hello and we warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm isa soares in london. ahead here on "cnn newsroom" -- >> 77 minutes outside, who does that? i guarantee you if it was their children, they would have ran in. >> a lot of the focus of the investigation has been on what happened inside the school and why it took so long for those officers to go into the room and actually confront and kill the gunman. >> i don't understand why that didn't happen. why they didn't breach the room. those answers need to be had. >> we'll show during a hearing

what the president's role was in trying to get states to name alter n alter nat slates of electors. >> we'll hear about his pressure on the states to replace the electors chosen by the voters. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with isa soares. >> welcome to the show. it is tuesday, june 21, and we begin with unsettling new details about the police response to the school shooting in uvalde, texas nearly one month after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. the texas tribune revealed documents that described ongoing confusion at the scene and details of equipment that officers had access to including

four ballistic shields with the first arriving nearly an hour before the officers stormed the classrooms. it is unclear at what point during the standoff this image was taken. you can see there. but the new images and information will only intensify questions. this image obtained shows at least three officers you can see there in the hallway of robb elementary school on may 24th. one officer with what appears to be a tactical shield and two officers with rifles. 90 minutes after the gunman entered the school. and now we're learning from a law enforcement source that 11 officers were inside the school within three minutes of the gunman entering. and that includes the uvalde school district police chief. it took more than an hour, an hour, for law enforcement to shoot and kill the gunman after he entered. one texas state senator says there needs to be more answers. >> actually three ballistic

shields in the hallway at the 12:03 mark. so this is about 11 minutes prior to that. so we see that there is officers with adequate munitions, adequate equipment to be able to breach that room, which is what mccraw had told me. i just don't understand why that didn't happen, why they didn't blea breach the room. those answers need to be had. they shouldn't be dribbling through the media in this way. we should have law enforcement agencies tell us exactly what went wrong. and the fact that we're not getting that information is just a travesty in itself. i keep getting the same narrative that they were reading off of each other and they were frozen in time. all of that, that failed leadership, wherever it came from, whichever agency should have been in charge, was a clear failure of protocol. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, evens ones that didn't have the

ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests and to yield to this notion of there was an incident commander or maybe there was, maybe there wasn't, it is just not good enough. for 48 minutes and beyond, children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911, and yet no one went in. what happened here was the worst tragedy in recent law enforcement history in this state. and this governor has failed in his leadership. he's failed in his leadership to demand answers. >> there is also growing frustration and anger directed at this man, police chief peter arredondo. family members along with residents are calling for him to be fired. and in the hours ahead, we are expecting more testimony related to this school shooting. texas department of public safety steve mccraw is expected at a hearing in the state

senate. and just hours away also from the fourth public hearing from the committee investigating the u.s. capitol riot. this time president trump's efforts to overturn the election are front and center. plus an election worker in the u.s. state of georgia is expected to testify about the death threats she and her mother received after trump accused them of election fraud. jessica schneider has the story for you. >> reporter: the january 6th committee getting ready to shift its focus to trump's role in a scheme to submit fake electors all in a bid to overturn the 2020 election. they will call three republicans on tuesday, all expected to testify about how 2ru6r78 pressured them to overturn trump's loss at the polls in their states. georgia secretary of state raffensperger will talk about this phone call with the former president just days before january 6th -- >> all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes

which is one more than we have. >> reporter: raffensperger's chief operation officer will also appear. and from arizona the republican speaker of the state's house will testify as well. rusty bower said trump asked him correctly to replace the electors in the state with a rogue slate. >> i talked to him a couple times. and they were -- they had asked me to take some steps that i just wouldn't do and i told them i voted for him, i campaigned for him, but i told him i wasn't going to do anything illegal. >> reporter: bowers also received emails from ginni thomas urging him to set aside biden's election win by replacing the electors with a republican slate. and they have asked him to testify. ginni thomas issued a short response to a conservative publication saying i can't wait to clear up misconceptions. i look forward to talking to them. thomas was the only justice to vote against releasing white

house records to the committee in january. now schiff says thomas should recuse himself from any future cases from the committee. >> to avoid even the sf interest of impropriety. >> the president is guilty of knowing what he did, seditious conspiracy. what we're presenting before the american people certainly would rise to a level of criminal involvement by a president. >> reporter: but so far doj refusing to comment though prosecutors recently complained that the committee's refusal to hand over all of its records complicates their job. the dispute could be resolved as early as july. and schiff is leaving the door open to subpoena mike pence.

