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decision making created an hour of chaos before the shooter was confronted and killed. the 77-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement's action or inaction. it laid out in painful detail the amount of failures that day, including that no one assumed special command despite the crowd of officers you see at the scene. a uvalde officer heard about the 911 calls but said it was his understanding officers on one side of the building knew there were people still trapped inside. no one tried to breach the classroom. it also further revealed the actions of uvalde school district police chief on that day. according to the report when he got to the scene, he tried to find a master key for the classroom, but no one checked to see whether the doors were even locked. the report concluded that his, quote, search for a key consumed
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his attention and wasted precious time delaying the breach of the classrooms. it also said he attempted to negotiate with the gunman as he was slaughtering children saying at within point, this could be peaceful. he has told the texas tribune the only thing important to me was to save as many teachers and children as possible. uvalde residents and victims' families have been angry, understandably so. this report of the continued lack of accountability have only made it worse. >> if you were to see the chief right now, what would you say to him? >> he should go giver up the badge, the gun, grab a mop and go to the school and be a janitor. that way he can hide in the closet. instead of having to defend the
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kids. >> they are all cowards. there's no way around it. you can ask a 3-year-old and they will ask you, dad, i thought that's what their job was. to protect and serve. they were crying for them. >> they were cowards. >> he's sitting in my room. and they run back this way. i couldn't run. why should they run? they have tactical gear and bullet-proof vests and they ran. they kids didn't have bullet-proof vests. >> hours after the report was released, uvalde's mayor released body cam footage from the officers on scene. it included video of officers reacting to information from a dispatcher roughly 30 minutes after the shooting began saying a child in the room had called 911. it also showed the moment police
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finally did approach the classroom. that was at 11:37 a.m. >> am i green? >> joining me now from uvalde is priscilla thompson, and zach at the texas tribune. i want to get to more interviews in a second, but let's get down to nuts and bolts with zach. you have done extensive reporting on all of this. tell me more about the findings. >> good morning. as you mentioned, this report is the most comprehensive account of what happened at robb elementary that day and the police response to it. it underscored a shear enormity of police that responded nearly 400 officers went to the school that day. and for the first time, it explained the role of the state
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police and federal police from the border patrol who vastly outnumbered the five people from the local school district police force that responded. a lot of the criticism previously including from the direct of the state police here when he testified in front of the senate placed a lot of the blame on the chief for not assuming command, not taking charge as on paper he was supposed to do. they dismissed the idea that his own officers could have take charge and been the commanders at the scene. the committee that prepared that report said that explanation is inadequate. there were better trained police from larger police agencies who responded and had opportunities to take charge when they saw that he was not doing that, and they declined to do so. >> do they have an explanation for why? 400 officers and much better-trained officers, including a number had from
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border patrol, why didn't they? was there any explanation given? >> the overarching theme of the report is a chaotic, uncoordinated police response where police on scene weren't communicating with police outside, they weren't communicating with each other on opposite ends of the hallway. so there was a breakdown in communication and no one the report notes everyone to ask how can we help, can we take charge or do something else. nobody took charge. as a result of that, they waited more than an hour to reengage that suspect after that brief clip you showed. >> what about the suppression of information? because in the moments after this, we got a lot of attaboys from police officers and from local officials and state officials saying what a good job the police department did. initially saying that they engaged with the shooter as he entered the school and then we learned later that they did not.
