security adviser, highly involved in international priorities from the trump/kim summits to china policy. will be impossible to dismiss as a low level staffer. and steve bannon s contempt of congress trial, the former white house senior adviser is charged with defying subpoenas from the january 6th committee, for months. we begin with new information we re learning about the former trump national security official, who will testify in thursday s january 6th primetime hearing. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. high level, one of the most senior trump administration officials to resign in the wake of january 6th. what more do we know about what s going ting to happen on thursday? we know the two former officials will be testifying, not only pottinger, but matthews, both resigning shortly after january 6th. matthew pottinger was the deputy national security adviser and we re told at the time of his resignation that he stepped down in response to trump
hear the warning of climate change driven heat, what they re telling the people of britain, where just 1% with air conditioners with temperatures over 100. will reeve is there. here at home, damning new report into the uvalde massacre. body camera images that show confusion, lack of communication with 376 law enforcement officers on the scene. hear one say we have to get in, the gunman just keeps shooting. the we have to get in there, he just keeps shooting. in the classroom for 77 minutes, what the report uncovers tonight. mireya villarreal from uvalde. young man with assault rifle into indiana mall, what he did to prepare in the bathroom and started firing on the way out. good samaritan who shot him and what we learned about three people who were killed. war in ukraine, major shake up, president zelenskyy suspending two top leaders in his inner circle, saying they didn t do enough, concern of russian infiltration, among those suspended, lifelong friend of zelenskyy
with lester holt good evening americans feeling the heat tonight in ways and places they maybe never have where they live as high temperature records are expected to fall across much of the country. it is where we begin tonight. 38 million people across 20 states from california to the mississippi river right now living under heat alerts. record highs in the forecast today from cheyenne, wyoming where the forecast high is 99 to dallas/ft. worth airport which could reach 109. between now and wednesday nearly three dozen new record highs could be set the heat wave working its way to the east tonight, leaving the most vulnerable in its path at considerable risk experts are warning it is not summer as usual but rather another global gut check moment from a changing climate just as we face new obstacles in dealing with it. we ll get to that and the forecast from our team standing by in just a moment. let s start with miguel almaguer. reporter: shattering records and threatenin
wanted, what others wanted in terms of the investigators, he released this body cam footage for transparency reasons. we had been asking for it. as a result of that, the families wanted to see it. he decided it was just time to put this video out. shimon, i want to play some of the moments from this body cam video. let s put this up so people can see it. shots fired! get inside! get inside! go, go, go! one female shot in the head. shots fired inside the building, uvalde! which building? shots fired. can t break in here . [ gunshots ] keep shooting. he s in the class on the right. take cover, impis. shimon, tell us what we saw there. right. so, you see some of the actions by the officers there, certainly as they were going in, there we saw video of the officers pulling out and this other footage that was released. you know, the beginning moments of this shooting, when this started and the gunman got inside the school have raised a lot of questions over
systematic failures and egregiously poor decision-making resulted in more than an hour of confusion and chaos before police finally confronted and then killed the gunman who had murdered 19 children and 2 teachers. the victims family members got a copy of the report before it went public. vincent salazar, whose granddaughter, you probably remember her picture, was among those young children killed. he reacted with skepticism. we re not going to get the truth. because there is cover-up. everybody s throwing everybody under the bus. the only ones that ain t under the bus is because they re six feet in the ground now, and that s our children. and the two teachers. it is unimaginable heartbreak for these families. it goes on and on. also detailed in this report, major, major lapses in school security leading up to the shooting, including broken locks and a, quote, culture of noncompliance with safety policies. also even poor wi-fi that may have delayed the lockdown alert. we