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live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. >> today marks one week since 21 innocent lives were cut short by a gunman who opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde texas. in the hours ahead, the first funeral will be held in the devastated community. one day after grieving family gathered for visitations or two of the young victims. more visitation and funerals are planned in the week ahead. but some of the 19 students and two teachers killed in the horri...

survives and families from uvalde, but knows full well that he needs republicans on board. >> i think there is a realization on the part of rational republicans, and i consider senator mcconnell a rational republican, i think that there is a realization on their part that we cant continue like this. >> bright and early this thus mor tuesday morning, jasmine wright is in washington for us. he called them rational republicans. does that bode well for the white house? >> reporter: i think...

indicated he would like an assault weapons ban sank it makes no sense for people to be able to purchase a weapon with 300 rounds. he called on congress to cooperate and say his powers dont go that far. this saturday he also urged our country to unite honoring sacrifices of our troops. >> president biden remembering americans you made the ultimate sacrifice in what he calledle a sacred ritual. >> we must never betray the lives -- [indiscernible] >> hety depended democracy amon the war i...

honor the lives lost as a community and nation continued to mourn, jackie ibanez. >> could morning, carley and todd, though shooting that left 19 children and two teachers did appear to hundreds of mourners stood in line yesterday to pay their respects and 10-year-old avery joe garza, rodriguez spirit private and public services for all of those will be ongoing in coming days but meanwhile the mayor of uvalde calling for side of the massacre robb elementary to be demolished. >> i dont ...

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good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is memorial day, monday, may 30th. im brianna keilar with john avalon. john berman is off. on this day set aside to honor fallen members of the u.s. military the town of uvalde, texas, is preparing the first of many good-byes to the children and the teachers murdered last week inside of an elementary school there. this afternoon there will be visitation and rosary for 10-year-old amerie jo garza, her father told cnn ...

begging for help. this morning the justice department is stepping in at the request of the mayor to investigate the police response to this mass shooting. specifically why it took so long to take down that gunman. today we will see the first of several funeral services remembering the lives lost in this tragedy. over the weekend, president biden and the first lady met with the families of victims and with first responders in uvalde, the president vowed once again as weve heard so often...

>> we have a child on the line. he is in a room full of victims at this moment. >> cnn has not been able to independently confirm that video, but source of this video sun clear, and its also not clear at what point in the incident that audio is heard. cnn has reached out to authorities. but we do know that texas authorities, what they said on friday that there were at least eight 911 calls that day from at least two separate callers inside the school over a span of 50 minutes. this all...

sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harms way and care for them and their families when they return home. and when they dont. this is an obligation that unites americans. and brings us together to make sure the women and men who are willing to lay down their lives for us get the very best from us in return. i want to acknowledge that were making progress in key areas like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress ...

its the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. good to be with you. for the first time we are hearing what appears to be dispatch audio about a child trapped in the room with the uvalde shooter during the attack. now, cnn has not been able to confirm this recording first reported by abc news. >> you have a child on the line. the child is in the room full of victims. >> it is unclear what time that audio came in, but the texas public safety director...