as against amber heard, with the jury award punitive damages in the amount of $5 million. do you find that miss pacemaker it has proven all elements of defamation with mark answer no. we were compensatory damages in the amount of $2 million. greg: the conclusion of the blockbuster defamation trial between johnny depp and amber heard did not disappoint. both stars defamed one another with johnny depp being the big victor. $50 million awarded after jurors unanimously decided that she libeled him with malice when she wrote the 2019 op-ed identifying herself as a victim of domestic groups. amber heard winning a counterclaim by johnny depp s agent who called her claim a hoax. it is being called a setback for women. depp wasn t there to celebrate. he was too busy rocking out in london but he released a statement, falls and very serious allegations were levied at maybe via the media which triggered an endless barrage of hateful content. although no charges were ever brought agains
course. saying the united states will in fact send advanced rocket systems to the war torn country. we will have more on what led to the presidents change of heart. good morning, welcome to way too early, on this wednesday june 1st. i m jonathan lemere, thank you for being with us. the official account has changed once again. concerning how the gunman who massacred 19 children and their teachers entered the texas school. last friday, the director of the texas department of safety, said a teacher propped open the door. in which of the gunman used to enter. now the agency says the teacher had come back to close the door, but had failed to locked. the new account comes after a attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news, that the teacher did prop up an the door. using a rock, so she could carry food from her car into the school. once you saw the gunman crashes car into a ditch. she went back inside the school to get her phone to report to crush the police. t
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
call for help from inside the classroom while police waited outside. we re going to play that audio for you in a moment. plus, there are new details about a key figure in the response to that shooting, uvalde school district police chief pedro arredondo will not be sworn in to his newly elected city council seat today as originally planned. should he keep his job as police chief? critical question. also today, a bipartisan group of senators will meet on gun reform. president biden is optimistic that this time around he will get republican support. the president says, quote, rational republicans are ready for a deal. we will see. all of this as the uvalde community prepares to bury 10-year-old shooting victim amerie jo garza and maite rodriguez today. little bodies in little caskets. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent nick valencia, near robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. nick, cnn has new audio and video, desperate police radio calls, another warning fr
transition from recovery to stable steady growth and bring down inflation. the president laying out a three-part plan of giving the fed the space to act, finding ways to lower prices, boost production, and address supply chain problems. and reducing the deficit. but the biden administration under intense scrutiny on whether it did too little too late to proactively tackle inflation. last summer, the president predicted that inflation would be a temporary problem. by late november, fed chairman powell acknowledging that inflation is not transitory. it s probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clorely what we mean. trying to reassure the public the central bank is sympathetic to u.s. consumers concerns. we understand completely what they re going through. now the biden administration signaling there is light at the end of the tunnel. russia s war on ukraine disabled not only gas prices and food prices but also disrupted supply chains. we didn