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. Sir. You're out of line sir,
You're out of line. I'm sure you're 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 number 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.