one at a time and they didn't do nothing to him. now we're all scarred here. i believe the officers at that point should have went in and took control. not let this man finish off with them, one at a time. >> jessie rodriguez, we wish you peace and strength? the days ahead. again, we are so sorry for your loss. ac 360 starts now. one cross standing in front of rob elementary school, 19 for the boys and girls killed there on tuesday, two for their teachers who died trying to protect them. we learn much more today about how this tragedy unfolded.

that said, we still, what we don't have is a full picture of why the response seemed to take so long that a number of anguished parents on the scene were reduced to begging police to take action while others demand they be allowed to go in themselves to rescue their children. earlier today, bodies of all 19 kids released to funeral homes and we learn more of their names so we want to start tonight telling you little bit about them. eliana garcia, known as ellie was about to turn 10, loved basketball and cheer leading, according to grandparents, dreamed of one day becoming a teacher herself. annabelle guadalupe rodriguez on the honor roll, ten years old, in the same classroom as her cousin jacqueline cazares, her

father one trying to get into the school. her friend, also saving up for a trip to disney world, her sister said she loved tiktok dances, ariana grande and the houston astros, eliana also ten years old, was to play her last softball game tuesday and waiting to hear if she made the all-star team. says she put a smile on everyone's face, nevaeh too was 10. and loved softball, gymnastics, a natural leader who loved school. jayceline was ten years old, said jayla enjoyed dancing and tiktok videos. they spoke with our gary tuckman about their favorite things to

do and the place they see loved. layla was 11. later tonight, we'll hear from a close friend of one of the fallen teachers, someone who also tried to rescue kids from the school. first up, jason carroll on more we know about the shooting itself. do we know more on the timeline of what happened? >> reporter: we do, we do, we're getting more clarity, anderson, what happened in those key moments between 11:28 a.m. and 11:44 a.m. on that day you'll hear more in a moment but what a number of people in this community, particularly those parents who were out here urging these authority to see move in quick, they are still waiting for answers why it took so long to take the gunman down. >> 11:21 a.m. tuesday, i just shot my grandma in her head, the gunman wrote to a girl he met online. it was the start of a shooting spree, seconds later he wrote i'm going to go shoot up an

elementary school right now. >> the gunman took off in his 66-year-old grandmother's truck. >> she was able to run across the street to a neighbor and get help. >> reporter: crashing into a ditch at 11:28 a.m., two minute said later, 911 call reported the wreck and gunman walking toward the elementary school with a long rifle, his weapons legally purchased day before. may 17th, bought a rifle sporting goods store, next day, rounds of ammunition and on may 20th, another rifle from the same store, it was those guns he had with him on tuesday. >> he jumps out the passenger side of the truck, two witnesses at the funeral home across the street from where he wrecked. he engages and fires towards

them. >> hitting -- >> close bullets from where? >> because he was, i guess he was coming from the school this way. >> reporter: the gunman climbed a fence at the school and started shooting at the building, according to texas investigators. they now say earlier information a school resource officer engaged the shooter outside is wrong. at 11:40 a.m., the gunman walked in an unlocked door, firing. >> he walks, and i'm going to proximate, 20, 30 feet. he makes a right, walks into the hallway, makes a right, walks another 20 feet. turns left into a school room. into a classroom that has doors open in the middle. >> reporter: there, in those connected classrooms, authorities say the gunman barricaded himself and killed the students and the teachers and wounded 17 people. one of the victims, 10-year-old amari jogarza tried to call

police on her cell phone, a birthday present two weeks ago. >> i got confirmation from two of the students in her classroom that she was just trying to call authorities. and i guess he just shot her. >> reporter: as the gunman sporadically shot through the wall, police wait for reenforcement and evacuate other students. >> officers were there, the initial officers they received gunfire. . they don't make entry initially because of the gunfire they're receiving. >> reporter: parents outside the school are distraught demanding police immediately storm the building or let them. >> i told one of the officers themselves, let me borrow a gun in their place and i'll go in there myself to handle it up and they told me nope. >> reporter: around 1:00 p.m., one hour and 20 minutes after the gunman went inside, law enforcement forced their way into the classroom, and customs

