i m poppy harlow. hours from now, shooting victims will be laid to rest as the uvalde community remembers the young lives lost in last week s tragedy. visitation and rosary services will be held for teacher rosa garcia, jose emmanuel. focus tuesday is on families who lost loved ones. this as a special city council meeting supposed to be held today for uvalde school district police chief pedro arradondo was supposed to be sworn into a seat. he held off on breaching the classroom where all 21 victims were killed. plus, cnn got a crucial 911 call, appearing to be the voice of a child telling an officer they had been shot. it s not first time we ve heard of calls for help from inside the classroom while police waited outside. are you in there? i was shot. where? where? a kid got shot? let s begin with cnn correspondent nick valencia. he is near robb elementary school in uvalde. nick, tell us what more we know about the circumstances and, crucially, if we know, the tim
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
but the new legislation goes way beyond that. it goes after handguns across canada. here s what it does. it freezes the buying, selling, transferring, and importing of handguns. it also increases fines for gun smugglers and traffickers, and it requires all long guns to hold five or fewer rounds, which means, of course, also the ban of the sale of large-capacity magazines. now, trudeau said that he understands that the majority of canadian gun owners act responsibly, but he says the reality is that gun violence is going up. as a government, as a society, we have a responsibility to act to prevent more tragedies. canadians certainly don t need assault-style weapons that were designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. prime minister trudeau says these are real and concrete steps that can reduce gun violence. he also says what a lot of people may be thinking, which is that canada yanz need only look
sweeping legislation that d freeze handgun ownership across canada. quick, comprehensive response here. the measure would also force people who own military assault-style weapons, like the ones used in the uvalde shooting, buffalo, and so many others, to enter a buyback program. brynn gingras joins us now. this is a pattern from before, whether it was a mass shooting in australia, quick, national response. new zealand, quick, national response. same in the uk. quite something to see across the border in canada. reporter: jim, there s a top leader there who says gun ownership in their country is a privilege, not a right. right there is a huge difference. this may be, to some, a stunning proposal, but it is in response to what happened in uvalde and buffalo. trudeau s proposal puts a freeze on handgun ownership in canada, by not making it possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in the country. that includes fining gun