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two minutes of the shooting. and she was recognized at a different school where she was recently recognized as a police officer. >> the footage has parents in uvalde outraged. listen to what she told colleagues. >> my son is in day care. he's not old enough. no, if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. >> there are just no words. shimon prokupecz tried to get answers from her and a school district official. >> reporter: i have some questions to are you now. i'm doing a story about you and your time at dps. i'd like to ask you some questions, if possible. >> sir, do you know this officer who you have recently hired?

are you aware that she's under investigation for her actions on the day of the shooting? do you think she's fit to serve here considering her actions are under investigation? mr. miller, you don't want to respond to that? >> and with me now is kimberly. her daughter, lexi, was one of 19 children killed in the shooting at robb elementary. we continue to mourn alongside you for your loss. this news we're reporting that this officer who was at robb elementary that day has now been hired by a different school to protect children, what's your reaction? >> you know, the trooper's inaction that day is disgusting and as a mother incomprehensible. the body camera you just aired is evidence of a massive failure by texas dps and i expect a

resignation. given the disturbing you just released, they can't be trusted with decisions that have been made in regards to the safety of our children. us families have been calling for the officers to be suspended pending the conclusion of the investigation and now we can see why. >> given how she performed and up saw her perform at robb elementary that day, how safe would you feel with her at a different school protecting children? >> if she is at uvalde elementary, my son is at robb elementary. my husband spotted her on body camera footage and noticed she was there at is 11:35, two minutes after the shooting and waiting to pick up my son, we spotted her on campus. there's just no words. i don't understand how

everything that has happened how you didn't learn your lesson and the school district didn't do an investigation or look into her before hiring her. >> so you spotted her, your husband spotted her on campus? what kind of a heads up had you received from either the district or law enforcement that she was going to be at now your son's school? >> none. >> no communication? >> no communication. we spotted her on our own. she was helping kids get into their cars. >> what does that tell you? >> it tells me that they didn't do their jobs again. we've heard report that the chief shouldn't have been hired and they didn't look into his background. now they've hired this woman to work as a school resource officer without even calling dps? >> how did you stomach that? you said you and your husband, there's just no words. talk to me more about that.

>> i think we just looked at each other and we thought this isn't right. this isn't her. the further we got up into the line, we realized that this is her. the school duistrict doesn't cae about my kids. and i've been so patient. we enrolled our kids this year again. they're still with ucisd. i gave them a chance to redeem themselves, to make things right and it's just blow after blow. >> do you feel safe with your kids at this school? >> i don't feel safe with my kids anywhere. >> it hurts to hear you say that but i understand where you're coming from. do you feel as if the town has your back? >> absolutely not. brett cross, another parent, has been protesting at the campus, central office. we go by there to visit him.

no one's there. a few people. >> so now that this is -- now that this is out there, now that you and your husband spotted her there, what response have you received now that this issue has been raised? >> i haven't seen much. i posted that i wanted director mcgraw to resign and that this woman was in the wrong and i didn't get a lot of interaction online and i posted again and said don't think that i haven't noticed the lack of response. wrong is wrong. whose side are you on? you should be supporting these families. >> again, you say to them, you've asked them, you've pointed this out to them and asked for a response and they just dodge you and don't respond at all? >> i heard one person for the school district did respond to

my question about why she was employed. he said that she had only been out in the hallway and my response was -- or she's been outside the building and not in the hallway. my response was that's even worse. she didn't even try to go inside. i'm seeing a little bit of different footage now. maybe she was in the hallway but she still doesn't do her job. >> kimberly, thank you for being with us this morning. again, we are so sorry for your loss. we are thinking about you and your family every day. >> thank you. thank you. >> the heartbreak is just endless. the least, the very least that this school district and that those there that are supporting these students are that say they're supporting these students can do is be there for these families, that the families can rely on them. she said she has no trust, that there's no one there for her.

