♪ hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn "newsroom," new details emerging about the terrifying moments teachers first realized a gunman was on campus in uvalde, texas. we're live in hong kong, police closed off parts of victoria park ahead of the tee yen man square anniversary. pomp and pageantry the queen celebrates 70 years on the throne. we have the upcoming celebrations. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn "newsroom"

with kim brunhuber. ♪ we begin in uvalde, texas, where frustration is growing as we learn more chilling details about the mass shooting at an elementary school. 19 young students and 2 teachers gunned down. we're getting more on 911 calls made from inside the classroom while the attack was under way and the pleas from a student as gunfire rang out. there's growing criticism of police actions and inactions and scrutiny of the company that made the murder weapon. and cnn is speaking with the attorney for a teacher's aide from robb elementary. she's sharing her side of the story after police falsely blamed her. omar jimenez begins our coverage. >> reporter: it was supposed to be an end of the year class party. before it became a nightmare. >> she saw everything from the time he recked to the time he

was taken out of there. >> special education aide was meeting a co-worker with a food. she propped the door open, went back inside to get her phone and called 911. but to report the accident. then, she returned to the door. >> and she looks and sees him. and he has a weapon that she can't identify but a big weapon slung over him and he hops over the fence and starts running towards her. >> so she kicks the door shut. >> she expect it to lock. >> absolutely. she thought it was going to be locked. >> she scrambled into a nearby classroom as she begins to hear gunshots. >> he's inside now. she hides. the 911 call drops. they don't call her back. she doesn't attempt to call back because she doesn't want to make any noise. there's some sort of counter she gets under, but it's exposed. she said that she thought that at that point she was going to die and she made her peace with that. >> so, she hears every single

gunshot. >> every single gunshot. >> reporter: but she was one of the lucky ones who survived. days later, though, she hears law enforcement say she had left the door the shooter used open. >> and she's second guessing herself. >> right. even made her second guess her own memories. and she had already spoken to the fbi and rangers and told them what happened. >> the rangers publicly corrected the record. ♪ as the community grieves a flurry of unanswered questions linger, including more about texas school's police chief pete arradondo acting as incident commander during the shooting. >> i have been told this person did not have -- this person being the incident commander did not have radio communication. and i don't know as to why. >> reporter: and question if the 911 calls were properly relaid to first responders on the scene. one of those 911 calls came from a 10-year-old student inside the classroom. according to transcripts reviewed by "the new york times"

the student said, there's a lot of bodies. and i don't want to die. my teacher is dead. my teacher is dead. please send help. send help for my teacher. she is shot but still alive. the call lasted about 17 minutes. gunfire was heard in the background at times. and the call was made more than 30 minutes after the shooting began, the times reports. the teaching aide, emelia now filed legal documents to get a deposition from daniel defense, the manufacturer of the gun used in the shooting. with her attorney saying because the shooter got the weapons on his 18th birthday, he was likely planning the purchases beforehand. >> so his motivations to get that gun when he was a minor. are there gun companies that are marketing to minors? is that what they're doing? how many mass shootings do we have to have by 18-year-old men?

it's cookie cutter. so what are they doing to change? >> reporter: now it's worth noting this pre-suit petition does not formally accuse the gun manufacturer of any wrong doing. instead, it seeks to allow emelia to investigate whether she has a basis to file a claim against daniel defense. omar jimenez, cnn, uvalde, texas. the white house was illuminated in orange for national gun violence awareness day. president biden says he's being briefed constantly on congressional negotiations to pass gun reform and vowed to do what he can to bring about real progress. he gave a prime time address this week to put pressure on the republicans to do something about the epic of gun violence in america. the president proposed a ban on assault weapons and went on the offensive against gun manufacturers as well. here he is. >> should repeal the liability

shield that often protects gun manufacturers from being suecau. they're the only industry in this country that has that kind of immunity. >> the victims in texas was 10-year-old garza. attorneys representing her mother sent a letter to the maker of the weapon used in the massacre. demands the company preserve all potentially relevant information related to the uvalde shooting includes not limited to documentary evidence potentially relevant to the company's marketing of ar-15 styled rifles. but using legal action is a an uphill battle. i asked law professor jessica to explain how much that law shields gun manufacturers. here she is. >> i think it's had an enor nous effect.

