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Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.

It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

These are kids that should be learning with their friends.

The city of Minneapolis is in mourning after two children aged 8 and 10 were shot dead

and 17 others were injured when a former student fired through the windows of a church

at a Catholic school.

We'll speak to the head of Brady, the leading gun control group.

Then it was 20 years ago this week when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the

Gulf Coast killing 1,800 people and forcing over a million people to evacuate.

We'll look back at our coverage and go to New Orleans to speak to independent journalists,

Jordan Flarity, and former Black Panther Malik Rahim, who co-founded the Common Ground Collective.

Sad part about it. It could happen today. Dejaveu is alive and well here.

Because if a hurricane would happen right now, we are ill-prepared for the same way we was ill-prepared

20 years ago.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the war and Peace Report. I'm Narmine Sheikh. A column of Israeli tanks pushed further into the outskirts of Gaza City overnight, shelling Palestinian homes and prompting terrified residents to flee. The offensive came as Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, killed at least 17 people, while medical workers

reported four more deaths from famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, including two

children. That brings the total number of starvation-related deaths in Gaza to 317. This comes as new

research published in The Lancet finds nearly a third of outpatients

treated by the medical charity Medesinsinsen Frontierre in its Gaza field hospitals where children

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