2 Mass Shootings Only Hours Apart; At Least 29 Killed; El Paso Mother Killed Shielding Her Baby From Gunfire; Parents Of Parkland Victim Speak Out
Anderson Cooper 360
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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:05.3 | Good evening. |
| 0:06.3 | Tonight in El Paso, Texas, a two-month-old baby boy has no idea his life has changed |
| 0:10.8 | forever. |
| 0:11.8 | His name is Paul. |
| 0:12.8 | He was found under the body of his mother, her blood had spilled on him. |
| 0:17.1 | Some of his fingers were broken, but he was alive. |
| 0:20.3 | He is, it seems, alive because his mother Jordan shielded him from the bullets that killed |
| 0:25.6 | her and the bullets that killed her husband Andre. |
| 0:29.0 | They were in the Walmart shopping for school supplies. |
| 0:32.6 | There are so many in El Paso tonight and in Dayton, Ohio whose lives have changed forever. |
| 0:38.4 | 29 people are dead. |
| 0:40.1 | 29 people who tonight should be alive. |
| 0:42.6 | Many more are in hospitals struggling to recover from gunshot wounds. |
| 0:47.3 | They should be enjoying a mile-summer Sunday evening right now, reflecting on the weekend, |
| 0:52.0 | perhaps, or thinking back on a day spent shopping. |
| 0:54.8 | Their Saturday night out, a cookout today, or something they perhaps heard in church. |
| 0:59.3 | The fact that they're not and for 29 people never will again is the reason we're here tonight |
| 1:04.2 | and the reason we weep. |
| 1:06.5 | There are vigils tonight for the 29 men, women and children who have been murdered in two |
| 1:11.0 | mass shootings in the last 24 hours. |
| 1:13.8 | That's in addition to another mass shooting earlier in the week. |
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