it was a 2005 law passed under george w. bush to protect gun manufacturers from civil liability. and that's because starting in the late 1990s people were filing suits against gun manufacturers under the theory that they were actually causing a public nuisance based on the way they were manufacturing and selling and allowing to be sold guns. some of these cases were dismissed. but a lot of them settled. the gun manufacturers lobbied very aggressively to say we need some protection here. now, we have seen some exceptions to tparticular law w have seen successful settlements. but it's changed the ability of people to try to hold gun manufacturers liable. >> the way to win seems very specific because, as you say, despite that law earlier this year the families of several victims of the sandy hook shooting got $73 million

settlement against remington, but that was really the first time a gun manufacturer was held responsible for a mass shooting in the u.s. like this. so will that be a precedent or a legal template for others to follow here? >> yes and we'll see. so part of this law says that you can be held liable if the gun manufacturer is violating a separate federal law or state law. what the victims of sandy hook, what their families said, is that in fact, the gun manufacturers violated a connecticut law based on how they advertised the guns and what type of use they were for. and so that was a successful argument there. it was part of an exception built into the law. we haven't seen other cases really define how broad that exception will be. that's what we're waiting for. >> thanks to law professor jessica levenson. vigil held for four people killed at a medical clinic in tulsa, oklahoma, on wednesday. people gathered to remember dr.

preston phillips the shooter intended to kill. also remembered were dr. stephanie hoosen. and william love. survivors and relatives of victims in uvalde and buffalo shootings are set to testify on capitol hill next week. now, as staff level discussions on gun policy continue and republicans double down on mental illness as the root cause of gun violence. in an interview with politico, texas senator john cornyn emphasized the need for, quote, identifying people with criminal and mental health problems that are a threat to themselves and others. and yet when it comes to actual support for mental health services, the senator's home state is behind the curve. here is cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: in the wake of mass shootings, there appears to be a blueprint for some republican leaders. brush off talk of gun control -- >> it's never been about guns.

>> reporter: call the killers crazy. >> we need to make it far easier to confine the violence and mentally deranged into mental const constitutions. >> reporter: we as a government need to find a way to target that mental health challenge and do something about it. >> reporter: yet there is little evidence of top republican lawmakers broadly supporting such efforts. in a 2017 survey of how much of a state's budget goes to mental health care, the states that led the pack went democratic in the 2020 presidential race. outpacing those that leaned republican. in terms of the number of adults seeking care, low, out of pocket costs and providers per capita, another ranking found not one of those red states in the top ten. >> we certainly know as mental health providers that our healthcare system is flawed and the resources are not there.

>> this neuro scientist sunlights it's aed by of a red herring any way. the vast majority of mass shooters are not mentally ill. >> what you're seeing is planned out, somebody who is cruel to animals or somebody has a history of violence. that's more of a personality trait. that's more who they are. >> reporter: once more, the claims are not evenly applied. a study of more than 200 mass shootings found in the media, white shooters are framed as good people suffering from extreme life circumstances and were 19 times more likely to be framed as suffering from mental illness compared to black shooters. still, within days of buffalo and uvalde shootings, the beat on the right went on. >> they were very obviously mentally ill. the people around them knew that. >> reporter: texas faces yet another slaughter, republican governor greg abbott keeps holding on to that idea. >> anybody who shoots somebody else has a mental health

challenge. period. >> reporter: certainly already republican leaders who support mental health care and governor abbott's office tells cnn he put a lot of funding and effort into it yet when an advocacy ranked the states, texas came in dead last to mental health care. tom foreman, cnn, washington. if you would like to give financial support or blood donations to victims in communities of mass shootings, including the texas school shooting, please go to cnn.com/impact and find several ways you can help there. ♪ we'll be right back. ♪

