all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reported over the weekend that four of those children were expected to survive, two of them sustained life-threatening injuries, we did not know what condition those two children are as of today. in benton harbor michigan, six people injured, 19-year-old, one of them was a 19-year-old, he was killed when gunfire erupted at a liquor store. now, in philadelphia, a 16 -year-old girl and a 21 -year-old woman were killed, and two others were injured in another mass shooting. in all, there were 16 mass shootings over the memorial day weekend. 16. that is according to the gun violence archive, it s a nonprofit research group which chronicles mass shootings in which four or more people are injured in this country. now, this deadly weekend in america, it follows the horrific killing of 19 school children, and two teachers at an elementary school in uvalde, texas. which took place just one week ago today. that tr
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t
the scene. those serious questions amid the grief. we ll get to it. thank you all so much for being here. today, the president and his administration are making a major push to refocus on the economy and defend his handling of it. in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal, the president claims that the u.s. is in a better economic position than almost any country in the world. he credits his own policies can helping to achieve the strongest recovery in modern history. he s also facing public sentiment that s making clear americans don t feel that strength, not by a long shot. ga gallop s economic confidence reading is reporting this is likely the lowest public confidence has been in the economy since the tail end of the great recession in early 2009. biden s team is now outlining what they are calling a three-part plan to fight inflation and to turn this around. inflation will be number one, the number one agenda item when the president meets with the federal rese
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
even though the president was face-to-face with the fed chair today, he says he s still staying hands off. my plan is simple, respect the fed, respect its independence which i will continue to do. even though biden wanted interest rates raised is not an economic cure without its own side effects. put jerome powell in a box. they have to raise interest rates. when they raise interest rates, it makes it harder to buy a home, usually make the stock market go down as we ve seen. and that will affect people s 401(k)s. jerome powell doesn t have a lot of options. republicans say the best option to get inflation under control is to get government spending under control. the white house today is not second guessing any past spending. do you think that any part of inflagrants this year is because of president biden s spending plan or is it all putin s fault? brian just spoke to this. we re at a historic place when it comes to the economy. now we re going to a place where i