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moore. our first guess is senator tim scott. you are on the finance and small business and entrepreneurship committees. senator scott, welcome to axios. sen. scott: thank you for having me. good to see you again. mike: working on the idea of financial literacy, pulling it out, promoting it. mike: -- sen. scott: as a kid raised in poverty, the issue of financial literacy is something i wish i would have understood earlier in life. it was my 20's before i started understanding and appreciating that what you look like on paper might be more important than what you look like in person, so financial literacy has so much to do with your future success and present opportunities, and having not learned those lessons early in life, i wanted to make sure that part of my focus is on making sure americans today, no matter their income, have access to financial literacy and, frankly, the more you find yourself in a marginalized community, the more important financial literacy is. mike: there's a lot of conversation about financial inclusion.

and news the police chief spoke to travis scott before the concert about safety. marcus moore now from houston. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi is now assisting in the criminal investigation into this deadly crowd surge at houston's astroworld music festival. ♪ the families of the eight killed, who range in age from 14 to 27, demanding answers. >> you go to a concert to have fun, you don't go to a concert to die. >> reporter: 50,000 fans filled nrg stadium friday for the first night of the two-day concert headlined by rapper travis scott. when scott took the stage a little after 9:00 p.m., concertgoers pushed their way forward, seen here in this apple livestream, pressing others into the barricades. quentin sauvage's brother fell and got trapped underneath a mountain of bodies for 20 minutes. once free, they made their way to event staff. >> i was like, there are people dying. like, you have to cancel the show. and the guy said, word for word, "it's a mosh pit, what do you expect?" >> reporter: at one point, the crowd heard chanting, "stop the show." by 9:30, authorities say, re

we're learning more about the victims as scott himself speaks out. marcus mooreon with more on the investigation. good morning, marcus. >> reporter: robin, good morning. you can see that growing memorial justout side the concert venue behind me. the brother of one of the people who was trampled to death said, you go to a concert to have fun, not to die. this morning, grieving families are asking what went wrong here and who's accountable. this morning, multiple lawsuits against travis scott, live nation, and even rap superstar drake, filed after the astroworld music festival in houston turned deadly. >> reports of people getting stepped a criminal investigation into the concert that left at least eight people dead and many others hurt. 50,000 fans gathering to see rapper travis scott, a houston native, and astroworld founder perform. ♪ as he took to the stage around 9:15 p.m., the crowd as seen in this apple music livestream pushing their way forward, forcing people into the barricades. >> our barricade even started to break and security had to come over to us an

forward to describe the deadly chaos at the travis scott concert, a situation many say should have been stopped much sooner than it was. abc's marcus moorew! >> reporter: they are the alarming and frightening cries of desperation. >> turn the lights on! >> reporter: these videos posted on social media are giving us a firsthand look at what happened at the astroworld music festival friday night. >> water, anyone got water? >> reporter: fans caught in a crushing, tangled pile of people. [ screaming ] as the concert rages on around them, one person seen dialing 911. at least eight people were killed, all of them younger man 30. dozens more seriously hurt. 9-year-old ezra blunt, who attended the astroworld concert, is fighting for his life. >> i just want there to be some accountability. >> reporter: his grandfather talked to abc affiliate ktrk. >> for my grandson to end up the way he did something terrible happened. you know, he's a small, innocent child. he didn't deserve that. >> people were begging for help, they were overwhelmed, the security there wasn't enough security. everyone, everyone needed help. >> reporter: stephanie sandoval w

moore from houston again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new videos from the astroworld music festival revealing just how tightly packed fans were near the stage to see travis scott. in their criminal investigation, authorities in houston are trying to figure out what led to the surge that has now killed at least eight people, all younger than 30. houston's mayor telling me every aspect of the disaster is under review. >> looking at the security operation plan, looking at where people were positioned, looking at how this whole area was designed. >> reporter: at what is now a crime scene, investigators today poring over mounds of personal belongings left behind. 50,000 people watched as scott hit the stage just after 9:00 p.m. friday. fans swarming to the front to see the rapper. concertgoers said they had very little room to move or breathe. this video shows him climbing a platform to plead with the camera operator to stop the show. >> i went up to him, you know, begging him because my friend's in that pit. it was just fear. >> reporter: these new images from inside a heap of trapped bodies shows concertgoers crying out for help. one person seen dialing 911. the

. >>> now to new details on travis scott concert disaster that left eight people dead and hundreds injured. marcus moore with new questions about safety and the response. good morning, marcus. >> reporter: well, michael, good morning. some of the most severely injured are still recovering from their injuries in the hospital this morning as the memorial behind me grows and those pressing questions remain about what went wrong here last week. they were among the tens of thousands who packed into this high energy and sold out concert last week but this morning, three young people are in hospitals, two in critical condition. among them 22-year-old texas a&m student here. her family says she's on a ventilator and showing no brain activity after she was severely hurt at the concert. the youngest victim, 9-year-old ezra blount whose family says he fell from his dad's shoulders was crushed by the crowd. >> i don't have words for it. i don't know how they could have allowed those things to happen to him or anyone else's child. >> i could never imagine anything like this just happening. [ crowd chanting stop the

scott stopping the performance and calling for aid, later issuing a statement saying he's devastated. pledging to help those impacted. and a growing makeshift memorial appearing at a gate to remember the victims. marcus moore leads us off from houston. >> reporter: these horrific images capturing the first night of a two-day concert descending into chaos, leaving at least eight people dead and dozens hurt. >> somebody help jump in real quick. >> reporter: authorities in houston tonight, trying to figure out how it happened. >> it looks like folks are coming out of the crowd complaining of difficulty breathing, crushing injuries. seems like the crowd is compressing from what i can tell. >> reporter: officials say there were nearly 50,000 at friday's astroworld festival, headlined by founder and rapper travis scott. when the crowd began to surge toward the front of the stage, pushing fans to the ground and crushing others at the outdoor venue. >> stop the show! stop the show! >> reporter: at one point, the crowd chanting "stop the show" as an injured person lay on the ground. it was 23-year-old arturo sanchez's third travis scott concert. sanchez was hospitalized after he fell to the ground and sffered a hea

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and in a moment we'll speak live with travis scott's attorney as the death toll in that houston concert tragedy rises to nine, but first back to marcus moore reporter: cecilia, good morning. as this investigation stretches into another day, the death toll as you mentioned sadly is rising. 22-year-old bharti shahani died from her injuries. she was a senior at texas a&m university and was at the concert with family. she suffered multiple heart attacks authorities say as she was crushed by the crowd. it's been nearly a week since it left eight others dead and hundreds hurt and there was chaos long before the gates even opened, and in the days since there's been finger pointing about who could have or who should have stopped the show. and whether or not it could have stopped sooner by travis scott, the organizers or even houston police. this morning, no one has been held accountable, and there's no clear answers on what exactly went wrong. cecilia, the police chief said this is a criminal investigation, and that it could months for them to find answers as to what went wrong at this concert. cecilia? >> okay, marcus, thank you so much. and as y