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that wasn't true. was there an effort by some law enforcement members to suppress the evidence, to suppress the truth? >> what some of the committee members told us is the fact that our governor made false statements about the initial police response in the days after shooting. made it much more difficult for them to do their investigation because residents right from the get go came to the narrative. i say this report as ta big step forward for transparency, as is the decision to the mayor to release the body cam foot aage from his officers. we would still like to see the rest of the body cam footage from the hundreds of other officers that were on scene as well as other transcripts, 911 calls. all of the information that this report relies on, the public would still like to see. that's still outstanding. >> one more question to you,
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zach. they found that they weren't sure anymore lives could have been saved had they acted soon, but there was also reporting there was still people alive on their way to the hospital. how do you square that? >> the report attempts to reconcile those two things. they had noted that some police during the response at various points had assumed that there was either no one in the classrooms with the gunman or no one alive. we don't definitively know it that was true or not, however, the report says the. of the evidence suggests there was likely people inside who were alive that needed critical, immediate medical attention, and that should have prompted officers to act more quickly. >> zach, thank you for that reporting. priscilla, you're on the ground doing interviews with the family members. you spoke with a great grandfather of one of the victims. what else are they telling you? >> reporter: katy, what they are
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saying, and i think what they have been saying for week, they are angry about this law enforcement response, which this report just further proves much of what they already knew and already believed. in fact, the report going a step further and says this lack of leadership among law enforcement may have contributed to the loss of lives. so certainly, a difficult pill to swallow as these families of the victims will never be whole again. to think about what if or what could have been different, but now the conversation is largely turning to accountability and what that will look like. many folks that i have spoken to here don't believe that they are going to see the accountability that they would like to. i want to play a little more of my conversation with the great grandfather of a girl who died in this terrible incident. take a listen. >> do you think there will be any accountability? >> not really. not what they should do to them.
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>> which is what? >> in my book, they should fire them and take their pension away and give it to the parents that lost kids. >> reporter: this community has been told for the past several weeks to let the investigation play out and then see what the accountability will look like. so now, people are beginning to demand that. they are saying we have the facts. what is that accountability going to look like? we heard the chairman of that investigative committee yesterday essentially echoing that saying the facts are out there. now it's up to the various agencies, the department of public safety, border patrol to decide how they want to investigate and what the consequences will be for those officers on scene that day. but it remains to be scene what exactly is going to happen and what that accountability will look like. >> thank you very much. joining me now is texas state
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senator roland gutierrez. thank you for being with us, sir. this report is ugly. it's frankly just ugly. nearly 400 officers on scene that day. i'm struck by how did it all break down? how was there not somebody who said, hold on, we have to get in there. they were trained. they should have known better. >> they all should have known better. unfortunately, it didn't happen. you have the police chief part of writing this manual for the school that just let everything just kind of get out of control. he does acknowledge in his own testimony at some point of this committee that he felt that other folks should have take over. he wasn't the incident commander. i have been saying this all along. they are all at fault that there is system failure from day one. human error, communications errors, no radio worked inside those schools. it is astounding to me the
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constant errors that evolved on may 24th. but i think it's a bigger story of neglect and it's quite frankly a story of how greg abbott has treated this community with this regard to operation lone star. we heard there was no training from operation lone star. we flood the area with 1,800 new cops and don't cross train with these folks? we don't pay in to fix their radio systems? >> will you back up and explain operation lone star. >> operation lone star is greg abbott's border security plan. it has not worked very well at all. but you would think if we're going to flood the communities on the border with so many police that they would cross train on other issues like this very one. that never happened. we have a lot to unpack here. but you're right. it is time to look at accountability. the city has to do their
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accountability. which means certainly getting rid of some folks. the school district absolutely has to do it. but we at the state level have to do it as well. i filed a lawsuit because they did not respond to my open records request. that report is a part of the picture, but we have a lot more information that we need to glean. there is a state texas ranger walking around that scene. he's blg followed by a state employee game warden. that's the guy with the pad. it's a schematic of the school. they are on the phone for 20 minutes just walking around. i want to know who they are talking to, who is calling the shots, who is telling him to go in or not go in. when we get to those responses, that's where the accountability needs to lie. >> you're talking about accountability and people losing their jobs. you heard that grandfather say they should lose their pensions and they should be given to the families of the victims.
