door to go hide. >> reporter: his mom waited 40 agonizing minutes to know he was safe. >> i was thinking that the shooter was shooting everywhere, that it was going to go through one of the walls and shoot him. and i was so scared. >> reporter: as the people of uvalde come to terms with what happened, this largely latino community is turning to each other for comfort and to prayer, hoping to find an answer to what may never be known. >> there are no words for this kind of situation. and we're trying to speak with our action, with our presence, with our support, with our prayer. we're ready for to immediately assist them with grief coun counseling, with financial assistance, with housing if they need or any other assistance. >> reporter: here at the sacred heart church, it's a catholic church. the archbishop of san antonio will be joined by the bishop of

piedras negras, on the other side of the border, two communities joined together to mourn as one. tonight the coroner tells us he expects to release the bodies of the children and the victims back to their families between tonight and tomorrow. tony? >> all right, lilia, thank you very much. before we move on to washington and the situation there, we did want to try to put this country's epidemic of gun violence into some sort of perspective. here are some numbers for you. in 202010, the most recent cdc data shows that there were more than 19,000 gun-related homicides. do the math. that's an average of 53 a day there have been 213 mass shootings so far this year alone. it's only may. and the death toll in mass shootings in schools, in schools is truly startling. since sandy hook less than a decade ago, 2012, 77 students have been killed in classrooms. and since april of 1999 when 13 people died at columbine high school, 311,000 students have experienced gun violence while

at school. that number from a database of school shootings. now as promised, a picture from washington to the white house, where president biden announced today that the first lady and he will travel here to texas to look to comfort the victims and their families. meanwhile, the shooting has re-ignited a larger debate, a debate over what some say are common sense gun safety legislations like universal background checks. for more here is cbs' ed o'keefe. >> reporter: the political firestorm around gun control was on full display when texas governor greg abbott's press conference was interrupted by candidate beto o'rourke. >> you're doing nothing! >> reporter: local officials tried to get him kicked out. >> you're a sick son of a [ bleep ] who would come to a deal like to make a political issue. >> reporter: elsewhere, golden state warriors coach steve kerr who has spoken out after previous shootings couldn't hold back. >> when are we going to do something? i'm tired.

i'm so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to -- to the -- to the devastated families that are out there. i'm so tired of the excuse. i'm sorry. i'm tired of the moments of silence. enough. >> reporter: so are parents, who have been through the unimaginable before. >> you will hear this politicians sending their thoughts and prayers, and some of them will say our hearts are with the families. well, guess what? the families don't need your freaking hearts. they need their kids. >> reporter: at the white house, president biden said the texas school shooter never should have had access to an ar-15 style rifle. >> the idea an 18-year-old can walk into a store and buy weapons of war designed and marketed to kill is i think just wrong. >> reporter: democrats plan to hold votes on new gun control bills, but leader chuck schumer wasn't optimistic. >> i know this is a slim

prospect, very slim, all too slim. >> reporter: republicans, as they've argued before, said new gun laws aren't the answer. >> any firearm is potentially dangerous in the hands of a deranged lunatic. a the end of the day, the issue is not the firearm. >> reporter: the stalemate is part of pattern that stretches back to the rise of mass shootings in the 1990s. presidents signal the country's collective brief. >> the priefrs the american people are with you. >> this is a day of mourning for the virginia tech community. >> they had their entire lives ahead of them. >> reporter: but then very little is done. now as we mentioned, the president says he plans to visit uvalde in the coming days to meet with the victims families. when he does it will be at least the 19th visit by a president to a community forever formed by a mass shooting. >> it feels like we're on some kind of a treadmill, and it's time to get off, one way or another. ed, thank you very much. there is a lot more ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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security guard aaron salter was shot and killed as he tried to protect customers from a gunman at a supermarket just 11 days ago. cbs' jericka duncan made her way to the service. ♪ >> reporter: inside a church near buffalo, grief was everywhere, this time for 55-year-old aaron salter jr. his casket draped in an american flag, the husband, father of three, and retired buffalo police officer was on duty as a security guard at tops when he became one of ten black people gunned down by an 18-year-old motivated by hate. >> it is my profound honor and duty to posthumously award officer salter with the medal of honor for his sheer bravely in the face of taking on evil in order to save lives. aaron saved lives. >> reporter: today's tributes were rousing. >> i believe that he would want me to say that on one of the darkest days in the history of buffalo, he made a choice to stand tall. he gave all that he had for all