>> there are still key people we have not interviewed that we would like to. we're not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. >> reporter: also scheduled to testify tuesday, shay moss, a former election worker who trump accused of carrying out a fake ballot scheme in fulton county, georgia. aides say that she will speak about the threats she received as a result of trump's false claims. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> and you can see the entire hearing plus in-depth analysis right here on cnn starting at 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. if you are watching in london. and 1:00 a.m. if you are in hong kong. after weeks of political turmoil in israel, naftali bennett will be moving to dissolve parliament. a bill to do so is expected to be submitted next week. if it passes israel will be headed for its fifth election in under four years. the move bennett says after

attempts to stabilize the coalition failed. our journalist is joining us elliott, i think the coalition has been teetering for weeks thousand withnow about some surprised it lasted this long. explain why it collapsed. >> reporter: you're right, some will be asking why it didn't collapse earlier. but i suppose there are a few reasons. when they got together about a year ago, the main glue that held this disparate coalition, eight parties from left to right, the xglue that stuck the together was their desire to unseat benjamin netanyahu and also end the endless cycle of in-conclusive elections. we had three without a government to be able to be formed. so now they managed to form a government and managed to aside

their ideological differences. allowing naftali bennett to come on board. and for a while it worked. they passed the first state budget in four years. they deepened ties and reopened the israeli economy. but ultimately the differences proved too strong to overcome. and it wasn't just differences between parties, it was differences within parties in particular and naftali bennett' right wing party which has been seemingly fraying at the seams since the very beginning a year ago and in recent weeks that fraying has turned into a full-scale unwinding almost. ultimately they decided if we dissolve the government now, we are doing so of our own accord, we are on the front foot and we will do so from the prime minister's residence rather than having events overtake them and being left with no choice to do

so. so i think that that is why it happened right now. >> it has many of us wondering whether it means if we might see the return of benjamin netanyahu. elliott, thanks very much. appreciate it. u.s. president biden says he hopes to make a decision on a nationwide gas tax holiday by the end of the week. a temporary pause in the federal gasoline tax would require congress to act and the measure has received little traction among lawmakers so far. the president says that he is also considering whether to send americans gas rebate cards. this as the white house looks for ways to ease of course the burden of high gas prices of americans. president biden says that major oil and gas ceos will be meeting with his administration this week to discuss prices. and priz rising prices won'p americans from hitting the road over the july 4th weekend. aaa predicts 42 million americans will be driving 50 miles or more despite record

high gas prices. the current national average just a few pennies shy of $5. few americans however will be flying. flights are returning to normal now after several days of widespread delays and cancellations. tracking service flight aware says that as of monday night, more than 17,000 flights were delayed and hundreds canceled. airlines and airports are really struggling with a shortage of staff forcing them to cut the number of flights they can schedule. pete muntean has more on the issues facing u.s. travelers. >> reporter: many people still trying to get home after this huge weekend of flight cancellations. these numbers are really big but the cause of all of this is not new. airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic. there are massive flight crew shortages and the deck of cards really tumbles down when summer weather strikes. there were bad thunderstorms on the east coast thursday and friday, which left a ripple

effect the next few days. look at the latest cancellation numbers. more than 1700 flights canceled nationwide on thursday, more than 1400 on friday. airlines really tried to play catchup unsuccessfully on saturday and sunday. more than 800 flights canceled nationwide on sunday, more than 900 on sunday. united airline ceo scott kirby just spoke to richard quest about this and he insists that the airline was well positioned going into this huge resurgence of demand but he pinned some of the blame on the federal government saying it needs to staff up when it comes to air traffic controllers to help alleviate some of these delays. you had the juneteenth holiday and also father's day week end, could be one of the busiest since the start of the pandemic. more than 2.38 million people screened at airports nationwide by tsa on sunday, 2.44 million people at airports nationwide on friday. we have not seen a number that big since thanksgiving 2021. this is all coming with an

urgent message for pete buttigieg, he is telling airlines that they need to get their acts together with the july 4th travel period on the horizon. pete muntean, cnn, reagan national airport. as pete mentioned, the ceo of united airlines says there is much more the u.s. government could be doing to help alleviate the issues airlines are facing. here is what he told richard qu quest. >> realistically there is not much that can be done to improve the situation between now and the summer. it is hold your nose and -- >> i disagree. although it requires, you know -- truth is i think that it requires government help. because the biggest issue is there is more flights scheduled in newark for example than there is capacity at the airport. even in a perfect blue sky day. and air traffic controllers are understaffed. because of that, there is just nor flight more flights than the airports can handle. >> what do you want from

