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mia cerillo covered herself in her friends blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a diffe...

of her eyes, she is not sleeping much. as you might imagine, her dad says shes not doing too well. so it would be an extraordinary act of courage for anyone, let alone a little girl who should be enjoying summer break right now, to put aside her own struggles and relive what she went through. but thats exactly what miah did, videotaping testimony for a house hearing on gun violence today. heres miah and her dad. >> there is a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my t...

i thought he was going to come back to the room. so i grabbed the blood and put it all over me. >> do you feel safe at school? why not? >> because i dont want it to happen again. >> you think its going to happen again? >> miahs dad, who spoke briefly, said the 11-year-old is still healing from the bullet fragments lodged in her back. he said she is not the same little girl who only a few weeks ago was laughing and playing. and they heard from the only pediatrician, he detailed the mome...

migrants crossing the border. and why some are calling it the abbott plan. im hallie jackson in washington along with our team, ali vitali is on capitol hill, well get to what i think you can only call the gut punch of a hearing that happened this morning on the house side. right now you have this debate on changing gun laws. it seems likely these bills will pass the house. then it seems likely these bills will hit a brick wall in the senate. thats why the focus is on the private negot...

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 mothers screams out of his head. >> i raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling childrens 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 r...

Jobs versus what is actually likely to pass, what do you tell him? >> well, he lost five patients in one day, and his testimony was extremely moving. i hope that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will open up their hearts and work for the meaningful gun safety reform. its long overdue. we stand alone in mass shootings, we have more than any other country in the world. if guns made us safer, wed be the safest country in the world but were the most dangerous. we need to act. >> mother of 10...

I read to my children since they were in the womb. my husband is a law enforcement officer. an iraq war veteran. he was fishing. somewhere out there there is a mom listening to our testimony thinking, i cant even imagine their pain. not knowing that our reality will one day be hearse. that is unless we act now. thank you for your time. >> she is right. because guns are more important and children then there will be more murders and people who are haunted for the rest of their lives. the most hau...

Gather. soon after we received the news that our daughter was among the 19 students and two teachers that died as a result of gun violence. if given the opportunity lexi wouldve made a positive change in this world. she wanted to attend st. marys university in san antonio texas on a softball scholarship. she wanted to major in math and go on to attend law school. that opportunity was taken from her, she was taken from us. im a reporter, a student, a mom, a runner. i read to my children since the...