canceled all papal pronouncements and experiences until june 18th. as well, there's questioning about whether or not the pope will be able to keep his summer schedule, which included a trip to portugal and a trip to mongolia. wolf? >> we wish the pontiff only the best and a speedy recover. to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." you can always follow me on twitter and instagram @wolfblitzer. you can tweet the show @cnnsitroom. "the situation room" is also available as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, the worst air quality in recorded history, more than 75 million people affected, and the choking haze isn't going anywhere any time

soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. "the washington post" reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia's private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it's an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new

york city that the air quality index there, which basically is a measurement of pollution that they give from a range of zero to 500. it was at 352 this afternoon. that sounds bad, it is bad. it's not only the worst since the epa began recording air quality measurements. but it is the absolute worse on the entire planet today. i mean, it is amazing. and i want to show you just how quickly the situation deteriorated in new york. those of us who were here sort of saw it. it was like a descending doom. within three hours, the skyline goes from being covered in haze to bright orange. it felt like being on mars, and it smelled like being in a sauna. new york's governor telling people, quote, don't go out if you don't have to. officials recommending avoiding outdoor physical activity of any sort. schools canceled recess, the new york yankees postponed tonight's game. and the three major airports in new york continue to post delays. right now there is no immediate end in sight. the forecast has the smoke expected to stay for the next

several days. we have athena jones and bill weir standing by. athena, you have been outside obviously double-masked, n95. otherwise it'd be almost impossible to swallow at this point. what are you seeing now? >> reporter: well, look, erin, it's better than it was before, but it's still not good. i'm standing on the eastern edge of manhattan looking over the east river into queens. you can see some of the buildings, you can certainly make out the 59th street bridge. but there are a lot more buildings behind us that you can't see. mayor eric adams gave an update a few minutes ago. at 5:00 p.m., he said the air quality index in new york city hit 484. that is hazardous. >> wow. >> that is the highest, most hazardous level you can have. at this morning according to the tracker on my phone, it's now about 290. but that's still very unhealthy. it means there are risks of health effects for everyone, not just for people who are

vulnerable. and this is why city and state officials are urging everyone to stay inside. from new york -- >> i've never experienced anything like this before, never to this degree. >> it did shock me how quickly it came in last night. >> reporter: to cleveland, ohio, and even as far south as raleigh, north carolina. unhealthy air blanketing a large swath of the united states. from over 400 active wildfires burning in canada, more than half of them determined to be out of control, according to the canadian interagency forest fire center. >> last year and this year, the worst wildfire season we've ever had right across the country. >> reporter: canada's wildfire season got off to an unusually early and intense start in may, picking up aggressively this month largely in quebec. more than 9 million acres have burned in canada so far this year. 15 times the normal amount. smoke from those fires traveling more than 500 miles to blanket

new york city. >> from the gloom over yankee stadium to the smokey haze skirting the skyline, we can see it, we can smell it, and we felt it. and it was alarming and concerning. >> reporter: the air quality index reaching levels that could be harmful for everyone. new yorkers being urged to stay indoors as much as possible or wear a high-quality mask. >> this is not the day to train for a marathon or to do an outside event with your children. stay inside, close windows and doors, and use air purifiers if you have them. >> reporter: wildfire smoke contains particulate matter among the tiniest and most dangerous pollutants, it's able to infiltrate the lungs and enter the blood stream.

public schools in new york city and montgomery county, maryland, doing the same. the smoke will continue to impact much of the east coast until at least the weekend. >> we expect this to be a multiple-day event. so we expect that that advisory to remain in place for the next few days. >> reporter: now, new york governor kathy hochul says the state will be making available 9 million n95 masks for folks who want to protect themselves. buffalo and western new york will be in the crosshairs soon. they're expecting this to abate possibly over the weekend. but that doesn't mean it won't come back. according to cnn meteorologist jennifer grey, this could be something we deal with off and on throughout the remainder of the summer. erin? >> all right, thank you very much, athena. it is sobering to hear that. but given how athena is describing it, out-of-control fires, mass. it doesn't just stop. bill weir is in

williamsburgbrooklyn. i've never experienced anything like this. and it does, frankly, feel pretty unsettling. >> reporter: it really is. of we're watching this orange sun go down over manhattan here across the east river. and i tell you, when i walked out of the door this morning, it reminded me of the times i've gotten off of planes in new delhi or jakarta or beijing back in the day. populations with four times the people of new york city, and none of the air regulations that we enjoy. i usually take those moments in, say a word of thanks for the clean air act because there was a day where you could tase te t air in los angeles, but we don't have this anymore. this is just a reminder of how precious a blue sky can be, especially in the age of the climate fight. today was surreal to see the way it changed. the street lights came on in central park. of course, they canceled the

