rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday s tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement s account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal mis
from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex witt reports. welcome to breaking news from uvalde, texas. this is what it looks like outside robb elementary school today. 21 crosses, one for each person killed and the deadliest school shooting in a decade. also, growing outrage to the police response to the shooting in the heartbreaking details of children calling 9-1-1 begging them to police and the police now. grief stricken parents and state officials are angry over the decision from preventing federal tax to to from taking immediate action. you know every officer lines up, stacks, up goes and finds where the grounds are being fired, and keeps shooting until the subject is dead. joining us now from uvalde is nbc s liz also and then from houston shaquille brewster. liz, delays by police have grabbed the nations attention. what more are we learning about the timeline today? alex, after days of confusion and conflicting reports, we are hearin
but you may have missed it. you may never even heardf this because there weren t a lot of follow up pieces abouti these manmade food shortages that joe biden was predicting. a and that s weird if you think about it because food shortages are inherently a big deal . you could argue they re even more significant and say slap fight between actors at an . ards ceremony food shortages are a historic event. they overturn society sd they bring down empires they often have if you ve gotav food shortages, you ve got a potentially destabilizing problem on your handsr and we do have food shortages. they re real as joe biden predicted as of tonight , at least twenty six states are reporting that half their retail stores are completelytely baby formula. that would include the states of texas, tennessee, missouri and iowa, many others. so these are major population centers without enoughd fo foodr newborns in memphis and nashville. 52% of stores have no baby formula. houston and des moines
feel any significant relief at the grocery store or gas pump. fuel costs just hit another new high, $4.40 a gallon on average for the first time ever. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is traveling with the president. jeremy, the president gave a speech about inflation yesterday. today it s supposed to be more about food supply. what can we expect? reporter: yeah, victor, but inflation will still be very much top of mind for the president as he addresses this dueling issue of rising food prices, as well as this global food shortage. part of it sparked by the war in ukraine. ukraine/russia, key suppliers of wheat around the world. we ll hear the president address both of those. and the fact that he s talking about inflation for the second day in a row, a reflection of the extent to which he s facing serious political pressure on this issue, a top issue for voters heading into the midterms. today we ll hear the president announce several new steps to help farmers
We know that closing arguments in Donald Trumps you are new york Hush Money Trial begin tuesday. They are expected to take y us the day, and then it is just a matter of how long it takes the jury to reach a verdict. That is, if they are able to reach a verdict at all. We will get back to that. First, lets not forget that this Hush Money Trial is just ne one of Donald Trumps many indictments. It was bad news for him this s week in one of the other cases. Intros classified documents case, one in which he is accused by federal prosecutors of illegally hoarding classified documents in mara lago and trying to hide them from the federal government, newly unsealed documents this week revealed new evidence with Obstruction Of Justice for the former president. Quote, once trump realized that Security Cameras at maralago could capture his employees moving classified Government Information that officials were attempting ntto retrieve, as th government issued a subpoena for the camera footage. Tru