we are starting this hour with some breaking news out of akron, ohio. police there have released some very graphic body cam video, and we will show you that in just a bit. this is folio shows the moment officers released a barrage of bullets, shooting 25-year-old jayland walker. this is triggered days of protests in ohio, and an investigation of the incident. let s go to nbc s jackie vest by who is in akron right now. all right, maggie. we know that police say they were attempting to pull walker over for a traffic violation. now, police also say that they were chasing him in his car, and he fired shots out of the window at them. what are authorities saying about what the video shows and how exactly is walker s family responding? sure, so walker s family, as of today, isn t talking quite yet. their attorney spoke for them earlier saying that frankly, they are still horrified after seeing the video. the biggest thing we are learning from authorities is a confirmation of wha
creating liabilities for people who provide access to firearms to kids. these are things that can be done. it s just requiring some politicians to put the politics aside and put the children and their needs and lives first. well, nicole hockley, i know that this is a difficult time for you as you wrote in your op-ed, retraumaized, but i thank you for spending a few minutes with us to help us understand what s ahead for these families and what you believe should be ahead for our country. nicole, thank you. thank you. it s the top of the hour, on cnn newsroom, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota in uvalde, texas, here at the scene of yet another hideous school shooting. victor, here we are again. i m in front of robb elementary school, the scene of the carnage where 19 kids, 4th graders, 3rd graders, 2nd graders were killed in their classroom. we just heard the texas lieutenant governor say in the last hour that there will be plenty of time to analyze what hap
i can t believe you re a sick son of a bitch that would come to a deal like this to make a political issue. plus, the emotional toll in uvalde and nationwide. parents grappling with fears about whether their kids make it home from school. and at any moment now, president biden at the white house, marking two years since another deadly event gripped the nation. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead. the united states of america mourning the loss of 19 children and 2 teachers shot dead in uvalde, texas. their lives suddenly ending with an 18-year-old shooter walked into robb elementary school, barricaded himself in a classroom, and started shooting. 21 families now forced to deal with the unthinkable, the loss of a loved one under such horrific circumstances. the number one cause of death in the united states for children zero to 19 years old for years was motor vehicle collisions. that changed, according to the american academy of pedi
love that event last night. fox news alert as we top a brand-new however. any moment we will be hearing from president biden and what his administration is doing to stop fentanyl. the white house meeting comes one day after federal law enforcement shared details on a massive multistate fentanyl bust centered in our nation s capitol. this is the faulkner focus, i m sandra smith in for harris faulkner. nearly 100,000 deaths. nearly 80,000 were from fentanyl, 80 times stronger than heroin. according to the dea, it s the leading cause of death for americans ages 18 to 45. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall says how to stop is simple. with china sending the precursers to mexico and the manufacturing taking place mexico. that s how they get into the united states. until we get china and mexico to stop this and until we secure our border, we re going to continue to have these problems. last week president biden met with china s president to try to strike a deal to cut
months to come. there is hope on the horizon. cautious and fragile. but there is hope. it is my hope president biden will do what leaders should do, which is deflect any perceived credit and shoulder at least his share of the responsibility. that is what leaders do. the reality is we are most hopeful because of the medicine. the vaccines, treatment and the therapies. that gives us both physical resistance to the virus and some measure of emotional security. the credit for the medicine goes to the women and the men who dedicated their lives to creating, studying and testing the vaccines in therapies. credit goes to those bold enough to believe this could be done and could be done in record time. some of those bold enough to believe were in the previous administration. i harbor no illusion that president biden will give credit to the previous administration and the women and men who help us get where we are today. but he should. it s been an american tragedy. an american respon