least a little of both. first shimon revealed that the school district police department had hired a former state trooper under investigation for corrections during the massacre. i should say lack of actions during the massacre. and shimon unveiled this video of her outside the school on th day of the massacre, talking to other officers. listen. an officer asked if her children attend robb elementary and lozano s response: yeah, my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. no, is my son had been in there i would not have been outside, promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, local i woul not have been outside him i promise you that. so last night we learned that that officer has been fired by th e school district to be fired the day after shimon try to get answers about why she been hire in the first place, given she was under investigation by the state. shimon had tried to get answers from the uvalde school dist district s director of student serv
ukraine armageddon. and thailand is grieving after a massacre in a day care left 26 people dead, including two children. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. pro-russian officials are reporting significant damage following a massive explosion on a bridge linking russia with crimea. hours ago a fuel tanker exploded 0 on a strategic bridge causing a fire that s still burning a low pro-russian leader said two have collapsed. emergency crews are scrambling trying to remove the burning train from the structure. have a look here, the moment the explosion was caught on video. russian president vladimir putin is now ordering an emergency investigation. ukraine is not claiming responsibility but making clear it won t shed any tears officer the development. fred pleitgen is live in kyiv. fred, what more do we know? reporter: certainly seemed this was a brazen incident that happened in the very early morning hours of today. we re seeing that cctv vide
explosion of the only bridge connecting russia with the annexed territory of crimea. now, the blast partially collapsed the kerch bridge and paralyzed a key supply route from moscow s faltering war in ukraine. but this bridge isn t just logistically important, it s also a huge symbol for the kremlin in its attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but after the blast in kyiv, people can be seen taking selfies in front of a billboard depicting the image of the bridge on fire. that s not the only thing you re seeing from ukraine mocking the explosion. fred pleitgen joins us now. fred is in kyiv. he has the latest developments. what are you hearing, fred, about who s behind this explosion. reporter: yeah, well, the russians are moving very quickly to point the finger of blame at the ukrainians. this is quite interesting because i ve been following a lot of telegram channels coming out of russia. a lot of top russian
arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. fred pleitgen is live for us in kyiv with the latest. so fred, russian officials saying traffic has resumed on the bridge. what are you hearing? reporter: well, we re hearing and seeing some of that traffic, russian officials say it has resumed and it really seems to be just a tiny trickle of traffic if you will. just to give you an overview, it is a pretty wide bridge, it has the rail link that was disrupted for a long period of time. we are hearing a train apparently has managed to bypass that bridge thounow. but it had four automobile bridges, lanes, two in each direction and it seems like one lane is working for all of the traffic. and the explosion that we keep seeing on our screens there was so powerful that it caused part of the car bridge to collapse. and essentially what the russian investigative committee is saying, all of it happened in the very early morning ho
also tonight, the world health organization is now calling monkeypox a global health emergency and vice president kamala harris is in indiana urging democrats to fight back as the legislature begins a special session to take away reproductive rights. good evening. i m jason johnson in tonight for joy reid. we won t see the january 6th committee again until fall in september. there s another shocking preview of why the enpresident was dogmatically opposed to speaking to his supporters who were ransacking the capitol. in the previously unseen video seen today by committee member elaine luria we see testimony from the closest aides and confidant the days after the attack. it s other that president trump refused recommendations that he repudiate in the strongest terms those who lay siege to the capitol. i thought we should give a statement on the 7th, and obviously move forward on transition. i sat with her and i spoke to miller about trying to put together some draft remarks