3 Things To Know Today

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1 New Video Of Texas School Shooting Has Been Leaked

As if the families and survivors of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas weren’t going through enough, new video of what happened that day has been leaked. KVUE and Austin American-Statesman released the 77-minute clip, which came from a surveillance camera inside Robb Elementary. It shows heavily armed officers waiting for over an hour on May 24th inside the school while the gunman was inside a classroom. Some even applying hand sanitizer as they neglected to approach the shooter. The video was supposed to be released next Sunday. As you might imagine – the families are furious. What else does it show? The 18-year-old gunman walking to the school building and walking down the hallway to a classroom, carrying a long gun. A young student walking down a hallway – until he hears gunshots. He then takes off back from where he came. Based on the video, the shooter didn’t appear to see him. He’s believed to be one of those who escaped. Interspersed with the gunfire, screams from the teachers and students inside the classroom. As for the police, the video shows the first armed responders arriving in the school hallway three minutes after the gunman. They’re seen running toward the classroom, but retreating after taking fire, They ended up back at the end of the hallway – and that’s where they stayed…for more than 70 minutes.

2 NASA Releases New James Webb Telescope Images

The first set of full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope look to be clearer and more powerful than the previous Hubble pictures. As NASA Administrator Bill Nelson muses, the telescope represents "the best of NASA." For some perspective, the Webb gets four times closer to the oldest galaxies formed after the Big Bang than the Hubble, according to NASA researchers. The agency also released an image of the exoplanet WASP-96b with various wavelengths of light that could lead to new information about it. That's in addition to an image of the Southern Ring Nebula and the Carina Nebula, a region where stars are born that shows a new peek of stars in early stages of formation.

3 China Says It "Drove Away" U.S. Ship In The South China Sea

China says it "drove away" a U.S. ship it claims illegally entered Chinese territorial waters. The U.S. Navy says its destroyer the USS Benfold "asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea …consistent with international law." China says its Southern Theatre Command organized sea and air forces to "drive away" the ship, and accused the U.S. of being a "security risk maker" in the South China Sea. China claims nearly the entire South China Sea as its territorial waters. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan all dispute the claim. China accusing the United States of deliberately provoking tensions and says it does not impede “freedom of navigation or overflight.” The United States regularly carries out what it calls Freedom of Navigation Operations in the South China Sea challenging what it says are restrictions on innocent passage.


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