government? >> in newark particular, enforce the rules that limit the number of flights that operations can handle. and they are not the only ones. but the other thing we need is to get the air traffic control towers back to full staffing. >> those major travel challenges aren't limited to the skies. right now thousands of rail workers in britain are on strike over pay as well as job cuts in the country's largest rail strike in deck k5ids. a and the walkout is causing severe disruption. scott mcclain is at the london bridge station right now. and give us a sense of what you are seeing. >> reporter: i mean, you know this well, this is one of the busiest stations in the entire uk and there is hardly anyone here. and this should be rush hour. so these are the stairs and escalators up to two of the platforms and you can see it says please check time table for services which means there is no train leaving from this platform

anytime soon and actually most of the platforms are not being used right now. there is maybe 10%, 20% of the usual trains coming and going this morning compared to what there normally is. usually this place is hustle and bustle. today it looks a lot like the height of the pandemic with hardly anyone here. we've spoken to a lot of people here about this rail strike affecting commuters in england, wales and scotland as well. a lot of people left early knowing that there would be disruptions today because a fraction of the trains are actually running. they managed to get here to london bridge, but this strike is also impacting the london underground. remember most people don't own a car, so this is a vital link. so roomers, contractors, teachers, people who need to be at a specific place in a specific time. and some say that there is no realistic way to get where they need to go and they are simply having to turn back. a lot of people have sympathy

for the union and what they are trying to get out of their bosses, but they also say some of them that if they don't go to work, they don't get paid. and so there may be limitations to the public sympathy here. the union is looking for after two years of wage freezes, wages to keep up with inflation. the difficulty and we'll find this in countries around the western world is that inflation right now is 7% and forecast to get even worse. and ridership has not returned to anywhere even close to pre-covid levels. so the government says that the changes need to be made, they also say that the government bailed out rail workers during the pandemic to make sure that no one was laid off, and so it is a tad bit rich they say that they are now asking for this big raise. but as you said, the cost of living crisis in this country is a real one, it is a serious one, it is affecting a lot of people. and so as i said, a lot of people here have a lot of sympathy for the rail workers who are striking but they are obviously well a wear that it is

having a huge impact on people trying to get where they need to go across this country. there are strikes happening today, thursday and saturday as well and the union says this could go on for months unless some kind of a deal is reached. >> let's see whether that support and sim pathly diminishes as the week goes on. thanks very much, scott. still ahead here, the war in ukraine is already making it harder for millions around the world to put food on the table and yet a solution to the crisis appears further away than ever. as the summer temperatures rides, rise, u.s. you power companies worried. >> big time heat, hard to believe summer officially starts in less than 60 minutes, but these temperatures historic yet again. we'll touch on this coming up in a few minutes.

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heatwave. and a spokesperson compares it to the super bowl saying that it is something that they prepare for all year. for more, i'm joined by meteorologist pedram javaheri. good morning, how long are we expecting the temperatures to last for? >> at least the next four or five days. portions of the south have kind of seen a break, and we're talking lower 90s versus the triple digit categories that we were seeing a couple days ago. but heat beginning to build. of course summer officially gets under way in about 60 minutes time. and just in time here, we have alerts across portions of the western united states and record temperatures possibly as many as 100 records, a few scattered about the northern states, but the vast majority as you noted across the southern states here where temps will push up close to record values in a few spots. but across chicago, they will get up to 100 degrees here the next few hours and dramatically cool off wednesday and thursday. but notice even then, temps still will be about 10 degrees

above average for this time of year. now, the widespread reach of this is what is most impressive to me because only one pocket of the u.s., the northwest interior, is really the lone spot with cooler than average temperatures. even across portions of central california, northern california, big time heat in place. sacramento, about 15 degrees above average climbing up to 104. in san francisco offshore winds will send them up to about 90 degrees this afternoon as well. and some element of good news, getting monsoonal moisture across portions of new mexico, areas that have been hard hit by the fires. of course too much rainfall could lead to runoff in the burn scars, but much cooler weather across that region as well as of the rainfall. so at least some piece of good news across that area. >> thank you very much, pedram. now with days of heavy rain, there is flooding in parts of southern china. almost half a million people have been impacted. rivers are overflowing and homes

