>> eric: we are awaiting a news conference in uvalde, texas, right now, on the new report on the law enforcement response to that horrific mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. the report is by a texas house investigative committee, that outlines quote systemic failures by state and federal law enforcement as well as local police there that are shocking and heart breaking and exposing the fumbling and lack of action by police on that day. the community met with the victims -- the committee met with the victims' families

earlier to discuss the findings before releasing the report. we will bring it to you when it begins. i'm eric shawn. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville. today's report comes days after the release of surveillance video from inside rob elementary school on the day of the shooting. we want to warn you that you may find this video disturbing. the video was obtained by the austin american statesman and [inaudible] tv and was edited into a shorter clip with some of the audio removed. it shows several officers standing in one of the school's hallways with while the shooter was still inside the building. it took 73 minutes to finally confront the shooter. today's report finds that nearly 400 officers were at the school. most of them state and federal law enforcement. senior correspondent casey steagall is live in uvalde with more. casey?

>> yeah, arthel, as we speak, the victims' families are still in that meeting with the state investigative committee here in uvalde. they are going over every last agonizing detail in that detailed report. it is the investigative committee's findings, 77 pages which was released this morning to families ahead of the meeting. the texas tribune got a copy ahead of time and it showed 376 members of law enforcement from a wide variety of agencies responded to the scene, of which, the state report says, 149 were u.s. border patrol agents and 91 state troopers. 25 were from uvalde local pd and 16 from the local sheriff's office. the rest made up of u.s. marshals, dea, and neighboring county sheriff's offices. the report questions why in the absence of a strong incident commander, why did no one else

higher up with more training interject sooner. the door's locks also a big part of this document, stating that if both the exterior and the classroom doors would have been locked, as they should have been, it would have slowed the shooter and possibly bought more time. this is that video you were talking about obtained by the newspaper and kv tv which they edited together. the families seeing redacted version of this video. the teen fired some 100 rounds in three minutes' time before the first cops even arrived, so the committee says it is hard to gauge whether this fumbled police response cost more lives, but it did conclude that it's plausible some people could have survived if they didn't have to

wait some 73 minutes for rescue. arthel? >> arthel: you know, casey, of course the families, they wanted answers. they wanted transparency because they clearly haven't gotten it until now, but you have to imagine how heart breaking it is to find out just how law enforcement fumbled while their kids were inside getting slaughtered. >> and you have to realize that people knew what was going on in realtime. for those of us here covering the shooting when it happened, our co workers were standing out here pretty quickly while this was still ongoing, and you had parents that were standing here on the perimeter of the school begging the police here to do something. to do something. so this has been agonizing for this community. it has been as it's been described to me a bandage that

has been ripped off repeatedly. the families say they have been left in the dark when it comes to the investigation. the mayor of this community has gone so far as to say that there was a cover-up happening at the state level because texas dps has been very critical and right out of the gate seemed to place the majority of the blame if not all the blame on the chief of the uvalde school district's police pete arredondo. however this report that was released today is mighty interesting because it spreads blame across all of the agencies here. it is fascinating to learn that the bulk of the first responders here were as at the federal level and even had more training when it came to active shooter scenarios than the local police here did. that is the question why as anyone a member of law enforcement didn't just step out

of line, out of command, and take things into their own hands, which is what border patrol ultimately did when they breached the classroom and then killed the suspect. >> arthel: some of those parents there that day, they wanted to take matters into their own hands, and they were ready to go in there and confront that shooter. casey steagall, it is heart breaking -- i don't know if that can describe this tragic situation in uvalde. thank you for your great reporting, as always, casey. >> thanks, arthel. >> arthel: eric? >> eric: no stranger to life and death emergencies, former new york city police commissioner is joining us now. commissioner, your reaction on what the report found about the police response, the lack of incident commander, confusion, lack of action with those police officers standing around in the school hallway while the shooter was down the hall in the classroom slaughtering kids. >> it's amazing. with everything that could have gone wrong in this situation

