Texas and Ohio newsrooms respond to shooting sprees; racist essay was published shortly before El Paso attack; growing threat of online radicalization; activists converge on Capitol Hill; Moms Demand Action founder calls for Senate vote; how to cover the
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🗓️ 4 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Brian Stelter and this is reliable sources continuing CNN's breaking news coverage of this horrific weekend in America. |
| 0:11.0 | At least 20 dead in El Paso, Texas, the site of an attack by a suspected |
| 0:15.5 | terrorist. Nine are dead in Dayton, Ohio. Along with a gunman there, he attacked a neighborhood |
| 0:21.4 | crowded with bars and clubs overnight in the Oregon District of Dayton. |
| 0:26.0 | We are still learning more about both sites, about both shooters, and about the victims. |
| 0:31.0 | The attack in El Paso, we know, |
| 0:33.8 | is the deadliest mass shooting in America |
| 0:36.2 | since November 2017. |
| 0:38.9 | The Dallas-Morry News, posting |
| 0:40.6 | this gut-wrenching front page this morning, |
| 0:43.0 | the headline quoting an eyewitness saying there were |
| 0:46.0 | so many bodies. |
| 0:48.0 | Sadly, that headline would now apply in Dayton as well. |
| 0:51.0 | But here's the El Paso Times, the hometown paper on the |
| 0:54.3 | border there, 20 killed in rampage that's also mentioning the manifesto which we |
| 1:00.5 | will get into in the hour to come. |
| 1:02.8 | We know that in El Paso police have a suspect in custody. |
| 1:05.8 | He is reportedly talking with investigators. |
| 1:08.0 | We also know the FBI has opened a domestic terrorism investigation |
| 1:11.6 | into the shooting. The media conversation this hour will be in part |
| 1:14.9 | about when and how and why to describe this terrorism. In this case, white terrorism. Now we know many Americans are at church this morning. |
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