♪ judy: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, a slow response. a top official admits law enforcement should have acted more quickly in uvalde, texas questioning why children were barricaded and a classroom with the shooter for nearly an hour. the pandemic fallout. a look at how covid and anti-asian sentiment have impacted people across in country. >> sometimes i see people coming into our restaurant yelling slurs and giving us trouble and i see my dad trying to be strong and i worry about him.

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>> and with the ongoing support of these institutions -- ♪ and friends of the "newshour" -- ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: today was supposed to be the first day of summer break for students in uvalde, texas but instead the community is still reeling from the shooting that left 19 children and two schoolteacrs dead. day's after the attack, there are more questions tn answers that we are learning new details about the law enforcement response and the terror inside classrooms at robb elementary

school. we are in you all the tonight. tell us what you have learned. reporter: uvalde here in -- here in uvalde, the worse it gets. detailing the 78 minutes that passed before a authorities are finally confronted the gunman even as children trapped inside the classroom called 911 begging for help. three days after the deadly rampage that left 19 of the youngest dad, grief and anger co-mingle in this tiny community. >> i will never hold my baby again. and i need to do something about it. i need to not forget the babies, the kids. reporter: jaclyn was killed on tuesday. he was outside the school going

the shooting in disbelief over the police response. >> they came with their shields 15 minut later. they should not have been waiting 45 minutes. reporter: vincent salazar's daughter was one of the victims. >> how fast can you act? i mean, i don't know. i don't know how much of a difference it would have made -- maybe they could have acted faster. that remains to be seen. reporter: today, the director of tactless -- of texas public safety offered the most detailed timeline to date. just before 11:30 a.m., the gunman crashes his truck near the school and a teacher calls 911. the gunman begins shooting into the windows. the gunman entered through a door official say was propped open by a teacher.

at 11: 35, police officers enter by the same door taking fire from the gunman. ultimo rounds are fired for the next several minutes. more officers continue to arrive and bike 12:03, there are 19 officers in the hallway. getting at 12: 03, a student begins calling 91 one. official say she whispers as she talks making several calls. she shares how many are dead and how many alive and the gunman shot at the door. during one call more than 30 minutes after her first she bags, please send the police now. >> they breached the door using keys they were able to get from the janitor because both doors were locked. both of the classrooms he shot into were locked when officers arrived. they killed the suspect. reporter: it is still unclear if the 19 officers in the hallway knew at the time there were children alive inside the classroom. >> the on scene commander

considered a barricaded subject and thought there were no more children at risk. based on the information we have, there were children who were at risk and it was in fact still an active shooter situation. from the benefit of hindsight, where i am sitting down, it was the wrong decision. reporter: the news in downtown uvalde was met with frustration and anger and confusion. >> an hour's worth of time that nobody went in? what happened? i don't know but i know one thing, my husband is a retired former officer and 1911 happened, firefighters were running in and they knew that when they were going in, they would not be coming back out. what happened? why did it take so long for them to get in? as a parent i think i would've rushed in there without thinking

twice. i don't care if they would have tased me or taken me down. i would've done whatever to get my children. i am still really confused about that, why they waited soong. reporter: latt -- later this afternoon greg abbott had this response. >> i was misled. i am livid about what happened. i expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations which include the texas rangers and the fbi -- they get to the bottom. of every fact with absolute certainty. there are people who deserve answers the most and those are the families whose lives have been destroyed. they need answers that are accurate and it is inexcusable that they may have suffered from any inaccurate information. reporter: uvalde's collective

grief has manifested here. hearts heavy and arms for, they are offering flowers at the foot of each cross. flowers and stuffed animals. tess motta was 10-year-old, a fourth-grader and some of her soccer teammates came together last evening to play flowers, scribble notes and remember their friend. for days as a community has mourned, the question looms, could more have been done? with today's revelations and the massive failures, the answer is a heartbreaking yes. judy: it is impossible to imagine what these families, these parents of these children who were inside the school are thinking, feeling right now. i know you have been talking to several of them. what are they telling you? reporter: the parents who lost

children are left to wonder what if police had acted sooner or what if moore had been done, what my children be alive today? we can also now share that an el paso funeral home has offered to donate and truck in caskets or those children because uvalde will need so many more of those smaller caets. i spoke to our mother whose student survived the shooting. she survived and mentioned to her mother that her teacher had been shot and her friends had been shot and her mother says she dipped her hands in their blood and smeared it on herself so the admin would not know she was still alive. she was one of this dunes also that was calling 911 asking for help. she said she could hear the police officers outside her classroom and did not understand why they were not coming inside to help yuri her mother is very

