the mass shooting at robb elementary school earlier this afternoon. this comes as a justice department announces it will conduct an independent review of the law enforcement response to the shooting with the d.o.j. says the mayor of uvalde requested that review after we learned police waited nearly an hour to storm the classroom where the shooter was holed up despite multiple 911 calls from the children still trapped inside. arthel: let s go live to uvalde, texas and our jeff paul is standing by, jeff. arthel what would normally be a day full of excitement that comes along the presidential visit is instead full of sadness as people continue to come here to the city center to pay their respects to the 19 students in two teachers who died. first lady jill biden and president joe biden are now trying to do their best to help this community that continues to grieve. now after landing in san antonio the first family made their way to uvalde their first stop was at robb elementar
shelling hasn t killed at least nine civilians in recent days paired president zelenskyy visiting the front lines there today. his first trip outside the capitol region since the war began in february. mike tobin is live in kyiv with the latest, hi mike. hey griff, president zelenskyy indeed made the risky trip to the fighting in ukraine the second largest city. while in kharkiv presence was ski handed out medals for valor s to the soldiers who were up front they re discussed options for rebuilding. all of the housing that was destroyed. there was some artillery file will zelenskyy was in kharkiv. he was not injured for this war has evolved into an old-school artillery war. both sides are dug into trenches and names of big guns like howitzers to blast at each other for it to this point the russians have had better artillery that is white recent fighting lifts in the russians makes slow bloodied progress capturing small towns in the
destruction that azovstal has become. since we saw the first hundred emerge, it must have been phenomenally difficult to get anybody else out over the past couple of days. i think it is a cumulative numbers of civilians from across mariupol. there are two possibilities the u.n. are trying to engage in, getting people out of azovstal, the hundreds trapped in there who it was said were reliably blocked and were part of a humanitarian corridor that should have opened in the past days but according to the the ukrainian president, it s been incredibly tough because the shelling hasn t stopped. given the sheer volume of people clogging gathering points and
control of the city of kharkiv, the defense has been relentless as well from the ukrainian side. ukrainians are beginning to gain back some of that territory they lost early in the offensive to push back russian artillery outside of artillery range from this city. in fact, i spoke to someone inside kharkiv on the show couple of days ago who said that shelling hasn t stopped, but it has actually lessened in recent days. some of the effects of that pushback are being felt on the ground. what success if any do we see the russians making in their attempt to encircle these ukrainian troops in the eastern part of the country? hasn t happened yet. think of this, if you re here, as a big portion of the ukrainian forces are, that s a tough position to be in. you re fighting at 270 degree battle. north to the east of you, and to the south. but ukrainians have largely maintained that line as it has been. by the way, that s also after russia moved the bulk of its forces from here to try to foc
rescue thousands stood empty. translation: in the first days of the war, we counted dozens of dead. now it s hundreds and it ll soon be thousands. but they don t even give us a chance to count, because the shelling hasn t stopped for six days. people were supposed to be bused here, three hours north, to zaporizhzhia, still firmly under ukrainian control. there is no shelling here yet, but it s too quiet, almost deserted. we spotted armed police doing spot checks. then, one patrol yelled at us to pull over. three armed officers pointed their guns at us, made us open the car doors, wanted to check who we were. they asked us to put our hands in the air. once they saw we were journalists they were fine, but it is getting really nervy here. the fear comes before the fighting, but both are now spreading here every day. sarah rainsford, bbc