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This neighborhood is going to
be shooken Because of this.
I mean the people that are that got
killed are pillars in the neighborhood,
they the the, the, the,
the security guard. Oh my God.
You can hear the anguish there,
a security guard and former Buffalo
police officer are among the ten people
shot and killed today in New York.
The community is now reacting after
police say the shooter was motivated by
race when he shot inside a grocery store.
Thank you for joining us tonight.
I'm GAIL 19.
New details continue to trickle in about
those lives lost and the person who
committed this act of domestic terrorism.
The community is now facing the aftermath.
The lives that was taken.
What's the message to the City
of Buffalo on tonight that
we need change Father God?
The suspect in the Buffalo grocery
store shooting has been identified as
an 18 year old from Conklin, New York.
They say he walked into the Tops
grocery store in a mostly black
neighborhood and shot 13 people.
At least ten died.
Police recovered at least two rifles.
One had the N word reportedly etched onto it.
The shooter was also wearing
tactical gear during the massacre.
This was pure evil. Straight up
racially motivated. Hate crime.
Now the shooter was already
arraigned in court today.
He faces one count of first
degree murder, but his lawyer
expects more charges to be added.
Well, it is a mark of courage and
love to risk everything for those
we care about and a local woman has
proven that she travelled thousands
of miles to get her grandmother
out of war torn Ukraine, art art.
Edwards joins us now with
their story and art.
She must have faced some
really big obstacles.
Well, she certainly did, you know.
Elena Hanson left her husband and her two
young daughters here to try to get to her
grandmother and get her out of Ukraine.
She says that when she has a goal,
she's going to get there getting her
grandmother out of Ukraine was the
goal and she handled all the obstacles.
At times it felt like I was
scaling up a vertical wall.
But that wall was not insurmountable.
For Alina Hanson.
She had been talking with
her grandmother 85 year old,
Lydia Ashmont, who was living in
Kiev since the fighting began just
to make sure that she was alive.
Hearing things like I'm I'm wearing
my boots because I'm not going to be
able to run down to the bomb shelter
if a rocket flies into the house,
and if it flies in and kills me, whatever.
But if things catch on fire,
I want to try to get away because it feels
like burning would be a hard way to die,
and it would be very painful.
In April, Hanson got on a flight to Warsaw,
Poland, with the goal of bringing
her grandmother back to Beaverton.
She brought medical supplies for
Ukraine and then went to the US Embassy
in Warsaw to begin the process of
getting a grandmother out of Ukraine.
There were obstacles her
grandmother didn't have a passport,
and was missing other key documents
getting out of Kiev took a couple of car
rides through the countryside to leave
in the northwestern part of the country.
From there, Ashmont caught a bus
and rode 14 hours to Warsaw.
Hansen could see her grandmother
in the bus window when she arrived
and I just saw her like light up and I just
felt this like calm. This sense of calm
it took several weeks to work through
the red tape to be able to make the
return flight to the United States.
Hansen and her grandmother met
the rest of the family in Seattle.
It was amazing, like just seeing
the relief on my dad's face,
they celebrate Mother's Day in Beaverton.
To her family. Hanson is a hero. She says
it's her grandmother and others. She's
the hero. I mean the people
of Ukraine are heroes,
the the way that they're, they're,
you know, putting up a fight and
the way that they're protecting
themselves and their their country,
their land, their families.
Those are, those are the heroes.
I'm just really happy that I could get
my grandmother to a safe place for
her to be able to live out her days.
Not in a bomb shelter or or being worried
that she was going to catch on fire.
Hanson
says her grandmother is settling in.
It is her first time away from
Ukraine, but she says she is
thrilled to be with her family
here. Gaylen family and togetherness.
After so much challenge art,
thank you for that story.
Well, the big timber company is
joining a nonprofit to help keep
firefighters alive in Oregon.
The firefighter Behavioral Health
Alliance says there were more than
1700 firefighter and EMS suicides
in the US and Canada since 2010.
That includes at least 4 wildland
firefighters in Oregon since 2020.
Experts say that's because these crews see
a lot of traumatic loss in communities
that that devastation they carry
with them and because they're
supposed to be strong and brave.
Not talk about it, they take it home.
So the timber company Warehouser is
helping fund an online behavioral
health sites specifically for
those wildland firefighters.
They can go to find counseling
and support groups.
Was the fight over reproductive
rights heats up Portland is adding its
voice to the national conversation.
Christelle Conway takes us to the rally
today where hundreds demanded action.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets
of downtown Portland Saturday afternoon to
demand safe and legal access to abortion.
It's bans on our bodies.
The Chapman Square rally was part of the
national bands off our Bodies Day of Action,
organized by Planned Parenthood
and other groups.
Similar rallies took place in
communities across the state and nation.
We are saying no, don't touch our body,
it's our decision, our choice,
and we want to put a ban on anybody
thinking that they have the say.
That they can do that.
The rallies are a direct response
to a leaked US Supreme Court draft
opinion suggesting the court
may soon overturn Roe V.
Wade, the landmark decision that
legalized abortion no matter what
the Supreme Court does.
This fight will continue.
Healthcare and political leaders
were also on hand Saturday for
news conference before the rally,
senator Jeff Merkley and Governor Kate
Brown vowed to fight for abortion access.
We have a constitution designed around
the idea of liberty and freedom.
And this court is determined to tear
that down, and we're determined
to say no way that's incredibly
important that Oregonians,
who believe in making sure that
women and people have the right
to this essential healthcare vote.
And so it's like, get out your
ballot and make sure you vote.
Many demonstrators carrying
signs and cheering agreed.
Half of America will have their
civil rights rolled back.
I think every person has a
chance to make a difference,
and they can make a difference by voting.
Absolutely. Do your research.
Make your decisions.
Check your your resources and
look at your heart and your gut
and see what it's telling you.
Christelle, Kuwait.
Reporting for us there now.
Portland was one of many cities seeing
those pro choice demonstrations.
This was the rally today in Eugene
as dozens of people showed up in
front of a federal courthouse there.
After this event,
there was another rally on the
University of Oregon campus as well.
Hundreds of others too gathered for
a rally at Drake Park in Bend this
afternoon to show solidarity for
healthcare rights and bodily autonomy.
Several speakers presented opposition
to a potential ruling that would allow
states to ban abortions at this rally.
People lifted up a sea of posters
and also chanted my body my choice.