covid concerns on memorial day in the usa. why case counts are at least f five times higher? should we expect a summer surge? we ll take a look. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for joining us. for the second time, u.s. president biden and the first lady mourned alongside grieving and devastated families who lost their loved ones in a mass shooting in a texas town of uvalde. the bidens laid flowers outside robb elementary school where 19 students and two teachers were killed last week. mr. biden and the first lady also attended mass where jill biden could be seen reaching out and touching the hands of several people as they walk out the isle. outside the church, some gathered, urged the president to do something to which he responded, we will, take a listen . cnn is following development and has more now from uvalde. president biden spent about seven hours on the ground here in uvalde, texas, on sunday trying to offer some s
responders. we re also talking about the justice department this morning announcing, in fact, it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde. it is coming at the request of uvalde s mayor after authorities admitted to a string of failures in their response to the shooting. a justice department spokesperson said in part this, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. the doj saying after its review, it will publish a report with all of its findings. we are learning more about that chaotic scene that unfolded when agents did finally move in on the shooter. a u.s. customs and border protection official, who spoke to the washington post, describing a chaotic scene, with no one really sure who was in charge. quote this, the agent saw bullet ho
good morning. and welcome to your new day. it is sunday, may 29th. we re grateful that you re starting your week with us. i m boris sanchez, live from uvalde, texas. i m christi paul. boris, there in uvalde, you ve seen people just even last hour at 5:00 a.m. where you are come out to that memorial that is behind you. and you re probably standing in a place where you re soon going to see at some point today president biden. potentially, yeah. you re right. president biden headed to uvalde, texas, coming to comfort grief-stricken community following the latest mass shooting in the united states. just a few hours from now, president biden set to visit this area and a memorial at robb elementary school where 19 students and 2 teachers were killed. in a commencement address delivered yesterday, the president spoke of the grief that the families here are experiencing. here is some of what he said. we re heading to uvalde, texas, to meet with each of those families. and as
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
15,000 people and so many of the people we talked to have connections to the victims. tess maria mata was 10 years old, she was saving every dollar hoping to go to disney world. nevaeh bravo also 10 has been remembered as a young girl who put a smile on everyone s face. these are the stories that you will hear this morning. a fourth grade teacher who sacrificed herself protecting the children, a grieving father who found out his daughter died trying to save her classmates. we have learned that by tonight all of the victims their bodies will be released to funeral homes for arrangements. and some new reporting this morning about the excruciating moments outside of the school during the shooting. one parent telling the washington post, quote, there were five or six of us fathers hearing the gunshots and police officers were telling us to move back. we didn t care about us, we wanted to storm the building. we were saying let s go because that is how worried we were and we wa