and border protection agent killed the gunman. >> they came up with a plan, they entered that classroom and they took care of the situation as quickly as they possibly could. >> reporter: but it was still too late for so many. >> just -- we also learned more about before the shooter entered the school. >> reporter: that's right. you heard a little part of it there from derrick gonzalez and julio -- they heard the gunshots, were working at a tire shop close to where i'm standing now. rushed over here to this funeral home and were met by gunfire, they took cover for a short period of time and then after that, still made their way over here to the school where they were out here with a number of parents, also urging authorities to move in as quickly as they could and when i asked them, you know, why, after taking that gunfire did you still come over to the school and it was derrick gonzalez who told me, well, my aunt is a fourth grade teacher

here at the school. she survived but also told me his cousin is amari garza the fourth grader you heard about there who tried to call police from the classroom, she did not make it. that was his cousin. >> jason, i want to be clear, we still don't know if all the kids were killed right away therefore police felt they didn't need to go into that room given they were taking fire, but just to be clear, they did basically wait until tactical units were able to come and that's when the border patrol tactical unit and some other people finally went in, but there -- i mean they did not breach that room, they did not go into that room until the tactical unit -- they waited for the tactical unit, is that right? >> reporter: that is correct. if you listen to what lieutenant chris olivares had to say a little bit earlier, he talked about some of the reasoning behind that, anderson, basically

saying that they weren't specifically sure where the gunman was in the classroom and so that may have played some sort of a role into why they were hesitating in terms of taking him out and shooting him. so perhaps that was one of the reasons why, but again, we're still waiting for more clarification. >> all right, jason carroll, appreciate it, more on the timeline, specifically why it went on as long as it did and how first responders used that time. trying to get answers, it's not easy, joins us now. what else did authorities say in this press conference? >> reporter: so there, you know, you were just talking with jason about this gap, this one hour where the police are waiting for the border patrol to arrive on scene, this is the tactical team, and we keep getting information from police here even up to this moment you just heard jason talking, bless officials saying we weren't where he was, they did know where he was because they knew where the shots were coming

from. they say they knew the door was barricades, won't say how they knew the door was barricades but had information and this consistent kind of bad information that we're getting from authorities here. you know, in the press conference today, i confronted the director here who was taking questions about the issue with where was he barricaded, how was he barricaded, take a listen to that exchange, anderson. >> you guys said he was barricaded. can you explain to us how he was barricaded and why you guys could not breach that door? >> so i have taken all your questions into consideration. we will be doing updates after the question. >> you should be able to answer that question now, sir. >> what is what was your name? >> shamon, from cnn, we've been given bad information so why don't you clear it up now and explain how it is your officers who were in there an hour, yes, rescuing people, yet no one was able to get inside that room.

>> shamon, we will circle back with you, we want to answer all your questions. >> i mean shamon the truth s they've been giving bad information and maybe they don't have experience giving press conferences or stuff but if you don't have experience you shouldn't be doing it because these parents deserve to know exactly what happened minute by minute to their children. and, you know, the first press conference, their language that the police used i mean i read the transcripts of it very carefully. it was incredibly imprecise, almost purposely so to avoid saying certain things about this timeline we now learned and pieced together but we shouldn't be piecing this together, they should just be up front and obviously, everybody knows it's chaotic situations and everyone on the scene doing what they thought was their best but parents deserve answers. >> reporter: 100%, and in the end anderson, this is what it's

really about. so many people in this community, across the country, or across the world, kids should feel safe to come to school, doors should be locked. it's sad that schools have to be fortified in such a way and, you know, the whole issue of guns, correct, but police officers in schools are supposed to of extra layers of security, sadly, because of what this country has been dealing with so the police officers should have responded, arguments are being made from the families, from other people, should have had a better response. but the fact they may not be experienced, no, the department of public safety here, dps is the largest law enforcement agency here in texas. they work with the texas rangers, seasoned investigators so i don't think that's what it is. it's confusing as to what's going on here, but certainly you do raise the issue of that, is this intentional? the idea there's this one hour gap between the time that he entered, gets in the classroom and how long it takes the

customs and border patrol folks to get here, that's a big issue they still, anderson, have not been able to explain. >> shimon, thank you, and what you just heard, cnn former officer and cnn analyst ramsey, now you and i have had these conversations about what the standard police practice now is which is in training across the country, i would think in police forces large and, i'm not sure small, but it's, you don't wait for a tactical team. first officers on the scene, whoever they are, whatever units they're from, even if not from the same department, you form a team and go in. what questions do you still have about this timeline? >> well, i have questions on why they didn't act. you know, i mean, an hour is just too long. i'm sorry. i don't know all the facts and circumstances. i wasn't there. but i know an hour is too long. you have an active shooter.