yankees game tonight. the phillies game in philly and the wnba game the city, trying to keep people inside today. i have to apologize for not wearing my n95. i was talking to the head of nyu langone. the n95 is much better. the city is giving out a million of those as well. but you can feel it, you can taste it. and any sort of exertion you feel it. >> and it's got that distinct smell literally as if you're in a sauna, which is truly bizarre. bill, please stay with me. i want to add professor at harvard university school of public health into the conversation. let's just show what bill referenced, that time lapse of smoke blanketing new york city today. i was here, and it just started to get dark. you started to notice the smell and the darkness. it was literally like an eclipse, except for smoke. and you've been talking about

studies showing emergency visits to the e.r. go up on days like this. how dangerous is it really to be breathing this air in? >> well, erin, thanks so much for having me on the show. this is an extraordinary event. those of us who study this topic, study particles and the health effects, the health limits about 12 microgram per cubic meter. we get excited if we see 50 or 100. it hit 700 today. that's like the worst air pollution day in beijing. that's like you can't see down the end of the runway. never seen anything like this. i'm from new york, too. and when these events happen, certainly people are experiencing things like headaches and eye irritation. but we also know we're going to see an uptick in emergency department visits. we see this every time there's a wildfire, smoke event. they will be admitted for respiratory disease, copd, and asthma attacks. i'll put a number on it, there was a recent study that showed

that at the admissions to emergency departments for asthma doubled when the outdoor pollution levels hit 50 micrograms per cubic meter. today it hit over 700. so this is as serious as an air pollution event as it can get. >> it's incredible. and, frankly, just as a regular citizen, i don't think we had any sense of how quickly or how bad it would be. the mayor of new york city is not alone in telling people to stay home. you're hearing that across many of the affected areas including philadelphia. but you say that's not the answer. >> reporter: i think it's good advice, but the dirty secret of outdoor air pollution is that outdoor air pollution penetrates indoors. and because we spend the majority of our time indoors, it turns out that the majority of exposure to outdoor air pollution occurs indoors. i think most people will find that totally shocking. i think it's good advice to say, hey, avoid time outdoors where the concentrations are really high. but it has to be paired with the

message that indoor exposures are also high, and there are steps you should take. if you're in a building with a mechanical hvac system, you have to upgrade to merv-13 filters. same filters for respiratory particles, also capture particles from wildfire smoke. if you want to supplement that, use portable air cleaners with a hepa filter. i'd love to see the mayor and everyone else pair that message with don't spend too much time outside, no vigorous activity, wear a mask if you're outside. but also think about that indoor exposure where you're actually breathing more of the outdoor air pollution, as surprising as that seems. >> here's the thing. obviously this is just the beginning of wildfire season in canada. back to the fact that people who have lived here for decades, like us, have not experienced this. and now you're hearing these numbers that joe is sharing. normally you'd see 12. you're seeing 700.

worst air pollution event in known history. is this -- is the climate change playing any role here? what's the macro picture here? >> reporter: absolutely, the arctic, the northern top of the planet has been warming up four times faster than the rest of the planet. and when i do those reports, i can almost hear the viewers glazing over like what do i care about what happens in the arctic. this is directly related to that. there was a heat anomaly in may over canada that looked like a giant red blob of paint where they had temperatures in the high 90s way sooner than is normal that. dries things out one lightning strike sets that off like a tinder box. and that's why there's over a hundred fires burning in central quebec. and the weather patterns connect us. now we're breathing the results of a climate in crisis. if you think about the cost of doing nothing, about 10% of the economy happens in new york city. and if these folks who work and live here cannot go to work, are

locked in their houses or whatever as a result of these sorts of things, that has a knock-off effect financially. it's just devastating in ways we can't think about. and there's a limit to adaptation. if the new world is this, how do you adapt to this, erin? so a lot of questions to think about as we're stuck inside waiting for this to blow past. >> all right, thank you both very much. , and next, some breaking news. we are learning prosecutors have officially informed former president trump that he is the target of a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents. those details are next. plus, the head of putin's private army, tonight predicting that putin's generals may soon face a firing squad, execution squads because of their failures on the battlefield. live pictures tonight from iowa where cnn's town hall with mike pence is about to begin. the event coming on the same day pence launched his campaign for president. and this time he didn't hold back when it came to taking on trump.