are submerged. local forecasters expect more rain over the coming days. and in india and bangladesh, millions have been affected by the monsoon weather. flooding has killed at least 84 people and some 300,000 others are said to be taking shelter in bangladesh alone. the air force had to drop supplies for people stranded. for the latest on the flooding, let's go to new delhi. talk to us about what the government response critically has been here. >> reporter: so as of now millions have been displaced and stranded by the flooding in the northeastern parts of bangladesh and also eastern starts of india. the biggest challenge this bangladesh is drinking water. we have visuals that show a young boy wading through

floodwater, barely able to keep his head above the water. he has this metal jar in his hand in search of drinking water as are many others. a lot of women riding in boats in search of drinking water. this hear area has been largely impacted. homes have been submerged and that is where the bangladesh air force is trying to send as many food supplies or drinking water and medical supplies as possible. there are visuals of them air dropping food packages, water packages to the people vanlded and marooned and cut off in the area. i also want to talk about a northeastern state of india that sees flooding every year. just getting worse year by year. out here you can see people being rescued by officials be it infants, children or the elderly, they all have been taken to safer ground. but again tens of thousands

remain stranded. they are waiting for evacuation from low lying areas. the biggest warning that environmental lists ists have bn talking about is climate change. and here is what a leading environmental alist in india ho say about the direct connection between climate change and the extreme weather events taking place in the region. >> so it is very clear that with climate change, this region will be extremely important. already in bangladesh and the northeast we're seeing that impact that the region has gone from water scarcity to flood. and that is the impact of climate change. this devastating flood is clearly linked to the changes that we're seeing in the world. >> reporter: more and more

embankments are being breached. tributaries have been overrun as well. these are indications and it is time that governments both india and bangladesh look at short term as well as long term solutions. >> and more forecasts, more rain forecast for the coming days. very troubling indeed. thanks very much. and still ahead right here, ukraine's president is accusing russia of holding african-american nations hostage and putting millions at risk of famine. and plus what donald trump give us, donald trump taketh away. how his endorsement will affect a primary. we'll explain.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date with the top stories. israel's prime minister will be holding a vote next week.government's collapse will set up a fifth round of elections in just four years. and the u.s. house select committee investigating the capitol riot will be holding a fourth day of hearings. president trump's efforts to overturn the election results will be front and center. coverage begins right here at 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. if you are watching us here in london. the power of donald trump's endorsement will be put to the test today in alabama as republicans make their choice for the u.s. senate. the former president initially backed one advoccandidate and t switched to another.

kristen holmes reports. >> reporter: he was one of former president trump's staunchest allies. a leading promoter of trump's 2020 election lies. >> joe biden lost and president trump won the electoral college. >> reporter: even delivering a speech at the now infamous stop the steal rally that preceded the deadly january 6 riot at the capitol. >> today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! >> reporter: but as mo brooks heads into the runoff to be the state's republican candidate for senate, he is doing so without the support of the former president. learning the hard way that when it comes to trump, loyalty -- >> if given the opportunity i will get even with people that are disloyal to me. >> reporter: -- is not always a two way street. after initially supporting -- >> we'll elect our friend mo brooks to the u.s. senate.

>> reporter: -- now he is backing katie britt, former chief of staff to richard shelby. the former president once claimed britt was not in any way qualified for the job. but that was when he was behind brooks. as brooks' campaign struggled, trump jumped ship and accused britt of going, quote, woke for these comments. >> some people are december upon department about the vote are election threat. thut that behind you. put that behind you. >> reporter: and brooks says he learned of trump's decision from a reporter seeking comments. >> didn't have the courtesy to let me know first, so somewhat blindsided me this morning. >> reporter: and brooks has continued to run as maga mo and insisting that his refusal to say the 2020 results could be overturned was partly to blame. >> i knew that when i gave him straight shooting legal advice

that it would per t pre-turn hi but i thought it was the honorable thing to come. >> reporter: even though brooks still tried to win back trump's support ahead of the runoff. >> game on. >> reporter: but trump ultimately sided with britt who is widely seen as the favorite on tuesday after receiving the most votes in the may primary. >> our thanes to kristen holmes for that report. ks to kristen h for that report. let's go now to ukraine where russian forces are stepping up the pressure in a grinding battle for the city of sever severdonetsk. the city has been the epicenter of the fighting in the east in russia's push to seize control of the wider donbas region as you see on the map. to the north though shelling sparked a massive fire in their second largest city and at least three civilians were killed in