went wrong. you had a a six-man department with what appears to be an ineffective chief who did not assume incident command. they did not follow protocol which is to immediately go in and save lives, even putting your own life on the line. but we have to be fair here, and, you know, three minutes before any police got to the building this individual had fired 100 shots. many of these kids probably could have been saved because they bled to death, but the fact is that it was real mass murder before any police were in the building. the other question, which is just as important to me, because we're going to fix the protocols, i believe, and this will never happen again in this kind of situation is how did this individual get that weapon? how did somebody who was posting school shooting was his intent all over social media be allowed

to buy two ar-15s, weapons of mass destruction and nobody flagged him? that's a very important question. >> eric: that's part of the report too, about the family, friends, someone in germany was receiving some type of text message from the shooter about this exactly. let me go back to police training that you know about. here's a quote from the report actually from the texas tribune about the report. quote, when officers were driven back by gunfire just after entering the school, uvalde police department lieutenant martinez attempted to confront the shooter again. he advanced up the hallway in an evident desire to maintain momentum and to stop the killing. no officers followed him, and he stopped. several law enforcement officers told the committee they believed if others had followed him as backup, he might have made it to the classroom and engaged with the shooter. what does that say about the lack of active shooter training that one officer was willing and started to go, to confront the shooter, but no one followed him? there was apparently no command

to do that. >> absolutely. the real tragedy there is that one of his children were in that classroom, officer martinez's child, but, you know, it's very clear when you have an active shooter, you immediately establish command post with the incident commander. that was not done. basically, you had 346 officers as many as defended the alamo in this school or around this school with nobody telling them what to do, and when officers down the line tried to use their own initiative, they were stopped, so there's a lot of blame to go around here, and certainly border patrol, u.s. marshals, department of public safety all had better training and better incident command training than the six-man department's chief. i think the report is right on, but again, the more important

thing to me is how do we prevent 18 to 21-year-old loners from getting these weapons? and the recently passed gun legislation is not going to do that. >> eric: also hopefully this will teach law enforcement agencies across the country on whatnot to do and learn from these horrible mistakes in this case. also school districts, the school apparently did not adhere to safety protocols. here's another quote from the report saying, quote, multiple witnesses told the committee that employees often left doors unlocked while teachers would use rocks wedges and magnets to prop open exterior and interior doors this is partly because of shortage of keys. the shooter was able to easily scale the fence and enter the school through a series of unlocked doors. you know, we put all this money into trying to protect schools and buildings and institutions. if the door is unlocked, you know, no wonder. what does that say? >> that's a very important point, eric. the fact is i have looked at

literally dozens of schools with locking doors and systems, and in almost every one of them, you can find somebody propping open a door. there has to be real enforcement and responsibility and accountability for people who leave doors open because that just defeats the whole system. >> eric: you've got to know that's important when you do that and finally your point, how did he get the gun? his uncle apparently drove him to the gun store. he was known to police authorities for making threats in the past. yet, that was addressed but certainly not sufficiently enough. here's the report on that, quote, the gunman displayed signs he was unstable and possibly planning a violent attack yet none of these warning signs got to authorities. he earned the nickname school shooter on social media platforms. the report details no attempt by anyone who interacted with the gunman to alert authorities about his troubling behavior. so finally, commissione -- he

doesn't really mean it, he's blowing off steam, and this sort of thing, what should people do? >> they should immediately report it to the authorities. what we need to do is the red flag laws that exist today do not have access to many of the databases that would have shown this individual was a disturbed possible mass shooter. we need to establish a national red flag database so that if a crazy individual goes across the state line or goes to another city will be able to find out who he is and prevent him from getting a weapon. there's a lot that needs to be done. this report hopefully will begin it. >> eric: hopefully we are paying the horrible deadly price in this country for the deadly and fatal mixture of mental illness among some unstable people and the easy access to some of these weapons, especially the young people. former new york city police commissioner, thank you for

