and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabia s de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden heralding a, quote, terrific jobs report while also acknowledging record high prices are causing serious problems for far too many american families. there was good news in the jobs report released this morning. u.s. employers added 390,000 new jobs. unemployment stayed at a near record low of 3.6%, and 96% of the jobs lost during the pandemic erupted are back, but none of that will immediately help lower the sky-high costs of everyday goods such as groceries or gasoline. the current rate of
of continuing pain including a phone call he made yesterday. when he was not able to be seen immediately, he drove to a gun star and one hour later was at the hot shooting. he bought the gun and went in to kill those people that same day. the first 911 call came in at 4:52. four minutes later, police were on scene. officers entered the building on the first floor and made their way to the second floor based on the information they received. while on the second floor of the vast building, officers began yelling tulsa police, this is something that we train to do. as officers were calling out tulsa police and advancing towards a suspect location, they heard a gunshot. we believe that was the final gunshot with the suspect taking his own life. the gunshot was at 4:52 p.m., approximately 39 seconds after the first officers entered the building. police say they know the shooter s motive because they found a letter on his person that confirmed he came to the hospital with the i
i m poppy harlow. hours from now, shooting victims will be laid to rest as the uvalde community remembers the young lives lost in last week s tragedy. visitation and rosary services will be held for teacher rosa garcia, jose emmanuel. focus tuesday is on families who lost loved ones. this as a special city council meeting supposed to be held today for uvalde school district police chief pedro arradondo was supposed to be sworn into a seat. he held off on breaching the classroom where all 21 victims were killed. plus, cnn got a crucial 911 call, appearing to be the voice of a child telling an officer they had been shot. it s not first time we ve heard of calls for help from inside the classroom while police waited outside. are you in there? i was shot. where? where? a kid got shot? let s begin with cnn correspondent nick valencia. he is near robb elementary school in uvalde. nick, tell us what more we know about the circumstances and, crucially, if we know, the tim
18-year-old gunman opened fire on second, third and fourth graders at the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the gunman shot his grandmother before carrying out the attack at the school, she is now fighting for her life in a hospital. authorities say the suspect is dead. killed by police. we know he was wearing a tactical vest, does not appear, though, that there were panels in that vest. and responding officers faced fire from the suspect as they tried to stop the killing in the school. at least one border patrol agent, they were called in to help, was wounded. while it remains unclear exactly what weapons the killer used, these photos showing two ar-15 style rifles posted to an instagram account linked to the gunman, one of the social media bios read, quote, kids be scared. the unimaginable wait for families fearing the worst overnight. some of them telling cnn authorities had asked them for dna samples to help identify the dead. in an emotional speech, president bi
while incomes go down the stock market is plunging that means that retirement funds are getting destroyed, the cost of everything that you buy in every store you go to is continuing to spike. make no mistake economic devastation is here with no end in sight sadly. gas prices guess what? we had another record high today. diesel too another record high and they soon may be a diesel fuel shortage. utilities in this country there up a whopping 22%. fuel oil is up a whopping 80%. used cars are anywhere between 22, 40%. the rep over 13% and by the way when you finally buy one the msrp sticker shock is above msrp is gonna be about massive. looking for a plane ticket? that s up 33%. meat is 14%, ex 22%, milk is 14%. according to economists still need to folk over over 5,000, $200 more per household this year because of joe biden inflation and over $2,000 by the way every american that drives a car they will pay an extra $2,000 on gas prices alone. already as i said two-thirds of amer