are now learning from authorities she actually closed that door when she realized there was an active shooter but it didn't lock. now, this discrepancy is coming as we are now starting to see the first of what will be many funerals here in this community. even as you walk around, it's hard to find people who weren't personally affected by this. even if not directly, they know someone who was. while we will see families mourning and funerals that will continue into tomorrow, this community will be mourning right there with them. one week ago 19 families sent their children to school and they never came home, leaving loved ones only memories as community members, even actor matthew mcconaughey, whose hometown is uvalde, comes to pay their respects. those close to the 21 killed can't help but think about those last moments as they prepare to lay their own to rest.

the funeral of 10-year-old rodriguez -- >> her classmates said she was brave and she was grabbing all the other student and telling them to hide before the gunman turned on her. she was so brave and courageous to tell the kids to hide. >> reporter: a heartbroken community attending five funerals today, four children and one teacher among the 21 killed. it's unclear during what point this video was taken. it was videotaped by a man who told cnn he heard the dispatch from a radio controlled border and customs control vehicle outside the school, adding new concerns about what law enforcement knew during that

hour they were still waiting to enter the classroom. one border a patrol agent ran to the school when he heard about shots fired. >> the kids were jumping out through the window. >> reporter: at least two children called 911 multiple times begging police to come while the gunman was still inside their classroom. >> the information is flowing in, why doesn't dps have that information, the fbi, the local police. it's a failure at every level. >> one child told the 911 operator eight or nine students were still alive. law enforcement was aware kids were inside the classroom. >> he is in a room full of windows. >> reporter: at what point do people not use some common sense here, listen to 911 calls that are coming in, understand that the kids are still awillive ins,

know they have to go in there and do their jobs under the active shooter protocol. >> one teacher who escaped the shooting said she wants the blame to be on the gunman. >> i hate that we have to look for blame to someone outside the person who did this to us. >> the families are left with more questions than answers. >> she isn't just another victim. she's a hero that ten years wasn't enough. >> and, omar, i understand you're getting new information about the uvalde school district police chief. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: i learned from the mayor's office a little easier this evening that school district police chie f pete

arredondo was important is in today. he made an appearance in person to be sworn in of course after being duly elected. the texas department of public safety says they haven't heard from him in days in response to their request for a follow-up interview in regards to what happened. the texas department of public safety said he was the one that made the decision not to initially breach that classroom, don. >> omar, thank you very much. let's continue on and discuss the story. we're going to bring in uvalde county commissioner ronald gardner. >> thank you for having me on your network. >> you heard the school district police chief not responding to investigators. this is a man who decided that officers should not immediately breach the classroom where the shooter was barricaded. why do you think he isn't cooperating? >> you know, i have no idea.

i'm kind of like you. i don't know any details as to why chief arredondo is not cooperating. >> and no one is updating you on this situation? >> no, i have not been updated as to any details or any breaking news. >> so also you just heard the report that chief arredondo was important is in as a city counselor tonight. are you comfortable taking that on given what's under investigation now? >> well, you know, as a county commissioner, we have no jurisdiction over the city, but as an individual here, a lifelong resident, he was

elected, he was elected by the people of uvalde and sworn in. the voters and the residents of uvalde have, you know, they might not be in agreement with his swearing in but, yes, he did take the oath of office and rightly so. >> and there's nothing that they could do at this point. listen, i understand, i'm sure the mayor and the folks in the city are under tremendous pressure because he is duly elected but there are families who have some concerns. i understand the hesitation here. >> yes. >> so, commercial, first authority said a teacher propped open a door that a gunman used to get into the school. now they're saying it happened differently. how is your community dealing with all of those conflicting reports? it must be so difficult for the grieving families who are disparate for answers right now. >> we all want answers. it's come to my attention that

that the d.o.j. is going to come in and they're an independent office, an independent branch. we welcome that. i welcome that. we need answers, especially the families, we want to know exactly what took place. >> and leaders in the community, you need answers because you don't want this to ever happen again. i know there's a lot of anger in your community tonight. i visited there. what is the most important question the people of uvalde need answered? >> i think why the decision was made to kind of just stand back, you know, or stand by with calls coming in from the children, you know, why that decision was made. another thing that comes up, we

have such a strong law enforcement presence right now in uvalde. we have an abundance of dps officers, border patrol agents. so the question that i'm hearing from people, the concerns i'm hearing is, you know, where was all this presence, you know. why not at the school on the day of the shooting. >> commissioner, we're told that some. resi -- some of the residents are calling for upping the minimum age for guns and others want to arm teachers. what age will you be pushing for? >> i was hesitant at first to kind of not weigh in on these measures, but as one of the leaders of our community, you know, it's incumbent upon me and other leaders to speak up about