you have an elementary which means you got small kids there, you know, for an hour? before a tactical team actually makes entry? they've got a lot of explaining to do when it comes to that. i don't know the level of training they've had or the kind of equipment they had, clearly you see long guns on some of the officers holding back the crowd so i know they have the right weaponry. so why they didn't form teams, why they didn't make entry, i really don't know. >> yeah, again, you know, they have an incredibly difficult job, all want to do it well, but i don't understand, you know, you've been chief of police. to put police officers out there answering questions when in fact they're really not giving any answers and are using language which is, at best, vague, just leads to more confusion and that's what we still have a lot of, confusion. >> well, creditability gets

eroded when that sort of thing starts to happen and when i first started watching this today it occurred, in the first press conferences, obviously the first press conference or so, not a lot of information. you don't have a lot of information. and a very good friend of mine, the late john timothy said when you get to the assscene, the fi information you get is not the final information you end up with as the investigation takes place, you have to be careful but as time goes on, they should have a lot more answers than they have and the information they're putting out is just wrong, you know, the governor was engaged before he went into the school, now find out he wasn't engaged at all. the impression was there was immediate entry, 30 minutes, now it's an hour before entry was made. so these things just erode the creditability of the agency as they're trying to put information out and you said it earlier, maybe they don't have the experience doing press conferences, well then guess

what, don't do this em or bring someone with experience like the fbi who knows how to do these things and let them handle it. >> when you have to wait for a tactical team, my understanding, tactical teams aren't just sitting around in a, you know, not sure how that works with customs and border protection but in many cities not just sitting in a room waiting to be called, in different places, got to all get to the location, you know, get the gear on, get the plan, and it takes time. that's one of the reasons why, you know, with columbine they waited for a tactical team, formed perimeter and waited, that's not something that's done now. >> well, since columbine, i mean the training changed. you look at columbine, virginia tech, all the different shootings we had and you learn from each one. the current active shooter training is you do not wait, whether it's two people, optimally four people but if it's two people, you go in and neutralize the threat, in other words if he's in there shooting

and killing you kill him before he can kill anybody else, period. >> yeah, and i took part in the new york police department just for a story i was doing for 60 minutes they let me run through a couple hours some of their active shooter training, i was in a team with two or three other police officers and one of the things they said in that is even if there are wounded people, you know, and they run through mock drills, in a classroom, courtroom, different kind of scenario, and a it was even if there's wounded people laying in the holiday, that is not your priority, as a police officer, your priority is stop the gunman because you got to stop them from killing more people. >> absolutely, and when you first go through the training that's hard to do, people wounded you want to tend to them but you cannot do that because every second matters and you got to find a gunman and take them out. no other way of putting it, i'm sorry. so i can't explain an hour, i don't think they're going to be able to explain an hour, quite

frankly. they did a good job evacuating other people, that's fine. but you got injured people, literally bleeding to death while you're waiting and that's why it's so important that you have to get in there. >> yeah, in columbine, teacher there bled to death waiting for the police to get in. chief ramsey, appreciate. thank you, coming up next, remembering a teacher, e evan moralez and a close family friend one of the responders on the scene breaking windows trying to get others out. coming up, details on the president's visit to the town and dadavid hague what he wowou like to see happen now. everyone remembers the moment they heard... “you have cancer.” how their world stopped and when they found a way to face it. for me, this is where their keytruda story begins. keytruda - a breakthrough immunotherapy

