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and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. live from london, nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald. broadcaster and author, suzanne lipscomb. also with us, associate editor of the "washington post," eugene, once the london bureau chief. to put into context, the seven decades of queen elizabeth. we expect to see her twice throughout the course of the day today. though she stepped back a bit on what shed normally be doing on an occasion like this. lets go to london where meagan fitz...

state is going to be hit by an economic hurricane. out front tonight, the breaking news, the mayor revolving releasing new details about the texas school massacre, there was a negotiator trying to reach the gunmen on the shown in the crucial next piece of information he shared with the post is that he doesnt believe the negotiator knew that there were children alive, calling 911 while the negotiator was trying to reach the gun man, but failed to do so according to the mayor. we learned...

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investigators arent hearing from him either. chief pete arredondo essentially gone radio silent, not responding to a request for followup interview with investigators there for days. that according to the texas department ofof public safety. chief arredondo made the decision of course not to send officers into that classroom while the carnage was still taking place. >> every key piece of testimony and evidence will help those families get answers. the last thing we need is silence in t...

berman. the investigation into one of americas deadliest school shootings is taking new turns this morning. police in uvalde, texas, say a teacher closed a propped open door shortly before a gunman used it to get inside, but it did not lock. now investigators are trying to figure out why. this new detail reversing earlier claims the shooter breached the building because the door was left ajar. there are also new questions about law enforcements response to the massacre. cnn affiliate...

had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didnt they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that hes been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to...

clarifying another key detail of what happened that day. a teacher say he did close the door that the killer used to get inside the school but the door was not locked. this contradicts an earlier claim by police that the teacher had left the door propped open. the town of uvalde is also continuing to honor more of the victims today. funerals today for a teacher who died protecting her students and also one of the young students killed. lets begin with cnns shimon prokupecz who is live ...

we begin with uvalde, a conversation with the schools police chief, the state says made that decision not to storm the classroom when 19 students and two teachers were slaughtered. the chief tells cnn he is quote in contact with dps every day. that is contrary to what they said yesterday. the chief repeatedly declining to explain his action. what dpa calls his wrong decision and storm that classroom. cnn has spoke with the chief. shimone, critical important reporting. what did the chie...

>> were not going to say anything. we have people in our community. >> i just want your reaction that you will respond to the decision. >> right. were going to be -- were going to be very respectful to the family. >> reporter: i understand the understand to speak to the parents. >> just sow know we will do that, whenever this is done, if the families are greening, we will do that. just so eb knows, we have been in contact with dps every day. every day. im on the phone with him every da...

commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. >> so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who ...