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Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar,...

Blumenthal. We evidently have a vote scheduled at 10 45. I plan to recess the hearing briefly to allow us catch the end of one vote, the beginning of the next and reconvene. That will take 15 minutes total. Just so you all know. On june 18, carmen cruz was watching television with her eightyearold son, travis, when her exboyfriend, frederick escobar, broke into her and calmly walked towards her, carrying a pillow. When he was just a few feet away from mrs. Cruz, mr. Escobar pulled a gun from the pillow and pointed it at her and pulled the trigger. Travis watched as his mother collapsed, felled...

That happened. And we focus on this one dude Donald Sterling all we want. But we can look at what we accomplish when we all come together as one. That is what i think we should do. That is my closing comment. [applause] roland will close us out with a final thought. I sat on the set of cnn that night then when i was shedding tears, folks asked me why. I said it is not because of this election. I did not do it because i saw him. I saw the u. S. Soldiers who were hanging from trees and lynched in their uniforms. That was the image they came to my mind. But what ties in with sports is that i reco...

The somebody really need 33 rounds of magazines . I dont think so. Do have relationships with the nra in which you could bridge that a little bit . We have tried. Im spoken with some of the leadership. The things that the nra does that is very important that they do a good job with regard to gun safety. The organization we feel has changed over the last several years. In which direction . Into a direction that is to try to support the gun manufacturers as much as possible. , are you hopeful about the future on gun policy . , are you hopeful about it . Yes, hopeful. It has been a long, hard roa...

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