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Crimes. The gun violence archive finds that there have been nearly 300 Mass Shootings, meaning at least four people shot at once, since this year began. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins is with us now. So give us a look at what we expect to hear from the president. Reporter i think, number one, the fact that were hearing from President Biden taking the entire day at the white house to focus on this publicly shows that the white house is wanting to look like President Biden is on top of this, that he is taking steps to address the spike in Violent Crime that youve seen happen...

News" this evening. back to you. >> all right. sam brock, thank you for that important update. we're going to be watching that tonight on "nightly news." at this morning's briefing, local officials including the mayor of surfside thanked those who continued to search through the rubble as they began this phase of the recovery effort. listen. >> i want to say and express my most passionate thanks to the search and rescue teams, all of our fire and police departments and their professional and dedicated leaders among them chief cominski, chief jadalah, director ramirez and our own town manager a...

Officials, leaders, all of us together to keep our youth from reacting to situations in such a violent manner. >> director ramirez, specifically in miami, can you just give us an update? we all saw the video of that mass shooting at a banquet hall where three people were killed, 20 others were shot. i believe we have the surveillance video to remind our viewers of what happened. these gunmen pulled up, and within i mean seconds these masked gunmen within seconds were able to mow down scores of people. have you apprehended these suspects yet? >> at this time we have not but i can assure you tha...

Director ramirez, do you agree that this is -- we must start this conversation with guns? >> good afternoon. there is a whole load of issues that we are experiencing with the violence that we're seeing out there, the pandemic. we have the illegal possession of firearms. we did this operation and in that operation so far we've seized 284 illegal possessed firearms. another issue that we're having is social media. people are getting into these violent attacks over nontangible things. it's songs, it's you're hanging around with the wrong person, the brazenness of the shooting, the lack of caring ...

Our youth before we lose them to cell phones and social media. get guns out of the hands of people who are not supposed to have those guns, illegal possession of firearms, felons that are running around with guns and make sure that people that are violent felons, they need to stay in jail. they cannot be out walking amongst our community because they don't follow the rules, they're don't care about life. that small percentage of people are the ones that don't want to progress or reassimilate. they're just on a path of violence. and our communities and our youth most of all are suffering from t...