infrastructure including wind and solar and transmission and storage in socially acceptable ways. we need to have good community processes to figure out what areas are more or less acceptable. i agree with you that there should be a lot of reason for optimism about different places to do that. host: there is a gentleman named richard glick who heads i think the ferc, he is up for renomination and that might face challenges from joe manchin. he supports tougher climate change and equity standards, putting him on the outs with mr. manchin. what can you tell about him and the process? guest: rich is a great leader of this power sector. he is focused on reliability in the summer. they had meetings about that. i m obviously not privy to the conversations between the white house and individual senators like joe manchin, but i m hopeful that since he got this far to be nominated, there should be a pathway to get him confirmed. they each have five-year terms. hopefully he will be app
united states said this. this memorial day, we know the memory is still painful. of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last two decades in combat. each of them, leaving behind a family. could be anything. hard spoken by their actions. and lives, that will never be the same. the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms, where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday, the president and first lady brought flowers to a memorial site outside the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. they touch the photos of the 19 dead children, and two teachers who lost their lives trying to save lives. president and the first lady attended sunday mass. as was the custom. but this time, it was in walter. in the catholic church filled with mourners. including some of the family members of the victims. as of president was leading, someone in the crowd pleaded with him to do something. president
good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is memorial day, monday, may 30th. i m brianna keilar with john avalon. john berman is off. on this day set aside to honor fallen members of the u.s. military the town of uvalde, texas, is preparing the first of many good-byes to the children and the teachers murdered last week inside of an elementary school there. this afternoon there will be visitation and rosary for 10-year-old amerie jo garza, her father told cnn that amerie died trying to call police and save her classmates. uvalde s funeral homes so overwhelmed that it will take weeks to bury all 21 victims. the president and first lady visited uvalde sunday to meet with the grieving families and comfort the grief-stricken community. president biden promised action on gun reform after the crowd pleaded with him to do something. the justice department is now planning to investigate how the police responded to this shooting. let s go now to cnn s ad
president, and first lady tour the physical and emotional aftermath of that day. visiting the town s memorial to the slain, meeting with school s principal and superintendent, and attending catholic mass, before sitting with the family of the two teachers, and 19 students killed in last wednesday s attack. america remains in shock, as to what has been revealed about what happened at robb elementary. the growing fire storm over where and how local police failed, corroborated by frantic emergency calls from children, literally trapped in a killing field. and the justice department just announcing today, a federal review of the law enforcement response. but that cannot take precedence over two things. remembrance which is the debt we owe, the grieving and the taking, and action which is the price our society must pay if we truly condemn what happened. so tonight i join the president in his condolence, and i m certain his sanger, because two weeks his anger, because two weeks a
day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. reporter: as the gunman walked towards her school, nicole shouted for her kids to hit the floor seconds before glass shattered her classroom. i had one student laying on top of me, and i had a bunch of other students right over here by me. i just remember praying, please, god, please, god, keep us safe. reporter: she and her students managed to get to safety. when she learned as many as 19 officers waited 47 minutes before engaging the gunman, she said this where do you believe blame should lie? on the pe