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♪ good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight, the horror unfolding a colorado.

ma g ng auding one police offiemr.cei the victims and reflecting on its dark history with mass shootings. ilca.he w'sbc a's >> i just snedta between shots and listening to see what direction he was heading. >> reporter: for sarah a normal 21-y-ear-oldgrocery with her >> active shooter, get away! terrifying day that will haunt her forever. >> once we got outside, i m and ,there were peostthn ie. we can't do anything, they're . so we ran. >> someing just hap guys. >> reporter: the moment americans fear. >> did you see which way the shooter went? >> reporter: and far too many have experienced. >> we've got people down inside >>ee reporter: ten dead after carnage at the king soopers grocery in bouldercorado.

denny strong, neven stanisic, rikki olds, tralona, zae founta kevinmahoney, lynn murray, jod nightmare for boulder county. >>it's a horrific event, we're heartbroken as a nation to see that we've returned to some of our old patterns of mass shootings. >> reporter: for those who weret absolute shock. >> i could smell the guowder, so ty wereclose. >> we were sitting and i could heas around 2:30 monday afteoorn gun in the parking lot. >> it looks like we have an ac ve>> someone's downright here. >> reporter: he came to shop for groceries, instead he filmed this. >> there's people lying in the [ bleep ] street, guys, he went in the store! down there! oh my god.

guys we got people down inside i ] >> reporter: police responded, quickly surrounding the building. >> the entire building is surrounded. you need to surrender. ⌞> reporter: officer eric talley the first member of law enforcement on the scene. as police engaged in a shoot-oui thh t tally was gned down. >> his service and his sacrifice will never be forgotten. >> reporter: sarah moodshadow tells colleague matt ge hasn't been able topto s>> what shake? >> my son's face. seeing my son scared like that r. i told him, we only have 3 seconds. we have to move now. i said,on'tyw lheoorek, don't hesitate, don't stand up, just run. just run.>>or: our after the e suspect into custody with a

gunshot wound in the leg. >> he was transported to the hospital for treatment. now in stable condition. th identified as ahmad alissa, 21. >> reporter: the suspect charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, held without bail. among the lives lost the first to respond, boulder police officer eric tally. eric tally heroically. >> reporter: 11 years on the force. usband anda fat hher of seven. his grief-stricken mother, judy, speaking to our affiliate koat. >> he was so deeply loved by everyone. >> reporter: when she heard there was a shooting in boulder she combed through the video, looking for her son, before the call came. >> my son gave his life tpeole.v >> reporter: another victim, 25-year-old manager at grocery store whose family described her as a

firecracker. >> it's just so sad. r: her fily aidte rorep they watched the livestream in horror, desperately trying to reach her. >> we actually heard gunshots still, breaking down into tears and it hadn't come news feed yet. >> reporter: denny -r44stong, emplee rembed by an classmate. >> he was a free spirit. he did what he loved. didn't really care what others thought. >> reporter: 61-year-old kevin mahoney, who last summer walkeht grandfather, his daughter tweeting, i know he would want me to be strong. all lives believed to be taken at the hand of one man, shooter emigrated to the u.s. at 3 years old, now a u.s. citizen. in 23 he was charged with a third degree assault. ith in criminal

mischief. >> ifou y shootings, particularly in this country, they're really driven by a person who feels disenfrahised, alienated by those around them, and they're mad and they're going to extender a.m.ize that anger onto the rest of us. >> reporter: police say the suspect bought an ar-556 pistol less than a week before the shooting. family members told investigators they saw him playing with what loo dke machin le egun in their home. president biden addressed a grieving natfon e thr se at hndalf staff for the tragedy another american city's been saw her scarred by gun violence and resulting trauma. ana state that i hate to say it because we're often. my heart goes out. >> reporter: the city of boulder has become the latest on a long list of colorado communities whose names are now sin 9 moss

with mass shootings. aurora, 12 died at a movie theater. colorado springs, three killed and nine injured at a planned parenthood. >>n aay littleton, colorado, south of denver -- ur nation's collective memory, littleton, where 12 students and one teach wear killed a columbine high school in 1999. >> those are daniel's shoes? >> yes. those are daniel's shoes, the shoes he was wearing that day. >> you still wear them more than 20 years later? >> it's my connection with him. i feel i'm walking in his shoes in when great debate about what to do about gun violence in america. >> rorter: 22 years ago, tom mauser lost his son there. >> i think about daniel, but i about what happened on that day because it was just, you know, just the worst thing that's going to ever happen to a parent. >> reporter: this week the tragic reminder of the son he lost. >> it's especially painful, any

mass shooting. more so when it's in my own state. but this one was especially bad because i got a call from a friend whose daughter was in the store when it happened >> reporter: a fierce. advocat tk ss legislation in colorado, closing a loophole that allowed the columbine shooter to obtain a gun. >> a big part of my frustrationt this issue after mass shootings, large mass shootings. pleo p butdot deal with it beca too overwhelming and we don't end up dealing with i at all. >> reporter: the boulder the one used in parkland, las vegas, aurora, sandy hook,he o ae y ound have a terrorist ue a certain type of weapon like an ar-15, it kind of creates a

