noon pacific, good to be with you. i m jose diaz-balart in for katy tur. today, the department of justice released a long awaited report on the police response to the mass shooting at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. it was almost two years ago in may of 2022 when a mass murderer took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and despite officers arriving on the scene just three minutes after the shooter gained entry to the school, it took 77 minutes for law enforcement to confront the lone gunman. the report is scathing. calling the response to the shooting a failure. noting that despite evidence that wounded children were in the classroom, the officers did not engage with the shooter. they didn t treat the perpetrator as an active threat, and those decisions among others may have cost lives. families were briefed before the report was made public. i spoke to kimberly whose daughter lexi died that day and asked her what she wants to see come from this report. account is
what authorities are now saying. also, more than 40 deaths now in a dozen states blamed on this storm. the family electrocuted, killed while trying to get out of their car. another family member killed while trying to help get them out. and now the new storm moving in tonight. much of the east. in philadelphia, in fact, a winter storm warning. up to half a foot of snow possible. new york city set to get hit again. ginger zee standing by. also tonight, the new and scathing report on uvalde from the department of justice. tonight, suggesting the failed response allowed more schoolchildren to die. police were in that school three minutes after the gunman, so why did it take so long to get to the suspect? what they ve revealed. mireya villarreal in uvalde. also, breaking news tonight in a case that stunned the nation. the murder of a young pregnant wife, laci peterson. tonight, abc news learning the l.a. innocence project is now taking up the case of scott peterson, who was c
we begin in uvalde, texas, where a long awaited report into a deadly school shooting has been highly critical of the police. it found, what they describe, as a cascading failures of leadership, decision making, tactics, policy and training, when the gunman burst into robb elementary school in 2022 hundreds of police officers rushed to the scene but it took more than an hour for them to confront him. in that time, the gunman murdered i9 students and two teachers. that delay sparked outrage among the victims families and across the us more widely, and it prompted the us department ofjustice to investigate, producing today s report that runs 600 pages long. the us attorney general merrick garland visited families in uvalde, and he called the police he said the victims deserved better. in the hours and days after, it was a failure that should not have happened. we was a failure that should not have happened. have happened. we hope to honour the have happened. we hope to
you would have anticipated. these two countries were allies until this week. in fact, they were laying plans to hold joint naval exercises. on tuesday, iran said it attacked the bases of a group within pakistani balochistan. last night, pakistan responded in kind with precision strikes inside iran. it s hard to see any direct connection to what s happening in gaza but it perhaps reflects just how febrile the wider region has become. here s our analysis editor, ros atkins. ever since the israel gaza war started, there s been a fear the conflict could spread, and that s happening. across the middle east, we re seeing air strikes, bombings, assassinations and border raids. the most high profile escalation involves houthi rebels in yemen attacking shipping in the red sea, they say, in solidarity with palestinians. in response, the us and the uk have attacked houthi positions, most recently with us strikes on wednesday night. and a day before america began attacking the houthis,
state senator roman guterres of the impact it could have on his state and country. and frank floozy on the far-right s rush to push violence incidents as a false flag. why it is so when dangerous and what else is going on. later, what we learned about the case manhattan d.a. plans to bring against the former president. this is american voices. we begin this hour in texas where the state house led by republicans voted to impeach republican attorney general ken paxton. that vote coming just over an hour ago. here is the moment when it happened. of all members voted. 121 knows, and the resolution is adopted. paxton has been defending himself, i guess you can call it that. listen to what one republican said on the floor during the hearing. i would like to point out that several members of this house, while on the floor of this house, doing the state business, received telephone calls from general paxton, personally threatening them with political consequences in their nex