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Federal bill backed by the nra, it would funullify the ban on si automatic weapons. >> tell your friends in d.c. that gun free zones are murder capitals. >> thats the kind of logic that we dont need in the district of columbia. i know its a political year, but the nra shouldnti be able o run roughshod. shot by an acquaintance because he refused to give a girl a ride, he was 18. it is unlikely that tragedy will resonate for gun control advocates. attempted terror attacks in detroit and new york...

Proof? carol costello has a gut check and is live in washington. >> reporter: some people say the nra has politicians on the run. they are expecting a record crowd, 70,000 at the annual meeting. theyll outline the goals for the future. launch a get out the vote campaign and continue invoking second amendment rights. they are celebrating a very good year. there are some who say the begun rights lobby has never been stronger. but is it true? if you ask ted nugent, they have anti-gunners on the run...

>> right. >> and if this had been a republican convention and every reporter would have swarmed the platform and the republicans, and tick-tock, tick-tock, instead. abc most astonishing on this. david muer took caroline kennedy aside and shes not elected, and said do you think if uncle ted were here today, do you think-- it was a leading question. dont you think that ted kennedy is part of the convention after all? you know, i miss, i miss, it was embarrassing what they used the journalistic res...

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Savannah. >> miguel almaguer in anchorage, alaska, this morning for us. thank you. and president obama called senator stevens widow and reached out to the family of sean okeeffe already. it is something alaska is definitely mourning the loss of the man they call uncle ted. in colorado the presidents hand-picked candidate michael bennet managed to buck the anti-establishment trend setting up a showdown with a tea party candidate. kelly oconnell is live with the latest. >> reporter: we spent tim...

Ago now ted stevens survived a plane crash that killed his wife. this time he did not make it out of the wreckage alive. the confirmation came this afternoon, officials say the 8-year-old former senator was among the five people killed when a small plane crashed into a mountain in alaska. reports indicate for people on that plane did survive. among them the former head of nasa and the former chancellor of lsu sean okeefe and his son. their plane crashed in the southwest part of the state last ni...