Geoff: In the day's other news,
a Texas state senator said
panicked 911 calls from children
never got to the police
commander at the scene of last
week's school attack.
Senator Roland Gutierrez called
it a quote, system failure, and
said everyone, from the governor
on down, shared the blame.
State officials say the school
district police chief, Pete
Arredondo, kept officers from
storming the site for roughly an
hour.
The gunman killed 19 children
and two teachers before police
ultimately killed him.
In Ukraine, government forces
struggled today to slow Russia's
grueling war of attrition in the
east.
Street-to-street battles raged
in severodonetsk, and president
volodymyr zelenskyy said Russia
now controls about a fifth of
Ukraine's territory, largely in
the east and south.
In an overnight TV address,
zelenskyy also accused Russian
forces of abducting more than
200,000 Ukrainian children since
the war began.
Pres. Zelenskyy: The Russian
state disperses these people on
its territory and settles our
citizens, in particular, in
remote regions.
The purpose of this criminal
policy is not just to steal
people, but to make deportees
forget about Ukraine and not be
able to return.
Geoff: Also today, Britain
pledged to send sophisticated
rocket systems to Ukraine
following similar agreements by
the U.S. And Germany.
The U.N. Has announced that a
truce in Yemen is being extended
for another two months.
The April cease-fire was the
first in six years and had been
set to expire today.
The war there began in 2014.
Parties to the truce are the
Yemeni government, backed by a
Saudi Arabian coalition,
fighting Shiite rebels with
links to Iran.
President Biden praised the
announcement, amid reports that
he will soon visit Saudi Arabia.
On the pandemic, coving
vaccinations for children under
five in the U.S. May begin as
early as June 21.
The white house coordinator said
today that 10 million doses of
the pfizer and modern vaccines
will be ready once the fda and
CDC give the green light.
He acknowledged the frustration
of parents of young children.
>> We don't have an estimate of
timelines of when most kids will
be vaccinated.
What we know is that obviously
there are a lot of parents are
eager to get their kids
vaccinated right away, and they
will get vaccinated right away.
At the end of the day, we all
want to move fast, but we want
to get it right.
Geoff: He also joined other
experts in warning of a possible
new surge of covid infections in
the fall or winter.
A national, four-day party
kicked off in Britain today,
celebrating queen Elizabeth's
jubilee, 70 years on the throne.
She was crowned on this day in
1953 and is now increasingly
frail.
But she managed a brief
appearance at the day's events.
Chris ship of independent
television news reports.
Chris: There were times in
recent months when many wondered
if this moment would be possible
for the queen.
Today, the 96-year-old showed
the world that it was.
A jubilee balcony appearance
watched by tens of thousands on
the mall, marking a moment in
British history none of her
predecessors has ever achieved.
The trooping the colour ceremony
began this morning when
carriages carrying the royal
family, some for the very first
time, made their way from
Buckingham palace.
It was the prince of Wales who
took the salute today on behalf
of the queen, who did not come
to the parade ground.
Back at Buckingham palace, as
the household cavalry returned,
the queen, for her comfort, took
the salute from there.
And then it was time for the
people.
So the carriages have come down,
the military have come down,
it's now the turn for everybody
else.
They've come to see the one
British monarch, the only
British monarch, who's reigned
for 70 years.
And they came not just from the
British isles, but from all over
the world.
>> We are representing Portugal,
Paris, and Pakistan.
Chris: And you're from the U.S.
Too?
>> Oh, she's our queen.
Not on paper, but she's our
queen.
Chris: A tribute to the queen's
70 years flew overhead.
The queen enjoyed it.
Her great-grandson Louis, a
little less so.
But in the skies above
Buckingham palace and on the
streets below, celebrations for
a platinum jubilee the country
will not see again for many,
many years to come.
Geoff: That report from Chris
ship, of independent television
news.
Buckingham palace said later
that the queen experienced what
it called some discomfort today,
and will skip tomorrow's
Thanksgiving church service.
Back in this country, there's
word that strong economic
recovery has delayed the dates
when social security and
medicare run out of money.
An annual report today says
social security will go broke in
2035, one year later than
expected.
And medicare's trust fund will
be exhausted in 2028, two years
later than the last forecast.
The programs are benefitting
from a sharp increase in payroll
tax receipts.
The Biden administration is
forgiving all remaining student
debt for former students of
corinthian colleges.
Today's announcement erases
nearly $6 billion owed by half a
million students.
They attended corinthian schools
between 1995 and 2015.
The for-profit college chain was
once the nation's largest, but
it shut down in 2015 amid
widespread fraud allegations.
And, on Wall Street, stocks were
broadly higher, led by tech
shares.
The Dow Jones industrial average
gained 435 points, 1%, to close
at 33,248.
The NASDAQ rose 322 points,
The S&P 500 was up nearly 2%.
Still to come on the "Newshour,"
the decision in the Johnny
depp-amber heard trial
highlights ongoing issues of
domestic violence.
And persistent drought causes
dangerously low water levels at
lake mead.
Plus, much more.
>> This is the "Pbs newshour"
from weta studios in Washington
and in the west from the Walter