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9%. todd: this election could send a ripple effect across the nation including in los angeles where da george gas cone is facing his second recall event in two years and new york city where da alvin brag is getting criticism from his liberal policies including from its own democratic mayor. brooke singman has the latest. brooke. brooke: good morning guys, the people of san francisco have spoken and bow dean will no longer be the district corner after an overwhelming vote exactly 60% of the votes are in favor of him being removed from office. the associated press calling the race just after midnight and beaudean conceded shortly after. people are angry, they re frustrated and i want to be very clear about what happened tonight. the right wing billionaires outspent us 3-1. they exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset and created an electoral where we were basically shadow boxing. brooke: boudinwill be removed after they formally accept votes thi
wanting to offer some type of solace, some type of comfort to the families who lost so many loved ones in that horrific massacre here at robb elementary school behind me earlier this week. now the president right now is privately meeting with survivors and the family members of victims. he s been meeting with them for almost two and a half hours. the white house really blocking off a significant amount of his time here on the ground in uvalde to hear directly from those family members who lost loved ones. but first president biden stopped here at the memorial site at robb elementary. he and first lady jill biden took about 20 minutes reading each of the names, seeing and taking in the life-sized photos of these 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down during the school day on tuesday. the president, while he s also been here in uvalde, has also been hearing really from the local community members issuing calls to action both here at the elementary school and as he wa
still chief among the questions out there and why is the police department now backtracking on some of their basic findings? officials are going to be holding a briefing in texas in the next hour. let s begin though at this hour with cnn s rosa flores live in uvalde. rosa, what are you hearing from some of these children who managed to survive? reporter: well, kate, we are hearing about those intense moments when the shooter was inside the classroom, those intense moments when children were trying to do everything they could to survive. they describe the gunfire at first. they thought it was fireworks. you mentioned a little girl who covered herself in blood and played dead to try to survive, to make sure that she could do what she could do at that point in time to survive this terrible tragedy. but here they are, children describing what they lived through in their own words. take a listen. it was very terrifying. that didn t stop one of my friends getting hurt. i got
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today. i m here at the vigil here in uvalde county and the families that came here to honor those that died, the 19 children that died came here they said with broken hearts with just need to be together in a time of morning. you can see everyone is leaving right now. we got a lot of crowds behind us but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town, people were hugging each other as they were saying you know, i knew a child that went to that school and it made sense. if this is population of just over 16,000 people, so everybody knew somebody. everybody was connected to somebody. i did know somebody in this town. i know a family here that i live only about maybe an hour and 40 minutes from uvalde here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughters softball team had been killed in the incident.