called? why did this interaction raise concern? well don witness tampering is serious. it s a crime, as miss cheney stated during the hearing we pass along this information to the doj to look into it further. we take very seriously the safety of any witnesses anyone who comes forward to the committee. likewise, their privacy in this case. any speculation about who this person might have been and a lot of people trying to tie it together. the committee will just say. we want to protect this witness. we also want to hold people accountable who have potentially broken a law. chairman thompson is telling cnn, the doj has been asking for testimony, from the committee, related to trump s fake elector scheme. is there enough evidence on this one issue to lead to a criminal indictment of trump? the committee is not the one who will determine the criminal indictment. that would be the department of justice. as we have said through the investigation, when we discover things, it s
the suspect is dead, killed by law enforcement. we find it painful, trust me, to read these headlines as much as you must find it painful to hear them, but here are the facts as we know them. we learned officers responding to the scene faced gunfire from the suspects. several of those first responders were wounded. we know he was wearing a t tactical vest but did not have the bullet-proof or ballistic plates in it. it remains unclear what weapons the killer used but these show two ar-15 style rifles posted to an nam account linked to the gunman and one of the bios said, kids be scared. one of the first responders to this shooting. uvalde city council member chip king and the fire department said what the scene was like when he arrived and also, how long it took before that killer was neutralized. it was evidence that it was not a secure scene. there was a lot still going on here. it was a very chaotic scene initially. it was probably 30 minutes after we arrived, after i a
decade. officials have identified the 18-year-old shooter. he was killed by law enforcement here at the school. we want to begin our coverage with cnn s shimon prokupecz here with me. shimon, we learned a whole lot of new information a short time ago about this investigation and this timeline. give us the latest. yeah, so we learned that police were called after the grandmother of the gunman was shot, that he shot her and then police were called, this is according to the lieutenant with dps that spoke to us this morning and that he engaged the suspect here with the shooter and then went inside and as you said, he barricaded himself in one room, making it very difficult for law enforcement to get inside and then they had to call in for reinforcement and the tactical team and took some time. they got here but took some time to get inside the room. they were facing gunfire from the gunman, exchanging gunfire from the gunman. some of them took rounds. so there was a lot going o
creating liabilities for people who provide access to firearms to kids. these are things that can be done. it s just requiring some politicians to put the politics aside and put the children and their needs and lives first. well, nicole hockley, i know that this is a difficult time for you as you wrote in your op-ed, retraumaized, but i thank you for spending a few minutes with us to help us understand what s ahead for these families and what you believe should be ahead for our country. nicole, thank you. thank you. it s the top of the hour, on cnn newsroom, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota in uvalde, texas, here at the scene of yet another hideous school shooting. victor, here we are again. i m in front of robb elementary school, the scene of the carnage where 19 kids, 4th graders, 3rd graders, 2nd graders were killed in their classroom. we just heard the texas lieutenant governor say in the last hour that there will be plenty of time to analyze what hap
Enough on their mind. Maybe its a traffic jam . Or maybe its just a red light not working. I dont even know. I just dont even know its important as a parent that you have a conversation with your child. And really the age here are the rules stop completely at crosswalks wait for the kids to get on the sidewalk do not make u turns do not pass any of the other cars park in a legal parking spot the police will be watching live in Henderson Adam herbets fox 5 fifteen hundred buses hit the road this morning. Driving students safely to the first day of school. We have so many kids who are actively riding the bus starting at we want to make sure that they get on, they know the rules, they know to be safe on the bus getting students to class on time is a big job for cc sd transportation services. Theyre in charge of taking more than 120 thousand students to school everyday. The School Districts superintendent says they train bus drivers to make sure students stay safe and know the rules of the