reporting on what authorities now say happened at the robb elementary school. they re saying what they knew about survivors were still inside as they waited and waited and waited for orders to storm the classroom with an active shooter and wounded children still inside. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are now less than two hours away from the first televised select hearing on january 6th. proceedings like this don t come along very often. the incident that sparked these particular hearings has never happened before in this country s history and we don t yet know what their impact will be. we do know that some of what we will see and hear and learn tonight and in sessions to come will be for the very first time. in a moment i ll talk to committee member adam schiff, but first, cnn s ryan nobles on the committee s work so far. it has been just over 17 months since rioters vio
facing a no confidence vote triggered by members of his own party. the question is, will the british leader now be removed from office? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, june 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we re coming off another weekend of deadly mass shooting across the country. in the past 72 hours, at least 17 people have been killed, nearly 70 were hurt and several of those victims have critical injuries. according to data from the gun violence archive, there were at least 13 mass shootings from friday, through sunday. the independent research group a defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot. not including the shooter. two cities saw the worst of the violence. in philadelphia, three people died and 12 were wounded, late saturday night, in a popular downtown district. south street. investigators believe the shooting came after a fight between two men. and most of the victims, innocent bys
killed. phoenix, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down and 8 others shot at a strip mall in south carolina, where bullets tore through a graduation party, leaving one dead and others injured, six children. in texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. add those numbers up with the other mass shootings over the first months of 2022, and you get 240 mass shootings. let me say that again. 240 mass shootings already this year, in a year that s not even half over. what will republican governors, legislators, and members of congress do to stop the continued killing of our children in schools, our teenagers at malls, our mothers at graduation parties, our families in church, our grandmothers in supermarkets, our friends at country music festivals? it looks like nothing. nothing to speak of. i just want to know, this so-called party of life, which is anything but, when will they ever respect the life of those who are actually drawing a breath? i don t know. it looks like never. but i will
legislation after another series of deadly mass shootings of force the issue back to the top of its agenda. on wednesday, family and survivors from the racially motivated attack at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, as well as the robb elementary shooting in uvalde, texas, will participate in a hearing held by the committee on oversight and reform. among the speakers will be maya surrey oh, a robb elementary fourth grader who was trapped in one of the adjoining classrooms of the gunman attacked. she told cnn that she covered herself in her classmates blood and play dead for an hour until law enforcement finally brought an end to the attack. now, she will tell her story to the entire country. think about this for just a second, think about the trauma that has been inflicted on school children because of our inaction. think about how much we ve been active asking of young people across this country as the united states senate has continued to stall on passing any kind of legis
you watching here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. and we begin in uvalde, texas. the mass shooting in an elementary school there was an unthinkable tragedy. 19 young students and two teachers gunned down. and we re now hearing more chilling details about police failures on that terrible day, details on 911 calls made from inside the classroom while the attack was under way. and cnn is speaking with the attorney for a teacher s aide from robb elementary, and she is sharing her side of the store after police falsely blamed her for leaving the door propped open. reporter: it was supposed to be an end of the year class party before it became a nightmare. she saw everything from the time he recwrecked to the time was taken out of there. reporter: she was meet agco worker with food for the party when she saw a car crash. so she propped the door open, went back inside to get her phone and called 911 to report t