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i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we're following two tragedies in texas, each centering on a flashpoint dividing our country, guns and immigration. first, the breaking news in brownsville, texas, where we expect to hear from police this morning after an suv crashed into a crowd outside a migrant shelter. the death toll rose to eight overnight. what we're learning about the driver and whether this incident was intentional. that horrific scene coming as thousands of migrants enter the u.s. with covid restrictions set to expire in two just two days. the mayor of el paso, who has...

mode comb of honest, of truth, he doesn't tell you where the money went, the 3.8 million. he doesn't tell you how gloria died, and oh, by the way, everybody is saying let's exhume gloria. >> reporter: alex murdaugh is serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and son, and facing a hundred other charges related to financial crimes. his attorneys have said they filed a notice to appeal, and they plan to do so in coming months. back to you. >> nbc's catie beck with that reporting. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports", let's get right to it. ...

new details on how one police officer took out the gunman and new reporting on the suspect's identity and possible ties to white supremacists ideology weighing on all of us, why have there been so plus, the big question weighing on all of us. why have there been so many mass shootings this year? >> we've discussed this over and over, and nothing gets done. also breaking, an suv slams into pedestrians outside a shelter housing migrants in a texas border town, killing seven. police now investigating whether it was intentional outrage in new york over the subway chokehold death. pro...

Dramatic increase in the amount of anger and violence that's taking place in america. what texas is doing in a big time way, we are working to address that anger and violence by going to its root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it. >> reporter: josh horowitz is codirector of the john hopkins center for gun violence solutions is it a combination of factors including access to guns but also including mental health >> well, it's always a combination of factors. other countries have mental illness other countries have video games. but we have unprecedented access to fi...

Factors. other countries have mental illness, other countries have video games, but we have unprecedented access to firearms. you take the combination of the risk factors and layer on all these weapons, all these new guns, high-capacity magazines, ar-15 assault weapons and you have the disaster we're seeing in the united states. >> reporter: some states are making changes. governor in colorado and washington state signed major reforms on gun ownership last month, but in washington, d.c., a chronic impasse. >> i have with the full extent of my executive authority -- to do anything about guns. >...