autocracy, between liberty and repression. between appetites and ambition of a few, who forever seek to dominate the lives and liberties of many. >> tonight, we're thinking of all who gave their lives or lost a loved one in the fight for freedom, to thank them for their sacrifice and their service. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, the investigation into the deadly texas school shooting ramping up as troubling new video reveals what police knew while they waited outside of that classroom. plus, the maker of the weapon used in the rampage, it's a family-run company with a history of aggressive and provocative ads, who are they? and putin makes a push for a crucial city in eastern ukraine, what it could mean for the war if russia prevails. let's go "outfront." good evening, a everyone, i'm poppy harlow in for erin

burnett, welcome to a special edition of "outfront" and tonight, growing outrage in uvalde texas, new footage appears to show police knew the children were still alive inside that classroom as they waited outside for back-up. listen. >> a child, she is in the room full of victims at this moment. >> cnn not able to independently confirm the source of that audio not when it was heard exactly but this adds so much to questions about why the gunman remained inside the classroom with students more than an hour before he was killed by a border patrol tactical response team. now the justice department is conducting their own independent review of the police response and president biden vowing to get something done after meeting with the families of the 19 students and two teachers killed in that mass shooting.

>> most who are victimized, their families, they spent three hours and 40 minutes with me. the pain is palpable and i think a lot of it is unnecessary so i'm going to continue to push -- >> lucy was "outfront" live from uvalde and lucy, what is happening in the community now as they learn more, as they hear audio like we just played? >> reporter: well, poppy, people have been streaming in here all day, all weekend long to lay down flowers, candles, stuffed animals, to mourn and pray for the 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down that tuesday. as we speak, there is a rosary service and a visitation held for a am, e, amerie, and a funel service for maiteh rodriguez who

dreamed of becoming a marine biologist, these funerals taking place as new chilling details emerge painting the last final moments of what happened inside that school. take a look. >> reporter: a chaotic scene as police rush to evacuate children. dispatch audio feeling some police were aware at some point that kids were still trapped inside. more devastating details from officials of at least two children calling 911 multiple times, pleading for help as the gunman is still inside the school. for more than an hour, before police enter a classroom and kill him. frustrated at the scene by one account, the border patrol decides to go in without orders from the police chief and command. >> from that point, the cpp team that went in in frustration said, we're going in. the police response is now under investigation by the department

of justice. at the end of the day, everybody failed here. we failed these children. >> there were maybe some errors that were made. i am filled with anger but i feel no hatred towards him. we were thankful to have ellie for the nine years of her life with us. >> reporter: two services are taking place today, visitation and rosary for amerie jo garza and a memorial service for maiteh rodriguez. president biden visited uvalde on sunday to offer support for the victims, the second time he's visited a community devastated by a mass shooting in the last two weeks. the most critically wounded were brought to san antonio university health hospital. >> blood bank is on their way -- >> reporter: cnn got exclusive access inside. >> this is one of the teams we formed and the day of the mass kulgs event. >> reporter: as pediatric trauma medical center director little i know and her team drilled for another mass shooting.

. four of the victims were brought right here to university hospital, three little girls and the shooter's grandmother. some of the doctors and nurses say that responding to these kinds of mass shootings is taking a personal toll. >> i kind of fell back to when i was ten years back. and so when i was ten years old, my family immigrated to this country and my biggest challenge was learning to speak english and you just can't imagine what these children are going through. and it's really unfair. it's really unfair. >> reporter: you heard the emotion from the surgeon there, poppy and, you know, this is someone trained to deal with human beings on their absolute worst days. these doctors can help heal some of the physical wounds, but they

worry about the invisible, emot emotional scars that these kids are going to carry the rest of their lives. >> lucy, thank you for that, to you and your team and for speaking to that surgeon, just hearing from her meant so much, we really appreciate your reporting on the ground. "outfront" now, anthony barksdale, cnn law enforcement analyst and former, acting baltimore police commissioner, former assistant secretary of office of security, and author of living in the age of disasters and what a disaster this has been, thank you for being here. commissioner barksdale let me begin with you, you saw it in that surgeon's face and tears the hardest thing she had to learn in this country at the age of 10 was how to speak english and look what the children are going through now, and the 911 dispatch audio shows us, we can hear it. the kids are in the classroom, calling again, and again, saying there are multiple victims and police are still waiting