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nearly 400 officers is a lot of jobs to lose if you really want to go through all of them. i'm not sure the state can handle that. but are there individuals that you think really do bear responsibility, maybe the leadership from each of these individual agencies who were on scene? >> let's also be very clear. the direct reports to greg abbott. greg abbott told us he's upset and hasn't seen these videos. he's been in that office for two months. we believe he hasn't seen any of this stuff. it's just a boldfaced lie. the fact is steve mccraw works for him. and he can tell him to resign. can divulge to the community what they fail toddy as a result j. they hid behind some
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investigation. there needs to be people at a high level. and a federal government should have this discussion too. i know they waited for 30 minutes while kids bled out. >> let me ask you about the governor more. he was in uvalde the day after the attack patting people on the back. hasn't been there since. he didn't go to any of the funerals. why has he been absent? >> you'd have to ask him. but i will tell you that the last day he showed up was the fifth day when the president showed up. on the third day he showed up to tell us what kind of state resources that the state had to offer. i think the mayor and the county judge know exactly what kind of state resources. what we needed is actually an execution of those state resources. we had a family given two weeks of lost wages by this district attorney. that's just wrong. we have families that have not been adequately taken care of when it comes to victims
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assistance compensation funds. my office is trying to do the best we can with our limited resources and rye to get them to argue to open up that statute, but we're having to fight with them on every issue. you'd think if you were the governor of texas and this happened in one of your communities, that you'd do everything in your power to make sure that those families had everything they needed. and you'd give them the answers they wanted immediately. that just doesn't happen in texas. it happened in tulsa. it happened in buffalo. we got briefings we were told what went wrong and we were just given the information. >> it was remarkable how long it took to straighten things out and figure out what happened that day. senator gutierrez, thank you very much for joining us as always. we also have another mass shooting to update you on. this one at a mall in greenwood, indiana, just outside of indianapolis.
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police will hold a news conference scheduled to begin in the next hour. we're going to go there live when it begins, but here's what we know now. a shooter killed three people and injured two others, including a 12-year-old girl. the attacker was taken down and killed by an armed bystander who saw what was happening and opened fire. investigators have not identified the gunman. the mayor thanked the person who shot the gunman during the attack writing this person saved lives tonight. on behalf of the city, i'm grateful for his quick action and heroism in that situation. joining me now is shaquille brewster. we're going to have a news conference at 2:00. i expect to hear more about the shooting, but also the person who stopped him. >> reporter: that's right. there's a lot of information we don't know at this point. including more about the shooter. his motives, his age, what specific weapon was used. we know from the investigators when they updated last night, this is an investigation being led by the local police
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department, the sheriff and the fbi. they said that yesterday in the 6:00 p.m. hour, a man walked into the food court of the mall, opened fire, shot and killed three people, two others were wounded. of those lost, two of them were women. one was a man and then you mentioned the 12-year-old girl who was wounded who officers say has minor injuries, but minor physical injuries, but there are plenty of people in that food court. we'll expect to learn more about what they learned and what they have been able to gather over the past couple hours. that includes from witness interviews that they have been going through and also we know there's surveillance video from inside that mall. what they continue to underscore is that the reason this wasn't a bigger tragedy is because of the 22-year-old armed civilian. there's not much we know about him, but he was legally armed and he was the one who stopped the bloodshed when that gunman walked into the mall.
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so we'll expect to get a bigger idea of the timeline, a fuller picture of the timeline and hopefully some specifics on those three individuals who were lost in yesterday's shooting. i should note that according to the gun violence archive, this was there have been 349 mass shootings in this country. this one could have been a whole lot worse, but you still have three people who went to a mall yesterday and didn't make it home. >> we'll have more context on that shooting coming up in the next hour. in the meantime, thank you very much. still ahead, steve bannon is in court with his request for delays denied. jury selection has now begun. what steve bannon is facing and will he still sit for a january 6th committee interview? plus eja vu, joe manchin stops the president's agenda again, this time seeking any chance of meaningful legislation on climate. and did we do it again? monkeypox is now at risk of
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bannon. he faces two criminal charges for his failure to comply with the january 6th house committee is subpoena he tried to delay the trial twice arguing there was just too much publy fits slounding it. a judge rejected those requests. joining us is national security correspondent ken dlin yan. steve bannon himself had made a real effort at getting a lot of publicity surrounding his refusal to work with the committee. it's funny that he says there too much publies fits surrounding the investigation in these hearings. but what happened in court today? and what should we expect next? >> it's slow going today. they are trying to select 22 qualified jurors. so far they have gotten eight. a lot of people in this jury pool are very much aware of the southbound isn't case and think he's guilty. one person said they thought this case was cut and dry, and that person was disqualified. so jury selection could go into tomorrow. and the larger picture here is that this judge, which was
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appointed by donald trump to the bench, has cut off steve bannon from a lot of the legal defenses he wanted to try to mount in this case arguing that he was covered by executive privilege or the committee was not properly constituted. and so really there is no factual dispute and not much of a legal dispute. so the lawyer asked what about the point of going to trial. the judge said, agreed. we'll have to see if bannon goes through it and if there's a guilty verdict what kind of sentence he gets. these carry a minimum of 30 days in jail and a maximum of a year. these are serious penalties attached. >> ken, thank you very much. and the january 6th committee members are talking up thursday's prime time hearing, which could include never before seen text messages sent by secret service employees on january 5th and 6th. the panel subpoenaed the agency for those texts on friday after it was revealed data was reetc.