serving our city and our country and for your insight today. >> good to be with you, eric. >> eric: the news conference from uvalde expected to begin after the commission wraps, up with its meetings with the victims' families. they are having that right now behind closed doors. we will bring you that news conference in uvalde when it starts. arthel? >> arthel: eric, we're going to turn to the southern border crisis. the latest data showing this fiscal year is on pace to break the record for migrant encounters. customs and border protection says there were more than 207,000 encounters last month, making june the fourth month in a row to surpass 200,000. matt finn is live at the border in eagle pass, not far from uvalde, texas. matt? >> arthel, this sunday we have seen a steady stream of more migrants crossing the rio grande river here into the united states, men, women, and children, young mothers carrying their infants and their toddlers. i personally spoke to migrants today who told me they are

coming from venezuela, columbia, and cuba, obviously very high heat. it is over 100 degrees here right now. you couple that with the southern texas humidity. some migrants looked okay and were smiling as they talked to me. others looked like they were going to pass out from a heatstroke. the texas department of public safety issued instruction to the migrants in spanish telling them they are going to get processed and given water. a few migrants shouted back asking for water. worth noting that many of the migrants we're seeing here in the past day or two appear to have fresh clothes, perhaps not too tired out, so it very much appears these are some of the migrants that aren't making the long treks by foot to our border. rather being transported here or figuring out their own means of transportation. also here at eagle pass, u.s. customs and border has opened a massive new facility primarily to quickly process the migrants in u.s. border patrol custody. the soft-sided facility has a

capacity of 1,000 people. it has washers, driers, showers, large air conditioned spaces for both the agents, the border patrol, and also the migrants. that new facility here replaces a smaller one that was built last year. arthel? >> arthel: that's interesting. is that considered a positive thing, matt finn? >> well, it's certainly more humane. it is obviously signalling that they are preparing for more and more migrants to be processed here on the border. we drove by it last night. it is massive expansive facility, the size of maybe a school campus or corporate office. that's now serving as the first stop for migrants who are crossing the river here. arthel? >> arthel: matt finn there in eagle pass, texas, near the border. thanks, matt. eric? >> eric: nearby in new mexico, albuquerque, tragic news, officials say four first responders have been killed when a sheriff's office helicopter crashed.

the three sheriff's office personnel and one firefighter were flying back home after battling a fire near las vegas, new mexico, at a town about an hour outside of santa fe. the state department of public safety and national transportation safety board of course leading the investigation into this tragic helicopter crash. >> arthel: in california, a jewelry heist is being investigated that sounds like straight out of a hollywood crime drama. 150 million dollars worth of gems reportedly stolen from an armored truck. it was traveling from the bay area to southern california for a jewelry show. one of the jewelers says his inventory was loaded inside the brinks vehicle last sunday. by monday morning, about two dozen containers were gone. the fbi and the los angeles county sheriff's department are investigating. >> eric: sounds like the case for good fellas, wow. last month saw the highest inflation rates since 1981. that's mostly driven by energy prices. did you know that the price of

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>> eric: the white house is defending president biden after his trip to saudi arabia. many faulting his need for the fist bump with crown prince. meanwhile, the president has arrived back home to find his build back better agenda is stalled thanks to fellow democrat joe manchin, the west virginia senator says inflation is too high to pass any new spending measure now. congressional correspondent is live at the white house on the north lawn with the very latest on the administration response to all this. hi. >> hi there, eric. the white house has remained pretty quiet all day today after the president returned late last night from his four-day trip to the mideast, returned to growing frustration among americans and criticism and frustration among members of his own party. let's start with build back better. the president's agenda, west

virginia senator joe manchin tanking any hopes for climate or energy funding before august recess, blaming rising inflation. progressives are angry at him, but manchin is willing to pass a smaller package to lower prescription drug costs and extend healthcare subsidies. the president is telling the senate to take the deal and leave climate and energy to him. meantime, new fox news poll out shows biden's approval rating at a dismal 40% now with just 31% approving of his job on the economy. 25% very low on inflation. this as the price of groceries, household items, air fare, just about everything is significantly up from just a year ago. the president also still fending off broad criticism from that fist bump with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman as you know the u.s. intelligence holds responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. mixed reaction from democrats

