the funeral of 10-year-old rodriguez her classmates said she was brave and she was grabbing all the other student and telling them to hide before the gunman turned on her. she was so brave and courageous to tell the kids to hide. reporter: a heartbroken community attending five funerals today, four children and one teacher among the 21 killed. it s unclear during what point this video was taken. it was videotaped by a man who told cnn he heard the dispatch from a radio controlled border and customs control vehicle outside the school, adding new concerns about what law enforcement knew during that hour they were still waiting to enter the classroom. one border a patrol agent ran to the school when he heard about shots fired. the kids were jumping out through the window. reporter: at least two children called 911 multiple times begging police to come while the gunman was still inside their classroom. the information is flowing in, why doesn t dps have that informati
before the gunman entered. but that is completely different from what the public was told just days ago. cnn s omar jimenez is live for us in uvalde tonight. omar good evening to you. this is another contradiction from officials, what is the very latest? on the investigative, side this is another discrepancy of police initially told us, versus what we find out to be reality. police initially said that this teacher propped open a back door that was supposed to be lock the day of the shooting. and we are now learning from authorities, she actually closed that door when she realized there was an active shooter, but it did not lock. this discrepancy is coming as we are now starting to see the first of what will be many funerals here in this community. even as you walk around, it s hard to find people who were not personally affected by this, even if not directly, they know someone who was and so we are going to see families morning in funerals that will continue into tomorrow,
a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m isa soares in london. just ahead here is this what we want to protect or are we going to do our jobs and protect our children? the community of uvalde deserves answers. my plan is to address inflation, respect the fed. i think that i was wrong then. there have been up an tis participated and large shocks to the economy. trying to hustle and bustle many streets in shanghai after so long. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. warm welcome to everyone. it is wednesday june 1. and we begin in uvalde where the governor has now declared a state of disaster. a week after 21 innocent lives were cut short in that horrific school shooting. the declaration will accelerate state and local resources to assist of course the devastated community. meantime questions are mounting over the police response to the massacre, but officials say the incident commander duri
brutal lockdown but will newfound freedoms last? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett, several developments in the investigation of the school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. texas officials tonight revealing the incident commander during that shooting, pete aradondo is now not repeating to investigator s request for a follow up interview, this comes aztecsous department of public safety tonight confirms the elementary school teacher who propped open the door right before the attack did in fact close it before the gunman entered. the teacher initially propped open the door with a rock then ran back inside to get her phone when the gunman crashed his truck and according to the official, she then removed the rock, closed the door, it just didn t lock and now investigators are looking into why. this information is not what police originally said during their press conference on friday. we know from video evid
the scene. those serious questions amid the grief. we ll get to it. thank you all so much for being here. today, the president and his administration are making a major push to refocus on the economy and defend his handling of it. in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal, the president claims that the u.s. is in a better economic position than almost any country in the world. he credits his own policies can helping to achieve the strongest recovery in modern history. he s also facing public sentiment that s making clear americans don t feel that strength, not by a long shot. ga gallop s economic confidence reading is reporting this is likely the lowest public confidence has been in the economy since the tail end of the great recession in early 2009. biden s team is now outlining what they are calling a three-part plan to fight inflation and to turn this around. inflation will be number one, the number one agenda item when the president meets with the federal rese