Watch Live: Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on reducing gun violence
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning is hosting the first in a set of several hearings on addressing ways to reduce gun violence. The hearing was scheduled before a shooting in Boulder, Colorado, left 10 people dead, including a police officer.
Senators are questioning eight witnesses at the hearing, including a Connecticut police chief, Chicago trauma surgeon and the executive director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The committee said it will use the hearing to examine community -based approaches to fighting gun violence, law enforcement and public health. Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin began the hearing by saying that he could ask for a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of the latest shooting, but what he wants is a moment of action.Authorities made two gruesome discoveries Tuesday after a Missouri woman walked into a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, officials said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.