outside. is there any reason police should not have immediately broken down that door? after hearing that audio? >> there's absolutely no reason inspect no justifiable reason. if you know that there's a child calling that's still alive, you go in. that's what you do. you go in. at all cost. you -- even if you don't know what's going on, you don't know how many people are -- i don't even want to say that. you go in. >> julia, to build on what the commissioner said, listen to this from texas state senator gutierrez, of course, he represents uvalde that's his

district. here's dana bash. >> i sat down with a family yesterday. mom told me her child had been shot by one bullet, through the bark, through the kidney area, the first responder talked to said their child likely bled out. in that span of 30 or 40 minutes extra, that little girl might have lived. >> right. time is everything. time was everything. is there any question in your mind, julia, that the lack of response, the lack of going in that classroom, cost childrens lives? >> no, and i think the narratives we're hearing, the first person accounts from parents that we're hearing, the jest of the answer is that time, and, time is everything. and that's why that active shooting training is rather simple -- you eliminate the

threat. all of this other going on, the phone calls, is someone, alive, someone bleeding out, none of it matters in the moment of the active shooter because it's too confusing. we can't depend on having situational awareness, having systems that are actually telling us what's happening in realtime so what we've learned over 20 years is you eliminate the threat and then everything else can happen after that. you can save more children, you can get the injured children to hospitals and you figure out what in fact is going on and we know this to be true, that the system did not work, because the incident command system broke down. the border patrol simply said this is not sustainable. we're going in. so the proof is that even the people there understood that the failure to activate, activate the protocols was a mistake. >> and thank god, you know, they finally did. commissioner barksdale, there are no national guidelines,

really standard response you got 19,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. understand that it's pretty simple at this point in terms of the instructions are go to where the gunshots are and go right away, right, that's a lesson from columbine, however, would any sort of national standard make a difference here? and by simple, i don't mean the response to it, obviously that's incredibly difficult on the ground but the point is it's clear. the direction is clear. but does that need to be standardized nationally? >> well we learned our lesson at columbine, so a national standard would help, but i don't know if all agencies understand the value of those lessons learned. we just watched this collapse happen. this deadly failure happen. so putting out the standards may help, but jurisdictions already

should be looking at this incident, should be looking at buffalo and saying we've got a national problem with young shooters with high powered weapons able to defeat basic body armor so maybe every patrol car in every jurisdiction, small to largest agency should of tactical shields that can withstand rifle fire, bullet resistant blankets, tourniquets, anything, breaching tools to get in the doors and not have to wait for a janitor to give you some keys, because you got to go when this is going on. you got to push, you got to be aggressive. you've got to be willing to die to save those behind these doors. and that's the job. so you can put your national standards out, but you have to train, you have to train, train, train, for the day that it happens. >> so julia --

>> and this whole crew failed, except for the federal officers. >> and julia, the justice department is now going on and going to lead this independent review. what can that lead to, in terms of answers, possibly saving lives in the future, or is this just about figuring out what went wrong there? >> oh it's going to be both. so one is obviously the lessons learned and may just be to reaffirm what we already knew, right, that the best situation would have been they went in early. we need to prepare for this story to change again. i study disasters and crises, i wrote about ones from the past and every narrative will change. we may come to better understandings of motivations or planning of what happened but we do know we owe it to the 21 dead, obviously, to listen to their stories in some way. what happened over the course of that long stretch and then to

memorialize it so that their parents and their families can understand how, in fact, they died. we think we know but i think we have a lot more to learn. >> you're absolutely right, this could change once again. julia, thank you very much and commissioner barksdale, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right, we have a lot ahead, "outfront" next, gun control discussions among senators right now on the frontburner but for how lodng? also cnn on the front lines as russia is on the verge of seizing a key city in eastern ukraine. >> reporter: russians already trying to get in town and may have witnessed another attempt over there. >> also, weapons that can travel five times the speed of sound. how did america fall behind russia and china? ♪and something tells me they don't beat me♪ ♪ ♪ ♪he'd better not take the ring from me.♪