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i want to read you a portion of something posted on social media yesterday morning, her mother was ellen moreles, one of two teachers killed at rob elementary, she wrote, mom, i have no words to describe how i feel right now tomorrow and the

rest of my life. i never thought i would be here writing this type of post for you. mom, you were a hero, i keep telling myself this isn't real, i want to hear your voice, hear you talking to our dogs with that silly voice you make that's so high that wakes everybody up in the morning, i want to hear you say wake up already because i keep snoozing my alarm, i want to hug you one last time and feel the callouss on your hands, not only a worker during the day but cross fitter in the afternoon. i want to see you come home from work everyday, my beautiful mom, thank you for the funniest memories, best times of my life, thank you for being my best friend and the best mom anyone could ask for. you were so known by so many now and i'm so happy people know your name and that beautiful face of yours and know what a hero looks like. joining us now, family friend, spokesperson for the family,

juan, i appreciate you being with us. i am so sorry for your loss and for the family's loss. could you just tell us a little bit about ava? i know she was a close, close friend of yours. what kind of a person was she? >> well, as i hold up this picture here, she climbed the highest mountain in the texas guadeloupe peak, this was her favorite picture up to this day. >> i love that she brought two flags. >> she did. she did. emma, emma is loved by her family, she was a great mother, great daughter, a great wife. she loved her mom, she loved her sisters, just loved all her families and friends but most importantly she was a dedicated school teacher for the uvalde independent school district. >> she had been teaching for a

long time and there must be generations of people, i mean, people of, you know, from a long period of time who know her and feel, i mean i still know my teachers from, i just went to my kinde k kindergarten teacher's retirement party, there must be so many people whose lives were changed by her. >> she was just an outstanding person. a dedicated teacher. she loved her children. her work came before anything else. and like her daughter stated, as soon as she got done with work, she would take her bag and go to cross fit and do her workout, i guess it was a stress reliever, she would go out there and work and had many hobbies. she loved to crossfit, she loved hiking, and like, there was not a party until eva got there. eva lit up the whole room.

she loved karaoke, she loved to sing. her favorite song and right now, she is shining like a diamond, loved that song diamonds by rihanna and that would not go without that song. that night, she needed to sing that song and now she is the diamond. >> i know you and her husband both responded to the scene. how did you learn about what was happening? >> well, sir, i can tell you that her husband, rubin and her, had a conversation and i can tell you that she shared a phrase with him and other than that, we didn't respond there but, unfortunately, the outcome was not what we wanted.

>> what happens now? i mean, something like this. it's so life-changing. it's hard to imagine getting through the next couple minutes, let alone the next week or two. >> well, we got to take this day by day and, you know, let, we believe in god, let faith heal us each day, give us strength to get through each day. reuben and natalin have great support, family with them, rubin has great support so does adelin. she's like my sister, how much we communicate, i would talk to eva more than rubin and that's a fact, we share the same thing, very straight forward. we know and we the same, but

life will be different for them, probably different for all of us. but like i tell them, she would always be here in spirit. she would always be there for them and i told rubin, i said eva will be on your back soon. she's going to be on you, haunting you, eva's not going to go away. one thing i did want to mention, eva loved her dogs. her cane was her favorite dog, she was a dog lover and everything got dropped for cane. something happened, she had to drop what she was doing, everybody had to drop her stuff and take her home to let cane out for a potty break, her and cane communicated very well. >> wow. she just sounds like a wonderful, wonderful mom and woman. and i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us in your

grief. >> oh yes, yes, sir and like i said, you know, she grew up being a wonderful mom. she travelled a lot with the family, with all of us as a soccer mom and our daughters grew up together, traveling soccer team, so we spent a lot of time together on weekends and this past weekend we had a great time, you know, celebrating, you know, an accomplishment so we're out there and she'll be missed, will not be forgotten. we all love her and the family will always, you know, we'll always be there for the family. >> i wish you the best. take care. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up, new details on senat senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and i'll talk with a student at high school in florida when a gunman killed 17 people, he's been add evacuating for gun reform since then. rk, w. he's in adelaide between his daily lunch delivery and an 8:15 call with san francisco. and you can find him,

