investigators aren t hearing from him either. chief pete arredondo essentially gone radio silent, not responding to a request for followup interview with investigators there for days. that according to the texas department ofof public safety. chief arredondo made the decision of course not to send officers into that classroom while the carnage was still taking place. every key piece of testimony and evidence will help those families get answers. the last thing we need is silence in the face of a need for those answers. the chief has not responded to multiple requests from cnn for comment on this. we are also learning more this morning about the gunman and how he got into that school. texas investigators now forced to walk back a claim they made that teacher propped over a door prior to the shooting that day. the teacher s lawyer pushed back on that account noting that the teacher shut the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus. authorities are looking into
commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, what
it with the midterms fast approaching. sandra, the busiest woman in television. sandra: great to be with you this afternoon, john. president meeting with fed chair jay powell yesterday as the white house kicks off a months long effort to focus, it says, on the economy. but inflation has been on the minds of many voters in this country for months now, especially when filling up their tanks. price of gasoline rising almost daily with the new national average for a gallon, 4.67 today, a jump of 1.60 a year ago, and up $0.05 since yesterday. john: 11.4 million unfilled positions. labor shortage driving up wages and keeping inflation high as businesses continue to struggle with hiring. minnesota congressman and national republican congressional committee chair tom emmer will join us. sandra: we head to the white house, peter doocy live from the north lawn to kick things off. hey, peter. peter: good afternoon, here at the white house hearing two different things about how
correspondent mark meredith is here with all the details of this big case. good evening, mark. bret, it was a big case. good evening to you. johnny depp was not in the courtroom when today s verdict was announced. tonight both he and his legal team are celebrating after a jury in virginia ruled depp s ex-wife actress amber heard owes him $15 million for defamation. he claimed an op-ed written by heard in 2018 and published in the the washington post significantly set back his career. in the piece, heard wrote she was, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse. the jury ruled these claims were intentionally meant to hurt depp. the ache door wrote published already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond had seismic impact on my life and career. six months later the jury gave me my life back. i m truly humbled. we also heard from his legal team. we are also most pleased that the trial has resonated for so many people in the public who value truth and
described frantic people running for cover, amid the gunfire. the shooter was a young man, and one of the people that he tragically shot was a 39 year old woman, she died as a result of those injuries, and that is what happened just this past sunday in taft, oklahoma, where a mass shooter started firing during a memorial day festival. seven people were injured, one woman lost her life. in chattanooga tennessee, it was six people. six people were shot in another mass shooting that took place on saturday. all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reported over the weekend that four of those children were expected to survive, two of them sustained life-threatening injuries, we did not know what condition those two children are as of today. in benton harbor michigan, six people injured, 19-year-old, one of them was a 19-year-old, he was killed when gunfire erupted at a liquor store. now, in philadelphia, a 16-year-old girl and a 21-year-old woman w