shelling. and cnn teams on the ground have also reported hearing more explosions than normal. but the war isn't just dev devastating ukraine, it is also propelling a global food crisis while russia and ukraine have both blamed each other for the paralysis at ukrainian ports, one fact hasn't changed, millions of tons of grain are currently stranded inside the country and that is putting millions of people at risk for food shortages especially in africa where many countries rely on both russia and ukraine for their wheat imports. david mckenzie is standing by for us in johannesburg with those details, but first i want to go to salma abdelaziz in kyiv for the latest on the fighting. let me pick up on severdonetsk because the picture you have been painting, you know, kind of every day here on the show is really ukraine on the back foot but really trying to hold the line. what is the latest assessment by the ukrainians as to how long they can sustain this?

>> reporter: latest assessment is extremely worrying. ukrainian officials say that russia is still capable of launching a large assault on severdonetsk and the assaults that have already been hitting that city have been enormous, an enormous amount of firepower. most of the city is under the control of russian forces. ukrainian troops say that artillery shelling is constant, 24/7. most of the city now of course destroyed in that never ending bombardment. we know that there are thousands of civilians potentially still trapped inside that city. and there is a key chemical plant where a few hundred are sheltered in the basement and they can't be reached because of the fighting but also because the three bridges leading out of that city of severdonetsk are now impossible, fwhaechb so badly damaged, so badly destroyed. ukraine why not forces saying that they are running out of weapons, running out of artillery, that they are trying to hold this line, but they are december sperate for more help. and in kharkiv where ukrainian

forces say that they fear that russian troops are trying to open yet another front line. so to stretch ukrainian forces that are already very thin even thinner, look, this is a war of attrition that has dragged out. neither side really strong enough here to win in severdonetsk but neither side weak enough to lose. president zelenskyy has insisted that his fighters will not back down but hard to imagine how that city won't fall. >> yeah, stay with us, i want to go to david because one aspect of course of this war that is having global repercussions is really this blockade along the ports. i know president zelenskyy addressed the african union about this. what did he say in terms of the logistics of what is being done behind the scenes here? >> reporter: his main empploy w to try to appeal to the african

nations to support ukraine. he said that countries have been taken hostage by the russians because of their continued blockade of odesa and other ports where millions of tons of grain is stuck that should be exported out to countries like somalia, like egypt, tunisia, all african country and central asia. that will have an effect on food prices and potentially on food availability. the russian president putin has blamed the shortage on western powers he says because of sanctions. and the head of the eu foreign policy team said that that is like blaming something on something you created. take a listen. >> russia locating ukrainian exports, russia, not us.

rush russia. russia is destroying ports and destroys food stocks. they are destroying infrastructure. russia, not us. >> reporter: the tricky situation now of course is that grain is still sitting there as ukrainian farmers look to harvest their harvest at the moment. there are plans from the european union and u.s. white house to try to figure out how to get some of that grain by land on rail out through poland and other nations, but everyone assumes that that will never get close to getting all of that grain out. it is really that sea route which is critical. and with the defensive minds in place and the warships from russia surrounding those ports, there doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this problem which could have very real world consequences in the months ahead. >> yeah, months and could impact years because of course if farmers can't plant their crops

and sell them, that is a huge problem in itself. david and salma, thank you both. and still ahead right here on the show, as the u.s. awaits for the supreme court ruling on abortion, cnn goes to a state with one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. how it is forcing women to make costly decisions. that story just ahead. i'm jonathan lawsonn here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to b life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what a the three ps? the three ps of life insurae on a fixed budget are price, price, anprice. a price u can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54, what's my price?