today. >> you have a leader of the country who was involved in the murder of a washington post journalist. i don't think that that type of government should be rewarded with a visit by the president of the united states. >> they killed journalist jamal khashoggi. at the same time, oil prices are really high, so i'm not going to criticize president biden for trying to reduce oil prices. he's going to one of the countries that produces a lot of oil, so i think it is perfectly acceptable for the president to try to reduce oil prices. >> it all comes as the saudis announce the kingdom cannot produce much more oil than they already are, while throwing water on the administration's claims that it is normalizing relations with israel after it opened up its airspace to flights in and out of israel. so far nothing on the public schedule for the president, and we do not expect to see him throughout the evening today. eric? >> eric: thanks so much.

arthel? >> arthel: eric, record high gas prices have contributed to inflation hitting a 40-year high, but some good news on the horizon as gas prices are on the decline. national average price for a gallon of regular today is $4.53. a month ago it was $5, but one year ago it was $3.16. so have we hit the inflation peak now that gas prices are falling? we're going to bring in gene marks, the cpa president of the marks group and a small business expert. so listen, gene, we'll get to gas prices in a second. >> sure. >> arthel: first of all, you know, the people who want to work, they can find a job. americans are spending 10% more than last year. people are out dining. gas prices are creeping down as we said. so why the high inflation rate and talk of a recession? what's not adding up? >> well, i mean there are a lot of factors that are contributing to the high inflation rate,

arthel. let's not forget it is not just gas prices. but we all have to keep an eye on the producer price index. i mean, that was at 11.3%. arthel, the cost to manufacture core stuff, you know, industrial chemicals and iron and steel and copper and things like that, these are what my clients are -- you know, the core materials for all the products we buy and sell, they are up a lot, even more than 11% and producer prices, the cost of freight as well. all those things are contributing to over all rising consumer prices that we're seeing right now. >> arthel: what's causing those materials and shipping fees to go so high? >> a lot of different factors as well. you know, you mentioned of course energy. oil and petroleum based products are a part of a lot of products in the economy. the supply chain issues that we saw as well. arthel, in the economy, and i have learned this over many many years, it is not that hard to figure out. it is all about supply and demand. every single economic problem, and when prices go up, it just

means that there's a less supply of something to meet demand. what we have been seeing over the past two years since the pandemic is shorter supplies of core materials than ultimately consumer goods. because of that, that's caused an increase in prices. the shortage of supplies has been because of a lack of manufacturing because of countries around the world shutting down because of a pandemic and just trying to catch up and make sense of it. >> arthel: definitely a domino effect, and it continues. you know, jobs are available, as we know. unemployment is low. are they good paying jobs, gene? i mean, jobs this that come with -- jobs that come with income that can match or offset inflation? >> that's such a great question. no. actual wages are up about 5% year over year. you and i both know inflation itself is over 9%. it is not keeping up. in fact, real wages over the past three months have actually declined a little bit. so no, there's an adjustment that needs to be happening, arthel.

you know, i'm a small business advocate, but even i'm telling my clients you need to be considering a mid year pay raise for your employees because something's got to break. employees can't make it on a 5% pay increase when prices are rising over 9%. i think we will be seeing a lot of that sometime in the second half of 2022. employering stepping up, good employers -- employers stepping up, good employers to make good for their employees. >> arthel: i have a feeling, even though your clients don't want to hear it, i have a feeling you're right they are going to step up, it is either pay good people to work for you or you close your doors because without your ability to prevent the service to your consumers, then you've got nothing. >> every single -- i want to say to you that every single one of my clients has a worker shortage. i know they wouldn't want me to be saying this on live television, but if you are an employee, and you are out there, now is a good time to be going to your employer and asking for a raise. it is -- we all know what inflation is. it is not an unreasonable