angry. she does not know why the people who they tell their children to trust and ask for help were not there to help. judy: it is just impossibleo comprehend this. as you talk to them, where does this frustration, this anger go? are they telling you now what they want to see happen? reporter: as we reported, there will be some level of accountability and there will be investigations to the police level -- to the police response. the parents know that nothing will bng back their children and now uvalde as many communities are wil forever be changed. it does raise questions asked, more can be done to protect students? how much more can be done to harden schools? the gunman had two assault rifles and more than 1600 rounds

of ammunition. the steps put in place here and at schools across the country did not work. there was no police officer on site. the door was not locked. and when the police arrived, they did not do what they were trained to do which was confront the gunman and neutralize him until many children were dead. this is what children are trained to do. over the last three days it has been striking to seize how -- to see how much of that safety burden has been left to children. many children are taught on how to go through locked down. when you talk to the kids here, that is what they did. even though the adults did not do what they were trained to do, the kids did. i spoke to a third grader yesterday and he said he was in the cafeteria during the shooting and he knew he had to run and hide. i asked him -- how did you know to do that?

he said no one told me i just knew i had to. judy: the heartbreak, the anger, again, it is incomprehensible. thank you very much. in the meantime, veterans of law enforcement are weighing in on the controversial actions taken by those police officers during the shooting. william has more on that. reporter: as we just heard, those officials are being harshly criticized for not acting sooner to confront those shooter and to potentially save some of those children. actions they now admit were wrong. to help us better understand what police should and should not do in these awful circumstances, i am joined by fred fletcher, the retired police chief from chattanooga,

tennessee and he also spent many years as police commander in austin, texas. thank you for being here. you heard the timeline investigators have played out. 19 armed police officers are in the school outside the shooter is locked in two rooms with young students and there is this punishingly long wait before they go through that door and confront him. as a former police chief and someone who has trained a lot of officers, what is your reaction to this? >> i feel a great deal o grief and my heart breaks for uvalde and when i think of those 29 minutes in particular that lapsed between the officers stacking up outside that door, shots being fired, and finally breaching the door, the grief is compounded by anger and shame that we as a community has

allowed this violence to continue on our children. reporter: the officials today said that the localommander on the scene felt this was a barricade situation where there shooter with simply hold up on his own and their was not a threat to others rather than an active shooter situation where there was a threat. what do you make of that distinction they are making? >> i agree with the director. it was the wrong decision and there is no excuse. i cannot say it better. an active shooter has demonstrated they have no intention other than taking lives and we know since columbine in the late 1990's that active shooter's are only going to stop when we intervene and stop them. as first responders, -- go ahead -- reporter: please continue. >> we have an obligation to have

a bias towards action. police officers regularly run towards gunfire and we trained in active shooting preparation to engage and draw the attention , emotion, energy and fire from there shooter so we put ourselves between violence and those we are sworn to protect. we have to have a bias towards action and those decisions need to be left to the men and women on the scene who have the information and not to a commander who is off the scene and receiving delayed information. reporter: one of the most haunting aspects of this, this horrendous circumstance, is that we know that while those officers are outside the room,, the children inside the room are saying 2911, we can hear the police, please tell them to come in. that seems to be a tremendous breakdown in communication that

that was not related to the officers outside the room. >> clearly, there are many questions about communication and passing of information and that is why we need to train, empower and trust the officers on the scene of theiolence to make the disions to protect our neighbors. they need to know they are empowered and supported in intervening and engaging and taking the bias towards action so they can engage a shooter, a violent perpetrator and keep them from harming our neighbors. reporter: you have said that should be the bias in all of police training. is that what officers are trained -- if you go through active shooter training, is this a nationally understood situation that in those cases you do not wait for backup or the swat team. you have to act. >> we are literally taught and

we teach that whether there is one or 100 of you, you move toward the sound of gunfire and place yourself between violence and the innocent. that is our job. that is our fundamental obligation. it is a way we train and the way we deploy. reporter: and what if there are circumstances -- we understand there were a lot of wounded children and we also understand that police were trying to evacuate or at least that is what they were telling parents that were being restrained outside that there were evacuations going on as well. how are police supposed to prioritize those in the midst of the circumstances? >> not an uncommon situation, william. again, the bias is towards engaging the threat. you stop a threat because you have a perpetrator who has demonstrated a desire to kill as many people as possible so the number one priority is always engaging the threat, intervening

and eliminating the threat. often you are able to do multiple things at once if you have enough resources. you can evacuate, stage and treat simultaneously in an active shooter situation, a bias and intent and priority have to be put towards eliminating the act of threat. reporter: as you well know is a former police chief, we are a nation that is awash in high-powered, lightweight, very dangerous semiautomatic rifles. officers in the hallway had to know what they were up against. this is not to excuse their actions. what do you think that concern that they may be up against weaponry that is perhaps more powerful than what they were carrying, do you think that factored into this as well? >> i think that if police officers are going to be

