shooter used to enter the school was actually not propped open as initially reported, but closed by a teacher once she realized there was a gunman on campus. investigators trying to figure out why that door failed to lock. shimon prokupecz, you spoke briefly this morning with chief aradondo, someone everyone has been wanting to hear from. what happened? reporter: yeah, certainly, we ve been trying to make contact with him for the last several days. we haven t heard from him since the day of the shooting. we ve been at his house. finally this morning, our producer, erin cooper, spotted him at his home, had a brief conversation with him, but then we were here at the chief s office here at the school district behind me when we spotted him coming in through the back and we approached him to ask some questions. specifically, the accusation that he was the one who ultimately made the decision, that he was the incident commander who decided not to allow officers to breach that doo
cnn has not been able to confirm if that voice was a student, but the man who recorded the video says the audio came from the dispatch radio in a customs and border protection vehicle. we are also hearing today for the first time from an off-duty border agent who ran to help when his wife, a fourth grade teacher, texted him. that agent was getting a haircut when the shooting happened. so he borrowed a gun from his barber and raced to the school. he ended up outside the door the gunman was behind. he had no tactical gear. here s what he says happened next. i was there at the door fixing to go in. once again, i didn t have any gear. i wouldn t have been a smart move for me. all those guys had their gear and stuff, so like i said, i pulled back. obviously there s a lot of scrutiny about the police response. what s your take on all of that? to me, i believe everyone there was doing the best they could given the circumstances. yeah. i believe everyone there was doing every
americans say economic conditions are poor and the government is not doing enough to fight inflation. cnn white house correspondent mj lee is with us now, so, mj, in addition to this meeting, what else is the white house planning? well, as you both know, it has not been easy for president biden to remain focused consistently on economic issues, particularly inflation, obviously, the first few months of the year, we saw the president be completely consumed on what was happening in ukraine and the war over there and having to stay engaged on those foreign policy issues. and then, just this last week as an example, he traveled to asia, this important foreign trip, where he did try to stay focused on domestic economic issues and as soon as he came back, he, of course, had to react to this mass shooting in uvalde, texas, and had to sort of focus on consoling a grieving community there. so, if we take a look at the president s schedule today and what he is doing, we are seeing th
the pending opinion to overturn roe v. wade. also ahead, why experts warn we could see blackouts this summer in the united states and which areas are at highest risk. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead and new questions about what exactly police on the scene knew and when during the uvalde massacre. as the community begins to say its final good-byes to some of the 21 victims. the visitations begin today for 48-year-old teacher irma garcia and two 10-year-old students, na via alyssa bravo and jose manuel flores jr. the funial for their classmates amerie jo garza and maite rodriguez are planned today. we re waiting for more information from law enforcement including a ballistics record and radio transmissions not to mention basic details, how many kids were wounded, how many students came out of the classroom alive, and on and on. cnn has also obtained a facebook live video recorded outside the school during the shooting. it appears to i
about the path inflation would take when she downplayed the risk a year ago. stand by for the full exclusive interview. and ukraine says russia now controls most of the key eastern city, kremlin forces gaining more ground, and blasting homes and communities into rubble. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the texas school massacre, one week after the attack. tonight, we re getting new clues about what police knew about the threat posed by the gunman and when they knew it. cnn s ed lavendera is on the scene for us in uvalde. tonight, as questions mount around the law enforcement response to the deadly school shooting in uvalde, texas, we re hearing chilling new accounts from what was happening on the inside. are you injured? i got shot. where? that audio was taken by a man who spoke to cnn but didn t want to be publicly identified. a facebook live video includes