and can you blame them or her husband for themselves having spotted the woman? >> i think the question is or a question is how can you continue to surprise these families after they've been through so much? how can you continue to put them in the position where they spot this officer at the school with no warning whatsoever? they've been through so, so much and you can just sense the frustration. it's beyond frustration. >> and it's beyond cruel at this point. they're just reliving this nightmare. we're going to switch gears and go to florida, where people go to sanibel island. they were not ready to find their neighborhood unrecognizable. randi kaye is live in naples, florida with more. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: it was a very

emotional journey back to sanibel island. we went with a couple. they had bought their home there two years ago, they called it dream home. they evacuated for hurricane ian. they thought they'd be gone a few days. the damage to homes and at times it was really overwhelming for them. this is what they found. >> it's 7 a.m. and julie and vicky are on a boat for sanibel island. this will be the first time seeing their home up close and they have no idea what to expect. >>. >> i almost don't want to go. i'm afraid of what we're going to see. >> this time it's not going to be the same. our island has been changed. >> reporter: we made our way from the mainland across the gulf of mexico because the one road in was destroyed. >> you see where the causeway used to be. what did you think?

>> troubling troubling to know that mother nature is that powerful. >> reporter: with the island cut off, julie and vicky had to hire a private boat to take them to san bell. as we edged closer to sanibel, the destruction left in ian's path became clear. >> it's just gone. our beach is gone. >> once off the boat, it's around a mile on foot to their home. what they see is overwhelming. >> we live down this way, this beautiful street that's been forever changed. oh my god, their house is gone. total devastation. totally changed. it just heart breaking to see this. unbelievable. >> reporter: they're closer to their house now but still unsure what they will find until they make the turn and the bend. >> i think i see the back of our house. >> reporter: remarkably their

house is still standing. there's all kind of stuff that doesn't even belong to them in their back yard. we found these, somebody else's camera negatives and also in the back yard, this bag of birthday card for someone's 60th birthday, certainly not their name on it and not their collection of card. and this is what's left from a door from a woman's rest room at a clubhouse that is blocks and locks away from here. >> how do you it took about an hour to get the hurricane shutters open manually. but on their lower level, hurricane ian had left his mark. in the grj the floors were slick with mud and sludge and the smell was unbearable. >> we were wondering how high the water got. this tells us the story right here. about six feet of water in here. >> and their mini cooper, which

they left behind when they evacuated, full of water and mold, all of this just beginning to sink in. >> i know. >> and in lower level apartment, the force destroyed the kitsch kwen, this was our dream home. sanibel provided it to us for two years. it was wonderful until ian. and julie and vicky say they will rebuild. they just don't don't know where to sart. they do have hurricane and flood is the lower level where you saw the mud and muck and mold is not covered by flood insurance. they will have to figure out how who to pay for that.

and and we saw beach cottages caved in, mattresses in the street, a refrigerator in a tree. >> this insurance issue is one that many families there in that state will recovered? they're considered the the lucky one. they survived this. >> absolutely. >> a tragic end of a cad, of four family members, including an 8-year-old girl. a suspect is in custody. natasha chen is live in los angeles with the latest here. >> reporter: john, the family yesterday during a press conference was pleading for help, saying they were emotionally dying of minute not having any clues. by early evening they got their answer and it's not the one they were hoping for. the sheriff when the bodies were

found especially he says because this involves the killing of a cho. >> a tragic end in mersed were found dead in their truck. >> it was a fellow who claernd an a charredwe believe fully that our victims were. >> a sheriff expressed his anger after the body if kr i'm not going to sugar coat it. i would like to be there when that happens. that's how pissed i am with this. a whole family wiped out and we still don't know why. >> reporter: this brutal

discovery comes after authorities released surveillance footage of the baby along with her parents and her uncle, kidnapped at gun point. in the video an unloufd man is sob. he drops the frasch bag and pulls out what appears to be a firearm. they ennn tied with. a suspect was apprehended on tuesday. doctors had to authorities received information that the 48-year-old might be connected to the case. he is considered the sole

suspect at this time and no charges have been filed, but the sheriff says others may have been involved. the char i. >> i can tell you in 2005 he was arrested for something very similar. he did seven years in prison, was paroled in 2015 and here we go again. >> the shaur i did athey're not revealing details of the conversation they're having with that the sheriff did mention the victim's atm card that ma be a part of this. john. >> it's an awful story. the world's top oil producers announcing plans to slash production if a move that could push gas prices higher. how the white house is responding next. >> plus, support for the rannian