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♪ russia's military has been attacking ukraine for more than 100 days and neither side shows any sign of giving up. the level of destruction defies comprehension. russia's slow advance in the

donbas has been aided by air support but added is that the russian aircraft failed to make a meaningful impact on the conflict. ukraine claims they regained control half the strategic city. moscow continues to press the assault across the donbas region. they're amassing for a renew ed push. they have reclaimed several kilometers of russian-occupied territory in kherson. the human toll in ukraine is unimaginable. some 12 million ukrainians have been internally displaced by the fighting, according to president zelenskyy. even if the war ended right now, many of these people have no homes to return to. cnn's ben wedeman is in kyiv with the latest. >> reporter: russia's invasion of ukraine is now hit the 100-day mark. the critical battle is now in

the eastern donbas region. ukrainian officials concede that russian forces now control up to 80% of the city of donetsk. until now the eastern most city under kyiv's control. severodonetsk has been under intense and steady russian artillery bombardment for weeks and weeks and weeks now. most of the civilians have fled the city, but as many as 800 people are still huddled in bomb shelters in the city's chemical complex. elsewhere in the donbas region, russian forces are massing for renewed offensive against the city of slow va yans. they have shattered moscow's ambitions to bring ukraine to its knees. friday ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vowed in his words that victory will be ours,

yet victory or just an end to this is still nowhere in sight. i'm ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from kyiv. australian military analyst malcolm davis says fighting in eastern ukraine will likely remain static the next few weeks. russia appears to have learned lessons from its mistakes earl flit war and has allowed them to gain territory. but ukraine will soon get more advanced weaponry from the west and that could be decisive. here is how he explained it when i spoke to him last hour. >> look, i think, yeah, the situation is very fluid. our ability to understand what's happening on the ground is very difficult to determine exactly what's going on. the fog of war is very clear here in the sense that there's going to be battles running back and forth, advances, retreats, counteroffensives. this is going to be the nature

of the conflict going forward for the next few weeks. but i think it's very clear the russians have started to regroup. they started to learn the lessons of their failure earlier in the war, and they're starting to apply what's known as combined armed tactics where -- which is allowing them to actually be more effective on the ground. so the ukrainians are fighting back furiously, but it's quite likely that the russians will, in fact, take severodonetsk in the next few weeks. >> okay. so then if they do take it, can russia hold it given the influx now of high-tech western weapons that might help ukraine retake it? >> i think that is the key question. it depends largely on how many weapons come in. we talk an awful lot about the long-range rockets, only four batteries initially to be delivered to the ukrainians. so, really does depend on the amount of weapons we send the

ukrainians and how effectively they can apply them on the battle space. if the ukrainians can bring those advanced military capabilities to bear, not just the high mars, but armored fighting vehicles, then you start to see the potential for the ukrainians to push back the russians. >> our thanks to military analyst malcolm davis who was speaking to me last hour. russian president vladimir putin is pushing back against accusations that he's using food as a weapon of war. ukraine says half of its grain exports are held up because of russia's blockade oifts ports but putin claims russia isn't stopping ukraine from exporting its food. ukraine mind its own ports, not russia. the russian president also said russia can increase grain production next year to help fill gaps in global supply. still ahead, another former trump adviser is indicted for failing to cooperate with the january 6th investigation. we'll explain the charges