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the u.s. supreme court could deliver a landmark decision on a abortion as soon as today. it is widely expected to overturn a 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the united states. some states have already enacted strict laws banning the procedure even before the court makes an announcement, among them oklahoma which has some of the strictest laws on the books. lucy cavanaugh has the story of one woman who was forced to travel out of state to get the

care she needed. >> reporter: joy and eager anticipation as one oklahoma family prepared to welcome its newest member into the world. >> you're safe to share your news, you get excited. we had the nursery like getting started. >> reporter: what should have been a happy time for lori soon turned to crushing devastation, an ultrasound revealed a rare genetic disorder. >> the doctor kind of explained that this disorder is not compatible with life. it was a little girl that, you know, she would not be viable. that most children either die during child birth or shortly after. >> reporter: with no chance of the baby surviving outside the womb, she made the painful choice to have an abortion. >> that is one of the most difficult things that i've ever had to do, the hardest decision.

had i been forced to carry that pregnancy knowing that i would not get to bring that child home would have caused so much trauma. >> it was not a decision you took lightly. >> i didn't make that decision lightly or easily. >> reporter: at 23 weeks pregnant, lori was forced to travel out of state for the three day invasive procedure at significant financial and emotional cost. advisably pregnant, she describes being harassed by protestors. >> just the assumption that i didn't want my baby, you know, i think that that was probably the hardest part. >> this was a wanted child. >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: this was in january when oklahoma had allowed abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. today the state has one of the most far reaching abortion bans in the nation, prohibiting the procedure at moment of fertilization with very narrow exceptions. >> i don't know how much clearer we came be. we don't believe in abortion in

oklahoma, we don't want it in our state. >> puts us in a very dangerous position. it is life or death for women. >> that is the glad evbladder, . >> reporter: and as a fertility doctor, he says his mission is to bring life into the world but he worries that the anti-abortion law allowing private citizens to sue anyone who helps women terminate a pregnancy could have unintended consequences impacting services like invitro fertilization. >> there is a sense of panic among patients that won't have access to invitro fertilization. even if you read the law, this idea that -- it is hard to interpret. there are a lot of ambiguities. >> reporter: abortion effectively outlawed in oklahoma. if they can afford it, women seeking an abortion will now need to travel out of state just like lori did. >> it was incredibly difficult. i mean, i still have flashbacks

and nightmares. and it is hard. and it will impact me for the rest of my life. >> reporter: one woman sharing her painful journey trying to end the stigma around abortion and help others feel less alone. lucy kafanov, cnn, tulsa, oklahoma. more than two years in to the coronavirus pandemic, children under five years old will finally be able to get vaccinated in the united states. pharmacies across the country will begin giving the pfizer and moderna shots to kids as young as six months old starting today. u.s. president joe biden and first lady jill bipartiden are o visit a clinic in washington, d.c. as the rollout gets under way. cdc approved the vaccines over the weekend. and mr. biden praised the decision calling it a monumental step forward. and still to come here, the newest space rocket takes off successfully from south korea.

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[ speaking foreign language ] south korea's nuri rocket has begun its second mission into place. taking off just a short time ago with a dummy satellite and other satellites on board, there is still time for the mission to be a success. blake essig is joining me with more. so far so good i understand. >> reporter: that's right. so far so good. look, after a failure, weather delay, last minute technical glitch, today was a turning point for south korea's space program. after successfully launching its first homegrown rocket into outer space and it was made official just an hour ago making south korea the seventh country including the united states and japan to have developed a space launch vehicle that can carry

more than one ton satellite. the goal of the launch was to put satellites in to low orbit about 700 kilometers into the air at the right speed and then see if the performance verification satellite function properly by communicating with the space station in answer arin antarctica. and south korea's government says it is a success. this is called the nuri and was topped with six satellites including a 1.3 ton dummy satellite to be put into orbit. since 2010, south korea has invested nearly $1.5 billion on this program using its own design and technology that officials with the korean aerospace research institute say will open the door to a range of future satellites missions and allow the country more autonomy in its space observe ation. following this launch, they plan

to conduct another four by 2027. and today south korea has struggled to keep up with its asian neighbors in the space where it previously relied on russian technology to send carrier rockets in to low orbit, but as of today the past is a distant memory and south korea has a lot to be excited about. >> and before we go, are you a fan of beyonce? >> reporter: of course. of course. i have would daughters. whether it is bts or beyonce, that is all that is played in this house. >> well, this story is for you. thanks very much, blake. get ready for beyonce fans to collectively lose their minds. ♪ ♪ building my own foundation, yeah ♪ >> queen bey dropped a new

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good morning, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, june 21, i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm christine romans. we begin with serious new questions about the police response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in uvalde, texas. questions raised by new images and transcripts obtained by local media. we now have pictures of officers with rifles and ballistic shields there on the scene.