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doj is planning on bringing a significant portion of any charges in the case at a federal court in south florida. we're going to talk about more about what that means in a moment. i want to begin with paula reid. what are you learning, paula? >> reporter: we have learned that former president trump has been informed that he is the target of a federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents. now, this is a sign that prosecutors could be moving closer to possibly indicting the former president. we are told that his legal team was informed via a target letter that he is norm the focus of this investigation, multiple sources have learned about the letter having it described to them, though none of our sources have directly or personally seen this letter. it really crystalizes the fact that the special counsel jack smith in this investigation is focused on former president trump and not just the people around him. usually, if you are the recipient of a target letter, it means that you have the opportunity, if you would like, to go before a grand jury.

now, it's unclear if the former president would do that, though, it does seem unlikely that his legal team would advise that. it was something he was also offered up in manhattan and opted not to do that. his attorneys met with the justice department earlier this week to discuss what they believe are problems with this case. and, as we know, former president trump has repeatedly said that he is done nothing wrong. >> you're also getting some breaking details about steve bannon, and the other investigation about january 6th. what's that? >> reporter: that's right. and the special counsel's other investigation into january 6th, we've learned that former white house adviser and longtime trump ally steve bannon has been subpoenaed to testify. he was recently convicted for being in contempt of congress. he's facing a potential prison sentence. so it's unclear if he's going to play ball. he also has the opportunity if he so chooses to plead the fifth. but this is of course a significant witness for them to call. we've learned in terms of a more

cooperative witness, our colleague zach cohen and i broke this story today that those investigators in. january 6th investigation also spoke with alyssa sarah griffith. she didn't go before the grand jury. one of the things we learned is that investigators are very interested in trump's state of mind. specifically, erin, they wanted to know whether trump really believed some of the lies that he was pushing in and around january 6th. so notable that's what they're asking about right now. but also a sign that the january 6th investigation is perhaps not as far along as the classified documents probe. >> and obviously that is a big question on when these come, if they come together, and those details could mean so much. thank you so much. alyssa farah griffin is choosing to speak to prosecutors, as she always does in her role, so

frequently as a contributor. "outfront" now, former trump white house press secretary, and the former assistant special watergate prosecutor. ryan goodman, the former special counsel at the department of defense. thanks very much to all of you. ryan, let me start with the very basics here. trump being informed that he's a target of the investigation. obviously it's -- i know people are saying, okay, sure, we knew that. but we didn't know that formally. he didn't know that formally. how significant is this step procedurally? >> we both thought that that is the case and it's the reason we're having a special counsel because he was investigating matters at the heart of donald trump. but it was never stated explicitly because it could just be that he thinks there's criminal conduct of classified documents being at mar-a-lago, but who is the target? the timing of it is suspicious. the fact that he is being told that he is the target at the end of the investigation. there's no way he wants to hear that or his defense counsel wants to hear that. it does suggest an indictment is

kind of coming down the pike for it to be told to him at this stage. it is told to him right before the meeting between his lawyers and the justice department. so maybe they just wanted to alert him. >> so we'll know at least by monday. john, where do you think we are in terms of an indictment or indictments? >> the special counsel is appointed pursuant to certain regulations, and he is subject to the policies and procedures of the department of justice. and there's something called a justice manual. it's a book, every assistant u.s. attorney has it. and it says if somebody is a target, you usually advise the counsel, maybe you send them a target letter. and any good lawyers when they receive that will ask for an opportunity for a meeting and will present their arguments why the indictment should not be brought. in this case apparently they also have grievances that they claim of prosecutorial misconduct. we can assume that the department of the special counsel has rejected those

arguments. now, remember, it still has to go to the attorney general. it's ultimately merrick garland can approve a recommendation or disapprove of it. but it seems like the grand jury particularly in florida is moving ahead. so it doesn't look like that they're closing up shop and saying, no, we're not indicting. it looks like they are. target means we believe that there is sufficient evidence by which a jury could find you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. >> important to mention the standard there. stephanie, trump is posting on social media no one has told me i'm being indicted. of course the reporting is otherwise. what do you make of how he's handling it? >> well, it's typical trump, right? he's going to try to get ahead of the story and deny anything. what i thought was interesting was he just listed all of the things he's been accused of, which obviously in communications 101 you just quit listing the negatives. he continues to do that. really, it hit me that, you know, i'm reading it all and i

