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struggling with. as the 11th hour gets underway on a tuesday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, exactly one week after a teenage gunman took 21 lives at an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the very first funerals are getting underway. the murder victims are being laid to rest, the investigation into the shooting, and the police response at the school is only intensifying. there are reports that uvalde police are no longer cooperating with texas authorities. nbc news reporting the school district police chief initially did cooperate. but has yet to respond to requests for follow-up questions made today s. ago texas officials say the chief prevented officers from confronting the shooter, for more than an hour. today, that very same chief was sworn in as a member of the city council. the justice department opening up its own inquiry into the police response. meanwhile, in washington, there are some in congress that believe they might be able ....
good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, exactly one week after a teenage gunman took 21 lives at an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the very first funerals are getting underway. the murder victims are being laid to rest, the investigation into the shooting, and the police response at the school is only intensifying. there are reports that uvalde police are no longer cooperating with texas authorities. nbc news reporting the school district police chief initially did cooperate. but has yet to respond to requests for follow-up questions made today. texas officials say the chief prevented officers from confronting the shooter, for more than an hour. today, that very same chief was sworn in as a member of the city council. the justice department opening up its own inquiry into the police response. meanwhile, in washington, there are some in congress that believe they might be able to find common ground on some gun safety measures. the house judiciary co ....
the kind of strawberry we ve now learned is behind that hepatitis a outbreak is it in your kitchen? and this memorial day, we travel the country. the sights and sounds honoring our heroes, the men and women we will never forget. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening while this memorial day is an occasion for fun, relaxation, and remembrance, for 21 families in uvalde, texas, this marks the beginning of what will be an unimaginably painful week a funeral services for all those lives lost begin to take place. yesterday the president and first lady spent hours with the families, pledging to make sure the pain they are experiencing will lead to progress and change today, however, we are learning more about what exactly happened after the shooter arrived at the school, what law enforcement did and didn t do. plus the spotlight growing on the school s police chief who was in charge at the time and now we ve confirmed that the u.s. departmen ....
seaborne russian oil are significant. they underline the european chief said they will cut 90% of europe s russian oil imports by december. the discussion of some interim status for ukraine on the way to being a full member of the european union is important. i wish they would find some speedy transition plan but it is not there. so, they re trying to find ways to keep faith with ukraine and in a period where i think the pressure on ukraine is growing. i think your right to express some concern about europe. they ve got their own economic troubles and political splits. but this last weekend that they held together more strongly than i might have feared. i was going to say, pretty remarkable that they held together even pulled hungary along when they had to know this inflation number was coming out. they have the same problem on the other side with nato. but do you remain optimistic like so many observers that when it comes to nato, turkey, at the end, will back down ....
we have a child on the line. he is in a room full of victims at this moment. cnn has not been able to independently confirm that video, but source of this video sun clear, and it s also not clear at what point in the incident that audio is heard. cnn has reached out to authorities. but we do know that texas authorities, what they said on friday that there were at least eight 911 calls that day from at least two separate callers inside the school over a span of 50 minutes. this all comes as the justice department announces it will investigate the police response to the shooting. and meantime the community will hold its first services for two victims of the tragedy later today. we ll have more on that in a moment but first let s get straight to cnn s paula reed live for more on this investigation and the new doj s role. what do you know with the doj s involvement? that s exactly the kind of evidence that the doj will want to examine as it conducts its review. this i ....