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energy, security has a price as well. >> opec announced it will cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day. that's the biggest slash since the start of the pandemic. the white house called the move concerning and unnecessary. the move undermines president biden's controversial visit to saudi arabia this summer, where he tried to convince the crown prince to increase oil production. joining me now, senior adviser at the state department. great to you have on this morning. let's pick up on that controversial visit by the president back in july. he left with a promise from m.b.s. and opec producers they would actually increase production by over a million barrels a day. what's happened since then? >> first, good morning. it's good to be with you. let me reiterate again, as you

said, we think the statement that they issued yesterday that they're going to cut production by 2 million barrels is a mistake and the wrong thing to do, especially as the world is reeling from high energy prices resulting from the war in ukraine. this will primarily affect the honest, low-income and middle income developing countries who are reeling from high-energy prices today and where saudi arabia and russia is working together against their interest. >> go ahead, go ahead. >> as you said, the president was in fact in saudi arabia a few months ago. since the time we made the decision to go on that trip, prices have gone from about $120 to about $88 or so, still a $30 decrease in oil prices and gasoline prices for american consumers have gone down from a very high peak of $5 to somewhere in the range of $3.50,

to $3.70. so the president has been very focused on pringing down oil and gasoline prices for american consumers. we'll continue to do that. but the trip, as you recall, the president said before the trip, during and after the trip it was not oil. that was about dual interests of the united states in the region. we wanted to strengthen the integration of trillion into the gulf and achieve the overflights over israel of a many years of trying to do that, moving iraq away from iran and to be more aligned with the gulf and to address several other strategic security concerns. that is why the president made that trip, not about oil. it is true that in july and august and other increased to

their production levels. >> which was why this was viewed as a surprise and by many seen as a form of peck oil and energy resources. do you view it that way as well? >> i absolutely view it that opec plus led by saudi arabia and russia, what they did yesterday was a huge mistake and unwarranted. prices are, frankly, when they say that there's energy security has a price, that is true but not this price. prices are still high. there is no need for this step. we've been cler about that. we're going to work to identify the tools to ensure organizations that assign quota about do not have a muted and less of aim pact on american consumers and the global economy in.

>> we can now expect gas price increases of 15 to 30 cents a gallon. is that what you're anticipating as well in. >> no, i think we have to see how this develops. i think the price now has been priced in today. we've seen an increase in oil prices over the last few days but they are from a low that we reached in oil prices that dates back to before the war, before the war started in ukraine. so we were going in the right direction. prices were going down. they've now increased a bit. as i've said, just a few months august the price of oil was $ $30 higher and for consumer more than $1.30 higher than what they are now. so it may be a few cents. we've seen some of the reports that california prices are coming down. that should impact the nag average swl so -- >> can i get you to just weigh in on the question of america's

moral authority here? there was a lot of pushback, as you know, going into that visit to saudi arabia given that country's human rights records. we know that this war in russia, in ukraine is being funded by the sale of russian oil. there are reports from "the wall street journal" that the u.s. is considering lifting sanctions on venezuela so that they can produce more oil. first, can you if why isn't it more important to have lower oil prices and gas prices than it is than to perhaps end funding a war? >> so i will tell you this, i was on the trip with the president and the very first thing that he did with the crown prince was raise issues of human rights. it was the first part of the conversation. it was honest. it was direct and it did not mince words as far as where the u.s. policies are and the values of the united states and as

represented by joe biden who has president in his entire. as far as venezuela i don't have anything to report to you today about that article. we have not made any decisions there. we are focused on what we can do here at home about making sure that increased production at home is able to sustain the -- whatever decisions are made outside the united states. we've already seen increases of production of about a half a million barrels a day by the u.s. industry. we expect those to go up into 2023. the president ordered an historic release -- >> which are at decades low. is there any concern with national security on that front? >> i think we're doing it it all with attention to our economic and national security. we've taken steps which we believe are prudent at that spo

