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can the press help get to the truth? and a dismissive response to senator chuck schumer s plea for change. and, later, why afghanistan needs to stay in the news. two afghan news anchors are going to join us live from kabul with another oppressive taliban ruling. breaking news this hour. president biden about to land in texas. it is his second trip to the site of a mass killing in as many weeks. the president and first lady will be landing in san antonio this hour. then they re going to board those helicopters and fly to the memorial site in uvalde. they will attend mass at the sacred heart catholic church. they will meet with victims families. cnn will have live coverage throughout the day. we ll be watching to see if president biden makes any remarks as he lands there in the next few minutes. in uvalde and beyond, people are searching for answers. people like kimberly rubio, a reporter at the local paper the uvalde leader news. the paper s front page this mo ....
square is growing by the day. the mayor says the city is, quote, broken. 19 fourth graders and their teachers had just days left in the school year when an 18-year-old entered robb elementary tuesday with a legally-purchased assault rifle. now families are planning funerals instead of summer vacations. texas rangers still looking for a motive as the community s anger grows to the police response inside that school. arthel: live in uvalde with the scene there for us on the ground. jeff? reporter: yeah, arthel, two weeks ago the president traveled to buffalo, now he s here in uvalde, texas, to try to comfort a community that is just in the beginning stages of mourning the loss of 19 kids and 2 the teachers. the president first landed in san antonio, texas, now he s on his flight to uvalde if not already here, making his way to robb elementary school where he s going to pay his respects to the victims of this horrific shooting. from there he ll attend a mass at the loc ....
do something about it. i beg you. show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. ch it s memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings over the last two weeks. tomorrow, president biden will travel to uvalde, texas to mourn with the community heartbroken by tuesday s massacre. 19 children, mere 4th graders slaughtered along with their two teachers. today in buffalo, new york, vice president kamala harris attended the funeral of ruth wlhitfield. she s the last to be buried. i cannot even begin to express our collective ive pain nation for what you re feeling in such an extreme way. to not only lose someone that you love but ....
it is far more evil for someone to gundown little kids, it is intolerable. jesse: we re getting brand-new details on the heartbreaking tragedy. police giving more insight into how this terrible event unfolded. jeff paul is on the ground with the latest. jeff. yeah, jesse, we re starting to learn more about the shooting and about the suspect. according to texas governor greg abbott, he says about 30 minutes before the shooting, the suspect sent messages on social media. in one he wrote he was going to shoot his grandmother. in another he wrote he did in fact shoot his grand dlt mother and a third, he said he was going to go shoot up a nearby elementary school. the suspect crashed his truck near robb elementary school, from there he barricaded himself inside a fourth grade classroom. 19 students and two teachers. officers responded without hesitation. the reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do. they showed amazing courage by ru ....
the employee who hasn t taken off his name tag since that awful day. tonight, children and covid in this country, and the cdc panel now recommending tonight pfizer booster shots for children 5 to 11. pfizer now says it increases antibodies against the original omicron variant 22-fold. just as new child covid infections hit their highest point since february. the abortion battle in this country, and tonight, the oklahoma legislature passing the most restrictive abortion ban in america. banning abortion beginning at conception, with few exceptions ad sending it to the governor tonight. president biden meeting with leaders of finland and sweden at the white house today, supporting their bid to join nato, defying threats from vladimir putin. the abc news exclusive tonight. martha raddatz on board the uss maine. one obvious 14 ballistic missile submarines protecting the u.s. from potential nuclear threats. and what they kept secret there martha even while she was o ....