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erased as part of what was called a device replacement program. >> the in the very least, it is quite crazy that the secret service would actually end up deleting anything related to one of the more infamous days in american history when it comes to the role the secret service. >> i was shocked to hear that they didn't back up their data before they reset their iphones. that's crazy. i don't know why that would be. but we need to get this information to get the full picture. >> the committee said it expects to see those texts by tomorrow. joining me now is capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. whenever i'm asked for information, i'm first told to back it all up. and i don't have an insurrection on my hands. not one i personally participated in or tried to control. so tell me what we can expect from this panel? is there any way we will see these texts on thursday? >> ali's audio is not working.
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i heard you now. i can hear you now. start again please. >> reporter: what i was going to say before the gremlins in our technology so rudely cut us off, of course, the question is why were these text messages not backed up. the question that we were asking on friday when lawmakers left town was if they could be resurrected. now it seems from listening to adam kinzinger and others that they feel confident they are going to get their hands on this stuff by tuesday, which would mean they could potentially integrate it into thursday's prime time hearing. we have seen the committee be reactive in near realtime when they get more information. and certainly what's interesting about this is there are several moments that we have heard testimony about that these secret service texts could shed light on if there were text messages around the allegations that cassidy hutchinson made in that suv, potentially lunging
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for the steering wheel or for a secret service agent. you might imagine there might be text traffic around that and that's one of the reasons it's so important. >> very quickly. steve bannon, does the committee want to talk to him can and do they think he will be helpful? >> they don't want to talk to him until he produces some documents and records. that's the first thing they want. rightly so, they are skeptical about this about phase. they would like him to put up or shut up movering to conversation around coming into testify. >> ali, thank you very much. coming up, 100 degrees in normally london. wildfires in spain, portugal and greece. we promise there are images to back this up. the record heat is threatening a late lit rattle meltdown. we're live in rome. and democrats have hit a wall and that wall is named joe manchin. what he stopped this time and what democrats like senator
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>> yeah, that's the reality of the 50/50 senate. the lowest common denominator is joe manchin. and joe manchin has said he has two options. he could basically come back in august 10th after the most recent or the newest inflation numbers come out and they could consider a big package. or alternatively, they could pass this bill right now, which allows medicare to negotiate drug prices and extends aca subsidies for two years. so faced with that option, it seems like an easy decision for the white house to make politically and substantively, because you don't know where manchin is going to end up in august. if you talk to aids in the white house and on capitol hill, they are a frustrate is not even the words i would use.