are the u.s. economy. we went through about 180 million barrels in the last six months we're still in the original plan. the president announced yesterday we are going to release another 10 million barrels in the month of november to support the. we believe we have the to work with our allies and with congress to make sure we address the mistake that opec made yesterday, which was the wrong direction. i believe it will have less of a united states and more on we're going to make sure a small number of countries does not affect the american consumer. >> we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> north korea firing two short range ballistic missile

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until women of iran are free, we are going to stand with you. women, life, freedom! that was a swedish politician cutting her hair in front of the european parliament in solidarity with the women in iran. the nationwide protests now against the regime, they are gaining momentum weeks after demonstrations first started taking place. with us is cnn chief international christiane amanpour. we see these demonstrations, they appear to be growing, the ayatollah now forced to respond. where do you see things maybe differently today than they were a week or two weeks ago?

>> reporter: well, it is incredible that these demonstrations and protest continue the pace despite what is being increasingly viewed and human rights organizations as the excessive use of force against these protesters, many of whom who are young children and women. we know rubber bullets were used at the university the other day and we understand that they've analyzed at least 47 individual, mostly women and children, who have died because of this kind of lethal force. that is what is really get people like the poll us you saw very angry, calling on the eu foreign policy chief to condemn iran and say iran will be held accountable. and finally, he did that today

tweeting that the iranian authorities would have to be investigated for the use and force. and they're triggering a nerve all over the world. these are going viral, these pictures, so much for support the iranian women and young people and the men who support them is gathering around the world because it's basically about freedom. it's not because of the economic situation, though that is definitely having an impact because they are chafing under the inability to even have a future. so their freedoms are very, very important to them at the time moment. and yes he came off, some people say his death bed to condemn these and offer a harsh countdown. >> and these protests are

spontaneous, this movement appears to have no leader. i was struck who called this an act of political suicide that the islamic republic is committing against itself by targeting this new generation of young women. that really struck me. >> exactly. that's very important. what she said, an iranian who fled who is now a teacher, she basically said this is a again z demonstrated and protests. longs but that the current president is very hard line pd made as part of his campaign the increasing progression of women in their dress codes and right and enabled these morality police to go out and monitor them and crack down.

you know, this is sometimes you see these uprisings but you're right, this is very importance and he the iranian regime is busting out hundreds of thousands or at least tens of thousands of their supporters in counter demonstrations and they're it. >> the situation in north korea seems to be escalating by the day. tests, more tests, u.s. warships do you in upon it's how far will it go in this cycle? >> that's interesting. as you said, there under kim jong un's rule. it's like 24 already this year, 22 of them today. one couple went over to japan. it's very provocative.

but an interesting quote that i saw with jeffy lewis, a nuclear expert, to cnn said that it's potentially likely that this kind of testing, including nuclear testing will go on while the north korean regime tries to per expect having weapons that are deliverable. and in the united nations, the u.s. ambassador has basically pointed the finger without mentioning two permanent security council members, irchlts e. russia and china, as enabling north korea. >> thanks so much for be being on this morning. great to see you. >> thank you. well, soon five member of openings of their historic sedition trial. i'll have more coming g up.

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supreme court into the fray. with me is a lawyer for trump during his second impeachment trial and he's now representing steve bannon in his border wall fraud trial. counselor, great to see you. i want to talk about a subject that you and i have been discussing now for some time, which is the idea of mens rea, which in this case broadly means what did donald trump know about the documents marked classified that were at mar-a-lago? the story over the last few days, first in "the washington post" and by cnn is that trump asked a lawyer, april election connion, asked this attorney to say, okay, that was everything, that was all the documents you asked for marked classified and the reporting is that his attorney said i can't say that because i don't being. >> well, first of all, i have to back up one step. i personally wouldn't believe

