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on a day when the way critical issues are handled right now may well determine the outcome of the elections from primaries through november's midterm. not just for candidates, but for our economy, our safety. consider these new pieces of the puzzle. there's a brand new poll that shows 83% of americans describe the state of the economy as poor or not so good. prices for everything from clothes to food on the rise. the average cost of gas hitting another record high today. this hour we'll hear from americans about the pain at at the pump. plus this weekend saw another devastating round...

described frantic people running for cover, amid the gunfire. the shooter was a young man, and one of the people that he tragically shot was a 39 year old woman, she died as a result of those injuries, and that is what happened just this past sunday in taft, oklahoma, where a mass shooter started firing during a memorial day festival. seven people were injured, one woman lost her life. in chattanooga tennessee, it was six people. six people were shot in another mass shooting that took place on saturday. all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reporte...

all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reported over the weekend that four of those children were expected to survive, two of them sustained life-threatening injuries, we did not know what condition those two children are as of today. in benton harbor michigan, six people injured, 19-year-old, one of them was a 19-year-old, he was killed when gunfire erupted at a liquor store. now, in philadelphia, a 16 -year-old girl and a 21 -year-old woman were killed, and two others were injured in another mass shooting. in all, there were 16 mass shootings over...

day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. >> i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. >> reporter: as the gunman walked towards her school, nicole shouted for her kids to hit the floor seconds before glass...

where they met with the families of the 19 children and two teachers in the school shooting which came ten days after buffalo. as biden left a church service in uvalde, he was met by a crowd of people chanting "do something." he responding by telling the crowd, we will. the president sounded a similar note in the commencement speech at the university of delaware, telling graduates that the country can and must do something. >> let's be clear. evil came to that elementary school in texas, to that grocery store in new york, far too many places where innocents have died. the face of suc...