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♪ welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn "newsroom." peter navarro has been charged with criminal contempt of congress for refusing to answer questions about the capitol insurrection. navarro says he was arrested at a washington area airport on friday. he faces two contempt accounts. one for not producing documents demanded by the house committee and the other for failing to show up for subpoenaed

testimony. he claims he was unable to cooperate because former president trump exerted privilege. it comes as the january 6th investigation was dealt a major blow. ryan nobles reports. >> reporter: the department of justice informing the january 6th select committee it will not indictment the former white house chief of staff mark meadows of his deputy dan scavino for criminal contempt of congress despite the kmie saying the two men did not comply with the subpoena request from congress. this is no doubt a blow to the committee as they try to put some weight and some enforcement behind these subpoenas they handed down. they do have a number of subpoenas that are still outstanding at this point, including five subpoenas for republican members of congress that these republican members have defied up until this point and the committee not said how they plan to enforce. while that was certainly a blow to the committee to lose out on

the meadows and scavino subpoenas, they did have some success in that peter navarro, a former white house trade adviser who openly defiant of the committee's subpoena was defiant will now face criminal prosecution and if convicted could face up to two years in prison and fines of around $200,000. this all comes at an important time for the committee. they begin their hearings, their big, public hearings thursday of next week, the first one in primetime, 8:00 p.m. eastern where the committee promises they will reveal much of what they've been working on behind closed doors. essentially lay the ground work for what will be a months worth of hearings on a number of topics, the different parts of their investigation and what they have learned. this could be at an important part of their public relations strategy as they try to reinvest the american people into what happened here on january 6th and why there needs to be changes

and people held accountable. of course, they are still planning on issuing a final report some time this fall. ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. the u.s. economy keeps churning out new jobs despite fears of recession. employers added 390,000 jobs in may. that's lower than the previous few months but still more than twice the monthly average from before the pandemic. the unemployment rate remains at 3.6% near record lows but inflation near 40-year highs raising concerns about recession. president biden is striking optimistic tone, insisting the u.s. is well positioned to combat rising costs. here he is. >> no denying that high prices, particularly around gasoline and food, are real problem for people. but there's every reason for the american people to feel confident that we'll meet these challenges. because of the enormous progress we made on the economy, the americans can tackle inflation from a position of strength,

still a problem. we can tackle it from a position of strength. >> none thoof will immediately help lower the sky high costs of everyday goods like groceries or gas. the current rate of inflation in the u.s. is 8.3%. president biden admitted this week there's not much he can do to lower prices in the near term. now, the high inflation rate along with staff shortages is throwing a wrench in summer plans for many americans. cnn's vanessa yurkevich looks how the hospitality industry is managing all that. >> we got a steam-powered carousel and a food stand and couple of games of chance. and little by little we're now 60 rides -- >> reporter: since 1926, nobles amusement resort in rural central pennsylvania has been a summer tourist destination. >> see the train slowing down. so there should be some squirrels over here. >> little chipmunks. oh, little chipmunks.

>> reporter: the park is free to enter. and rides like the pioneer train are pay as you go. but even prices at this family-run park surrounded by idealic farmland aren't exempt from high inflation. >> the rising costs of everything, from gasoline to chicken to rolls, electricity, we had to increase our prices. >> reporter: inflation is gripping the nation's pocketbook, with prices at a four decade high. a pain point for president biden as most americans are sour on the economy. still, an estimated 39 million americans were expected to travel memorial day weekend. most by car, up from last year. >> when i hear inflation, that's where we're going to spend our ad dollars more locally. that's where we're going to be focussing on the backyard tourist, the locals. we'll spend more reaching people within a two to three-hour range. >> reporter: people like,

rebecca kents, usually makes a day trip to philadelphia. she says gas prices won't cut her summer plans. they'll just be scaled back. >> the one year we were coming up here, i think we made it up here 26 times in the summer. >> do you think you're going to dial it back a little bit? >> not 26. but probably pretty close to a dozen or more. >> reporter: valley bloom says she's being mindful of higher prices elsewhere, like groceries, so she can still give her kids a great summer. meaningful after two years of covid. >> what are you going to do? you have to live. you have to have fun. it's summertime. >> reporter: more customers means the need for more workers. near record 11.4 million open jobs in the u.s. and inflation is hitting employees here, too. so the park is launching a cost effective shuttle to save employee's gas money and ensure the park is staffed.