anything that alex cannon pace. he is a guy who has provens. if he was going to say anything he asked to say, if he felt he could get away with it, if donald trump asked him to say that was everything returned, would he say that? >> first of all, i this i the government has turned thes crews and i just don't this and i think it was a valid question, whoever said that. yeah, i would think there would be some significance. as it's playing out now, we have the rebation that's right that all on whether the documents were declassified, whether there was the authoritity. the investigation is interested

in both statements. >> it does razz request. what did donald trump know and maybe he did know he was in possession of classified documents. >> the states as reported certainly raise that question. i think that's a fair thing for you to say certainly. the question is how that's going to play out. and again, if the answer turns on the document m in some sense. >> the supreme court. now the trump team has taken a very specific part of this case to the supreme court and that's what i want to ask you here. they've asked the proper -- >> but in to -- they're not asking for d.o.j. to stop investigating the documents marked class fade. ins is been i'm asking what does

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because too many students say they did poorly in his class. according to "the new york times," 82 out of the 350 students in his course signed a petition saying their low scores demonstrated that his class was just too hard. maitland jones is one of the nation's top professors in his field and wrote an influential textbook on chemistry. before his tenure at nyu, he taught for decades at princeton before retiring as a professor emeritus. the times reports that prior to his termination, the director at nyu chemistry department wrote that the plan would extend a gentle but firm hand to students and those who pay the tuition bills. with us to discuss, columnist jill fill povich. we were talking about this off camera as well. we have your opinions, curious to get your thoughts on how the story was presented, how

students come across in it and what role, if any, parents in what i just mentioned there, tuition, factored into his ultimate firing. >> sure. i think it's very easy to read this as outrage bait, kids these days, gen zs. it's important to emphasize the students here didn't actually ask for the professor to be fired. that was an administrative decision. at least from the correspondence that "the new york times" published, it does seem like the decision was made at least partly based on the parents and the parents that hold the purse springs. to me it speaks to the degree of wii public has become less of a public good and more of a business. i'm not sure that that actually fulfills the purpose of educational institutions, that it serves students particularly well. it certainly doesn't serve

adjunct professors very well who are overwhelmingly in a pretty precarious employment situation. >> there are two aspects to the story. i feel like i don't fully understand what went on there. a couple things jumped out to me. the class midterm, the class average was 30%. you have to ask yourself if an average score on a test is 30%, is it all the students or maybe do they need to be taught better? there may be some teaching involved there if no one is getting above that score. the other thing, again, i wonder how this story would be received if the story was 84-year-old untenured adjunct professor with the lowest evaluations, apparently according to the article, in the science department is fired, if it would be received differently than it's been. >> i think that's absolutely right. i think there are a couple things going on here. the professor pointed to his

observation that student performance has pretty significantly declined in the past decade. i believe the term he used was fell off a cliff after the covid-19 pandemic sent so many students learning from home. i do think that is a real concern. i think universities as well as high schools and all ed dishl institutions have a real obligation to look at covid learning losses and try to repair some of this damage. on the other hand, it is the job of the professor to teach, not to have every single student pass the class. if such large numbers of your students are doing poorly, i think it is a moment for self-reflection and ask yourself am i teaching this class effectively? are the students really the problem or am i a part of it? i also think it's worth emphasizing here that most adjunct professors are not in the position of professor jones who came from a tenured position at princeton who is this kind of elite member of the adjunct staff.

they're disproportionately female, professors of color and treated as very disposable at universities. this is also very much a workers rights issue. >> no one is doubting whether or not he's an expert in his field. maybe his teaching style isn't right -- >> or maybe -- i don't know. i feel like i need to know more. >> an interesting story. we're getting word from south korea that north korea has flown warplanes near the border. this comes as tensions are rising. new details ahead. stay with us. we can replace yod ...and recalibrate your safety system. >> customer: and they recycled my old g glass. >> tech: don't wait. schedule today. >> s singers: ♪ safelite repai, safelite replace. ♪ (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network. so you can do more than connect your business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of car is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (v robots can predict breakdowns and order thr own replacement parts.

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