If it's Tuesday mass shootings rock Philadelphia and Fort Worth a day after 30 people were shot in Baltimore, the gun violence crisis continuing across America.

Plus new fears of an escalation in the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

As Hamas praises a car ramming attack

in Tel Aviv, and the Israeli military says some of its forces are withdrawing in that massive

operation targeting militants inside the West Bank.

And don't rain on their parade.

Many of the Republican presidential candidates hitting the campaign trail today

as former President Trump cements his frontrunner status, sparking serious alarm from some allies

of Ron DeSantis.

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Peter Alexander. And today for Kristen Welker, a happy 4th of July to you on America's Independence Day. Sadly, again, we begin with America's

gun violence epidemic. In the 23 hours since we came off the air yesterday, seven more communities in this country

have experienced mass shootings.

That's according to the gun violence archive.

The group defines mass shooting as an event in which four or more people are shot,

not including the shooter.

Last night in Philadelphia, police say a gunman armed with an assault weapon and a handgun,

also wearing body armor, shot and killed five people, wounding two others, including a toddler.

Authorities say they have that gunman in custody.

And moments ago, the police chief reacted to the horror of this crime.

What happened last night in our concessing neighborhood was unimaginably disgusting and

horrifying.

On what was supposed to be a beautiful summer evening, this armed and armored individual

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