investigators aren t hearing from him either. chief pete arredondo essentially gone radio silent, not responding to a request for followup interview with investigators there for days. that according to the texas department ofof public safety. chief arredondo made the decision of course not to send officers into that classroom while the carnage was still taking place. every key piece of testimony and evidence will help those families get answers. the last thing we need is silence in the face of a need for those answers. the chief has not responded to multiple requests from cnn for comment on this. we are also learning more this morning about the gunman and how he got into that school. texas investigators now forced to walk back a claim they made that teacher propped over a door prior to the shooting that day. the teacher s lawyer pushed back on that account noting that the teacher shut the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus. authorities are looking into
of events, just a few days ago officials said the door had been left ajar. there are also new questions about the police response. ksat has obtained audio of the school district s message alerting parents of an active shooter incident. parents, there is an active shooter at robb elementary. law enforcement is on site. your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. both the school s facebook post and the audio message according to ksat came during the time that officers were inside the school and apparently believed the situation had become a barricade situation. cnn has learned that chief pete arredondo has stopped cooperating with investigators, failing to respond to a request for a follow-up interview, but he was sworn in as a city council member on tuesday. also funerals will be held for irma garcia and 10-year-old joée manuel flores jr. family and friends will also gather today at visitation and rosary services for nevaeh bravo, jayce luevanos an
we re not going to say anything. we have people in our community. i just want your reaction that you will respond to the decision. right. we re going to be we re going to be very respectful to the family. reporter: i understand the understand to speak to the parents. just sow know we will do that, whenever this is done, if the families are greening, we will do that. just so eb knows, we have been in contact with dps every day. every day. i m on the phone with him every day. what is your reaction? have a good day. reporter: what is your reaction, sir? as you saw, few answers, as pain in this community gross, more victims are buried, more agonizing details about this investigation are emerging. we will break them all down for you. shimone peres was speaking with the police chief. what more can you tell us about that interaction? right. so we have been looking for him really all week, certainly since friday when state investigators came out and said that he
americans say economic conditions are poor and the government is not doing enough to fight inflation. cnn white house correspondent mj lee is with us now, so, mj, in addition to this meeting, what else is the white house planning? well, as you both know, it has not been easy for president biden to remain focused consistently on economic issues, particularly inflation, obviously, the first few months of the year, we saw the president be completely consumed on what was happening in ukraine and the war over there and having to stay engaged on those foreign policy issues. and then, just this last week as an example, he traveled to asia, this important foreign trip, where he did try to stay focused on domestic economic issues and as soon as he came back, he, of course, had to react to this mass shooting in uvalde, texas, and had to sort of focus on consoling a grieving community there. so, if we take a look at the president s schedule today and what he is doing, we are seeing th
sick and tired of us putting weak people in washington representing you and they re not doing it. in november we re not just going to see a red wave. we re going to see a tsunami. i ve been pushing to take the republican party in a different direction. that s why i got in here. i could not sit back and watch this train reck happen. my motto of one georgia is not a gimmick. it is a guarantee. i m confident about my chances tomorrow. and because i stood on the truth. let s begin the hour right there. democracy at work as we speak. polls open in georgia, texas, alabama, arkansas, minnesota. all holding primary or runoff elections. two trump grudge matches here in georgia. they get the most attention, but the power of the bush brand tested in a texas runoff. we ll get clues about the shifting politics of abortion rights from a house runoff in southwest texas. i hope you ll stay with us throughout the day. this race here, this georgia republican primary for governor