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tonight, bipartisan group of senators will meet, tomorrow, to find an agreement on gun control measures. this as president biden is expressing optimism that change could come after last week's horrific shooting in uvalde. listen. >> i think things have gotten so bad that everybody's getting more rational about it. >> that is his hope and prayer, this comes as we're learning more about the controversial marketing tactics of the company that made the gun used in the uvalde shooting.

our tom foreman is "outfront" which. >> look at the contrast. the raw panic caused by a young man with an assault rifle and the slick promotional video from the company that made it. >> we love to build great gun. >> that's marty daniel, founder of danny defense, which authorities say made one of the weapons used by the uvalde shooter around his 18th birthday and which posted this provocative image of a toddler a week before the slaughter. >> it's morally unconscionable, i'm shocked but not surprised somebody is doing this, of course they are because they can and will make money doing it but they need to stop and need to either, we either shame them into stopping or legislate or regulate them into stopping. >> reporter: the company took that image down, yet georgia-based daniel defense is a small firearms company with a big knack for headlines. >> my family's safety is my highest priority. >> reporter: for example, when

the nfl refused this dannal y's ad for the super bowl because it promoted guns, marty turned the rejection into avalanche of attention. >> the majority of the superbowl fans have the same values that we have at daniel defense, and that is we believe in protecting our families. >> shame on you! >> reporter: gun control activists say the company is clearly going after young customers with nods to pop culture icons and video games, while marty keeps railing about gun control for the older sect. >> the antisecond amendment crowd looks for any excuse to ban guns any way they can. >> reporter: amid the anger after uvalde, pulling out of this year's nra convention. the company says we are deeply saddened by the tragic events. we will cooperate with all federal state and local law

enforcement authorities in their investigations. that pledge may be tested. congress is asking daniel for details about how he operates, noting your company continues to manufacture large quantities of assault weapons and aggressively market them to the public. the deadly impact of your products is by design. amid its messaging of guns, shooting sports, and growth. >> it's the quality we put into every product. >> we asked daniel defense for any further comment, still waiting on anything more from them, worth noting, though, that message from congress said they found weapons from daniel defense in the room with the shooter in vegas years ago when the people were killed at that concert though. that's the kind of spotlight that even companies like this that krafb attention may not like moving forward. >> tom foreman, thank you for that important reporting tonight ppt let me bring you a texas gun

control advocate who at greg ab o abbott's request was on two task forces in 2018 and 2019, thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >> both of those efforts ended up resulting in nothing, no meaningful gun reforms passed in texas after the mass shootings in 2018 and 2019 and you say despite this horrific massacre in uvalde at the elementary school, you don't think anything will change. why? >> it's -- it's unlikely and believe me, working in this field for so long, it hurts my heart to say it, but through my experience, in 2018 and 2019, you know, before you ever step into the ring with someone you need to be very clear-eyed about your opponent, and i learned that our state leaders, at least, realize the danger, that's out there, the threat to public safety, but they are not

going to buck their base which is becoming more and more radicalized with each day. in these meetings, the governor started them by being open to a red flag law, some laws regarding the reporting of stolen firearms, stronger storage laws, which was a good start, and it, and he ended up abandoning all of his proposals when the legislative session started so that just gives you an idea. >> our viewers looking at video of you sitting next to governor abbott, this is may of 2013, and you talked about that moment saying, 2018, you were surprised, but welcomed that he seemed very receptive, especially the red flag laws you brought them up, say this passed in indiana, say, well i'm paraphrasing, if passed in a red state should be likelihood it could do well here and then that completely, completely changed. but he did say this week, governor abbott, the status quo is unacceptable. but you have no faith in that?

>> well, you have to parse the words and read between the lines. he says the status quo is unacceptable, but what does that mean? i've also heard him say all the laws passed in 2019 will be revisited, well that wasn't very much. i think -- i was impressed in my initial meetings with him, his breadth of knowledge and understanding of the issue is very deep. he knew what a red flag was, knew what the current regulations were and that was a good start. so then, when he abandoned the proposal and ran away from it the first time, i can say hey, you know, i know there's political pressure but there was no excuse for the second time not doing anything and he and other state leaders including our lieutenant governor made clear signals that they knew the dangers that were out there and that were posed by this. our lieutenant governor said he would take an arrow to the heart to oppose the nra to pass expanded background checks while

what happened to that? nothing. and the people of texas and the people of this nation need to realize that that's where we are. they ran from their proposals because they are afraid of a base that will not bend. so that's why we have to be very realistic about the prospect of talks here. as long as they stay in power, as long as congress stays the way it is, the state legislature stays the way it is, it is going to get worse. prepare yourselves for that. so we just -- that doesn't mean we give up. we just have too recommit as individuals and find new ways to continue the fight. >> and you need those voices with the seat at the table as you had at ed scruggs thank you very much, appreciate your time tonight. "outfront" next, a key city in eastern ukraine may be about to fall as the last people there live in terror.

