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russian oil import. plus, a history making hurricane agatha slams into mexico as a category two storm. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for being with us. today marks one week since 21 innocent lives were cut short by a gunman who opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the first funeral will be held in the devastated community one day after grieving families gathered for visitations. more visitations and funerals are planned in the week ahead. 19 students and two teachers killed in the horrific shooting. ? the unimaginable heartbreak and grieving now mixed with growing anger as new details continue to emerge. lucy kavanof has more. reporter: a chaotic scene as police rushed to evacuate children. dispatch audio were aware that kids were still trapped inside. i am here. he s in a room. more devastating details from officials of at least two children calling 911 multiple times, pleading for help as the ....
the scene. those serious questions amid the grief. we ll get to it. thank you all so much for being here. today, the president and his administration are making a major push to refocus on the economy and defend his handling of it. in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal, the president claims that the u.s. is in a better economic position than almost any country in the world. he credits his own policies can helping to achieve the strongest recovery in modern history. he s also facing public sentiment that s making clear americans don t feel that strength, not by a long shot. ga gallop s economic confidence reading is reporting this is likely the lowest public confidence has been in the economy since the tail end of the great recession in early 2009. biden s team is now outlining what they are calling a three-part plan to fight inflation and to turn this around. inflation will be number one, the number one agenda item when the president meets with the federa ....
burnett, welcome to a special edition of outfront and tonight, growing outrage in uvalde texas, new footage appears to show police knew the children were still alive inside that classroom as they waited outside for back-up. listen. a child, she is in the room full of victims at this moment. cnn not able to independently confirm the source of that audio not when it was heard exactly but this adds so much to questions about why the gunman remained inside the classroom with students more than an hour before he was killed by a border patrol tactical response team. now the justice department is conducting their own independent review of the police response and president biden vowing to get something done after meeting with the families of the 19 students and two teachers killed in that mass shooting. most who are victimized, their families, they spent three hours and 40 minutes with me. the pain is palpable and i think a lot of it is unnecessary so i m going to conti ....
united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta and this is a the situation room special report. and we begin our coverage this evening in the town of uvalde, texas. still heartbroken and grasping for answers nearly a week after the robb elementary school massacre. let s get to lucy kafanov in uvalde. new audio and video evidence keeps pouring in from the crime scene. what else can you tell us? that s right, jim. official accounts of how police have responded to the shooting have changed wildly over the past few days. some of the new information includes dispatch audio informing officers on the scene of a child calling 911, saying they were in a room full of the victims. the police response now the subject of a justice department investigation. a chaotic scene as police rushed to evacuate children. dispatch audio revealing some police were aware at some point that kids were still trapped inside. he is in the room full of victims. ....
psychopath, which is what senator cruz called him, was able to legally buy an assault rifle more than 1600 rounds of ammunition, and then walk freely into an elementary school because he wanted to kill kids. there are two small funeral homes not enough to handle a massacre. that means funeral directors, morticians and volunteers from across texas are now there to help. among them are facial reconstructionists, because, yes, it was that bad. and making it even worse, just how long the cops waited to go in. they waited an hour outside that classroom before they finally confronted the gunman. more than an hour while some of those kids were still fighting for their lives. including the daughter of one family who spoke with state senator roland gutierrez. their little girl had been shot in the back with one bullet. through the kidney area, she likely bled out, according to the first responder. who should know what would have happened had officers showed up timely? had they ....