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
ucisd campuses. we have been speaking to resident after resident here. a woman whose niece was killed, a local store employee whose cousin was killed, a fast food employee whose niece was killed. another person who is not too far from here, grew up going to robb elementary and then decades later, hears gunshots before calling 911. all of them were too heartbroken to go on camera, being that close to the story, but one thing we heard from every single one of them is that this goes beyond this week. this is something that is going to be with them for the rest of their lives. today, more funerals for teacher irma garcia and her husband, jose, who died of a heart attack just days after his wife was gunned down. the community grieving and frustrated, now with more services to come every day for the next week. as for arredondo, i leave it to his conscience, why didn t he do more. why didn t he do more? and what exactly was done in those moments is precisely what s under i
that was really a great report on. it thank you. thank you. thank you a man. we have some breaking news from you all day right now. this is stunning. absolutely stunning news. yesterday afternoon, on our special memorial day coverage, i was echoing from six to 8 pm. and we reported to you then, that peter i would hondo, who was the commanding officer in the school, for those 78 minutes for when the police was doing nothing. he is the chief of police of the school district of you ve all day, that very small by person police force that he commands. he was also three weeks ago, an elected to the city council in uvalde. he won an election three weeks ago to the city council in uvalde. he was scheduled to be sworn in as a member of the city council today, at a city council meeting involved a. and yesterday, we reported to you, that that meeting of the city council for today was canceled. that was the end of the story. for today, as far as we knew. and now, tonight, the city
moment including new details on the investigation and more scrutiny on commander pete arredondo who tells cnn he has been in contact with texas officials. the president also wrapping up u.s. support with his decision to provide long range missiles to the ukrainian government believing that they won t use to launch strikes into russia. germany following the united states lead agreeing to supply ukraine with anti-aircraft and radar systems as well. we want to start first though in uvalde. joining me now is julia ainsley, jim cavanaugh. but gaud, let me start with you. i believe at this point we re about 75 days off from the beginning of school, much of the community when i was there on the ground saying to me they did not want to return to the scene of the crime to robb elementary as the school year began because of just the unspeakable tragedy that occurred there. and we re now hearing that in fact they will not be returning to those school grounds. talk us through it. repor
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