deterred and intimidated by violent perpetrators carrying weapons of war, then we as a community should commit ourselves to doing something so people cannot kill our children with these weapons of war. i am ashamed that we as a community and our elected officials have sat on the sideline so that our children from sandy hook to today in uvalde are being killed either these weapons of war. there is a majority of americans concerned. on the impact and availability of these chip -- of these weapons on our children. reporter: that is former police chief fred fletcher. tweet -- thank you for being with us tonight. ♪ judy: in the days other news, a congressional panel asked five major gun makers for data on assault styled weapons used in

mass shootings. in a letter, carolyn maloney, chair of the u.s. house oversight committee said gun manufacturers continue to profit from the sale of weapons of war. she called for information on manufacturing, marketing, and sales. the national rifle association opened its national convention in houston today and the shadow of the killings in uvalde and buffalo. former president trump headlined the event rejecting criticism of the gun lobby and republicans calling for a sweeping overhaul of school security and of mental health policy. >> we need to drastically change our approach to mental health. there are always so many warning signs. almost all of these disfigured mines share the same profile. judy: several hundred protesters rallied outside the convention site and several texas lawmakers canceled plans to speak.

read cap it opted to send a recorded message. russia's assault on used during ukraine slowly gained more ground. pro-russian rebels say they have captured a railway hub in the donbass region and two key cities face round-the-clock bombardment. ukraine's foreign minister said his country is outgunned in a video he posted online. >> the only position where russia is better than us is the amount of heavy weapons they have. without artillery, without multiple rocket launch systems, we will not be able to hold them back. judy: ukrainian officials say shipments of western arms have been delayed and the russians are using the time to step up their offensive. president biden told u.s. navy academy rajoy it's that they will have to defend democracy against the likes of russia and china. he addressed the commencement in

annapolis, maryland sang russia was trying to erase ukraine's national identity. >> attacking schools, hospitals, and museums with no other purpose than to eliminate culture. a direct assault on a fundamental tenet of rule-based international order -- that is what you are graduating into. judy: mr. biden also said the navy must defend freedom of navigation and the south china sea against china's increasingly aggressive claims in the region. new tensions are roiling the persian gulf after iran seized two tanker ships today. the iranian revolutionary guard commandeered two vessels cared armed men took the cruise captive. it followed the u.s. seizure of oil from an iranian flagged tanker off greece. in this country, u.s. southern

baptist leaders have released a previously secret list of pastors and church workers accused of sexual abuse. the database includes more than 700 entries spanning the last two decades. the list first came to light and a scathing independent report last sunday. it detailed how church leaders suppressed and mishandled the abuse allegations. in oregon, democratic congressman kurt schrader who was backed by president biden has lost his primary bid. he is a centrist who has served seven terms. he was ousted by jamie macleod skinner in a big win for the left flank. a ballot printing issue delayed the results for more than a week. wall street has finally ended a seven-week skid with tech stocks and retailers leading the way and new data showing that inflation is moderating. the dow jones industrial average gained 575 points today.

the nasdaq rose 390 points, 3% and they impede 500 was up 2.5% and for the week all three indus is jumped -- indices jumped more than 3%. still to come on the "newshour," how businesses and new york's chinatown are copingith covid and anti-asian harassment. david and jonathan discuss this week's political news and we remember the children and teachers who lost their lives during the elementary school shooting in uvalde, texas. ♪ >> this is the pbs "newshour" from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: the pandemic threatened business districts across the country but misguided fears and rhetoric about asian americans

made things particularly hard for chinatown neighborhoods. with this report during asian-american and pacific islander heritage month, john yang visited one of the nation's most well-known china towns new york city. it is part of our ongoing race matters series. reporter: the carts stacked with bamboo baskets, bustling kitchen , board games in the park. manhattan's chinatown looks a lot like its pre-pandemic self. a walk through the heart of the neighborhood with a cookbook author, grace young and the scars of the pandemic are evident. >> this was a family-owned supermarket and it closed during covid. it had been there for years and years and it did not have the business. as we come along here, this was a bakery that was the place to go for parts and moon cakes were out of this world. reporter: what else is lost when

a business like this goes out of business? >> it is not just about food. what about our memories. so many people talk about going to this bakery since they were a child. when you lose a place like this, you lose a part of yourself. reporter: young, known as the stirfry to root grew up going to san francisco's chinatown with her father. >> i grew up loving that small town feeling about chinatown. that feeling of belonging and home. reporter: but in the four decades of living in new york, she says she had taken this neighborhood for granted. >> because of my work, i would be in chinatown once or twice a week shopping for groceries or eating food but i never introduced myself. reporter: that all changed in early 2020 whether pandemic. >> because of misinformation and xenophobia, people stopped going to chinatown. reporter: she started sharing

