navarro s arrest and indictment and what it means for the insurrection investigation. just ahead of a pivotal public hearing next week. and destruction and defiance in ukraine. as the nation marks 100 days of russia s brutal war, president zelenskyy vowing victory even as russian forces control a fifth of the country right now and the kremlin pledges to keep fighting until its goals are achieved. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the new reporting on the texas school massacre as the investigation into police failures is clearly intensifying. here s cnn s senior national correspondent ed lavendera. reporter: tonight new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. texas state senator roland gutierrez says pete arredondo didn t have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate di
commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, what
in the hours ahead a bipartisan group of senators is set to meet virtually to discuss gun reform in the united states. the talks continue this week in the wake of the tragic shooting. republican senator john cornyn says that the group will try to see if they can agree on a basic framework on how to move forward. this as the first funeral is set to take place in the devastated community. more visitations and funerals are planned in the week ahead. for a number of families, it will be another gutwrenching week, the unimaginable he heartbreak is mixed with growing anger other the police response. and cnn has obtain the new video of an apparent radio call recorded on facebook live outside the elementary school during a shooting. take a listen. are you in there? although the voice sounds like a child, it was not clear who is speaking. the call came from a customs and border protection vehicle outside the school. it is unclear at what point during the shooting the video was tak
we have a child on the line. he is in a room full of victims at this moment. cnn has not been able to independently confirm that video, but source of this video sun clear, and it s also not clear at what point in the incident that audio is heard. cnn has reached out to authorities. but we do know that texas authorities, what they said on friday that there were at least eight 911 calls that day from at least two separate callers inside the school over a span of 50 minutes. this all comes as the justice department announces it will investigate the police response to the shooting. and meantime the community will hold its first services for two victims of the tragedy later today. we ll have more on that in a moment but first let s get straight to cnn s paula reed live for more on this investigation and the new doj s role. what do you know with the doj s involvement? that s exactly the kind of evidence that the doj will want to examine as it conducts its review. this is not
uvalde is about 50 miles from the southern u.s. border. police believe the 18-year-old gunman salvador romas acted alone. he was shot dead by officers and that is the last time that you will hear his name this hour. officials say he had attended the high school there, uvalde high school. we know the fourth grade teacher eva morale less, her death confirmed by her aunt. and the suspect s grandmother, police believe he shot her before headed to the school. she is now hospitalized in critical condition. and the suspect crashed his truck in a ditch near the school before trying to enter the building. law enforcement confronted the suspect but he was able to get inside anywhere where officials say he entered several classrooms and started shooting. border patrol agents were among those who responded. at least one was wounded by gunfire from the shooter. just three days before the shooting, a photo of who ar-15 style rifles appeared on his instagram account, or at least an accoun