request to make. trust me when i tell you, if you are a good employee, your employer doesn't want to lose you. they want to keep you around. i'm seeing it happening. that's my recommendation to your viewers as well. >> arthel: you know what another good recommendation, if you can afford it, and you're out there eating and going to whatever, parking your car, eating out, tip well, if you can afford it, tip well, because the people who are showing up, i mean, they are trying to do their best; right? >> agreed. one final thing, by the way, when we're talking about tipping well and looking at employees that are out there, there's worker shortages at all of these restaurants as well and those workers are really hard. for us to be able to help them out a little bit -- a little bit, whether you leave a $7 tip or $10 tip, what difference does that make to you? it makes a difference to the server. >> arthel: what's the fiscally sound way to weather the storm right now? >> recession is imminent, but i

think it will be a small recession, just a slowdown, so no need to panic. okay. i talked about asking for a raise. one thing i have been recommending to my clients with increase in energy prices, get an energy audit. talk to your utility company now. they offer free services where they come out to your homes, your businesses, and they will look around and make recommendations to improve the energy efficiency in your homes. if you're a small business owner or retail shop owner or a restaurant shop owner, there are a lot of boutique services that you can google that will audit your energy bills as well. they can find discrepancies or pricing problems or math issues. fix them. they get a fee based on what they save you in cost and then you will save costs going forward. that way you can prepare yourselves for those increasing energy costs which are here now and will continue to be there the next 6 to 12 months. >> arthel: always awesome gene marks, cpa and president of the marks group. thanks, gene. >> thanks, arthel, take care.

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>> arthel: a stunning claim from a top iranian official who says his nation is capable of making a nuclear bomb. a senior advisor to the supreme leader says while iran has the ability to produce 90% enriched uranium, officials haven't actually decided whether they are actually going to make a nuclear bomb. we have all the details. we are live from jerusalem. trey? >> arthel, good afternoon. a concerning development out of iran as an advisor to the ayatollah says the islamic republic is now capable of

building a nuclear bomb. that advisor was speaking to al-jazeera when he said that iran has the technical means to build the weapon of mass destruction, but hasn't yet decided on doing so. iran is currently enriching uranium up to 60% purity well beyond the 3.67% laid out in the nuclear deal. israel is preparing plans to strike iranian nuclear facilities as the jewish state last week reiterated its commitment to stopping iran from obtaining such a weapon. >> translator: i clarified to president biden and his staff that israel opposes the nuclear agreement and reserves full freedom of action, political and professional facing the iranian nuclear program. >> -- against iran as a last resort if diplomacy on a nuclear agreement does not prevail. earlier this year, indirect talks between iran and the united states stalled as momentum on a new deal appears unlikely right now. iranian proxies continue to operate across the middle east,

threatening american allies such as, the state of israel. on saturday, iranian backed groups in gaza fired four rockets into southern israel. one of them was intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system. the other landed in three open areas. this week russian president putin will be traveling to tehran to meet with his counterparts there as reports do indicate the russians may buy iranian drones to use in ukraine. arthel? >> arthel: it is complicated thank you. >> eric: how close is iran from building a bomb. founder and executive director of the national security institute is joining us now. is this a false boast, a real threat, or is it a reminder that if it wants, iran could build a nuclear weapon? >>i think it is a little bit of all those things, eric. we know for a fact that iran for a while has had the ability to build a nuclear weapon if in fact it chose to do so.

what it was short on was a couple of things. number one, enough enriched uranium. they have gotten close to producing that. the advisor is making clear as trey said that they can rapidly accelerate to nuclear capable uranium. the question is we have now do they have a valid warhead design and can they deliver a weapon, you know, one or more on top of ballistic missiles? these are still questions. the question becomes what can we do to stave off that day to come any sooner than it has to? >> eric: the biden administration says the answer is the nuclear deal. >> we have seen this nuclear deal before; right? the obama administration put it in place. it clearly had its deep flaws, as we know our allies saudis and israelis told us ahead of time. maximum pressure on iranians, we saw activities happen in iran against the nuclear program. the biden administration has been clear they want the nuclear

