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weeks to the day of the massacre of rob elementary school murder of 19 children and two teachers learning tonight the police chief daniel rodriguez was on vacation during the mass shooting . >> when this initially took down, the chief wasn't in town. he canceled vacation and flew back the next day. >> reporter: who was in charge of the police department at the time. >> he had assistant chief, i'll have to find out who -- >> that's uvalde's mayor there also calling for transparency, owing to the victim's families. after two americans, including actor mcconaheigh who grew up in uvalde,...

party you probably not want to hear this forecast from election experts political analysts -- he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november midterm election. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat that president obama was called special lacking. republicans are already planning for that victory, full control of congress. what are they going to do? i'll tell you this. it's not gonna be health care policy or tackling prices. conservative think tankers on eastern shore of maryland trying to find ways to -- investigations ...

reproductive freedom in our nation, in the gun epidemic, special interest groups like the nra are feeding the logjam, making it harder for congress to pass laws that are popular among the american people. warning, and it's in bc -- now is the time to act. >> the door that is open, we cannot go back. we cannot see a closed. here's the question to america. it's a question to those who read the herald opinion. -- that you can't have some restrictions on gun -- guns. weapons that are dangerous. here's the real question. is there any humanity? is there any courage and are we ready to act?...

>> do you guys have a second for the city of toronto? we're changing the cn tower to drake tower. >> he's proud to be from toronto and put the city on the map. a great ambassador for the city. would you agree? >> i'm listening right now. >> i listened to that album twice this morning. >> we love drake. >> thank you so much. >> what doesn't? >> of course i'm joking about changing the name of the building that identifies toronto's skyline but drake is more globally recognized and the biggest cheerleader for what may be north america's most overlooked city. >> we're going to make a chan...

and it means novak djokovic will lose his number one status. good morning. something of a mixed weekend coming up. i think all of us will see some dry, hopefully sunny weather at some stage, but there are also going to be some showers moving on, particularly to the north and west of the uk. more details for you, as ever, coming up. it is saturday 21 may. our main story: russia has declared victory in its battle to conquer the ukrainian port city of mariupol after the last fighters defending the azovstal steel plant laid down their weapons. ukraine's president zelensky confirmed the t...