sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in canada. capping he says the number of guns in his country. trudeau says the bill would also increase criminal penalties for smuggling guns while also taking away licenses from people who commit domestic violence or criminal harassment. new audio obtained by abc news appears to show police in uvalde, texas knew children were still alive inside that classroom but waited instead in a hallway for backup. cnn has not been able to independently confirm the source of that audio or exactly when it was heard. the justice department now conducting an independent review of that police response. as nick watt reports, the school district s police chief could be a key focus.
students, and two teachers. we have also learned, up to 19 officers were waiting in the hallway, for almost 15 minutes, well children, locked inside of the classroom, frantically, called 9-1-1, pleading for help. police say, they did not storm the rooms because the commanding officer thought, the active shooter phase of the incident was over. it was not. well many people are calling for stricter gun control, following that deadly shooting, texas governor, greg abbott, insists that the focus should be on mental health. cnn s nick watt reports. governor greg abbott is not talking at all about gun control. but, he does talk a lot about mental health. anybody, who shoots somebody else has a mental health challenge. period. this was a press conference, the day after those 21 murders in uvalde. we, as the government, need to find a way to target that
as cnn s nick watt reports for us now, investigators are still probing the key question of how a live round ended up on set. one female shot in the chest. male shot in the stomach. reporter: bodycam video the immediate aftermath. she came in here, it went across her chest. okay. you want air flight? yeah. we ve got one en route. reporter: this among the trove of evidence just released by the santa fe sheriff. here is alec baldwin rehearsing just before the fatal shot, and here immediately after. how s it going, sir? so my understanding is you were in the room when the lady i was holding the gun. yeah. reporter: holding the prop gun when it discharged on the set of the western rust last fall, killing the director of photography halyna hutchins, wounding the director. am i being charged with something? no. reporter: but baldwin was very soon being questioned. i put it in the holster.
quarantining. as nick watt reports, that s fueling major disruptions to everyday life and the economy. reporter: in los angeles, more than 60,000 schools, staff and students have tested positive in the run up to reopening. in new york, trash lies uncollected, three subway lines are closed. so many city staff are out sick. across colorado, so many emts are out they re now turning away some nonurgent callers. upwards of 5 million americans will be stuck at home over the coming days says one economist. all down to the omicron tsunami. nearly a quarter of american hospitals are now reporting a critical staff shortage with nearly 140,000 patients in those hospitals fighting covid-19. much of our hospital workforce is getting knocked out at home with symptomatic covid. reporter: some overwhelmed
fate in the australian open could come at any moment. hello and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin in our health lead. a new warning from the top health experts. today dr. anthony fauci, and the acting fda commissioner say omicron is so efficient at spreading that almost everyone in the u.s. will at least be exposed to it. even if you re vaccinated and boosted. that does not mean, of course, that everyone is going to get infected or get sick. just exposed to it. the biden administration says it will send 10 million test kits to schools every month to help keep classrooms open. and the white house is actively exploring, we re told, making high-quality masks more available to americans. those efforts all could make a critical difference. right now a sliver of good news as cnn s nick watt reports. cases appear to be peaking in some places such as new york which means case counts could