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Background checks the they would not have stopped any of it. so it's a big problem. it's a mental problem, it's a big problem. >> so following saturday's mass shooting, beto o'rourke led fellow democratic presidential candidates in renewing calls for gun safety reform. >> don't know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them. but we do know this is [ bleep ] up. we do know -- we do know that this has to stop in this country. >> we do know that it's time for politicians to act. >> the american people are sick and tired and horrified by the neve...

Critical to us is the hurricane hunters. it's the air force and hurricane hunters. they're constantly running the airplane right through the center, right through the eyes. they're dropping drop sounds into storm and feeding us information. it's so critical because it's helping us with the wind speeds and helping us identify that the winds are higher today. while we're running from the storm, the hurricane hunters are going right toward it. they're heroes giving us that information. >> they are, ken graham, as are you from the national hurricane weather center. we appreciate it. we'll contin...

Hoped to make texans safer but again without providing details of what those steps mean but the status quo is no longer adequate here in the state of texas. i do -- i believe we have sound from president trump earlier this afternoon when the conversation was around federal legislation. again, congress is supposed to be coming in to session the next month. but the president has not backed anything specifically when it comes to universal background checks. i want you to hear directly from him this afternoon. >> for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks they would not have s...

That to be cute. we have strong background checks right now. but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don't complete the whole circle. and we're looking at different things and i have to tell you it's a mental problem, i said it 100 times, it's not the gun that pulls the trigger, it's the person that pulls the trigger. these are sick people, and it's also that kind of a problem. they closed up all of their mental institutions or many of them, and those people went on to the streets. they did it for budgetary reasons. new york is not unique, they've done that in many places. we are in v...

That term because it has built into it constitutional protection, you can't take someone's gun unless there's a judge that makes that determination. but what our law would say is if someone is a threat to themselves or a threat to others, then you can go into court, the family can, usually the family that reports it or the police can go in and i know, bill, there's been a lot of emphasis on mental health, but the truth is that 93% of the people who have severe mental problem are not violent at all. in some cases, it'll be a mental health issue but our law would also say someone who has a prope...