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don't die thank you for joining us this hour. i'm a myth muddiness. 1 am on the east coast, midnight in uvalde, texas, where a mass shooting at an elementary school has left 19 children and two teachers dead, as well as a shooter. several more people are injured. that makes it the deadliest school shootings since the attack on sandy hook elementary school in connecticut, a decade ago, were 20 -- we are the only nation in the world that has so many school shootings, that we have to rank them by body count over years and decades. let that sink in. like today shooting, the sandy hook ma...

>> -- the victims and their families. >> it's not just littleton. we know that lots and lots of places. >> we been through this too many years, took decades now. >> as i said just a few months ago, and i said a few months before that, and i said each time we see one of these mass shootings are our thoughts and prayers are not enough. >> schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. >> perhaps now america would wake up to the dimensions of this challenge. if can happen in a place like littleton. and we can prevent anything like this from happening again. >> and now, p...

alive, what goes through your mind? >> it's heartbreaking. it's heartbreaking, because we never see anything like this in this community. it's hard for the families that lost a loved one to this tragedy. >> reporter: when you see this happen perhaps way too many times in our country, what do you ask yourself? what do you wonder needs to happen? >> i believe the government needs to get tougher laws on purchasing of guns. that's my main thing. >> reporter: that's not a new thought after this? >> no. i've always thought about it. they have to be strict on who owns a weapon. >> reporter:...

democratic politician who has had enough and the governor of texas defending his state's gun laws. in washington halle jackson with garrett haake and tom llamas in texas. garrett, we're specifically talking about this warning from the shooter, that he was going to not only shoot his grandmother but he was going to attack an elementary school. a spokesperson clarified these northern the facebook posts, no the public posts. these were private messages that apparently or presumably were only found after the fact. what else are we learning? >> reporter: yes, that's right. we heard about ...

hospital. we do not know the full status there. governor abbott of texas says the shooter who is also dead was an 18-year-old male who attended the local high school. officials believe he acted alone and had a handgun and possibly a rifle. there is so much we do not know tonight, we do know, though, it is the worst school shooting in the united states since 17 people died at marjorie douglas high school in parkland florida in 2018. i said it's a small town, it is, about 16,000 people live there in the southern part of the state, about 85 miles west of san antonio. moments ago, presid...