east. for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside their classroom one week ago there s growing anger now over the police response as the justice department prepare tuesday launch a review how law enforcement responded. reporter: we re now getting our first glimpse add some of the information related to officers outside robb elementary school as a massacre was unfolding on the inside. abc news obtained a portion of video that appears to be audio from one 911 operator relaying information from a child inside the classroom. you have a child on the line. reporter: cnn has not been able to independently confirm the audio or at what point in the incident it was heard. on friday the texas public safety director said there were at least eight 911 calls from two callers in the school pleading for help. investigators now say 19 officers waited outside the classroom where the gunman was for about 50 minutes until a customs and border patrol team decided to go in with
we have a child on the line. he is in a room full of victims at this moment. cnn has not been able to independently confirm that video, but source of this video sun clear, and it s also not clear at what point in the incident that audio is heard. cnn has reached out to authorities. but we do know that texas authorities, what they said on friday that there were at least eight 911 calls that day from at least two separate callers inside the school over a span of 50 minutes. this all comes as the justice department announces it will investigate the police response to the shooting. and meantime the community will hold its first services for two victims of the tragedy later today. we ll have more on that in a moment but first let s get straight to cnn s paula reed live for more on this investigation and the new doj s role. what do you know with the doj s involvement? that s exactly the kind of evidence that the doj will want to examine as it conducts its review. this is not
would return. now faster than expected the demand has come roaring back and they re struggling to keep up. that s true whether we re talking about flight attendant crews, whether we re talking about pilots. so we ve got to make sure we have short-term and long-term approaches. reporter: one of those solutions the airline proactively canceling flights. it will shed about 100 flights a day from its schedule divergent the month of july. aaa anticipated 34.9 million people would drive 50 miles or more over the five days surrounding memorial day when gas prices are so sky high. when you adjust those for inflation the last time we saw gas prices this high was memorial day 2012. in the coming hours u.s. president joe biden scheduled to discuss record high inflation with fed reserve chairman jerome powell. this meeting comes as americans grapple with soaring prices from inflation not seen in decades.
listen to what he says when i asked him whether or not airlines are up for the challenge now. we saw a lot of airlines during the pandemic thinning out their schedules and thinning out their workforce not knowing when demand was going to return. now, faster than expected the demand has come roaring back and they are struggling to keep up. that s true whether we re talking about flight attendant crews, whether we re talking about pilots and so we ve got to make sure that we ve got short-term and long-term approaches. one of those short-term solutions, delta airlines is proactively cancelling flights in the month of july shedding about 100 flights a day from its schedule. remember though that memorial day is really more of a driving holiday. aaa anticipated 34.9 million people will drive 50 miles or more over the five-day memorial day travel period, and this is all coming as people are really shelling out for gas. the national average $4.62 for a gallon of regular, and even when you