moment including new details on the investigation and more scrutiny on commander pete arredondo who tells cnn he has been in contact with texas officials. the president also wrapping up u.s. support with his decision to provide long range missiles to the ukrainian government believing that they won t use to launch strikes into russia. germany following the united states lead agreeing to supply ukraine with anti-aircraft and radar systems as well. we want to start first though in uvalde. joining me now is julia ainsley, jim cavanaugh. but gaud, let me start with you. i believe at this point we re about 75 days off from the beginning of school, much of the community when i was there on the ground saying to me they did not want to return to the scene of the crime to robb elementary as the school year began because of just the unspeakable tragedy that occurred there. and we re now hearing that in fact they will not be returning to those school grounds. talk us through it. repor
welker and michael crowley and barry mccaffrey. thanks for joining us. molly, let me start with you. we see russians make key advances, especially as they are being more concentrated in the eastern part of ukraine. they are hammering the area of severodonetsk. talk me through what you are hearing when it comes to the battlefield in ukraine. reporter: that s exactly right. they are hammering severodonetsk and all of the villages surrounding it. there s been a pocket, a horseshoe-like area, a-in-law fighting area, but that s where all of the russian aggression for the last week has been concentrated in the donbas. severodonetsk has the biggest city, the most strategic in lieu luhansk. this morning. we heard the front line cut the city in half. as of an hour ago, we heard from the head of the city military that told reuters, 60% of the city is under russian control, the eastern part. 20% under ukrainian control and there s a portion of that city which is no man s land. evacuat
yesterday. the fear for democrats, that voters frankly have had enough. the price of gas is just outrageous. these gas prices are crazy. luckily i m close to my business, so i don t have to spend as much. i used to fill up with 60, and now it s like 100. we ll have fresh reporting from the white house in just moments. in uvalde, texas, we re hearing from the school district s police chief in several days. he says, in spite of reports to the contrary, he is in touch with state investigators. also live this hour, we are keeping tabs on a briefing at the pentagon. we will cover a big announcement from the president, that the u.s. will provide some longer-range rocket systems to ukraine, although those weapons come with a condition. and hurricane season is here, and it could be a busy one. we just got a brand-new briefing, and al roker will join me in studio with what we should expect. i want to start with rising costs and the uphill climb the white house faces. jus
changed again today. texas dps now says the door the killer used to enter the school was not propped open as police officials first claimed, that in fact the teacher closed the door as the gunman approached but the door did not lock behind her. meanwhile chief pete arredondo made the call alone to hold officers back is not responding to follow-up interview requests according to the texas department of public safety. investigators with the texas dps said they requested a follow-up interview days ago but have not heard from him. nbc news has also reached out to him but we have not received a comment. and here is a cameras where they caught him outside. shimon prokupecz. today a teacher was laid to rest alongside her husband of 24 years. joe came to the school just a couple days after the shooting to lay flowers on the cross out front that bore his wife s name. and then he suffered a heart attack. his family says the grief was just too much for him. together they leave behin
approximately 13 hours. depp is suing heard for $50 million in damages over a 2018 op-ed published in the washington post in which heard claims she was a public figure representing domestic abuse. it s important to know that never mentions johnny depp by name. depp s attorney say that piece indirectly referred to claims heard made against depp during their divorce. depp claims it cost him movie roles. she is counter suing and sought to prove he did physically abuse her. she claims she was only ever violent with depp in self-defense or defense of her younger sisters. jurors have heard 100 hours of testimony. you see everyone seated as they prepare to hear the verdict. some of the big names who testified include kate moss, depp s former girlfriend. now a source close to johnny depp says he ll not be in the courtroom. he had previously scheduled work commitment. joining me now to discuss this and to track this coverage live, nbc s ron allen and we re going to go to the cou