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a significant development tonight, eu agreed to ban 2/3 of all oil imports from russia after president volodomyr zelenskyy urged eu nations to enact an oil embargo so russia pays a higher price for invasion, slammed eu not hitting with a sixth round of sanctions. this as russia ltaking control key city. >> reporter: this is the last road, putin's forces may encircle on the two pockets of a river we're driving into. mobile, intense, at times, this

area of sevarodonetsk increasingly in russian hands, whoever you ask. we can hear the crackle of gunfire down toward the river below. we were told the russians already tried to get into town and may be witnessing another attempt. now one of the remaining bridges enter the city. our police escorts shout, drone. often used to direct artillery attacks. we are on high ground, exposed and scattered. it is a tale of two desperations here, that which makes people stay, and that which makes them finally flee.

laylet is the latter. some who stay are increasingly angry for what's left of the ukrainian state here. a young woman was killed here a day earlier by a shell. asked not to film, saying cameras attracted shelling. russia's bloody persistence and unbridaled firepower is bringing the kind of victory in the ruins they seem to cherish. this cinema was a bomb shelter, local officials said. it's unclear if, when their huge air strike hit, the russian military was aware it had been empty days earlier. >> just startling how whole chunks of this cinema had been thrown into the crater here. this is the ferocity of the airstrikes we're seeing here,

designed simply to get people out of this town. those who stay among the shards of glass feel abandoned already. >> translator: many, many people but there is no gas or water or power or anything. we asked the aid workers today when it will all come back and say there are only prostitutes, junkies and alcoholics left, that means aid workers have left here. >> reporter: lydia is carefully picking up the pieces of the air strike which he she felt the full force of in her apartment eight floors up. there's an old lady on the first floor and me with my disabled son, she says. he doesn't really understand the war is happening. retreat lingers in the empty air. if putin takes here, he may claim he's achieved some of his reduced goals in this invasion, now the choice of ukraine's leaders if this is the hill its

men and women will die on. poppy, i think the small, awful victories that putin may be trying to achieve by storming towns like severodonetsk may be a strategy to promote the idea that his war is getting some kind of success, finally, at the same time, seems to be waiting, too for western allies to get more increasingly concerned about their economies, the impact of sanctions on gas supplies and maybe exploit the cracks between that alliance. none of this, though, reducing the daily horror for ukrainian civilians, poppy. >> nick payton walsh with remarkable report, thank you. brigadier general mark kenneth, thank you very much, and in just responding to nick's reporting you saw there. how significant would gaining control of sevarodonetsk

actually be for putin? >> well i think nick is exactly right. these are small victories. they are not significant, strategic victories. putin would get a little more of luhansk, but he still has the entire area of donetsk that he would take back. so this is more for propaganda than it is for significant mil military gains. >> let me ask you about something that seems quite significant that president biden said today and really made clear that there are more limits to the type of support the u.s. is willing to send to ukraine. listen to him in this reporter's question. >> are you going to send long-range rocket systems to ukraine? >> we're not going to send ukraine rocket system that is can strike into russia. >> you commanded units with these type of rockets. why are they so important and is president biden right to rule this out? is that the prude ntd decision

right now? >> well, if we bring these rocket systems in, we basically are doubling the range of the current artillery we've already sent in and if we send our most advanced rocket that is would take it from about 25 miles range to 200 miles range and candidly, the rocket would have a warhead about five times the size of the artillery. now, unfortunately, it is being said we're giving the ukrainians just enough to fight but not enough to win, but the russians have made it very clear that this would, quote, cross a red line and it may very well be that the president is concerned about keeping this remarkable nato unity together so he may be holding back at least at the longest range rockets that these could fire. could very well be providing these systems with a shorter range fires.