>> so it's more money in the employee's pocket. >> reporter: in smaller communities, places like this are economic drivers. supporting other businesses in town. >> for our success here in town, it's pretty critical. all of our sales will go up once they start. >> reporter: despite also having to raise prices in store, kimberly cooper says the crowds are still coming and buying. >> doesn't seem to have made a difference far here this year. >> reporter: vanessa yurkevich, cnn. millions of people in southern florida, cuba and the bahamas under tropical storm and flash flood warnings right now. they're bracing for the system already in the area to gain strength and possibly become tropical storm alex in the coming hours. now it's already slammed cuba, where one person has been found dead and 50,000 people in havana without power. the system is expected to bring even more heavy rain, flooding, possibly even tornadoes.

cnn meteorologist karen mcginn nis watching the storm for us. i see the alerts about flooding in florida. what's the latest? >> reporter: yes, right around miami. that seems to be the area collected the heaviest amounts. there you can see the deep convection made its way across the miami dade area pushing towards the bahamas. we saw that heavy rainfall across cuba. i'll talk more about that in just one minute. not a lot of change from the 5:00 a.m. eastern time national hurricane advisory. still, no development. it probably won't until it gets off towards the coast of the atlantic coast of the florida peninsula. but still some heavy rainfall amounts could see an additional maybe three, possibly five inches of rain. there could be a foot or more totals from this non-tropical storm. the potential tropical storm cyclone 1. as it does, we are looking at

the potential for flash flooding extending from near tampa to the florida keys, to miami dade. all the way up towards titusville. i wanted to stay on that graphic a little longer because i wanted to show you it still has supporting winds with it of 40 miles per hour with some higher gusts. now, it has picked up some speed. it's moving off towards the northeast at just about 18 miles per hour. let's go ahead and show you what's happening in cuba. saw about 10 inches of rainfall in some of these areas. there you can see just how difficult it is across this area. and there will be more precipitation across this region as well. but also for grand bahama, in through the bahamas could see significant rainfall there and according to the national hurricane sender, there could be difficulties as far as rip current is concerned. moderate to high risk along this gulf of mexico region from tampa all the way down towards marco

island. then a high risk. so if you're visiting across this region, no doubt you were looking forward to stepping into the water of these beautiful beaches, but looks like that is going to be very dangerous to do because of the risk of the rip current not a rip tide but a rip current. a lot of people can say that it's a rip tide but it's not a tide. it's a current. it can take you well out into the waters and will be extremely dangerous and treacherous to do. back to you. >> good advice there. we'll keep tracking that throughout the day, karen. thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up on cnn "newsroom," we'll look at how police in hong kong are trying to stop people from publicly commemorating a massacre more than 30 years later. plus, a look at china's covid enforcers. they're known as big whites. and some of them are doing things that are sending shock waves throughout the country. that's ahead. stay with us. ♪ qulipta™ can help prevent migraine attacks. you can't prevent what's goioing on outside,

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it's the anniversary of a tragic, historic event, the tiananmen square massacre, took place 33 years ago in beijing, china's capital. it began peacefully with large pro-democracy protests in april of 1989. thousands of students gathered at tiananmen square to mourn the death of a former communist party leader trying to reform china as it drew international attention, china started halting newscasts in beijing, including cnn. then on june 4th, chinese troops killed hundreds of people in tiananmen in a bloody crackdown. the exact number killed in the massacre still isn't known. hong kong police hoped to prevent what they called unauthorized assemblies commemorating the tiananmen square massacre. since 1989 crowds have gathered to mark the occasion. and pictures show police searching pedestrians on the street friday.