the minimum age. why 18? why can any 18-year-old just go and purchase a semiautomatic weapon? you know, i decided to speak up, to take a stand on this because i have grandchildren. i have grandchildren at our public schools here and we need to step up for the kids. i mean, they're our most precious resource. this is just one sense lless ac of violence that attacked our most vulnerable people and that's our young children and our teachers. as far as arming the teachers, in my opinion, that wouldn't be a good idea. that would be like militarizing our schools. you know, that would i think take away from educators doing their job and teaching our students. however, i do believe that there should be more security, more

cameras, more measures undertaken that would create a safe environment. >> commissioner, it's a small community. you know the gunman's family. do they have any idea of why he carried out this horrific shooting? >> you know, i have no idea. i've tried to remain consistent during the interviews that i've had, and the family of the gunman is a good family. i knew the great grandparents, grandparents, uncles, aunts. they've been a pillar of our community for many years. they value faith, they value church, hard work. but, no, i have no idea the motive of the gunman. >> commissioner garza, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. >> so as we have been discussing, the uvalde community is dealing with a nightmare that gets even worse as more details

of the shooting emerge. and across the country while parents may not be mourning personal losses, they are dealing with their own agony, living in constant fear that their child's school will be next. i want to bring in senior analyst john avalon and security analyst julia kieet. >> i know your family. we're friends. this shatters your world. tell me what you mean. >> when we confront school shootings in elementary schools, we've only done this one other time i've been covering this stuff, sandy hook. when you have kids, it shatters your world to think of these children being massacred in a place they're supposed to be safest. it shatters your world to think about the loss, the unimaginable

loss that the parents are suffering. it just breaks down those walls that are sometimes behind us or that we build to protect ourselves when we're covering these kind of stories and we're just forced to confront not just the evil of the assault but the devastation that doesn't go away and it calls on us to be more empathetic and think a little bit bigger. but if you think about it deeply, it will get to you and it should. >> do you just want to scream when you hear some of the excuses people come up with about not making any changes or what's going db -- i know it has to bother you. >> what does it take? every time we couldn't somebody it takes a small amount of moral obligation -- when people

retreat to abstractions or hide behind politics of a gun lobby, i appreciate the second amendment, i appreciate that people deal with guns in different ways. we don't need to have these absolutist debates but we do need to start thinking about the fact that it only happens here. i was looking, don, at a cnn study we did a couple years ago, to 2018. there were none in england, two in france, none in germany, none in japan. it only happens here. we cannot accept this as normal. it's not normal. so we can't get numb to it. >> juliette, perhaps some of the folks -- i would hope their intentions are good when they say we need to arm more people in the schools. perhaps we should arm teachers.

they must believe that if they are proposing it. i mean -- >> yeah. i see three things happening now to try to i think minimize what happened. i think the first is this focus on the public safety response. i more than anyone think it's important as well, it's the world i live in, we have to learn wapd. these changing stories are disconcerting. the delay is unimaginable what those kids went through. but it's not the reason why 19 kids are dead. we have to continue to focus on the gunman. the second thing they're doing what i called that first night of sanitizing what happened. i may be accused of being a little bit too graphic in my coverage here but i think it is

very important that we -- basically, these are weapons that if a grown man like the two of you would act like a grenade inside of you, imagine what happened to children, what happened to the children and they had to identify and they were unidentifiable. we cannot let words like killed or shot minimize or sanitize what happened. and the third thing is john got to it clearly is this sense that we can only play defense. the only solution is arm more parents, get one door. you can't possibly think that defense is the only way we're going to protect our children. we wouldn't go on defense in our own daily lives, we go on offense, all sorts of things to protect them. those three things are happening simultaneously. i think it's important that we

ka them out and also realize for all of our plays, we are a and and there are those who would say this is normal, this just happens. >> but isn't the point of all this to stop obviously the killing, at the top of the 10:00 hour i played the recording that was sent to parents. "there is is an active shooter in the school. don't come to the school eye eye. who want to get that cone? i think through we had all the attention from that. and i think, okay, so the best

care scenario is a guy walks in a with gun and doesn't kill but kills two. is that where we are, that our standard of success we have to change the way we're talking about this to realize this is absolutely not normal, it's not inevitable and we can at least minimize the harm if we don't fall into the trap that they're setting for us. >> i want to think as a parent, what are you feeling? and what do you think other parents are feeling? >> look, it tears you up but you've got to get yourself out of the emotion. every time you think about the children and the families, it's going to cause you to tear up if your engaged with your heart, not your head. but then as a state we got to staten the civic aren't enough.