that he believed in, protecting and saving lives. >> reporter: and a celebration of a selfless soul. >> when all hell broke loose at tops, aaron salter the policeman stepped into his assignment. >> reporter: former buffalo deputy commissioner kimberly beaty struggled through her own grief to honor her friend, a man with no hate in his heart. >> this is not easy for me, and i'm not okay. i want to say farewell, my friend. my courageous and brave friend. i'll see you on the other side. >> reporter: buffalo officers, rather, also included a scholarship fund in his honor, aaron salter jr. but meanwhile, this community continues to lay many people to rest. in fact, there was a funeral this morning for pearl young, and there will be two more

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texas governor greg abbott told reporters today that children are a blessing, a gift he said that was taken away from parents near in uvalde too soon. and while that's certainly true, children are a blessing, guns are a right in this country because of 27 words the founding fathers tucked into the bill of rights in 1791. now the question becomes have the times and the weapons changed beyond the original scope, a discussion we may finally be ready to have. children are a blessing. guns are right. it counts for nothing less than a curse. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for

"cbs mornings" and follow us any time online at cbsnews.com. reporting from uvalde, texas tonight, i'm tony dokoupil. this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. a young man who lives across the street from the texas elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed tells the associated press that he urged police to charge into the school when he saw the gunman run in. he claims the officers did not go in. the massacre lasted upwards of 40 minutes. president biden says he will travel to texas in the coming days. oklahoma governor kevin stitt has signed this country's strictest abortion law. it bans the procedure from the stage of fertilization. there are a few exceptions, including rape or incest. and boeing starliner capsule landed back on earth, just four

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everyday americans kids, extraordinarily loved and now extraordinarily missed. their parents tonight adjusting to a new reality to lives that we all know will never quite be the same. and now this roughly 15,000 person predominantly latino community is also added to the list of places where you know by heart, columbine, newtown, parkland, places scarred by gun violence, their children murdered in their classrooms. and of course the question tonight, when will it stop? we have a lot of news to get to. we're going to begin with cbs' janet shamlian. janet, good evening. >> tony, good evening to you. new details emerging tonight on how this massacre unfolded, and they are chilling. the gunman firing on a classroom full of fourth graders and their teachers. they had just been celebrating the end of the school year. suddenly they were trapped with nowhere to go. massacre in a fourth grade classroom, just two days before summer break. a gunman bursting into a fourth grade classroom at robb elementary school, opening fire with an ar-15-style rifle.

an unimaginable toll. 19 children gunned down, along with two teachers. 17 others were hurt. they werds among those who did not come home, amerie jo garza, who proudly displayed her honor roll ticket. and annabelle rodriguez, a straight a student who loved school. and irma garcia and eva mireles, married to a uvalde police officer. >> these kids will never attend school again. to say the least, uvalde has been shaken to its core. >> reporter: in the aftermath, chaos and confusion as moms and dads raced to a reunion center. far too many would go home without their children. parents were asked to give dna swabs to help identify the dead. >> to all the moms that lost their babies, i am so sorry. i cannot imagine what they're going through.

