and a young survivor tells how his teacher protected her class, putting her own life on the line to keep the shooter out. our marcus moore on the ground in uvalde and aaron katersky standing by with new details on th police response. also tonight the push for gun control. with outrage growing the nra faces new protests. senator ted cruz confronted at a restaurant. and the latest on what is being called serious negotiations on gun reform. a shocking arrest. a 10-year-old in handcuffs accused of threatening a mass shooting in florida. what the sheriff is saying about the threat. the fighting intensifies in ukraine. residential neighborhoods pummeled as russia takes aim at two key cities in the east. president zelenskyy s rare appearance near the front lines and ukraine s counteroffensive in the south. millions are on the move this memorial day weekend, facing record gas prices and crowded airports. when the experts say is the best time to travel to beat the crowds. se
there s active shooter. how an 18-year-old can get this militarized weaponry anywhere is beyond me. please stay engaged. don t forget them, please. i beg you. show them to the world. when he died, i died with him. we cannot outlaw tragedy but can he can make america safer. we can finally do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and of our children. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. it is member aerial day wee memorial day weekend, a time to honor and men and women who have served the military. and there is grief and shock over two horrific shootings over the last two weeks. tomorrow president biden will travel to uvalde, texas to mourn with a community heartbroken by two state school massacres. look at your screen, these 19 children, mere fourth graders, slaughtered along with their two teachers. tonight, long lines of people are enduring near 100-degree heat to place flowers and other remembrances at the memorial outsi
happened here on tuesday, and i m here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, of course, and two teachers. and president biden is here as we speak in uvalde. he is playing his all-too familiar role, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. they visited the memorial site at robb elementary school before heading to a mass service. they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shooting. the
hi, thank you for joining me. i m jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. i m joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what you re seeing there. reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. he s playing a role that he has played so many times before, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. right now the president and first lady are meeting with families at a community center in uvalde. this morning the bidens visited a memorial site at robb elementary that, of course, is the site of the shootings on tuesday. and then they attended a catholic mass service where he was greeted by an archibishop here. these events taking on an even more solemn tone as questions continue to grow over apparent failures of law enforcement s response to tuesday s mass shooting. the visit also comes less than two weeks after they both visited a site of a different kind of massacre, a ra
not sure it s going to happen. until the redemptive power of the love of all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, and power, until that redemptive love of our children turns into action, then nothing is going to change. this can be different. because i think that we have to make it different. and so we cannot give into this feeling that nothing can be done. that works in favor of the status quo that allows our children to live under this threat. we cannot live under this, we have to organize. what will be done, i m not going to be getting into that over the next hour or so, but i want to start here in uvalde, where i have liz with us. she is just across the way in the town square, in front of the memorial that has been built over the last few days. and nbc s victoria, in front of rob elementary with me. that let me start with you, this has been a story that has not been covered as much because we ve been overtaken by t