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co-sponsored elizabeth warren to address the conflict of interest. any chance that would go anywhere? so that these questions don't arise? >> i remember i'm old enough to remember a couple months ago when chuck schumer and nancys pelosi said they would pass legislation to prevent members or to tighten the restrictions on members of congress from trading and public and private equities. that would at least on the margins take care of some of these issues. they have not moved on that. i don't know what if or when they will move on that. i should probably follow up on that. but it is crazy. on many levels, people should be outraged by this system that we have on capitol hill. that members of congress can own stock in companies and industries that they oversee. it's terrible. and can trade in stocks and equities and they are getting nonpublic information all the
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rome, where the high was 895 degrees. and bill karins here in new york where things are only a little cooler. i'm going to start with you. what is it like over there? it's not normally this hot. >> reporter: i'm telling you, katy, the sun is going down and can't wait for it to go down. it's not just hot today. it's been hot since the beginning of may. that is 60 days of 90 or 100 degrees. we are used to hot summers in italy, but not this much and this soon. that's for sure. and i have air-conditioning at home, but a lot of italians for some reason are still resistant to it. they are very suspicious because they think that it's best for the health. but after 60 days of 90 or 100 degree, they understand it's more damaging to them than air-conditioning. >> i have stayed in rome in an
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apartment when it was 90 degrees. no air-conditioning, and i can tell you it's not pad for your health to have ac. it actually helps you breathe when you cannot breathe in that heat. so thank you. these wildfires that you're seeing have firefighters, how are they containing them? especially with the winds? >> reporter: wildfires in italy during the summer and hot season are very common, but we have seen nothing in this country compared to what we have seen in other places. and and spain france, in france the there's still a raging wildfire in the southwest where the authorities have called it the fire of the century. thousands of firefighters were employed to put that out. they are still fighting it. 16,000 people have to be evacuated from that area. so you can imagine what that is. in other parts of europe, also
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if i ifected by hundreds of wildfires with a number of death toll in those parts in portugal and spain due to the heat that is starting to read like a bulletin. 650 people died last week in portugal alone due to the heat. and that does sound like a hot. >> go get in some shade, my friend. bill karins, let's talk about what's happening here. texas is worried. >> what happened in texas in the central plains is kind of what we expect for typical maybe summer like heat wave. it's been a long duration. in europe is more extreme. a thousand deaths, the number will likely go way higherer. we're still at 96 in london. by the way, it did hit 100 in the uk. the all-time hottest was 101.6. tomorrow we'll break that. they are calling for a high of 101 in london.
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there's unheard of. it's not typically that warm. the infrastructure is not meant for it. the runway was melting. it's not built the same way as our roads would be built in the desert southwest. they are not used to it. so back home, we have 36 million under heat advisories and warnings. it's been an incredibly hot summer. s especially in texas and dry. the drought is becoming a huge issue. the rio river out of colorado and dives down here along the texas border comes to an end now. it doesn't continue to flow. that's how low the water levels have gotten. there are springs downstream, but by big bend, you can't canoe because the water is ending. so the drought is a huge problem. along with the heat throughout central portions of the u.s. ask it's not really ending. it's just shifting throughout time. and as katy was mentioning, for the first time, the heat is really starting to build into the east. especially the northeast. it hasn't been that hot of a summer in the northeast. so you'll feel it in the next
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couple days in the 90s. three days in a row is considered a heat wave. so d.c. and new york with the humidity, it will be brutal out there throughout the next week and end of this week. so it's been a hot summer. it continueses to be a hot summer. every dot on this map is someone that has the hottest summer so far or in the top five. that's almost all of the southern half of the country. and climate change comes into this and makes it worse. >> let's talk about that. climate change, how is it contributing? >> we could have a weather event and do the study to see how much worse was it because of climate change. we know that with heat and cold, they are highly influenced by climate change. we're at this weird period where climate scientists spent 20, 30 years trying to convince everyone that climate change and what we're doing as humans is bad for our planet and causing the planet to warm. but now people realize that, it's like, what are wrewet going to do about it? are people going to change their lifestyles. i went to an ac grocery store to
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a house to work. the infrastructure is not built for it. you talk about what's going on in congress and stuff with climate change and there hasn't been a lot of action because not enough people are willing to sarifice at this point and our power grid can't support it either. so it's a really difficult discussion. just to show you how huge an issue it is, many scientists when they study this issue, they have become depressed. it's a very, very harsh reality to know the problem not just in our country, but it's a world issue too. it's a difficult equation that will be with us for the rest of our lives. >> 1% of the country says climate change is their top priority for the next election. that's according to a "new york times" poll. 1%. >> people are worried about feeding their kids, putting a roof over their heads and trying to get the children a better life than they had. what we always want is our goal who wants to take a step back.
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but it's because of cheap fuel is why our lives have become so much easier in the last 150 years and no one wants to give that up. that's what third world nations what is we what we have. that's what makes the problem so very difficult. >> one official said it was because think it's a tomorrow problem when it is a today problem. maybe the italians have it right. maybe air-conditioning is actually bad for you and we're the ones that have it wrong. >> because of what it does. >> thank you so much. next, the window to contain monkeypox might have just closed. what went wrong in our viral response this time. what went wrong in our viralap and remove the waste that weighs you down. it also helps lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption to promote healthy blood sugar levels. response this timeu can feel lir and more energetic. metamucil. support your daily digestive health. feel less sluggish & weighed down
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