>> reporter: cbs news has learned the gunman, salvador ramos, had earlier fought with his grandmother over a cell phone bill and shot her in the face. tonight she is in critical condition. governor greg abbott says the shooter posted on facebook about 30 minutes before reaching the school. >> the first post was, he said "i'm going to shoot my grandmother." the second post was "i shot my grandmother." the third post was "i'm going to shoot an elementary school." >> reporter: the 18-year-old left in his grandmother's truck, crashing into a ditch near the school. this video shows him entering a back door just before noon, going down hallways before barricading himself in a classroom. a border patrol agent from an elite s.w.a.t. unit shot and killed him a short time later. the gunman dropped out of school and had few friends, authorities say. legally purchasing two assault rifles and almost 400 rounds of ammunition earlier this month.

uvalde resident maria flores told us she knows the family. >> i've been hearing that he was -- he was being bullied since he was a little boy, you know. but we don't know really why this thing happened. >> reporter: churches and community centers have opened their doors, but tonight many of those prayers for the lives of children seem to have gone unanswered. >> you never thought it was going to happen to your town. i just -- it's so heartbreaking. >> janet, a lot of powerful reporting now on the how of this. are we learning more also about the why? >> beyond the reported fight with his grandmother, they say he has no criminal history, no documented issues of mental illness. so they are still looking. the fbi spending considerable time at his home today. um. >> i think that will continue until they get to the bottom of it. janet, thank you very much. earlier today he met a man whose

name angel garza whose 10-year-old daughter-in-law amerie was killed just hours after receiving a certificate she was quite proud of, for making the honor roll. >> i know, come on. >> angel garza's daughter amerie was just two weeks past her tenth birthday when he walked this path on tuesday, dropping her off at school for what turned out to be the very last time. >> she was the sweetest thing. she was so creative. she just got an award for being most creative. >> reporter: i have a fourth grader also. >> i don't know what to do, man. i just -- she didn't deserve that. >> reporter: no, no. no, she didn't. >> i just want to protect my little girl. >> reporter: it was her fourth grade classroom where that 18-year-old gunman opened fire, killing amerie at the very moment her classmates say she was calling for help.

>> she tried to grab her phone and call the cops. >> reporter: and as we spoke, we heard a sound from inside the house, amerie's mother sobbing. i hear someone crying inside. >> that's her mother. >> reporter: neither parent is sure what to tell her 3-year-old brother zayne. >> every morning he wakes up and asks for his sister. >> reporter: and garza says it's just too painful to say where they are in an area so full of memories. >> she always makes me laugh. i love music and listen to music all the time. but every time we pull up to the school and we're about to open the door, she makes sure to turn it down all the way because she gets embarrassed. >> reporter: and while some parents find solace in the hope for change, angel garza is not one of them. at least not now. >> nothing is going to change. i mean this always happens in a small town. nobody expects anything bad to happen and it happens. and everybody wants to make changes to prevent it from happening and it dies down a little bit and it happens again. it's just a cycle.

i just want my baby home. i don't care. i don't care about anything else, i don't care about nothing at all. >> reporter: i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. >> we did want to try to put this country's epidemic of gun violence into some sort of perspective. here are some numbers for you. in 2020, the most recent cdc data shows there were more than 19,000 gun-related homicides. do the math, that's an average of 53 a day. there have been 213 mass shootings so far this year alone. it's own may. and the death toll in mass shootings in schools, in schools is truly startling. since sandy hook less than a decade ago, 2012, 77 students have been killed in classrooms. and since april of 1999 when 13 people died at columbine high school, 311,000 students have experienced gun violence while

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm errol barnett in washington. thanks for staying was. as the nation comes to grips with yet another mass shooting, this one at an elementary school in texas, many much older students are ending their education. commenments are taking place at colleges and universities from coast-to-coast. millions of graduates will be joining the workforce, and many of them will be carrying a mountain of debt. president biden has already canceled billions in outstanding student loans, but democrats are demanding he do more. david poag has a look at the

problem. >> reporter: 28-year-old keira cheeney works for the government, lives in a basement apartment with her boyfriend in san francisco, and stresses about her college loans. how much do they add up to about? >> it's around 280 some,000. >> reporter: $280,000? >> yeah. >> reporter: she followed the classic recipe for success. she graduated from penn state. but now she is facing down decades of debt. have you ever tried to figure out if i put aside this much a month, this is the year when i'll pay off those $280,000? >> i mean, that would be the goal. i've always thought of winning the lottery. >> reporter: and cheney is not alone. 43 million americans carry student debt. they owe the government more than $1.7 trillion. and about two-thirds of all graduates leave college carrying debt. many will work their entire careers without being able to pay it off. no wonder college debt has become a white house priority.