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21 victims murdered in ub valde texas, to meet with them and show support in the most who isk moments with them. he will also, likely recall once again for congress to act on new gun restrictions, now this comes as a new bipartisan group of senators, anderson, has started initial meetings to see if they can reach some type of agreement, white house officials i've spoken to here are sceptical about the prospects of that, saying the white house is not deeply engaged at this point. to some degree, want to give some space to the early stage talks, the other recognizing this has happened so many times in the past, these negotiations have started so many times in the past, and never resulted in anything. we'll have to see how that plays out but one thing is certain as these negotiations move forward, to some degree, the president's focus, on sunday, more than anything else, with these families. >> on capitol hill today, senator leader mitch mcconnell told cnn he corrected cornin to

engage on a bipartisan solution, mcconnell didn't specify what the details would be but specified he wanted cornin to be the want to initiate. following marjorie stone douglas high school in parkland florida, david hague joins us now, david, appreciate you being with us, as you know, senator manchin called the meeting on gun reform today encouraging, says the atmosphere feels different than the days in sandy hook i saw a tweet you sent out that this time will be different, what makes you think that? >> we're talk bing about this a the fact of the matter, we're all sick and tired of this. i think the movement is tstrong than it ever has been, even in 2018 struggled to get democrats to talk about things like background checks and things like that so worked to get as many on our side as possible and i've been working behind the scenes with republicans, former

congressman like joe walsh, we don't agree on everything but need to find everything we can do even if it saves one life. i'm not crazy, there are 400 million guns in this country, no single policy will eradicate gun violence but we need to focus on a reduction even a small step in the right direction because we got to do anything to help save the kids lives because the future of our country is dying with them and i'm very encouraged with the things i've been hearing i can't dive into details about but trust me, i do think this time will be different and i'm a very cynical person. >> what do you want to see -- i mean, what do you think can get passed? >> i think what we can get passed are things we've seen passed in other republican states. in the wake of florida, we worked with republican state legislature and governor rick scott to pass legislation that has saved lives, under the guidance of governor rick scott and others and in has happened with other senators to other republican governors have passed gun law prevention legislation,

it's important to note how many of these gunman are under 21 when these things happen, also protection orders that enable somebody to have guns taken through due process if at risk to themselves or others. we helped disarm somebody who threatened to kill my own mother and it worked through a court order with due process and i think because of that, republicans have done this stuff, you know, governor rick scott signed that law and signed that bill into law and got elected to the senate. and anderson, i think the reality is we are not nearly as divided as i think we are, i've talked with nra members, many who do agree with me but we all agree on what counts that gun violence should not be continuing in the united states, that's why we're calling on a second march for our lives for june 11th, gun owners, republicans, democrats, nongun owners, everybody who agrees we need to do something about gun violence and demand congress act even in a small way around something like background checks

and red flag laws so people interested in joining us in that march, text march to 954954, we've got to keep this out there and keep the pressure on congress. >> do you think nra still has the influence over politicians it had in 2018? >> no, and that's part of the reason i'm also hopeful. nra is at their weakest position in american history because young people, older people, democrats, republicans, marched with us in 2018 and as march for our lives helped file a complaint with new york attorney general tish james for the nra corrupt spending. it's important to note nra members are not the enemy here, it's the nra board and they are two very different things. i talk to nra members and we fw agree on stuff like background checks and anderson, that's why i'm here, not here to debate these things, we know what we disagree on as democrats and republicans we need to come together as americans and address the fact that the future our country is dying. i don't care if you don't agree with me on every policy or the gun violence prevention movement

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tonight, i want to tell you more about one of the students killed in tuesday's tragedy, we spoke briefly about her at the top of the hour. >> reporter: the girl wearing the gray shirt is 11-year-old fourth grader layla salazar, about to win this race at last month's rob elementary school field day. her family was there, but today, they mourn. her parents, two brothers and grandparents have lost their little girl. >> she loved to run. her favorite thing was, you know, tiktok, you know, doing the little tiktok dances and -- >> she was everything. she loved -- >> she liked to dance. >> she was just a tomboy slash girl, everything, if she saw a tree she would climb a tree and jump off of it. >> she loved the live, loved to

swim. >> your husband was telling me, telling me she loved the guns n roses song, sweet child o mine and i love that song too. >> we played that every morning taking her to school. >> terrifshe was a sweet child. >> mother's day, layla took to tiktok. >> today was murkt's day and if you haven't said happy mother's day to your mom, what are you doing, say it right now. and i just want to wish all the moms out there, happy mothers day, even though you're not my mom. and i also want to say i hope all the moms out there have an awesome and blessed day. >> she was my only princess, my everything, she was, we went everywhere. she was stuck on me like glue,

always layed with me. we did everything together. everything. >> she loved to go to the park, feed the ducks. >> feed the ducks a lot -- >> she was so excited about her last few days of school. >> reporter: everyone in this family doted on layla, particularly her grandparents. >> she was our world. >> even though -- our were had as, our hearts are shattered. >> reporter: how could layla no longer be here? how can they cope with never seeing her again? >> the hardest thing is i was her father and i wasn't there -- i wasn't there to protect her. >> reporter: for now, this family leans on each other for support. and i hope you know that so many of us, not just us here with you right now in your yard, but around this country and around the world are thinking of you.