>> reportet us j t asenlactingek an assault the measure was put in place in 2018 following the parkland school shooting. president biden nownglialo t reinstate the national assaultdn wait another alone an hour, ta lie v ive urge my colleagues in the house and senate toe bills proposed by the house would have stopped the shooter. >> i think in both situations, you haple based on theeoat, p c, ulpufid rearms. and if oo lu ak of people who commit mass shootings, a vast majority1udk f them get their weapons le >>is thisgay. cannot be our new norm. we should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores. we have lost far too many lives.

>> we hear so often, i never thought this would happen to me. my msageo everybody else don'ttths culre tt we have i america that'sn to this situation, don't wait till then. >> reporter: here in boulder, there's fierce determjujjz that those ten lives lost will not be forgotten. people have been showing up to this memorial for officer tally are that's his patrol car and you can see people leaving flowers. >> he ran in÷.■d knowing that t was a shooting. he ran in going right after him. he sacrificed his life for america. >> our thanks to will. > coming up, singing soul and giving respect to the queen of soul. ♪

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♪ there are parallels between your story and hers. both strong black women raised by a single parent. both women of faith. immensely talented. were there parts of her story you could identify with our find yourself in? >> the strangest thing is i learnt a lot of what it is to tell story through song watching aretha, listening to aretha. having to sort of use that skill i learnt from her to play her, it's like a al, ic metaclphyscyical thing that hap. >> how about i give you my version? >>gandrlou sand.ke s >> not? >> the idea that she was able to channel emotions andáa ■ feelind her pain, love, through the thrilling to be able to do that, because that's what i love to do anyway. >> what is your favorite aretha song? >> "ain't no way.

♪ ain't no way baby ain't no way ♪ ♪ it ain't no way ♪ ♪ for me to love you ♪ >> when you were a kid, what what kind of characters were you drawn to? >> i was watching a lot of american tv. "sister act." whoopi goldberg, she was like the pinnacle. she was able to do it all. >> you've played dolores. >> i have, yes. >> the musical "the color purple." >> yes. ♪ i'm gonna sing ♪ >>arriet, of course, a t hrue american hero. aretha franklin, the queen of soul. ♪ i wanna sing ♪ >> these are allncy >> what drew you to these iconic roles? >> that, that very thing that they re different.

and so i think i'm drawn to those women. i thin dmi' twnra women who would --ouen o normally, if if they weren't as strong as they were, would be overlooked and undermined. but each one of them finds it in themselves to shine. >> howas h i american characters, though you're not american? >> it's been a huge honor, to be honest. my job is to try and tell their stories as fully as i possibly can. i don't know that being british stops me from doinge fore i am black woman. that's what i've known my whole life. >> you bring up these really id identity. >> we still have a reckoning to face in the uk. because that's where it started. and there's a strange denial

that they were involved. and they were, across the world. and i think the saddest thing is that we have yet to come together to have a conversation about the experiences that we've all had. >> yeah. >> you know? stops in the car by the police, i'm still petrified. >> yeah. >> that's just how it is. when i go back todoon ln part o to see mes worth s them a lot something than my white counterpart. >> you're right in that, whether i'm walking in a room, a black girl from america, or you're walking in a room, a black girl from england, someone's just going to see us as black women, period. h,eaye americans who have the criticism that there are nonamericans playing these black american icons? >> this is just one of the

times. >> yeah. >> this is a versionf a character being played.as to be the we haveen 1,500, and this is my exaggeration, versions of a story about marilyn monroe, org lincoln, or j.f. kennedy, or jackie o. we have one version for film of harriet. why can't there be more? >>'rou yore us. it is an absolutely incredible song. and it moves you. ♪ across the river freedom calling me calling me to heaven ♪ ♪ i fan citl eemy i >> i knew that were doing "harriet," i knew that i wanted in sto thg that i t needed a song to

bookmark what we had done. it felt like harriet needed an anthem for it really is telling the story of harriet in the first person. >> talk about "black joy." >> i think "black joy" is -- i don't know. even in our pain, we somehow find light. the fact that we're the two of us sitting here, the fact that thh ugro tlalhe things that our families might be going through, our ancestors have been through, we're still here, we're still make this place work for us. we're still finding ways to exist fully. that's black joy. >> our thanks to janai. a programming note, "soul of a nation" airs tuesday evening, 10/9 central, only on abc.

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finally tonight, united we stand. thcounity of boulder, colorado, grieving the deaths of ten neighbors killed in a mass shooting a the a supermarket. now finding hope and healing from one another. remembering the names of those lost, leaving flowers and all their love, sending prayers and blessings, and reminding the nation, boulder strong. anhaniinors evening. you can catch our full episodes on hulu. we'll,ouee yig r sa