they say they'll target those inciting others who gather. now, for more on all that, let's bring in cnn's ivan watson joining us in hong kong. ivan, i can see you're at victoria park. take us through what it used to be like in these anniversaries compared to what you're seeing there now. >> reporter: right. for every year for 30 years you would have candle light vigil here commemorating the people killed in tiananmen square. it's not illegal. there's no law against discussing that in hong kong right now, but the annual vigil has been banned now for three years. the previous two years it was on public health grounds because of the covid pandemic. now the police say, well, there's no permission. it's an illegal assembly. instead they blocked off the park tonight. you can see some police here. but there's a tremendous security presence. i would estimate by the number

of police vehicles around here there are hundreds, if not thousands, of police ringing this, frisking them periodically as an effort to stop any kind of gathering from taking place here. again, there's no law against discussing the victims of june 4th, 1989, but there has been a move to kind of remove monuments in honor of the victims from the campuses of two hong kong universities over the course of the last year. a museum that was dedicated to them being closed. now, i was here in 2019. there were -- according to the organizers estimates, 180,000 people who gathered here peacefully, candle lit ceremony, stages. the next year there was no permit to organize that event. and people still gathered nonetheless. and a number of the organizers of that unofficial event have been prosecuted. part of a broader crackdown that

we have seen in this city over the course of the last two to three years. >> it's an interesting contrast that you paint with the past and the present. and you talk about that larger crackdown as i understand it, not just about stopping this tiananmen square remembrance but clapping down any form of dissent in hong kong, is that right? >> reporter: yeah. i have not seen a sanctioned demonstration or protest in this city in at least two years. that is supposed to be one of the freedoms that people enjoy here, but the authorities introduced a national security law. they have cracked down hard on members of the former political opposition, many of whom have been arrested and are being prosecuted on a number of different charges. people have fled. newspapers have been shut down here. and the end result i can see as a journalist, people are afraid to talk in hong kong about politics, about the government

in a way that they were not afraid three years ago, four years ago. and that is part of the i think suffocation of certain freedoms that this city used to enjoy. freedoms that the government insists are still here but have clearly changed over the past couple years as beijing has tightened its grip on this former british colony. kim? >> really interesting to get your perspective on the scene there in hong kong. ivan watson, thanks so much for that. north korea has accepted an offer of covid vaccines from china and has begun administering them. north korea hasn't been known to accept imported vaccines even though it's eligible through the global vaccine sharing program covax. they scaled back north korea's allotment in february because the country failed to arrange any shipments. north korea also failed to

respond to vaccine offers from the u.s. and south korea. north korean leader kim jong-un said earlier this week that conditions there are improving. a claim disputed by the w.h.o. now, china itself has seen some easing of pandemic restrictions, but many of its stringent zero covid policies are still in place, enforced by workers clad in hazmat suits and known as the big whites. some are behaving as n ways that are shocking the nations. word of warning, you may find this shocking. >> reporter: full body white protective gear, shanghai may be exiting the harsh lockdown, but china's covid war snot over. since lackdowns began in cities across china, hazmat suit workers have become symbols to many of brutality and authoritarian excess. covid worker repeatedly beats a man with a stick.

this covid worker forcefully shoves a woman to the ground. she hits the pavement. then clutches her head in pain. in another video, a covid worker kicks and slaps a man to the ground. brigade of covid enforcers dragged this woman out of her apartment in shanghai. she screams she'll go with them if she can just get her shoes. she tries to resist with all her strength. but in vain. cnn was not able to verify the identities of the people involved or the circumstances in these videos. or even if they all related to covid control and authorities did not respond to multiple requests for comment. most of the big whites are healthcare workers, volunteers and police officers. genuinely trying to help their communities. while extreme violence from these covid enforcers is rare, these viral videos sparked outrage, underscoring people's growing frustrations with chinese zero covid policy. this video in particular horrified shanghai residents

earlier when they were locked down. shows nine police officers in hazmat suits surrounding a man in a shanghai community with some relentlessly beating and kicking him. he tries to run away but they catch him and continue to throw their punches. cnn locate wrd this beating happened. i called the local police station. so she seems to have seen the video. she knows that the video exists. she says she's going to call over her colleague who will give me a call back. i never got the call back. i tried again. he told me that this never happened and then he just hung up. this isn't the image of covid control that china wants. this is more desirable. government propaganda has called covid enforcers big whites. a nod to the cute and inflatable robot from big hero 6. >> hello, i am your personal

