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makes a difference in this world. i want to sleep. good evening, everyone. i'm alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . you've seen the video of the brave police officers rushing into a school to save children. tonight we'll talk to an er doctor who was standing by ready to treat the victims, but none of the ambulances he expected ever arrived. some of our politicians today, saying there's nothing we can do about gun violence. doctors disagree. plus the overdose drug narcan will soon be on the shelves of grocery stores, gas stations, even vending machines. do they have it at your ch...

wounded. today would have been the last day of the school year. instead of making plans for vacations, camps and cookouts, these families, right there you see them, are making funeral arrangements. grief is immeasurable. listen here to angel and how he learned his little girl was gone. >> she was just trying to do the right thing. she was just trying to call the cops. she was so scared of just strangers and things like this. she would lock the door when i would step out to put gas in the car. like, she -- this is literally like her worst fear. and she was just trying to help everyone...

Ones who vote on background check measures, whether they be in nevada or in maine, swing states where basically background checks really kind of came in at about the 50% market . they're slightly passing or slightly failing at the end of the day. if voters want to change something, this country, they're the ones who are going to do it because they're the ones who control the ballot measures. and there, b. they're the ones who control the people who serve them in congress and potentially change the loss ahead. i encourage people to go back. we just went through this. yeah genetics er tobacco. p...

One meeting to watch today, the gun reform advocate, chris murphy is meeting with texas republican senator john corner. >> this is not an invite to negotiate indefinitely. make no mistake about it, if these negotiations do not bear fruit in a short period of time, the senate will vote on gun legislation. gun safety legislation. >> lauren fox is live for us on capitol hill. leader schumer saying i'll give this time. let's come at it this way. what is possible? what might happen? >> well, what lawmakers aren't talking about is an assault weapons ban. things to limit gun ownership in this country...

Of the wrong people, common sense, sensible. that was as specific as the president got in terms of explaining what kind of legislation he would actually support. and that does leave the president a lot of wiggle room here in terms of what kind of action he can actually get through congress. but it was clearly the focus of the president's 30-plus minute remarks this morning. he talked also about speaking with the senate and house leadership, democrats and republicans, about taking action on background checks specifically, and he suggested that the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell is prep...