in a few hours but soon they will all be behind me getting ready for the concert to begin. a senior ukrainian official says ukraine s forces are pushing back russia in the key city of severodonetsk, where the two sides are locked in fierce street battles. travel disruption continues. airlines cancel more flights today and rail passengers are being warned of delays because of strikes by conductors. and wickets are beginning to tumble, at lords as england s batsmen struggle to chase the target set for them by new zealand. welcome to bbc news. a third day of celebrations for the queen s platinum jubilee is under way, with members of the royal family attending events across the uk. the duke and duchess of cambridge are at cardiff castle with their two older children prince george and princess charlotte. the day will end with an open air concert at buckingham palace where prince charles will pay tribute to the queen for her enduring service. let s head to the mall there now and to
queen elizabeth celebrates 70 years on the throne. we re live with a preview of the upcoming celebrations. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. the mass shooting at an elementary school in uvalde, texas was an unthinkable tragedy. 19 young students and two teachers gunned down. but now we re hearing more chilling details about police failures on that day. the incident commander, police chief arredondo did not have a police radio on him at the time. we re also getting new information about a desperate 911 call by a 10-year-old student while the shooter stalked the building. reporter: new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. school district police chief arredondo didn t have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate directly with police dispatcher. i am told that this person did not have radio communication, and i don t know as to why. reporter: gut
with kim brunhuber. we begin in uvalde, texas, where frustration is growing as we learn more chilling details about the mass shooting at an elementary school. 19 young students and 2 teachers gunned down. we re getting more on 911 calls made from inside the classroom while the attack was under way and the pleas from a student as gunfire rang out. there s growing criticism of police actions and inactions and scrutiny of the company that made the murder weapon. and cnn is speaking with the attorney for a teacher s aide from robb elementary. she s sharing her side of the story after police falsely blamed her. omar jimenez begins our coverage. reporter: it was supposed to be an end of the year class party. before it became a nightmare. she saw everything from the time he recked to the time he was taken out of there. special education aide was meeting a co-worker with a food. she propped the door open, went back inside to get her phone and called 911. but to report the a
reporter: fredericka, sources tell cnn the suspect had a long list of targets and officials say that this was somehow related to the judicial system. we don t yet know how. was this a single case or series of cases? we continue to ask the questions that law enforcement continues to ask as well. this all began 6:30 friday morning when someone ran out of judge roemer s home and called 911, that person reporting that someone had broken inside and fired off two rounds from a firearm. throughout the morning, once police arrived, they tried to negotiate with the suspect who was inside but eventually those talks simply broke down. around 10:15 a.m. friday, the tactical teams made entry into that home and that s where they found 68-year-old john roemer dead. they also found a 56-year-old suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside. throughout this investigation they ve learned that this was not random. here is what the officials in wisconsin said. this, as i mentioned befo
saluting the class of 2022 from the president to the fonz. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight, a dangerous tropical threat taking aim at florida, parts of the southern coast getting pounded by heavy rains. the tropical cyclone with warnings issued for a large part of the state, including south florida and the keys also on alert, parts of the bahamas and cuba where at leas one person already died dangerous rains expected to continue overnight, causing torrential downpours and possible tornadoes. just this week the national weather service predicting an above average hurricane season we start tonight with meteorologist bill karins tracking this dangerous storm. bill, what are you seeing reporter: tom, i m very concerned with heavy rainfall overwhelming flood control systems in south florida. they re thinking the possibility for water into homes, evacuations and rescues in the next 24 hours. let me give