>> we can't good out as much as we used to for dinners. and we can't take as much trips as we want to unless it's in our budget. so it does affect us. >> reporter: one reason for the crisis? skyrocketing tuition. another reason, more people going to college in the first place. >> in the early 1960s, only about 8% of americans had a college degree. and now it's getting close to 40%. >> reporter: wow. >> so it's a big difference. you were pretty special in the 1960s if you had a college degree. >> reporter: peter capelli is a professor of management at the university of pennsylvania's wharton school of business. but you are also the author of a book relevant to our topic today. >> yes. >> reporter: called "will college pay off?" >> right. >> reporter: will college pay off? >> it depends. there is no doubt that going to college is incredibly useful for people in terms of improving their lives. what everybody is interested in more is financially is this a

good investment. will they pay off and that you'll be better off than a high school graduate? yeah. if they graduate, for sure. if they don't, maybe not. >> reporter: trouble is, most students don't. >> the astonishing statistic is that only 40% of full-time college students graduate in four years. >> reporter: less than half? >> less than half. >> reporter: and even if you pause your schooling, your debt keeps right on growing. >> reporter: if it takes you six years to graduate, you've got six years of interest accumulation. >> reporter: so the old formula, spend four years in college, get financial security, no longer a sure thing. >> i'm applying for the position of user experience designer. >> reporter: but some new formulas are springing up in its place. >> nothing is ever set in stone. whether you want to go to college or go straight to the workforce, everything's changing. >> reporter: natasha and stephanie ramos and their father

javier live in connecticut. natasha avoided massive debt by starting her college career inexpensively. >> i got two years at a community college. >> reporter: and finishing at a state college. >> connecticut university student debt is way better than private school student debt. so i'll just leave it at that. >> reporter: stephanie attends a vocational high school where students can learn trades. like carpet try, plumbing, or hair dressing. but she is taking a shortcut to the corporate world thanks to the google professional certification program. >> providing you with job ready skills to start or advance your career in i.t. >> reporter: for $39 a month, she can take video classes that prepare her for a career in technology. >> and the courses give you a certification at the end that looks very good for employers or for colleges, whatever route you want to take. >> reporter: by the time you're done with high school, you'd be in the working world at, what,

18 years old? >> yep. >> reporter: javier, do you put any pressure on her one way or another for financial reasons? >> i support going to college, but the decision is on her. >> reporter: well, it seems to be working in your family. >> thank god. >> it looks pretty complicated. >> reporter: the google program has already placed 75,000 workers into well paying tech jobs at over 150 companies that are eager to hire them. meanwhile, opportunities are opening up on the receiving end too. >> 80% of what we call family-sustaining jobs, $60,000 or more generally speaking require a four-year degree. and so companies screen out people no matter what their intelligence is, their curiosity, their work ethic, their adaptability. but if i don't have much ppl to fill all the jobs that we need in this country, i think we have to reexamine it.

>> reporter: ken frasier is the executive chairman and former ceo of merck. jenny remetti is the former ceo of ibm. they led a drive to eliminate the college requirement from as many of their company's job descriptions as possible. >> when i became ceo in 2012, we looked at every single job and said do we need a college degree to start, or could we translate into a set of skills you need? so what started as over 90% of jobs needed a college degree, is now less than 50%. >> reporter: wow. >> for example, lab teblgs and things of that nature, they don't necessarily need a degree in philosophy in order to do the job. >> reporter: obviously you're not doing this just because it's the right thing to do. there must be something in it for the corporations. >> absolutely. this is not philanthropy. at the end of the day, you have people who you can retain longer because they're incredibly loyal. they're hardworking. you can access them for a lot less money. >> and our data has shown that

