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>> jesse kirsch, thank you so very much. as the united states continues to grapple with gun violence, smaller countries that have experienced mass shootings are quickly tackling the issue head-on. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has more on that story >> reporter: last month there were two extremely rare mass shootings in serbia. serbians didnt see it coming. the third most per capita after the united states and yemen. but they have never been used like this before on may 3rd,...

Didnt see it coming. on may 3rd a 13-year-old boy stormed into a school with his fathers two guns and a hit list and killed eight classmates. the next day a man with a history of violence opened fire in a village, killing eight more. but then came more than thoughts and prayers. tens of thousands demanded not just tighter gun controls but a reorientation of society, away from violence. >> i think a lot of us have just had enough. >> reporter: zarko sveceks 9-year-old daughter zora was in the sch...

>> after may 3rd, kate was constantly holding the stuffed toy wherever she went because it was a connection she could still have to her daughter. >> this morning, a distraught kate mccann, with extraordinary courage, emerged into public again, this time to join a vigil held at the local church. everyone here is still praying for madeleines safe return. >> before madeleine mccann went missing, her family lived a quiet, ordinary life here, about two and a half hours north of london. we came here, ...

>> theyd go to the beach. >> they had this tapas restaurant and just tranquil places to walk. apartment 5a, where the mccann family was staying, was on the ground floor and right next to a street. >> the window was easily accessible for everybody who passed. >> the first five days of the mccann family vacation was a lot of fun. they were having a great time. but on may 3rd, madeleine seemed distressed. >> madeleine mccann was upset because she was being left alone with her brother and sister sys...

At play. natasha bertrand joins us from the pentagon. natasha, take us inside these cells. weve seen an uptick of drone attacks inside russias border. is that what this is about? >> reporter: its unclear whether the recent drone attacks inside russia can be attributed to pro ukrainian sympathizers. u.s. officials believe that at least one attack for sure was contributed to these pro ukrainian operatives operating inside russia. that was the drone attack on the senate building on may 3rd. that wa...

American drone strike. central command tweeted about it. there are questions about what was tweeted and why. what do we know about the target of the strike and what the -- why they sent out this tweet. >> the strike was carried out on may 3rd in northwest syria targeting a senior al qaeda leader. they promised there would be more information when details of the operation itself were confirmed and became available. within hours of the strike happening, multiple defense officials tell cnn a genera...

Oren, take us through the timeline here. >> so, brianna, this story plays out basically since the beginning of the month or nearly the beginning of the month and it starts on may 3rd. thats when u.s. central command carries out a drone strike against what they had high confidence at the time was a senior al qaeda leader. and as weve learned from multiple defense officials, it shows derek carillo ordered centcom to put out a tweet saying they targeted a senior al qaeda leader and saying more info...

Biracial and gay. jenna barbee released a tiktok video saying that the florida department of education is now looking into whether she broke the states law, barring public school teachers from talking about gender and sexual when you take from students. the movie in question is the pg rated anime film strange world about a family of legendary explores. it features a biracial, gay character who has a crush on another male character in the movie. barbie said that she showed her students the scienc...

Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points: his own.

Clearances revoked. and so you can understand why democrats had a lot of questions about what kind of facts and what kind of information they were given to the committee. >> so what more do we know about these witnesses? particularly the current standing in the fbi? >> right. lets start first with marcus allen, one of them in the testified today. he had his security clearance revoked on may 3rd. and we are told that he sent out an email that said to exercise extreme caution when investigating ja...