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‘Systemic failures’ in Uvalde shooting, Home Run Derby begins: 5 Things podcast


On today’s episode of the 5 Things podcast: Uvalde school shooting report finds ‘systemic failures’ in law enforcement response

Reporter Cady Stanton explains. Plus, a jury prepares to decide the fate of the Parkland school shooter, jury selection begins in the trial of former White House strategist Steve Bannon, reporter Amanda Lee Myers talks about how businesses have been hurt by Yosemite fires and the MLB Home Run Derby is here.

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Hit play on the player above to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript below.This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.

Taylor Wilson:

Buenos dias. I’m Taylor Wilson and this is 5 Things you need to know Monday, the 18th of July, 2022. Today, a report’s findings on failure in Uvalde. Plus a look at baseball’s first half of the MLB season, and more.

Here are some of the top headlines:

  1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired both his top security chief and prosecutor. The two moves came after Zelensky cited hundreds of criminal proceedings, into treason and collaboration, by people within their departments and other law enforcement agencies.
  2. British authorities are urging the public not to travel through subways in London today, amid an ongoing heat wave. Temperatures may pass a hundred degrees in parts of southern Britain today, a region usually known for moderate summer heat with temperature highs in the 70s.
  3. And the Baltimore Orioles took shortstop Jackson Holliday, with the number one overall pick in last night’s Major League Baseball draft. He’s the son of former MLB All-Star Matt Holliday.

A scathing report out yesterday from the Texas House Committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting blamed multiple failures by people in positions of power for not putting a stop to the massacre more quickly. That includes the nearly 400 law enforcers on the scene. Texas State Representative Dustin Burrows is the committee’s chair.

Dustin Burrows:

What I would like to do today is start with this. If there’s only one thing that I can tell you is there were multiple systemic failures. I would invite everyone to read the entire report. You cannot cherry pick one sentence and use it to say everything, without reading it all together and with context. But if we need a simple phrase to describe what the report says, again, I would tell you multiple systemic failures.

Taylor Wilson:

For more on the committee’s findings, 5 Things producer, PJ Elliot, spoke with Breaking News reporter Cady Stanton.

Cady Stanton:

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A Texas House Committee started investigating the events surrounding the shooting about a month or two ago. And they interviewed about 30 or 40 different individuals, trying to get a sense of the events, and whether or not certain aspects of the shooting could have been prevented. And they spoke to police officials, witnesses, and a lot of different people, and then produced this report.


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