saying. reporter: so again it was really loud out there but she said it s a strange thing. i feel like i knew those things but i didn t have the details. the lawmakers in the room that experienced this day firsthand learning information that feeds into the knowledge of how they were in the circumstances and what the white house was doing at the time. aloi, josh, jacklyn and barbara, thank you all for being with us. breaking news from washington. the white house say it is cdc will lift a requirement that air travellers get a negative covid test before entering the u.s. they say the departure testing requirement will end this sunday. they said it was stopping people from traveling to the united states. it is a big change. still ahead, the police chief for the uvalde school district speaks out about what
you are hearing about the 19 officers and i know we re learning information as you are speaking about, you think about the notion of the presence of some of the weapons, your forces aren t carrying them. they re not the ones who have all the equipment that might be able to ultimately defend in a holistic manner initially. do you have concerns given the current laws that you will have shortcomings that you will be ill equipped to try to twlart an attack? i can tell you this, from myself down to all the way down through my department, we re going to go in. we re going to make an entry in, we re going to go to the threat. we re going to do our best to neutralize the threat and then protect life and limb there after. we have equipment and we train regularly. we use the alert protocols here in texas almost exclusively
united states. this case, what will be heard by the december circuit, the appeals court this week, is really about the question about whether a former president can continue to have powers to block congress from learning information about their time in office. and i think the law is clear, and the court will rule, no, ex-president trump can t do that anymore than he could take a portrait of george washington or the resolute desk out of the white house. he can t control these papers. that s up to joe biden. that s the critical issue, and donald trump is going to lose as he s done so many times before in court. and just to give people who are watching kind of a bigger big picture view of all this, norm, how how normal is it for this sort of legal activity to be going on? obviously the insurrection we ve never seen before. president trump did a bunch of things we ve never seen before.
father-in-law, that he was able to get off of the train. there was an overhead announcement, emergency announcement, telling everyone they had to get off the train and to go up the escalator, go upstairs, and now people who were in the airport at the time of the shooting are in the holding situation where they are just hanging around, trying to get more information. as you might imagine, the airport staff doesn t want to alarm anyone so they re really not giving them a lot of details. most of the passengers, people who have just landed or they re trying to connect to a different flight, are learning information piece by piece through social media and different news outlets because they say they re not getting much information from the airport at all. so that s what i m learning from people who are inside. my own family members are in the airport right now, who are trying to figure out what s going on and how they can get out. there are concerns, because this is such a large airport and
screaming. you can also see a large ball of flames in a car that filled the train with smoke. police say the suspect used cigarette lighter fluid to set the train on fire and the train made an emergency stop allowing passengers to evacuate by any means necessary including climbing out the windows on to the platform. it happened around 8:00 p.m. local time as large amounts of people streaming into the city center to celebrate halloween, jessica. blake, do authorities know more about the suspect? was the person known to them? do we know that? reporter: jessica, we are learning information about the suspect but we know that police arrested a 24-year-old man at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder. witnesses say he was seen