiators telling me in the last hour he is cautiously optimistic that they can get something done. despite ongoing talks on capitol hill today, it is still legal in most states for an 18-year-old to buy a semiautomatic weapon. josh campbell wen...

and the little prince who stole the show >> announcer: this is “nbc nightly news” with lester holt and good evening im tom llamas in for lester tonight just moments ago president biden delivered an urgent address to the american people on gun violence the president speaking more than a week after 19 children and 2 adults were killed in uvalde, texas. and a day after four shot dead in a tulsa hospital the president saying every day places have become killing fields, battlefields i...

her majesty to travel from windsor castle outside london to the center of london st. pauls cathedral and get inside the cathedral. she would have to, even though there was discussions of could she go in through the side entrance, not do the what all the dignitaries are doing, she could have gone in through a side entrance, even that it was decided it was too much for the 96-year-old monarch. it was great for the country to see her yesterday. the world appreciated seeing her on the balc...

>> thats right. and this latest tragedy just overnight comes as the country is deeply still mourning the 19 children and 2 teachers killed just last week at that elementary school in uvalde, texas. and the ten lives lost at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, just 18 days ago. this morning we have brand-new details about the investigation into the shooting at uvalde, and the mayor there saying the negotiator tried to talk to the gunman during the massacre. also, the governor of texas i...

very good thursday morning to you. im jim sciutto. >> im poppy harlow. were following several major stories this morning including the nations 233rd mass shooting just this year. more shootings than days in the year so far. this time, in a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. at least four people were killed yesterday when a gunman carrying a handgun and a rifle opened fire inside of the facility. officials say the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> this is not normal. sho...

from tulsa police after a deadly mass shooting there at a medical complex last night. police say a gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people and injured nearly a dozen others at an orthopedic clinic and officials are saying the attack was not random and the shooter died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. once the news conference we will, of course, be bringing that to you live. the gun violence archive says this is 209sth mass shooting in america since the mu...

situations, difficult patients, unhappy patients, and -- but nothing that we have in place, i dont know that any health system in the country has in place that can stop somebody with two weapons that are hell bent on causing harm. >> reporter: does st. francis have any drills or joining on campus? >> the question was have we had mass shooting drills or training. we have training and educational modules. i couldnt speak to actual drills, but as i said earlier, theres going to be 1,000 q...

a gunman opened fire inside a medical building. he killed his orthopedic surgeon, another doctor, a receptionist and another patient. he then shows hi life. he purchased a gun at 2:00 p.m. yesterday. less than three hours later, he went on a shooting rampage. >> our training led us to take immediate action without hesitation. thats exactly what officers do. thats what they did in this instant. law enforcement across the nation is dealing with increased violence among people. this is ye...