thelma gutierrez is working the story for us. she has the latest from l.a. thelma?rtment is expected to hold a news conference. now we are learning more about the gunman. he's 32-year-old eduardo sencion. he's a resident of carson city who worked at a family business in south lake tahoe. sencion opened fire on a group of national guardsmen who were having breakfast at an ihop restaurant yesterday morning with an ak-47. four people were killed, including three guardsman and a civilian who happened to be in the line of fire. in total, 11 people were shot in the rampage. investigators say sencion continued firing his weapon as he left the restaurant, shooting a woman in the parking lot on his way out. witnesses say people were running for cover and hiding under vehicles. >> all of a sudden, we heard a bunch of fire -- heard a bunch of shots going off. loud shots. it was crazy. we see people running out of the building. i asked some people that were running out, what happened? what happened? there were people hiding underneath cars telling me to call cops. and i was --

as part of our special, latino in america, thelma gutierrez reunites us one one of those children. >>n she was 13. she was in the middle of one of herty maul tuus times of her life. her family was about to be separated for good. we followed julie's story for four years to document the impact of deportation and separation on american children born to undocumented parents. there are an estimated 4 million kids just like her. julie's nightmare began in 2006 when immigration agents arrested her mother, a hotel maid who had been working without documents in burien, washington. >> i was there when they handcuffed her. i was there when they took her down. >> julie's mother, anna, her stepfather and two older brothers were all deported. julie and her sister, shiri, both americans and still children, had no choice but to follow. julie was a stranger in a foreign land and that's where we first found her, in a cramped house in the middle of mexico city, where anna sold tacos on the street, shirif played on the asphalt and julie had dropped out of school. >> how did you do in school? >> really ba

gutierrez. she's been following the shooting for us. thelma, you can hear the gunfire. >> reporter: yeah, brooke. they're absolutely chilling. i talked to sheriff furlong, he's the sheriff the carson city, he's been the sheriff for eight years. he held the first victim, a woman shot in the head, he describes the scene as horrific. something that he had never experienced before, brooke. he said it looked like a bloodbath. that many of the victims were butchered where they sat. >>let listen to the sound. >> while numerous guardsmen were attacked, an equal number of civilians were similarly assaulted. therefore, we cannot conclude at this time that our military forces were being specifically targeted. >> thelma, let me follow-up with this question. if they can't say yes, these members of the national guard were targeted, yet they're also saying hold off on wearing uniforms, what is the final decision on this? or is it still just under investigation. >> reporter: well, brooke, the sheriff told us that this case is under investigation. but he said

thelma gutierrez looks at the emotional issue. >> reporter: in arizona, it's a battle for the classroomt to teach american history, government, literature and art from a mexican-american perspective. >> culture clash tackles what kind of issues would we call those? social justice issues. >> reporter: ethnic studies instructors call it an academic awakening. >> i want people to know we're proud of our contributions. >> reporter: but former state superintendent of schools tom horne, now attorney general of arizona, says he couldn't disagree more. >> in the mexican-american studies program there was a very radical group of teachers who are teaching kids that the united states is dominated by a white male, racist, imperial power structure. >> reporter: he says some of the books used in the classroom are radical and have no place in the classroom. a law passed in arizona last year bans courses that, quote, either promote the overthrow of the united states government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people. but sean arsay, direct aror of the mexican-american studies program say

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