covid concerns on memorial day in the usa. why case counts are at least f five times higher? should we expect a summer surge? we ll take a look. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for joining us. for the second time, u.s. president biden and the first lady mourned alongside grieving and devastated families who lost their loved ones in a mass shooting in a texas town of uvalde. the bidens laid flowers outside robb elementary school where 19 students and two teachers were killed last week. mr. biden and the first lady also attended mass where jill biden could be seen reaching out and touching the hands of several people as they walk out the isle. outside the church, some gathered, urged the president to do something to which he responded, we will, take a listen . cnn is following development and has more now from uvalde. president biden spent about seven hours on the ground here in uvalde, texas, on sunday trying to offer some s
continue this travesty and darkness and i want sunlight. that s a nice way of saying it. isn t that pretty. i want sunlight. i want everything exposed to the public. and let s let the public decide because i want cameras at every inch of that courthouse. careful what you wish for? no, he doesn t. we got a lot to cover from that speech on saturday, including some frightening comments from the front-runner in the republican primary. meanwhile, donald trump s defense team will present its case in the civil fraud trial. we ll tell you who is taking the stand later today in new york. also ahead, it appears the new house speaker is not ready to move forward with the impeachment inquiry into president biden. we ll go through that new reporting. plus, we ll play for you the surprise announcement from republican senator tim scott, one of the five candidates who was just on the debate stage last week. we ll also bring to you the very latest out of israel and gaza. good mond
months ago, what went wrong? why didn t they follow that training? the training was really detailed. it was not just classroom theoretical training. it was roaming the hallway sort of situational role-playing with a bunch of different agencies tro trying to access how they would best confronts the gunman. that s what the training teach them what the do. the incident commander reportedly said to the state police that they were treating it as a barricaded subject situation or hostage type of situation where they felt they needed more time to assess before they went into take out the gunman. yeah, of course, you found that the officers trying to emphasize that the urgency to stop the gunman was so high that they should not wait for a tactical team. as you point out, they did wait.
authorities that 40 civilians are believed to have been taken hostage by russian forces near the hostumal airbase, an airbase that russian and ukrainians have been fighting for control of ever since russian airborne troops parachuted in there back on february 24th and while the ukrainians have been able to take back some parts of that territory, apparently now the russians, this is according to ukrainian authorities, we cannot independently confirm it, but they are claiming that 40 civilians who were hiding out in a base tlmt have now ceased to be in communication and they believe to be in some type of a hostage type of situation to essentially prevent ukrainian authorities from fighting or hitting that area where russian forces are. meanwhile, as well you saw some horrible video in oren lieberman s piece there, another town quite near to the ukrainian
training? yes. and you did all that every year throughout that 26-year period, right? yes. sometimes multiple times a year, right? yes. and all of those requirements were in place to make sure that you continued work at the beginning of your career and continued to be, you know, competent and capable of performing the requirements of the job, right? yes. you mentioned on direct that you were also a hostage negotiator as part of your duties? crisis negotiator. crisis negotiator. did that involve some hostage type of situations? i ve never had a hostage situation. but crisis negotiation? yes. and that involved some de-escalation tactics, i presume, correct? yes. and you had to develop that skill set and be pretty good at de-escalating situations as a crisis negotiator, fair?