does that give you strength? >> it helps. it helps to know that so many people care. >> reporter: gary joins us now from a makeshift memorial set up in downtown. lot of people, looks like they're still going out to this memorial today, looks like it's just been growing. >> reporter: yes, very busy, anderson. it's a very small city, only 16,000 people live here, this county, 26,000 but one of the reasons it's so crowded is people are coming from other parts of texas and outside the state, also. 21 crosses, for each of the people who were killed, with hearts on the crosses. people are leaving stuffed animals, leaving flowers, and they're writing on the crosses. and layla's cross, the girl you just met in the story, her grandmother wrote i will love you forever, rest in peace and one of her friends from school wrote you are so pretty. this is so terribly sad, but also assuring to see so many wonderful, nice people in the city and at this memorial.

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for just $49.99 a month for 24 months with a 2 -year price guarantee. call today. ukrainian troops trying to drive back russia's invasion could soon be getting advanced american battlefield rocket systems. ukraine's government says they're badly needed. nick paton walsh has more from the front lines. >> reporter: putin would leave little of what he claims to liberate. an artillery duel has been raging for days, torching the vital town. up on high in a position we were asked not to reveal, these ukrainian troops dug in and buoyant have a clear view of the damage below, but also of their enemy.

so, the russians are just a kilometer on the brow of this hill in that direction. this unit only here two days, but say they have already destroyed a russian tank. yes, they play to the cameras, but it's pretty clear up here their morale is sky high. they are exposed but ready, keen to show off actually gleeful at the international menu of weapons they've been sent. almost a silly amount. these swedish antitank munitions and of course a british in law. then from out of the grass, a ser man one, which they particularly like. a polish grenade. no training on them, just practical use, they joke, giving them the widest experience of

antitank weapons in europe. raiding also what the russians left, firmer optics, and a soviet era antitank weapon that they wind up like a telephone. yet still the russians persist, even as the prison rs these troops have taken have revealed how young the soldiers they're fighting are. [speaking foreign language ]

>> reporter: in the village below, the endless shelling is flushing the remaining life out. this woman said telling me her name would make no difference. [speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: they really don't know where they'll go or what, if anything, they can come back to, just that life has no space left here. >> and nick joins us now from kramatorsk. russia saw several advances today, i understand. what have you learned? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, it's important to point out while you

see happy faces on the hills to the north of where i'm standing, around kramatorsk, and part particularly the smaller town which fell to russian forces, things are absolutely not good. a marked change in tone from ukrainian officials who are slowly beginning to accept that they are losing ground here. and that is evidenced in the speed of russian advances, often in smaller, lesser populated areas, yes, but with the broader targets of slav yans k and kramatorsk. you can hear the air raid sirens here in kramatorsk as first daylight is coming. oen the outskirts today we heard consistent shelling. and another target where there's ukrainians digging in saw unbelievable destruction, about nine enormous crate rs from strategic bombers dropping their load on towns around there. so, a lot of russian motion here. a lot of concerned ukrainian rhetoric. and an acceptance from one

presidential adviser, frankly, that there is perhaps finally getting russia in the right place here. will they continue this advanced pace? unclear. outside weapons clearly playing a role. i have to say i'm surprised at how we're seeing things moving so fast in russia's favor, anderson. >> thank you for the update. we hope you tune in this weekend when we bring you the war diary of a ukrainian mom, through the eyes of olena gnes k. what you may not realize is she's been documenting her life and the life of her three young children and husband in a personal and poignant video diary all throughout this war. it's the war as she's seen it. we're calling it "a mother's diary of war." it airs sunday night at 8:00 p.m. it is her story in videos. up next, more from texas and the tribute to the victims outside robb elementary. w, she e and eat itit too.

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