deal back and willing to make concessions. iran sees this and division amongst the israeli government about the nuclear deal, and so they are exploiting these disagreements to ultimately get more concessions as they did in that first nuclear deal causing that problem. >> eric: one of the major issues in the deal, one of the reasons critics slammed it as being ineffective is the lack of any type of sunset clause. in other words, once it lapsed, in a few years, iran would get a free pathway to build a nuclear bomb, if it wanted, and nuclear weapons. is that still in it? is that still a point of contention? because many critics say, you know, without some type of -- with a sunset clause in it, it doesn't really mean anything. that iran will be free to build a nuclear bomb when it wants once the deal lapses. >> that's exactly right, eric. the challenge is we're already a long way into the sunset clause, almost near the end of the deal. we have already seen the expiration of the conventional weapons ban at the u.n. on iran

and there are increasingly more capabilities that iran gains over the next few years as it continues to play this thing out. the real problem is the deal is getting weaker day by day as we get closer to the sunset provision. longer deal, ideally a deal that goes on forever that says iran will never make a nuclear weapon, but on top of that, we need real checks and balances, none of which were in the original deal and we need iran's commitment that it won't continue its bad behavior in the region, support for hezbollah, for hamas, for the groups in yemen. iran is causing all sorts of trouble around the region, they refuse to bring in any of them. and finally the ballistics missile program, if we don't bring that in, that's a huge problem in and of itself. these are flaws that the biden administration hasn't worked out with iran. iran sees an opportunity to get better on these deals not worse because they see the dispute happening in the u.s. and israel. >> eric: isn't tehran hoodwinking the biden administration? you laid out a list of their

supporting terrorism around the world, their hatred for america and what they have been doing. they are not going change their behavior. the whole goal many say is to build a nuclear bomb eventually, just wait us out >> that's exactly what the problem is, eric. that's why we keep trying to deal with these folks who we know don't uphold their end of the deal and aren't serious about addressing any of these problems in their ambitions. what we need to do is make clear to iran we're going to put so much pressure on you that you don't have an option to come to the table and make a real deal. the obama administration didn't do that. they wanted the deal more than iran did. the biden administration has been signalling the exact same thing, we want this thing more than you do. that's not negotiation. and the biden administration hasn't done it right. >> eric: israel standing by its own survival it says on the line because of this. thank you for your insight. of course we'll get back to you on this very important issue in the future. >> thanks, eric. >> eric: take care. arthel? >> arthel: thank you. a woman has died after falling

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were the gators involved in the incident. this attack comes less than a month after a south carolina man died when an 11 foot alligator dragged him into a retention pond near myrtle beach. and in late may, a 47-year-old man died in an apparent alligator attack in a fresh water lake in largo, florida. investigators believe he had waded into the lake to retrieve stray frisbies from a nearby golf park. largo is in pinellas county where last year a trapper captured 7 foot 7 alligator that attacked and seriously injured a 43-year-old woman while she was walking her dog on a leash near a small lake. although such attacks are still rare, experts say they have been increasing over time, as the human population expands into places where alligators live. brandon fisher of gator land in orlando says when alligators are present, it is a good idea to keep a 25 foot buffer between the water and any people and pets. >> you don't want to be right down at the water's edge.

you don't want to let your dogs go swimming in the water. in the water, it is going to look like an easy meal. >> -- water between dusk and dawn. that's when alligators are most active. it appears what happened to this woman in florida on friday was just a terrible freak accident. back to you. >> arthel: really so sad, jonathan serrie, thank you. eric? >> eric: just horrible. well, changing gears, after 20 years and multiple will they or won't theys, reports are saying that jennifer lopez and ben affleck have gone and done it. we will have details on the surprise elopement straight ahead here on fox news. when pain says, “it's time to go home” “i say, “not yet”. ♪ ♪ aleve. who do you take it for? ...the tower cam for a - hey!