>> understand, thank you very much for your time tonight and of course for your service to this country. and on this memorial day, president biden spoke about wars and those who fight them in his speech today at arlington national cemetery, he called this a day of pain and a day of pride for so many who are living without family members who died in their service to this country. >> democracy is not perfect. it's never been good -- perfect. but it's worth fighting for. if necessary, worth dying for. >> the adviser says democracy is the soul of america, a gift quote, made holy by those we've lost along the way. "outfront" next, russia is bragging about testing and using weapons that can travel five times the speed of sound. the united states isn't there yet. why? and the january 6th committee backs down from a key

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russia says it successfully launched a hyper sonic missile, video released by russian ministry of defense reportedly shows a launch of the cruise missile from the bering sea. kristen fisher is "outfront." >> this is where the magic happens, without this you don't have a hypersonic wind tunnel. >> reporter: chris combs runs the hypersonics lab in san antonio, home to the state of the art mach seven wind tunnel, a key tool in helping the u.s. catch up to china and russia in developing weapons that travel more than 5 times the speed of sound. hypersonic missiles and aircraft could be the future of warfare because their speeds and maneuve maneuverability make them extremely difficult to defend against. and there's only a handful of government-run industrial grade

hypersonic wind tunnels in the u.s. in fact, during a meeting with a defense secretary in february, two people in the room told cnn that ceos of america's largest defense contractors describe the scarcity of wind tunnels as a choke point in testing. >> for the big wind tunnel facilities, it can be one, two year wait time right in you to schedule things out. i would say six months would be pretty fast. >> reporter: a critical delay as the u.s. is still in the early stages of its hypersonics program with the air force successfully testing lockheed martin's missile calls arrow last week after three failures. but russia isn't just testing these weapons. it just became the first country to ever actually use hypersonic weapons in war, using them at least 10 times in ukraine. according to the pentagon. >> it's a consequential weapon. >> and china successfully tested a hypersonic weapon that orbited the globe last year. >> the chinese were building

wind tunnels as quickly as we were decommissioning wind tunnels. >> reporter: estimates beijing is building a new hypersonic wind tunnel every six months. >> we really need our test infrastructure, our wind tunnels, in order to be able to advance in this field and frankly, we've allowed that capability to atrophy over the past few years. >> reporter: this tunnel in texas is only waiting inches wide and took about three years to build. the biggest hypersonic wind tunnels are 8 feet wide and would take about five to ten years to build, according to combs. >> you're not putting a full-sized airplane test vehicle in any of these facilities. there's nobody in the world that's testing in a 20 foot hypersonic wind tunnel, right? that type of technology just doesn't exist. it's simply too much air. >> reporter: so instead, they test small 3-d printed models. these are the ones that are unclassified. >> these are the models that you can show us. how many models do you have that you can't show you say?

>> i can't tell you that. this is the type of thing we can have in our wind tunnel when cnn is here. >> reporter: in terms of how long it would take to catch up, this hypersonic wind tunnel took about three years to build but the big ones could take anywhere from five to ten years and china is building a new one almost every six months. kristen fisher, cnn, at the university of texas, san antonio. "outfront" next, major concession from the january 6th committee as public hearings are about to begin. why are they backing down now?

january 6th committee backing down just days before its big public hearing, this fight fight over access to the rnc's marketing data, but the committee revealing in a new court filing it wants to delay legal arguments until later this summer, ryan nobles "outfront," ryan, why, what do we know about why the committee is backing

down on this request at least for now? >> they just do not have enough time to continue this legal battle and then, if they were to win this legal battle, get all that information and then process it in a timely manner which would allow them to use them in their upcoming hearings which are going to take place in the month of june. it's just an issue of resource and see dividing and conquering with the investigative staff they have. they just don't have time to deal with this now so would rather wait until after their hearings and later in the summer. you know, this is a tactic by many republicans and trump allies who have been fighting legal challenges with the january 6th committee just trying to run out the clock because they know the committee is basically going to be done by september so the more legal hurdles they throw in the way, the tougher it is for the committee to do their job. >> sure, a lot of lawyers working overtime on that, this comes as former president trump wraps up attacks on the vice chair liz cheney, here's some of what we heard from him at a weekend in wyoming for the gop

