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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 already declared a state of emergency, will join us. new details in this weekend s mass shooting at a texas mall. what we re learning about the suspect who police say appears to be a neo-nazi sympathizer. he could have done that here. we don t know. why did he choose the mall in allen? it makes no sense at all to any of us. later, intensifying protests in manhattan. new yorkers shutti ....
Also the author of the forthcoming book all-american massacre: the tragic role of american culture and society in mass shootings. you and i have talked before. you ve been studying this issue for so long. let s start with that simple question we heard kate ask. i m curious to get your thoughts. why so many mass shootings this year? it s certainly a brutal thing. i think it s clear that there are different types of mass shootings occurring. in some cases we see essentially crimes of passion, where people lose their temper, and the problem is we ve had arguments for all of human history. usually they would end in fist fights. now people can grab a firearm close to them because of the unprecedented number of firearms in circulation, and that leads to a mass shooting. we also see these premeditated mass shootings where in many cases the perpetrators are not even firearm owners until they decide they want to commit mass murder. then it s at that point they go ....