and let's not make the perfect enemy the good. stop coming up for excuses for why we should accept this. how many more times does this need to happen? how many more kids are going to have to be buried? 18-year-olds can't buy a beer but they buy an ancht r. 15. the polling shows super majority support for a lot of measures. they wouldn't stop all these issues. but that's not the point. let's make some progress so now we can start a that's how democracy is spo. >> is there a big are hug, a bigger good-bye in the morning now when you send jack and tula off to school in. >> i think statistically you can't live in fear, but the

night they came home, the next morning when i had the talk with them, see if they'd heard anything about it, i went to chap who were clearly shattered by simply the reports of what happened. knowing what we knew. >> thank you guys. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, uvalde boolg t orgn that sets strictct quality and purity standards. nature madade. the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.

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. so another mass shooting, another call for answers to america's epidemic of gun violence. just how many guns are out there? how many? the u.s. has more than half the guns in the entire world. more than 393 million. be so joining me now to discuss this, cameron mcwerter, the staff writer at the wall street jou journal. thank you for coming on. i appreciate it. >> glad to be here. not glad about why i'm here. >> you can't imagine that list of shooting involving an.r.-15

file weapons. what are they used for? >> a private company created them at the request of an american army general to fight the cold war, to fight insurge e insurgents and allies fighting in asia. it was the perfect gun for that. the man that created it, eugene stoter, created an amazing gun. it's a very light weapon, it's very eithery to shoot. i unfortunately, it's incredibly easy for a young teen-age boy who doesn't have a lot of military training to go in and hurt a lot of people really

quickly. >> looking at google trends, you can see "buy a.r.-15s." what's happening here? are people stalking up on guns after these mass tragedies? >> that's exactly what's happening. people were predicting an assault weapons ban. they would go out and buy more. you can trace the sales. after each massive -- sandy hook is the primary shocking example but on and on after these shootings, a.r.-15 sales would spike. everybody wanted these guns, if they were advocates of gun

rights. it became a political act, you say, to buy a gun. >> how do you think that started. >> i think the assault weapons ban of 1994 played a big role of turning that gun into a political totem that people used to signify they are gun rights advocates. so in 1994 just before the ban was passed, government estimates that there were 400,000 of these types of rifles in civilian hands and today nobody really knows, but industry estimates are upwards of 20 million. it could be much higher than that. >> my goodness. >> cameron mcwerter, the upcoming book is "american gun." glad to have you here. wish it was under better

circumstances. >> thank you. >> quote, i was wrong. that's what the secretary is saying about major prices. what they're doing to stop prices from m soaring. that is next. burning sensati. what is this nightmare? it's how some people describe... shingles. a painful, blistering rash that could interrupt your life for weeks. forget social events and weekend getaways. if you've had chickenpox, the virus that causes shingles is already inside of you. if you're 50 years or older ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingles.

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and americans, too, as they find themselves paying more for everything from gas to groceries. the president meeting with the fed chair, jerome powell and jan yet yellen today. just tonight the president's secretary admitting she was wrong about inflation. >> i think i was wrong about the path that inflation would take. there have been long shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottle necks that have affected our economy badly that i at the time didn't full little understand. >> there's a whole lot to talk about. gene, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, don.

>> you saw the secretary admitting she made a mistake. let the fed continue doing its job, make things more affordable for families. how is that going to lower prices? >> i think you heard there were three unanticipated events, delta, omicron and the unthinkable in ukraine. what the president says and i think the important point is that the strength we've had in this recovery are the record jobs, the historic drop in unemployment, those things cannot go on forever.

but they do position us with strength to make the transition to a more stable and balanced economy with more -- with lower prices and without having to give up those historic gains that we've made. what the president said in his op-ed and i think he discussed today was that, first of all, he's going to start with the view that a president should respect the independence of the federal reserve. five presidents since 1960, don, have sought to berate or bully the federal reserve chairman when they were making tough choices to raise rates. he made clear he's not doing that and he agrees inflation is the number one challenge -- >> let me respond to that and i'll let you get number two in. this is real for americans. i understand what you said about secretary yellen but she is

admitting that she made a mistake. the virus has been with us for three years now. thinking there was going to be another strain, i think that should have been anticipated, especially if you have doctors telling you there are going to be new strains. the war, this is real for americans. i don't think we should be putting or the white house or advisers to the president should be painting a rosie picture. did it take too long for the administration to realize how bad it was the inflation and how high prices are going. now to focus on -- i'm going to take a month and focus on the economy. shouldn't that have happened sooner? >> so, don, i think this administration has understood from the start that even if this is a global issue, which it is, that it's very little comfort to an american family going -- driving up to the gas pump or