primary rival. listen. >> there is no rhino in america who is thrown in her lot with the radical left more than liz cheney. [ crowd boos ] she has gone crazy with liz cheney support, the committee has turned the house of representatives into an instrument of political torment and repression. >> the message from the former president is clear. i just wonder what your reporting is on what cheney feels about this issue, is she worried it's hurting her. >> reporter: she is embracing it poppy, her int video last week talked about this threat to democracy of which she views donald trump as the biggest potential problem in that space and what is so interesting about this race in particular, in

wyoming is it will be a true referendum on whether or not the future of the republican party is at its core just about the big lie, because what donald trump has been forcing many republican candidates to do is embrace that in exchange for his endorsement. in places like georgia, brian kemp rejected that but didn't go out of his way to attack trump, he tried to run a separate race. in this race, cheney is running against trump and specifically, against the big lie. that's why this would be so interesting to see how republican voters respond. >> and absolutely will. ryan, thanks so much for your reporting tonight. "outfront" next, she was a trailblazer in the kitchen, so far beyond. we're going to preview "julia" which premiers tonight on cnn. i've always been into health, and wellness, and fitness... i tried everything with diet and exercise, and nothing worked. there was justst kinda this stubborn area on my stomach. but coolsculpting worked for me! coolsculpting targets, freezes and eliminates treated fat for good. no needles, no incisions. discuss coolsculpting with your provider.

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i resigned in protest because chesa boudin interfered in every single case and failed to do his job. the office is absolutely in disarray right now. chesa dissolved my unit prosecuting car break-ins. now criminals flock to san francisco because there are no consequences. we can't wait. recall chesa boudin now. julia childs has been inspiring millions to take risks and try new things in the kitchen for decades, now the new cnn film, "julia" tells the story of the pioneer chef that changed the way americans think about food, television and women, here's a preview. >> people could learn from her.

i can learn to cook at my age and you can learn at your age as well. >> cooking is, lots of it, one failure after another and that's how you finally learn. now, just like that. it's very nice to know that you can make all these goodies yourself. >> she opened doors for me as a person that i could cook. >> we're making the stew of stews! the -- >> we would go buy the ingredient and see cook that meal. she seemed so unpretenchous you

thought if she could do it, you could do it. >> so happy to bring out now, julie cohen, one of th julia wh premiers on cnn in just a few minutes. so beloved since the days of black and white television. i just wonder what it is about her that made you want to tell this story. >> well, you know, we had told the story of justice ginsberg, rbg, looking for someone who changed america in a very different way. julia really did, a deceptively important figure. she changed our whole culture. >> she never considered herself a feminist but no question she was a trail blazer. what did she many to so many? >> you know, she meant so much to women who could look at what she was doing on television, at her age, by the way, julia childs wasn't a tv figure at all until she was already 50 years old and people really saw her as someone that they could learn a

lot from about cooking but also just about the pleasures of food and of wine and the idea that she came on tv at the time in the early '60s, the idea that a women on television would teach you something was pretty new. women were supposed to be window dressing. >> imagine that. she is one of the my earliest memories in my life, she was really just sort of in our household my mother was such a great cook and i learned so much from her. i cannot wait to see the film very quickly. biggest surprise, as you learn more about her story. >> a love story that's not only romantic and beautiful but down c downright sexy, we called julia's pair and almond tart a sexy tart and when you see the film i think you'll know why. >> can't wait to see it and everybody is about to see it right here on cnn.

congratulations to you and betsy on the whole film, thank you very much. they tell me i have an extra 30 seconds so how different was this for you? telling the rbg story? >> it was a whole different story. a whole like culinary delight's galore and if people have a few more seconds before the film starts i would urge you to run to your refrigerator, if you don't have a salad like i do, grab whatever's there because trust me in a few minutes you're going to be very hungry. >> and good wine as well. tonight is not the night to diet, you can start that in the morning. congratulations to you and the team, we can't wait to see it and we're so happy to have it premiering tonight. right here, on cnn. thank you again, and now, you're off the hook. go enjoy the film. >> thanks poppy, bon appétit.

>> bon appétit to everyone, thank you so much for joining us this ev this evening, the cnn film "julia" begins rigight now . ♪