the state department works to find them. cnn s barbara starr has the latest developments. reporter: it was in the fighting north of kharkiv where two americans went missing last week, less than 5 miles from the russian border. the u.s. government working with ukrainian authorities to find them. i have been briefed. we don t know where they are, but i want to reiterate americans should not be going to ukraine now. reporter: now this photo from a russian blogger has emerged of alexander and andy appeared to be bound in the back of a russian military vehicle. video later emerging of an interview they did with pro-russian media. cnn is not showing the video as the two appear to be speaking under duress. now the state department is working to verify their status. they said that there is a photograph that is being circulated on the russian media, and they re working hard to verify it. we re very hopeful. reporter: retired staff sergeant druuke served in both kuwait and ir
day. we expect to hear two live witnesses that day, caroline edwards one of the first to respond to the attack. she was injured that day, as well as the documentaryian who was embedded with the mailitia group, the proud boys. they have been diving deep into this topic, and promising a lot. manu, tonight is just the first of several hearings in 2022. what can we expect in the days and weeks to come? we expect this month to be filled with hearings. two are expected next week. as far as additional ones through the course of this month, all of which leading up to a report that will come out later this year, probably before the midterm elections, detailing what this committee found. tonight will be the beginning of that effort to detail what they found leading to that report, as they try to complete this investigation in the coming months. all right, thanks so much. joining us now is a member of the house committee investigating the january 6th riots. congresswoman elaine lo
first in uvalde, families of loved ones that killed 19 children and two teachers are mourning in that community. an investigation into what exactly went wrong. why didn t officers get into that school and confront the gunman much faster? here s how a texas lawmaker described his conversation with one little girl s father. the. reporter: 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 is to know what would have happened to that little girl had officers showed up timely, had they gone in timely? we have comprehensive coverage for you this morning. nbc s morgan chesky is live in uvalde. howard litman, former attorney under president clinton, and cedric alexander is part of the national organization black law enforcement. he is now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. morgan, funerals start for the victims of this shooting soon. what else can you tell us from there on the ground? ch
he said when he arrived on scene police had already setup a perimeter, and he remembers it being chaotic. he had his portable radio with him and he could hear radio frequency from texas dps and traffic going back and forth, but he could not hear uvalde pd and uvalde school district radio traffic. i asked him who was in charge at the scene at the time? he said he never heard anyone say who was in charge of the scene. according to texas dps they say it was pete arradondo, something he refuted in an interview with the texas tribune. shortly after he arrived an off-duty border patrol officer was asking for help evacuating students, so he helped evacuate four to five classrooms, then he said the shooter was found and he got closer to where the shooting happened. i asked why didn t officers go in to stop the shooter sooner, and he says from where he was he
reviewed by the new york times. if there s kids in there, we need to go in there. that s what one officer could be heard saying according to these documents and another responded, whoever is in charge will determine that. that, of course, becomes the crux of what was the fallout from the decision making over the course of this was why didn t officers breach this door sooner? it s, of course, what these documents are given insight to. it seems that they felt they were overpowered at points and they chose to prioritize kids that were in other portions of the school before coming back to the decision on whether they were going to breach this classroom again according to the times reporting and it is also the centerpiece of the multiple investigations with the county district attorney, but also at the state level, the house investigative committee met today to hear testimony from the texas department of public