15 people killed at a mass shooting at an elementary school here in uvalde. that is robb elementary school. 14 people, one teacher. the shooter is dead. officers responding to the shooting, shot and killed him. responding officers were shot at, some were struck, but do not have serious injuries. texas governor abbott says the teen is a local from here. he abandoned his vehicle and ran into the school with a weapon and just started shooting. 15 dead in this mass shooting. horrific. uvalde memorial hospital posting on facebook, they are treating multiple children in their emergency room right now. the atf is here. we are awaiting an imminent press conference. thor of uvalde said there will be a press conference at 5 local time. texas governor abbott confirming 15 people dead in this horrific mass shooting. you can see some of the videos we had sent to the newsroom. a video from earlier today showed the shooter going into the school. it is unclear what type of firearm he had. by
Tuesday marks four decades since the deadliest aircraft disaster in California’s history: the PSA Flight 182 crash over San Diego’s North Park community.
senior international corner matthew chance is in st. petersburg, russia. how is this reported in russia? what kind of safety record do the airlines have to begin with? reporter: well, first of all, i think it s fair to say the kremlin is trying to play down any links between the catastrophe and terrorism the spokesman said it would be wrong to draw a linkage between the intervention in syria and the bomb attack. sorry, aircraft disaster implying it was a bomb attack. he said that would be a wrong conclusion to draw. but you know, it s going to look bad for the government, whichever way it goes, if it does turn out to be a terrorist attack, then the government is open to the accusation that its intersflengs syria perhaps made the russian people vulnerable. it s a technical failure, government is also likely to be criticized because it hasn t done enough, people would say to
we re continuing our breaking news on this aircraft disaster. there is a clinic in dusseldorf that is denying media reports that the co-pilot of germanwings flight 9525 had been treated there for depression. that s the very latest new development in this story that s been sort of one stunning revelation after another. but the dusseldorf clinic that put out this statement said that the reports were untrue that he d been treated for depression. whether it means only at their hospital or not, we re still working that out. clearly lots of people have different places they go for treatment and whether they are only referring to their hospital, we have yet to figure that one out. but we ll continue to follow this for you. and earlier today a german prosecutor revealed the doctor had written a hadwritten note to this pilot, andreas lubitz, it was a sick note and it was actually for the very day of the crash. he was told he was unfit to fly.