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REPRESENTATIVE Ivan A. Blanco, the House Republican leader, passed away Friday afternoon. He was 45. Blanco attended a Developmental Disabilities Council meeting at the Aqua Resort Friday morning. Variety was told that  after lunchtime, the Precinct 3 lawmaker suddenly felt weak, and then became unresponsive. He was rushed to the Commonwealth Health Center where he was pronounced dead at past 1:30 p.m. One of Blanco's colleagues in the House, Rep. Angel Demapan, described him as “beloved  by everyone.” “His death is big loss to the  Commonwealth He was an honorable sta...

City. and that is the worst. this community was targeted because of who we are. it was targeted because, like it or not, the demographic here is what this country is going to be in not too long future. and, you know, it's very sad that somebody would lash out in that form and come from so far to do so. >> representative blanco, the commissioner just mentioned this. but the fact that this white supremacist shooter travelled to your community of el paso, to your border town, he's from allen, texas which is far off on the other side of the state. what do you take from that? >> well, look, make no...

Call to action to all elected officials regardless of party to join us to help end the senseless violence, to do what's right for this country, to heal the wounds of those family members that have lost loved ones and take action. do it through your faith, through your compassion. we can do this together. and i'm asking all politicians tonight to do so. >> representative blanco, commissioner stout, thank you. please take care. >> thank you, don. >> thank you. >> 29 people dead, 13 hours. in 13 hours. a lot of people are blaming mental illness. but is that really the only answer to why this keep...

So-called manifesto that was filled with these racist hatred toward immigrants, hispanics and at least six mexican nationals were killed. as an hispanic man in el paso, do you feel less safe today? >> you know, el paso is one of the safest cities in the country, according to the fbi. i do feel safe. i do feel safe and i do believe that our community needs to move forward and not be afraid of these type of things. however, i think we can do more as a community and as a country to be sure that these type of incidents don't happen again. >> joe, what have you heard from community members there? h...

Custody. chief ramsey, give us your it is a male, and it no longer thoughts as you just heard that is an active shooting situation. it is a homicide scene situation painf painful conversation we had and the video that is coming in. >> yeah, this is really going to according to the el paso police be bad once the numbers are finally released. you have people outside the department, but really a tragedy building probably inside the for one of the safest cities in building, as well. the world that this is happening you know, they keep saying they have one in custody. here at home. >> representativ...