health care companion. >> like the big whites in staid media videos aren't lifting people's spirits. they're leading dances in quarantine centers, helping the elderly and climbing ladders to deliver covid tests. but the innocent image of the big whites sullied by the horrific power of some. numerous videos showed them beating residents, barricading them in their homes, breaking doors to take people to quarantine, climbing into houses through windows to disinfect. even beating pets to death. chinese social media have even started calling the covid enforcers white guards, referring to the red guards of the cultural revolution who savagely beat, tortured and killed. but most of these videos of brutality from the big whites are gone. censored from chinese social media. in their place are fluffy heroes. but the big white's cruelty already seared into so many

minds. shaking people's faith in the chinese government. >> wonderful. >> selina wang, cnn, beijing. coming up, we go to london for the queen's platinum jubilee. find out what celebrations are happening today and if her majesty will be attending. stay with us. ♪ this is the sound of nature breathing. and this is the sound

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♪ keep calm and carry on. that's what many in the uk are doing during the queen's platinum jubilee, carrying on as planned despite her majesty's absence. on friday the royal family along with hundreds of others gave thanks to britain's longest raping monarch and her 70 years of service. prince harry and meghan were there after being noticeably absent from earlier jubilee events. but they were met with a mixed

reaction. listen to this. it was the couple's first appearance together at a royal event in two years. meanwhile, there are much more platinum jubilee celebrations still to come. today the duke and duchess of cambridge will visit cardiff cassel in wales. the queen will unable to attend the derby. followed by the palace concert featuring an all star lineup from the world's music and dance. anna stewart live from london. anna, yet another day without the guest of honor. >> reporter: without the guest of honor, which is terribly sad. i think particularly for the queen herself actually because she loves horse races. to miss the derby will be a big blow. we're told she will be watching from home on the television. and the rest of the royal family, as you said, are very busy today. scattered across the uk. all the senior members visiting

the four nations. princess ann in scotland. prince william and the duchess of cambridge in wales. and in northern ireland. all culminates with a party at the palace will take place right outside buckingham palace. the rehearsal is under way which is why we have been kicked out. we're out in the elements and i have my umbrella ready. we just heard thunder. could be a wet, blustery affair. already hundreds of people are flocking down the mile to try and see it. i hope they have wrapped up warm. kim? >> absolutely. i heard you name checking some of the royals there. you didn't mention harry and meghan. are we expected to see them today? >> reporter: well, of course, we saw them yesterday. and it was the first time anyone has seen meghan in the uk since the very high profile exit. you mentioned a slightly mixed response. today lot of the newspapers pointing to the fact they were set far apart from prince william and the duchess of

cambridge. is there still a rift there? lots of speculation. the fact that prince harry and meghan had a very prominent role arriving right before prince william and kate suggests the royal family want to show they're an important part of it and particularly that sort of event. now tonight for the party at the palace, we're expecting prince william and his wife to be there. i wouldn't be surprised if at all if we see prince harry and meghan as well. it's also lilibet's first birthday. we believe those kids are in the uk. so, perhaps the queen while resting at home might get to meet lilibet her great grand daughter for the very first time. kill? >> that's great. hopefully the weather will stay at least not pouring for you there. we'll follow throughout the day. thanks so much, anna stewart in london. well, it's not just the queen's loyal subjects joining in on the festivities, but dogs

as well. some 100 corgi and their owners celebrated the majesty's seven decades of service to the british crown. and dressed up for the occasion wearing costumes and union jacks. very cute. queen elizabeth owned, of course, more than 30 of these pint-size pups throughout her reign. well, that wraps this hour of cnn "newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. viewers in north america "new day" is next. rest of the world, it's "african avant-garde." ♪ ♪

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