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>> eric: breaking news, one of the most famous couples in hollywood reportedly says i do. reports saying that jennifer lopez and ben affleck have eloped in las vegas, and they are officially now married. christina coleman is live in los angeles with this star-studded matrimony. >> hi, eric. their fans must be loving this news. jen and ben were engaged 18 years ago but they called it off. now they are married according to tmz. they are reporting they have

obtained court records confirming the two got a marriage license in clark county, nevada. now, these two have been lovey dovey on social media since july 24th of last year that's when j-lo break the internet of posting the photo of her and ben celebrating her 52nd birthday, confirm for many that the two were back together adding to the many photos of the pair. their hollywood romance is years in the making. tmz has been reporting that this couple had been house hunting in the los angeles area this year checking out massive estates. all this though not surprising to me after seeing them on vacations and recent red carpet appearances. there have been many. j-lo has previously discussed the pressure that media put on their relationship after they broke up nearly two decades ago. they called it quits back in 04, but now they are married. so they made quite a comeback. court records show that j-lo has taken on ben affleck's last name. there you have it.

second time around. let's see how it goes. >> eric: didn't frank sinatra sing about love is lovelier the second time around? any word on where they are registered if you want to send a gift? >> i think they have enough. >> eric: they probably do. our best wishes to them and hopefully -- hope it works, but that's just terrific, great news today. christina, thank you. we will be right back. dad, when is the future? um, oh wow. um, the future is, uh, what's ahead of us.

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>> arthel: france honors four american heroes who fought on french soil in world war ii, awarding them the legion of honor medal, the nation's highest order of merit. jennifer griffin has more. ♪ ♪ >> to mark bastille day, the french government bestowed the legion of honor medal on four american veterans of world war ii, who fought the nazis and saved france from being overrun and occupied. >> he was part of the resistance support troops who succeeded in slowing down and even stopping the german advance >> david bailey of bluefield, west virginia first landed in normandie and then fought at the battle of the bulge. >> i'm the holdest veteran of the battle of the bulge -- i'm the oldest veteran of the battle of the bulge that happened in 1944, and i'm 100 years old. >> earnest marvel of delaware helped liberate a concentration camp. >> after heavy fighting, his unit pushed the nazis out of france. >> marvel recalled passing his

brother on the street in germany saluting him not recognizing him in his uniform since they had both been deployed for two years. they both made it home to their family dairy farm. marvel traveled to europe by boat. >> when we went by the statue of liberty, all on our minds was we might never see it again, but we made it back, a lot of us. >> leslie joined marvel and bailey as they received their medals. >> i don't want them to make any more veterans, you know, no more wars. >> benjamin came ashore a few months after d day and served under general george s. patton. he couldn't make the journey to receive his legion of honor medal first awarded by napoleon. >> it was meant to express the gratitude of the nation for the courage of our soldiers >> this is france's highest honor, and so for them to bestow

such an honor on these three gentlemen speaks to the depth and the historical commitment between our two countries to fight for freedom. >> a reminder that war is still raging in europe, a replica of lady liberty, a gift to the american people on july 4, 238 years ago, adorned in the ukraine flag in front of the french ambassador's residence. in washington, jennifer griffin, fox news. >> eric: the greatest generation. we thank them for our freedom. there you can see a news conference about to begin shortly in uvalde, texas. that's on a report from the law enforcement authorities there on the police response to the horrific school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. the report was made by the texas house investigative committee and it outlines what it calls quote systemic failures by local, state, and federal law enforcement that day. the committee met with the

victims' families earlier this afternoon to discuss its findings before publicly releasing the report. that report is shocking and heart breaking and showing what the police did and did not do. the quote chaos and confusion at that moment during that horrible incident. we will bring you that news conference when it starts here on fox news. >> arthel: yes, stay right here on fox. welcome to the big sunday show. we begin with a fox news alert. you are looking live in uvalde, texas, where state lawmakers who are investigating the shooting at robb elementary school are about to share details, startling details from their new 77-page report on the shooting. 19 students in all, two teachers, killed in may. and the report is alarming. it cites systematic failures of law enforcement in its response.