going through a grocery line that inflation is also 9% in the u.k. or 8% in other european countries. and so this has been a top priority for a long time. what the secretary said was that some of the continuation was unanticipated. as we saw that, we of course made adjustments. i think the federal reserve is making adjustments, too, to tam manytamp down on inflation. one of the things you've seen the president start to emphasize since we've seen the inflation be more sustained is the idea of bringing down the deficit. remember when you're trying to jump start the economy, you increase the deficit, give it stimulus. when you're trying to dampen inflation, you pull back. we're down $1.5 trillion and the president is proposing a minimum

tax on the most well off americans to bring down the deficit even further. during all the things the administration was doing, working with the ports to make sure there were not supply chains that affected christmas here, this administration has been extremely focused and been the source of every idea, releasing the strategic petroleum reserve, pushing for prescription drug prices tho come -- to come down or insulin to be capped. we are still going to do everything in our power to be the wind at the federal reserve's back. >> excuse me for coughing. the administration was saying

they didn't believe there was going to be long lasting even after new strands of the virus coming. >> don, i don't think there was ever a time when the administration's projections differed from the overwhelming number of forecasters and central banks and economists all over the world. i really don't know anyone who projected delta, then omicron then really almost unthinkable russian aggression to royal gas prices. what you do in an administration when you're governing is you adjust to the circumstances and they've what we've done. i think it is unfair to look back to a period before omicron, before delta and putin's unthinkable invasion and say why didn't you have a crystal ball? i think the president was always focused with more stable growth. >> i don't think people are saying that. i understand the war part. but we were in the middle of a global pandemic when it

happened. and pandemics are not predictable. and to -- i just don't believe that -- >> i believe that's one of the reasons why -- i think that's one of the reasons why actually you should lock aok at the amer rescue plan and we gave cities and school districts and a couple of years to roll out their funds pro ecisely so thatf there were bumps along the road, we would not see the recovery derailed. i think the policy of living everyone up and the duration of the american recovery act has provided a cushion. i don't think it's right to say we didn't foresee it. let's not take for granted we have 3.6% unemployment rate, that black and his panic is lowr today than we had in 2020.

we had record job growth. that does not mean we escaped the global phenomenon of inflation but i think this president has been focused on having the back of working families every single day of his career and certainly every single day of his presidency. >> i don't disagree with what you said. all i'm saying is i think the weakest defense is the omicron and the delta variants because we were in the middle of a global pandemic that was unpredictable. that's all i'm asking, could you have looked at options in case things got worse instead of thinking things got better. i understand your argument. i'll take you at your word. i do think the american rescue plan did help and i thank you for coming on. thank you, gene sperling. >> thanks for having us, i appreciate it. >> now claimate change may make

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a warning tonight that major parts of the u.s. could be facing blackouts this summer due to extreme heat. the nation's electric grid not built to handle the extreme weather of climate change.

rene marsh gives us a look at who could be affected and where. >> reporter: as wildfires burn and temperatures rise across the nation, a sobering new report warns the u.s. power system could buckle, triggering energy emergencies this summer. the upper midwest and mid south along the mississippi face the highest risk of blackouts. texas, the west coast and southwest face an increased risk. >> the electric system is old and so it's not designed to withstand the impacts of climate change. >> extreme temperatures trigger a surge in demand and that taxes the grid. an early heat wave has already talked six power plants offline in texas this month. in oklahoma, heat also played a role in blackouts. >> it's like a walk-in freezer. >> and last year the texas power grid completely failed under a deep freeze. 246 people died. >> an energy crisis can become a public health privacy, a food crisis. >> yami newell has seen the

effects in her hometown of chicago. >> for a wealthier family, if they have a power outage and all the food in their refrigerator goes bad, they may be able to afford to go back to the store. a family on a restricted income may not be able to go back and refill the coffers. >> and solar panels dot the rooftops of a public housing complex. a backup drive stores energy creating what the state energy company calls a microgrid. >> without power, we're talking about potential life threatening situations. this microgrid delivers power even when the power isn't there. >> it is pending approval. in the event of a blackout, it

can disconnect and operate independently, tapping energy to power the homes, police stations and hospitals in the area for four hours. >> we have seen a reluctance on the part of many utilities to factor climate change into their planning processes because they say the climate is too uncertain. >> reporter: planning for extreme projections is more expensive. >> so we're continuing to design and site facilities based on historic weather patterns that we know in the age of climate change aren't a good proxy for future conditions. >> as communities work to build a more resilient grid, bronzeville is a possible blueprint for creating a backup for when climate wreaks havoc on the grid. compounding the problem is drought. one u.s. grid regulator tells cnn there's been a 2% loss of

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