thought, again, no sane person is going to continue to see all of these issues he's having and think it's a big conspiracy. >> so, ryan, paula is suggesting that by the timing of what you're seeing here and the testimony still occurring in the south, south florida grand jury, that maybe the january 6th portion of this is lagging, the classified documents, that they don't come all together. do you see it that way, and how does that play out, then? >> definitely see if that way. by all accounts, all reports the mar-a-lago classified documents investigation is about to wrap up. >> unclear whether, though, and just to be clear whether that's obstruction or also espionage would go in that mar-a-lago? >> right. >> we don't know what the charges are. okay, then -- >> then the idea that today we would out that the special counsel has subpoenaed steve bannon recently. it's a little shocking that that would be this late in the game. the january 6th congressional committee identified steve bannon as central to their

investigation. so that seems like that's pretty late, why is it happening now? >> the federal grand jury in south florida, you practice law there, you know this. "the washington post" is reporting that a significant amount of charges in the documents case, again, the mar-a-lago silo that we're talking about, would be brought in florida. what does that say to you, and is that better for trump or worse for trump than it coming out of the -- >> this may surprise you, but i think it's better for trump. the national media is talking about that this case, if it's indicted, it's still an if, will be returned in miami-dade county where the demographics may not be so favorable to trump. it will not be in miami-dade county. our chief judge issued an order impanelling a grand jury. it's not a trump grand jury, it's another grand jury. and it's sitting in miami-dade, but it's a palm beach county,

grand jury. they don't sit in palm beach because since covid there's no safe room for them to sit in. if it's indicted, this will be a palm beach county case where the demographics are a lot better for donald trump. i need to say one thing, though. the constitution that he said he might suspend will protect him, and it should protect him, and we should all remember he's presumed innocent now, and if he's indicted, he remains presumed innocent. and it's the government who has to prove him guilty. >> the burden of proof. >> absolutely. and any of these defenses, whether documents are classified. if they're not, prosecutorial misconduct, they can all be aired out if he's indicted. so i think a fair trial is all we can expect. >> and we should all, as you point out, hope for, that the whole point here is the rule of law and upholding it. >> everybody has to say we don't

want him inciting violence. >> we can only imagine how he will respond when this happens -- i guess if is anticipated it likely happens. you spoke to investigators a year ago in the january 6th case which seems to be moving more slowly here than the documents case. have you spoken to prosecutors about the mar-a-lago documents case at all? >> yes, i have voluntarily cooperated with that investigation. >> all right. so, now, ryan, just to make this clear, stephanie is saying she's also testified in that one. where do you think the charges coming from south florida, does it come from washington? >> they could do what the justice department with paul manafort divided into two jurisdictions. it sounds like maybe the center of gravity is going to be in florida. the espionage act could be in

florida. where did he retain the documents? in florida. >> what was your experience with those prosecutors, how did their demeanor, their professionalism, is there anything you can share? >> i can't share much about what was discussed. obviously, i agree with your guest that everybody is innocent until proven guilty so i want to respect the legal process and donald trump. but i can say they were very professional and very even-handed. i spoke to them at length for quite a while. >> thank you very much, all of you. i appreciate your time. and, next, ukraine gaining ground near bakhmut tonight. the head of putin's private military predicting that putin's generals could soon find themselves in front of a firing squad. and mike pence taking on trump directly, talking about his former boss more than a dozen times as he officially launches his 2024 campaign.

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tonight, a firing squad. the chief of russia's private army yevgeny prigozhin saying he's certain there will soon be major russian losses on the battlefield in ukraine, and a loss of territory inside russia. and prigozhin predicts that those losses will be so significant that firing squads will be ordered to execute the generals responsible for russian failures. >> translator: we will now suffer serious losses. i am absolutely certain of it. now we are certainly losing some russian territory. this part being in the russian federation. there will either be a popular revolt or the state duma will

gun them the [ bleep ] down. i think we're two to three months away from the firing squads. >> this comes as ukrainians are making gains around the key city of bakhmut. and sam kiley is "outfront." >> reporter: ukraine's third assault brigade is in action near bakhmut. and they claim they're making advances around the city. but their attack is dependent on soviet-era weapons. modern equipment from the usa and nato is apparently being held in reserve for a ukrainian offensive. do you have a name for your -- is it good enough for this fight? >> reporter: ukraine gets no help at all with aircraft, not so far. this soviet-era helicopter is

