will be, and challenging the democratic incumbent senator who is defending a seat, a seat in a state where joe biden won by about two percentage points. a nail biter today. john king, you are following key races out of south carolina, incumbents, representative nancy mace and representative tom rice, one of the rare republicans to impeach trump after the insurrection. what is the latest there? let s move across the country and look at the house. pull up south carolina. votes coming in a little more quickly than nevada but we re several hours in now. this is very interesting here. the seventh district russell frey is donald trump s candidate here, a conservative running against the incumbent. tom rice had that seat since 2012 and won big in the tea party year. he is getting 25% of the vote right now, disappointing for a republican incumbent who represented the district for a decade. 99% of the vote in. we re still tallying the final votes. the 50% plus one you avoid a run-
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
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
making reporter: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it goes against every fiber in our being, having to bury our own children parents in uvalde, texas now facing that grim reality, beginning to lay their children to rest in a world no safer today than it was a week ago when their children became victims of mass murder this holiday weekend, nine people were killed and more than 60 hurt in mass shootings across the u.s. overall, at least 156 died by gun violence hundreds left wounded. but in the tiny texas town of uvalde, still mourning the 19 children and two adults who were ruthlessly murdered last tuesday, we re still learning about the timeline and what officers did or didn t do to try to save them but today s focus, the first of 21 funerals celebrating the lives lost our morgan chesky is there. reporter: tonight heartbreak hitting home, with hundreds saying final goodbyes. you feel sad, man, it hits you hard reporter: 21 funerals over the ne
we re also tracking the final day of president biden s trip to asia, including the key moments from his meeting with india s prime minister after urging him to do more to help ukraine. p ukraine. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 24th. i m jonathan lemire. polls open in just a few hours, for one of the most consequential primaries in the midterms, georgia. there are several state and congressional races on the ballot but the ones everyone will be watching are the republican primaries for governor, secretary of state, and senate. and the new york times describes the background of today s races like this. georgia s got everything. disputed elections. rapid demographic change. celebrity democrats. a restrictive new voting law. and open criminal investigation into donald trump s meddling into the 2020 election. a deep urban divide. and it is a fun one. former senator david perdue whose loss in the state two years ago helped give democrats contr