But first let's 70.
You need to know headlines this morning and fury continues to grow
in Texas against politicians in the wake of this week's mass shooting
at L. A. Elementary School.
This is totally predictable when you sir, you're out of line sir.
You're out of line sir. You are out of line.
Yeah,
that's texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke interrupting
incumbent governor Greg Abbott's press conference yesterday
after Beta was escorted out. He said this to reporters.
Why are we letting this happen in this country? Why is this happening in this state?
Year after year, city after city. This is on all of us.
If we do not do something and I am going to do something and I'm not alone
now.
In that same press conference,
Governor Abbott said the suspected shooter posted several social
media warnings on facebook shortly before Tuesday's shooting,
including threats to shoot his grandmother and an elementary school,
both of which he carried out
now.
Metta says the messages were private one on
one communications and that they're cooperating with law enforcement
last night. The community dealing with heartbreak grief and shock.
They all came together to honor the victims at a vigil
and now we want to bring in Cheddars Megan pratt who is
live on the ground for us this morning in U Uvalde texas.
Good morning Megan. So how do things look on the ground this morning?
Has anything changed from yesterday?
There's sort of two parallel paths that exist here on the ground.
There's the community path, how the people here are feeling.
And then there's also the law enforcement investigation.
I'm going to actually start with law enforcement
because we've learned a lot more about what
exactly took place inside rob elementary school behind
me here in Uvalde texas on Tuesday.
Now the situation,
it appears we knew sort of the basic details that the gunmen ran his truck into a
ditch before running into the school and he
was engaged with law enforcement during that time.
It is unclear whether there were shots fired,
officials saying both that shots were fired and that they were not.
But then we do know that the shooter then went inside the school barricaded
himself in a single classroom where he killed two teachers and 19 Children.
And the main difference here on the ground this
morning as I come to you from the same place
we were yesterday is these white crosses and you can
see them a little bit over my shoulder here,
there are 21 of them with names adorning them as
well as flowers for the 21 victims of this shooting.
We know that there are still a number of people, probably around a dozen
in nearby hospitals in anywhere from stable to critical condition.
We will keep you posted as to how that situation developed.
But law enforcement is really trying to recreate this scene,
determine the motivation, determine
exactly what happened where and when and what led to it because they are concerned as
they are in these situations that there were
accomplices that there was an additional motive.
So baker Hannah still a lot of unanswered questions,
but more of those questions being answered here on thursday.
Well, Megan,
I know that baker mentioned the service that community members held yesterday,
How are they, how are they continuing to process
the grief these past two days?
Your body is an incredibly close knit community and I think that one of
the strengths that they have is that they are so incredibly tightly woven,
everyone knows everyone else, they are grieving together.
Everyone knows someone who was affected by the shooting and they feel
as though they will move forward in a into a different quality,
but they'll do so together.
I spoke to one of the nearby residents whose nephew
was inside the school during the shooting and he said,
here's what's next for the town.
Like I said, this town is very tight knit.
Their real well we're real close, we're
back each other up as much as we can.
So, I mean, I'm more than sure, especially with the churches and all of that,
I'm more than sure that we're gonna find a way
we have a saying here where the body coyotes,
we have a saying here where your body strong
and if you look at the side of the school,
it's just together we rise and I believe and I know I know for
a fact together we are going to rise and we're gonna look back at this
and remember those angels, they were always angels,
they just gained their wings yesterday
these angels now have their wings according to mr Hernandez.
So Hannah baker is still a lot of emotions in this community as they try to process
the senselessness of the violence here.
Megan prats for us this morning in Uvalde texas Megan thank you so much
now.
Meanwhile President biden citing an executive
order to reform America's policing system.
But after he addressed the school shooting and the second Amendment, take a look.
2nd member is not absolute
when it was passed. You couldn't own,
hey,
you couldn't own a cannon.
You couldn't own certain kinds of weapons.
It's just always been limitations.
But guess what these actions we've taken before they save lives.
The president will travel to texas in the next few days.
Meanwhile,
first Lady Jill biden and surgeon general Vivek murthy met
the second flight of baby formula from overseas on Wednesday.
The plane carrying about a million bottles of
formula as part of operation fly formula.
This is part of the by administration's efforts
to ease the shortage in this country.
Meanwhile,
food and drug administrator robert calif
giving scathing testimony on capitol hill yesterday
that about the conditions over at formula maker Abbott's
plant in michigan Caleb described bacteria that was growing from
multiple sites in the facility cracks in the equipment
leaks coming from the roof and even standing water.
He said quote frankly the inspection results were shocking.
Now Abbott had to close that plant back in february
and the recalled multiple baby formula products as a result
and elsewhere,
pennsylvania's Republican Senate primary race is heading to a
recount as the vote becomes too close to call
Dr Mehmet Oz had led Dave McCormick in the final vote
tally by less than half a percentage point triggering the recount.
Dr Oz is being endorsed by former President Donald trump,
who said Oz should declare victory while the votes
were still being tallied prior to the recount.
Now,
pennsylvania counties have until june 7th to finish their recounts
with the winner going on to oppose Democratic P.
A lieutenant
governor john Fetterman.
Meanwhile, the majority of americans,
54% now say they disapprove of the job that the Supreme Court is doing
and that's according to a new marquette law school poll.
It was taken a week after the leak of that draft opinion that
showed that the justices appear to be poised to overturn roe v wade.
Only 44% of those surveyed
say they still approve of the high court.
That's a significant drop since the poll was taken last March,
when 54% of those polled approved of the job that the nine justices were doing.
While only 45% disapproved.
Now the new poll also split along party lines as well,
only 24% of Democrats give the court a positive rating
compared to 68% of Republicans
and Boeing's starliner successfully landed in New Mexico on Wednesday night.
It was the final key test flight for
the unmanned spacecraft to determine if it's ready
to ferry astronauts to the international space station.
The space craft landed in the remote part of the desert in New
Mexico after it undocked from the International Space station earlier in the day.
Rosie the crash test mannequin was the only crew on board of the starliner
for this test mission and comes after two prior
failed attempts to fly the capsule to the ISS.
By Boeing
Boeing aims to aims on flying its first load of Real Nasa astronauts
to the ISS by the end of the year.