ancient, but in combat almost every day, flying dangerously low to avoid missiles and russian jet hunter/killers. trance . >> reporter: these aircraft will fly more as fighting intensifies. in a relentless cycle of war. ukraine has now got added rage at what it's calling a russian ecocide. this part of kherson has suffered russian bombardment for months. near now total destruction from upriver. russia is widely blamed for the collapse of the dam at novo kakhovka, which has been under its control since march of last

year. civilians who survived the russian occupation of their town and an offensive to free it are now facing down a new horror. thousands have no drinking water. here, a drone delivers help, an adaptation of a system originally designed not to save life but to take it. now, erin, these recent successes that the ukrainians are claiming may well be, in part, as consequence of effectively mutinous behavior by mr. prigozhin, who, just the other day, captured the commander of the 72nd mechanized brigade, a russian brigade, the neighboring unit to wagner in bakhmut, beat him up, forced him into an online confession in which he was told to say that he'd been drunk and opened fire on wagner troops. it's just that kind of collapse on law and order within the russian ranks that the

ukrainians be absolutely delighted by. if prigozhin didn't exist, i think the ukrainians would've wanted to make him up. erin? >> it defies belief. thank you very much, sam, reporting live from kyiv tonight. let's go now to the former u.s. ambassador to russia, john sullivan. ambassador sullivan, i'm so glad to have you back. sam's talking about what the russians do. they have had control of that dam for months. and now they haven't provided a single shred of evidence, but they are keeping up a narrative that it is ukraine's fault. this does seem absurd. it seems to defy kredult, does it? >> absolutely, erin. and you hit the nail on the head. they're in control of this dam because they invaded ukraine in february of 2022. this war would end, there would be no dam collapse if the russians hadn't invaded ukraine. it's ultimately russia's fault. >> so, you, obviously, saw putin, you knew him up close as

ambassador to russia. so, better than anyone, you have a sense of how he operates, how he thinks. you've got a counteroffensive now seemingly, you know, in full swing. you have attacks on russian territory. you've got prigozhin saying all sorts of things. what is putin's mindset like right now, as best as you can imagine? >> well, i think, from his background and his training going all the way back to his kgb days, he would never show it. the more difficult it gets, the cooler and calmer he will try to appear. but he is under enormous stress now, erin. there's no doubt about that. secretary blinken recited in a speech last week in helsinki how this war has been a strategic catastrophe for putin and russia. and, day by day, whether it's the dam collapse, whether it's prigozhin, the head of, as you accurately described it, putin's private army, talking about

senior russian generals being executed, this is calamitous for russia and for putin. >> let's talk more about what prigozhin said. he predicted those firing squads in russia within two to three months, which would target putin's generals. he also suggested putin might detonate a nuclear weapon in russia, in belgorod. i don't know as a false flag or what, but he said that. he's claimed to take a russian commander, a top russian commander hostage as a pow. this seems to be reaching some sort of a breaking point, even for someone whose actions and words have, frankly, been quite shocking for a long time. >> they have been, erin. and it's a growing cascade of crazy statements by prigozhin. i mean, months ago, he was calling the minister of defense and the chairman of the russian

general staff cowards and traitors, and their children cowards and traitors. and it's just been a further escalation every time he speaks, there's something more outrageous he says, in part, to get attention. the important thing to note is how dependent putin is on him now. you described in the opening of this segment, this is putin's private army. the success they had in bakhmut, the russian government itself just a couple of weeks ago attributed that success, at least in part to wagner. so putin's dependent on those soldiers that prigozhin leads. >> it's amazing. thank you very much, ambassador sullivan. i appreciate your time, as always. >> thanks, erin. next, former vice president mike pence slamming trump, saying he's unfit to be president, as pence launches his own 2024 campaign. and we have new reporting on what pence sees as his path to the white house. and prosecutors tonight trying to convince a jury that a school security officer should be held criminally responsible for failing to try to stop a

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actions on january 6th. >> president trump's words were reckless. they endangered my family and everyone at the capitol. i believe that anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states. [ applause ] and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. >> "outfront" now, gloria borger, our senior political analyst. you spoke with the top pence adviser. he's the latest republican to announce his white house campaign. so, the big question is, what do they see as pence's path to actually winning the gop nomination? >> well, his point to me was that no one else in the field is a traditional conservative, which is the way pence sees himself. today he talked about ronald reagan, for example. this is another important thing he said. no one else has the same

