and moved and pushed forward immediately and continuously toward the threat until the room was entered and the threat was eliminated. that did not occur. cnn has been leading the way on the story, exposing details the authorities tried very hard to keep quiet. that is all thanks to cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team, who spent well over a year reporting on so many of the failures that are laid out now in this very government report. shimon, you are there, back in uvalde at this news conference, waiting for merrick garland to begin. this is all shocking to once again read. but again, it is all information that you pried out of officials right there on the ground in uvalde. reporter: yeah, it s different when you get to see it in such, as you say, a government report way. and the way it s laid out. and just how disturbing everything was here on that day. just from top to bottom, the mistakes from the response to the communication to the way they treated the victims who were
russian forces that killed at least 19 and wounded dozens across major ukrainian cities. this includes kyiv, lviv, dnipro and this morning, hhelninske. the missiles launched from two russian aircraft and some were shot down. president putin threatening harsher responses following a mass explosion on a strategic bridge between crimea, illegally annexed by putin in 2014, and mainland russia. the top brit intelligence officer sir jeremy fleming is expected to say today that russia is exhausted their forces are returning out of weapons as they face staggering numbers of casualties on the battlefield. cnn s nick paton walsh is live this morning in denipro in ukraine. an emergency meeting what is he expected to say? reporter: two things. referring to in a statement before this meeting how he s going to talk about the terrorist attacks. i suspect repeat calls from ukrainian officials that the u.s. and its allies designate russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. that s one poss
fires, drought , and deaths. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with missing evidence in the january 6th investigation. the u.s. secret service failing to find text messages sought by the select committee. and that s fuelling more questions about whether the texts were inappropriately deleted. here s jessica schneider. tonight, key secret service text messages from the day before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service, under subpoena from the january 6th committee, acknowledging they re still unable to uncover the texts after admitting last weekda wee ww wweek. sending this letter laying out concerns about the potential unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling secret service to investigation and report back to the archives within 30 days to detail how the messages got athdeleted. secret service is pledging to cooperate. we want to see w
it s monday july 18th. lawmakers have released a 77-page report outlining a series of missteps by multiple law enforcement agencies who responded to that school shooting at robb elementary school in may, including failures to adhere to their active shooter training and prioritizing the lives of the victims. the scathing report says authorities who responded to the scene displayed, quote, an overall lackadaisical approach. and while investigators say they didn t find evidence of malice, they did find, quote, egregious poor decisionmaking. the majority were from the u.s. border patrol and from the texas department of public safety. one texas state representative says the report contains difficult truths. it s hard to hear that there were multiple systemic failures because we want to tell ourselves that systems work. we want to tell ourselves there s one person we can point our fingers at. we want to tell ourselves that this won t happen again. that s just not true. what happe