It's the holiday season and a survivor of the Robb Elementary shooting is holding her family close and surrounding herself in love.

Angered by the unrelenting toll from gun violence, tens of thousands of people are expected at rallies this weekend in the nation’s capital and around the United States demanding that Congress pass meaningful changes to gun laws.

The Texas House of Representatives committee investigating the Robb Elementary School shooting will hold a hearing on Thursday morning in Austin.

An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, has told members of Congress how she covered herself in her dead classmate’s blood and played dead to avoid being shot.

Miah Cerrillo, 11, was among the small group of Uvalde survivors and community members who testified at a House hearing Wednesday, offering details about the incident and the devastation to those left behind.

More than two weeks after she survived the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School by covering herself in her friend’s blood, 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo appeared before Congress to share her experience and push for school safety.

A 4th-grade survivor will join the parents of a 10-year-old killed inside Robb Elementary to testify in front of a U.S. House committee on gun violence.

Congress on Wednesday morning heard from 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo, a Uvalde girl who covered herself in her classmate’s blood and played dead in order to survive the Robb Elementary mass shooting.

Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week as Congress debates gun measures.

A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school says she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.

An 11-year-old student at Robb Elementary School smeared herself in her friend’s blood and played dead in an effort to survive Tuesday’s shooting.