combination of experience and character. and today what we heard from pence is a lot of talk about character and about civility. and we also heard his wife introduce him and talk about who he is, in a funny way, even though he's vice president, they feel the need to reintroduce himself to the american public. she was talking about you may not know this, but he spent 12 years in the house, four years as governor, and then another four years as vice president. so look at this man, and you see that he is clearly got the experience to become the next president. >> and they're trying to make that argument. obviously they want to, i guess in a sense, reintroduce him and maybe wash some parts of it away. and, to that point, gloria, we know for a long time, pence was hesitant to criticize trump. he was very careful and guarded. he started inserting it a little bit more. but it wasn't until today that it was a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, more than a dozen times he brings him up in this

announcement. listen to this. >> donald trump and others in this race are retreating from the cause of the unborn. what president trump and others are forgetting is that our administration succeeded not because we compromised or abandoned conservative principles, but because we acted on them. >> so, gloria, how big of a shift is this in his message? >> he crossed the rubicon today. we have really not heard him take on donald trump. and he did it in every way. and he did it even on foreign policy, he talked about ukraine, and it was quite strong when he said, you know, former president trump described putin as a genius. and then he went on to say i know the difference between a genius and a war criminal. so you can see that, at this point, mike pence has decided that he's not going to hold back anymore, because what he's got

to do is differentiate himself. and he also, erin, spent an awful lot of time going through exactly what happened on january 6th. every single detail. and you heard before, you know, his life was in danger, his family's life was in danger. but he went into great detail about how he felt that he could not go against the constitution. and if he had to make a choice, he would always choose the constitution over donald trump. and i think you're going to hear him talk about that. >> all right, thank you very much, gloria. , and of course, don't miss you'll hear him tonight, cnn's town hall with mike pence moderated by dana bash. that is tonight at 9:00. and, next, a former school resource officer now on trial for not confronting a mass shooter who killed 17 students and staff in parkland, florida. >> the defendant will never leave that -- while the shooter is in the building.

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stood outside and did nothing, as a gunman killed 17 people inside is now on trial. scot peterson is accused of failing to do his job. carlos suarez is "out front." >> 17 beautiful people were lost. >> reporter: broward county prosecutor, steven clinger, with his opening statement tuesday in the trial of former school resource officer scot peterson. the 60-year-old is facing 11 charges, including seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence, and perjury, for failing to follow his active shooter training during the massacre in parkland, florida. he's pleaded not guilty to all charges. >> you're trained to go toward those shots, find that shooter, because every shot could be a death. >> reporter: instead, prosecutors told the jury that

peterson took cover outside the building, where the shooting happened for 45 minutes, as the massacre unfolded inside. >> the defendant will never leave that outpost while the shooter is in the building. >> reporter: the prosecution laid out an exhaustive timeline of the shooting for the shooting. >> there's a little path that goes into the school. >> reporter: and put former students and teachers on the stand. >> did you know that deputy peterson carried a firearm? >> yes. >> did deputy peterson ever enter your classroom that day? >> he did not. >> at one point, the state played a video of the shooting from inside the school. max -- whose son, alex, was killed that day, was visibly upset at hearing the sounds played in the courtroom. in the defense's opening statement, peterson's attorney said peterson didn't know the exact location of the shooter, and reacted as best he could.

>> we've got 22 witnesses under subpoena who will come in here and tell you that they, too, heard the same shots my client did and could not discern precisely where the shots were coming from. >> reporter: and painted a timeline of peterson's whereabouts that morning. >> what is not in dispute at all is that when the shooter is on the first floor killing faculty and children, my client wasn't even on the scene yet. >> reporter: peterson is the first law enforcement officer to be prosecuted for failing to act during a school shooting. and his defense attorneys made a point of highlighting his credentials. >> so, what we have here is a man with a decorated history of serving the community for 32 years, and in merely four minutes and 15 seconds, they're claiming he became a criminal. >> carlos, obviously a hard story on a lot of levels.

what could peterson face if convicted? >> well, erin, six of those child neglect charges carry penalties of up to 15 years in prison if peterson is convicted. he could also lose his pension. and, erin, as you can imagine, this case is drawing plenty of national attention, in large part because of the police inaction in uvalde, texas, but also because of the quick police response at the covenant school shooting in nashville, tennessee, earlier this year. >> carlos, thank you very much. and next on "ac 360," her book was restricted at a florida school, and now amanda gorman is speaking out against the censorship of her work. and meantime, next, new concerns about the health of pope francis, who is now in the hospital after undergoing surgery. for up to 44 minutes more restful sleep per nighght. save $1,500 on thehe sleep numr climate360 smart bed. shop now only at sleeeep number. i brought in ensure max protein with 30g of protein.

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