Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
condemned. however long minutes joyride ruined our life completely. brooke singman has more. brooke: that s right. the two boys face cri trespassi charges after stealing this black sudan and colliding with a truck. inside the truck was christian and his family. according to a gofundme, the crash left christian with a fractured skull, eventually killing him. his mom is recovering in the hospital. grieving family members are speaking out. they stole a car and stole our lives in the one instance this is not the equivalent price to the price of a child. it is unclear if they will face any charges, this is the latest example of teen chaos in the windy city. in the last three days, 18 people were shot, including a three-year-old boy and a little girl. it is possible the misdemeanor charges could be upgrade pending an investigation. todd: if there are no consequences for actions like this, this stuff will continue to happen because lawmakers refuse to act. kids need an outlet, w
in the hours ahead a bipartisan group of senators is set to meet virtually to discuss gun reform in the united states. the talks continue this week in the wake of the tragic shooting. republican senator john cornyn says that the group will try to see if they can agree on a basic framework on how to move forward. this as the first funeral is set to take place in the devastated community. more visitations and funerals are planned in the week ahead. for a number of families, it will be another gutwrenching week, the unimaginable he heartbreak is mixed with growing anger other the police response. and cnn has obtain the new video of an apparent radio call recorded on facebook live outside the elementary school during a shooting. take a listen. are you in there? although the voice sounds like a child, it was not clear who is speaking. the call came from a customs and border protection vehicle outside the school. it is unclear at what point during the shooting the video was tak
burnett, welcome to a special edition of outfront and tonight, growing outrage in uvalde texas, new footage appears to show police knew the children were still alive inside that classroom as they waited outside for back-up. listen. a child, she is in the room full of victims at this moment. cnn not able to independently confirm the source of that audio not when it was heard exactly but this adds so much to questions about why the gunman remained inside the classroom with students more than an hour before he was killed by a border patrol tactical response team. now the justice department is conducting their own independent review of the police response and president biden vowing to get something done after meeting with the families of the 19 students and two teachers killed in that mass shooting. most who are victimized, their families, they spent three hours and 40 minutes with me. the pain is palpable and i think a lot of it is unnecessary so i m going to continue to
nearly waiting an hour to move in on the killer with full force. that delay adding anger to these mix of emotions that the communities dealing with right now. for the families of those children, it is unbelievable sadness of these lies, these babies, lives cut so short by what is becoming almost commonplace in america. among the victims, ten year old xavier lopez. we talked to his brother josé and his brother s girlfriend about the boy that will always remember they love to dance. he loved to dance. i love to. dance would you love to dance to? he was my dancing partner. he was your partner. [inaudible] my babies learn to dance also. how did you learn about the shooting? my mom. all of the full interview later on this hour. but it do want to talk about texas state police and their investigation into law enforcement s response to the uvalde school shooting, which has come under incredible scrutiny as it should. officials acknowledging that police waited an ho