phone message sent to parents by the school district while the shooter was still in the school. we ve also just learned that this man, pedro pete arradondo, chief of police for the uvalde school district who was incident commander that day, meaning the person authorities said made the decision to not have officers immediately go into that classroom and stop the shooter even though he knew it was an active shooter situation, he, according to our reports, has not responded to state investigators for two days. so keep that in mind as you listen to this recording obtained by affiliate ksat. it went out at 12:20 local time, in other words, as the shooting was happening and as police were standing nearby in a texas town for a tactical team to arrive, assemble, gear up, and then go in. no one was confronting the shooter during that time. police were standing outside. adjoining classrooms where kids were wounded, possibly dying still and others were hiding, smearing themselves with b
Inside. It has not been a good year for the president. In the last state of the Union President obama called on congress for an increase in the minimum wage. He didnt get it, and today he announced he was sidestepping congress to get the minimum wage increase for some federal workers. Immigration reform went nowhere. Gun control measures stalled. The president wauxz into the chamber for the First Time Since the 17day Government Shutdown centered around his Signature Health care law. The same bitterly divided donothing congress were just 72 laws passed in all of 2013. We have an allstar panel joining us tonight for our live coverage. Were joined by shark tank agency kevin oleary, cnbc contributeors jared bernstein, the former chief economist for veep joe biden, white house political direct for president george w. Bush, nara tanden. She was president obamas domestic policy director during his reelection campaign. And cnbcs robert frank. First, lets go to cnbcs chief washington correspond
Again. Some towns have measured 51 inches rain. Since the storm began and the situation has become more dire for many in the city and across south texas. As of last night there have been nearly 19,000 water rescues across texas. The death toll has now climbed to nine confirmed but the images of the missing are circulating across social media. Among those killed was a Houston Police officer, Sergeant Steve perez. The chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived yesterday. Unfortunately in the darkness Sergeant Perez drove to an underpass thats about 16 1 2 feet, drove into the water and he died in a flood. So, once our divers went out there, it was too tresh rouse to go under and look for him. So we made the decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. The wife had asked him not to go in. He was a sweet, gentle Public Servant and she tells me i told him not to go to
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so know the u.s. has to bridge this gap, takes leadership, the kind of leadership that shown in that op-ed that just came out in the new york times , which means the u.s. will take the lead in supplying the weapons, means the u.s. will take the lead in supporting the sanctions, it means the european leaders can lean on the united states and say, well, we didn t really want to do this, but the americans, you know these tough americans, they always they always want to use weapons and stuff and they get political support when they say that it s the old game that s been played in nato for 70 years, anderson. and it s just a question of whether this administration can continue to hold it together, i hope we can. general clark, appreciate your time, thank you. coming up, a verdict this afternoon in the highly charged trial linked to the trump russia probe. this one centering on the clinton campaign layer accused of lying to the fbi. what the jury decided, next.