their performance is equal to those with a four-year degree. >> reporter: but wait a minute. a college degree means you know how to apportion your time. you learn to communicate with others. >> it does. but there are studies that show that people who actually have the right skills training are five times more likely to succeed in the job than people who have a college degree. it's counterintuitive. >> reporter: are you anti-college? >> yes absolutely not anti-college at all. it is about just recognizing you may start and go a different path than someone else. >> reporter: you know college has lots of value beyond just getting a job. we think education is is a good thing for people. it broadens their perspectives on the world. and what we've seen in these kinds of programs is eventually, a substantial majority of these people go on and get a college degree. they just didn't get the college degree before they entered the workplace. it's a question of sequence, not a question of capability. >> reporter: to scale up this

idea, remetti and frasier have founded 110, a coalition of employers and counting. >> 110 came from the proposition that it would be usel i we soht to hire one million black americans who lack a four-year college degree over ten years intoy- >> reporter: the coalition works with community colleges, job training organizations, and apprenticeships, persuading them to train young people for precisely the kinds of jobs that need filling. remedi calls them new filler jobs. >> in our country is a stereotype of white collar, blue collar. and we came up with something new collar to say something different. this is something new. >> new collar workers. for some career, it's all part of a wave of alternative paths that don't involve college or college debt. as for kyra cheney, she has a long-range plan. >> i really want to go to law

school. if i can start making higher money, then i can afford my monthly payments. >> reporter: so was college worth it for you? >> i mean, i had a fun college. it was great experience. but for the lifetime of debt i'm going to be living with, it's so hard. it's such a difficult question. >> that was david pogue reporting. the "overnight news" is back in two minutes.

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cat living in this trailer park. the cat was in such terrible shape, she brought it over to this veterinary office to be put down. be so, as a standard procedure, the vet scanned the cat for a microchip. at that very moment, jason got an ought mated text. cat ritz has been found. >> well, that's got to be a mistake. i'm thinking they recycled the microchip number. she is upstairs and overhears me. what did you just say? >> he has been gone for 16 years. i didn't think that was possible. >> come on, ritz. >> reporter: and yet, there he is, the record holder. no pet reunited because of a microchip has ever been lost longer. today, despite two bum legs, ritz is on the mend. he already has his favorite chair picked out, and is now enjoying the attention of the brother and sister he never knew. ritz has a very sweet demeanor, which means he may have been a

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more than 3600 new and used machines, helping survivors of disasters like hurricane katrina and refugees from afghanistan and seemmaomalia. among recipients, a common thread. all are in need. >> it helps you economically and physically and mentally. >> you got it down? >> i got it down. >> reporter: a tool that can provide income. >> i made this on the machine that was donated. >> reporter: for those starting over. >> why do you do it? >> the fact i can share them with people to whom it can make such a difference is life chaining for them and life changing for me. >> reporter: a lover of the craft helping others on the mend. >> oh, that's pretty. >> reporter: janet shamlian, cbs news, houston. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for other, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm errol barnett.

this is cbs news flash. i'm matt pieper in new york. a young man who lives across the street from the texas elementary school where 19 children and two teachers were killed tells the associated press that he urged police to charge into the school when he saw the gunman run in. he claims the officers did not go in. the massacre lasted upwards of 40 minutes. president biden says he will travel to texas in the coming days. oklahoma governor kevin stitt has signed this country's strictest abortion law. it bans the procedure from the stage of fertilization. there are a few exceptions, including rape or incest. and boeing starliner capsule landed back on earth, just four hours after leaving the international space station.

only a mannequin was buckled in. for nor news download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. > thursday, may 26 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." community in grief. still no answers into why a gunman killed 21 people at a texas elementary school. his private messages sent before the attack are revealed. honoring the victims. stories of bravery and heroism emerge as we learn more about the students and teachers. sit down. you're out of line and an embarrassment. >> heated confrontation. why beto o'rourke interrupted the governor of texas during an update on the shooting. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

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