the struggles of mom and dad businesses on social media. ♪ she launched a video project with a korean american videographer, dan for the new york museum poster house telling the stories of chinatown shop and restaurant owners. >> business has dipped down even worse and i can say that i am at 50%. >> it is time to take more dramatic measures. reporter: hours after she conducted those interviews, bill de blasio announced a citywide lockdown bringing business to a virtual standstill. by 2020 one, a survey showed more than half of asian owned his gnosis in new york state reported their revenue had dropped more than 75%. >> this time it will take really

long. reporter: dennis chung was born in what was then called saigon and since 1995 she had -- he has owned a vietnamese restaurant that is one of the many legacy chinatown businesses that is not chinese. the downturn in business during the pandemic has put them behind in their rent and today, he is facing another challenge. >> it looks like the business is back to normal but you forget one thing -- the prices of everything are going up right now. >> this was his american dream and covid turneit into a nightmare. reporter: his son tony is getting has masters degree this summer and has applied to med school. watching his dad struggled during the pandemic, he wanted to help offering ideas about the decorah and the menu and applying for federal aid. >> a lot of these businesses are owned by people who do not speak

a word of english except maybe they know how to say some food items on their menu. it is close to impossible for them to apply for these government grants. reporter: and on top of everything else, the family along with other owners have had to deal with increased anti-asian harassment. >> sometimes i see people coming into our restaurant yelling slurs and giving us trouble and i see my dad trying to be strong but i worry about him deep down. reporter: the history of american chinatown's is rooted in racism as chinese immigrants arrived in the mid-1900s to mine gold and build railroads. >> the americans wanted cheap labor but even as they wanted cheap labor, they did not want the chinese to live among americans so the chinese were segregated to live in their own ghettos and that is how

chinatown's formed. reporter: just as some made asian americans scapegoats during covid come in the 1970's, they were unfairly blamed for smallpox outbreaks in cities. >> the chinese became targeted as a population. not just as undesirable but as biologically dangerous. and thu should be eliminated and moved out of the city lock stock andarrel. reporter: in recent decades, historic china towns have faced new challenges like gentrification end and aging population. vic lee sees a new york city chinatown where she lives -- >> the authenticity comes from the residence, many of whom are low income. for them to be this integral part of the community but be

unable to stay, this is what is at risk for the authenticity of chinatown and what it will look like. reporter: for her late grandmother who could not read or speak english, chinatown was her piece of america. >> i have such fond memories of scooping rice into the rice bowls and carrying it to the dinner table. once she sat, we would eat and i have a tattoo which stands for her apartment building. reporter: during the pandemic, lee cofounded a nonprofit "welcome to chinatown" which has given almost $600,000 to small businesses. >> we are focused on lifting our communities entrepreneurs. reporter: are you optimistic? >> cautiously optimistic. there is still a lot more that needs to be done in this community but where i am optimistic is seeing how much people care.

i am really excited about that. reporter: grace root -- grace young is still worried about what she sees on the streets of chinatown. how do you feel when you see empty storefronts? >> it completely terrifies me and i feel we have to do everything in our power to save and protect chinatown. everyone has to do our part and history will thank us for that. reporter: for young, her part is raising awareness across the country on social media but it is also doing what she can for businesses in her own chinatown. for the pbs newshour, i am john yang in new york. ♪ judy: any meaningful changes to

federal gun regulations appear unlikely even after the unspeakable tragedy in uvalde. as a mass shooting unfolded on tuesday, voters were casting their ballots in primary elections in georgia and other states. to discuss what this means for the november midterm elections and for the country as a whole, we turn to the analysis of brooks and kate. hello to both of you. welcome to the program after another very tough week in this country that we love. jonathan, the news we are curing today about the slow police response is adding to the hetache of this awful event in texas. at this point, how are you processing all of this? >> slowly. painfully. i have to say the overriding emotion is i am tired.

i am tired of watching grieving families pour out their hearts about losing their young children. i am tired of politicians who do not movto do anything to even pass somhing that will not stop every mass shooting but at least might prevent one or two or we do not know. it is almost 10 years since we saw 20 children slaughtered at newtn. something we are never seen before in this country and here we are 10 years later looki at yet another mass shooting in a school, 19 children killed. what is it going to take to get folks in washington, to get folks in state houses to protect our children? i am tired of politicians who go on and on about being pro-life for the unborn but have

seemingly no care for them once they are born. what is it going to take? judy: how are you dealing with this? >> some of the stories are unreadable to me. i guess, aside from the sadness and frustration of it that jonathan just expressed, i wonder what it is like for all of us to experience the news these days. it has not been just this week. i would say since 2013 it has been pummeling to experience the news and be in the news business and that cannot not have an effect on us all. the emotional blows. the moral blows. and then the haunting fear that these events are not isolated incidents but part of a rise in tied in menace across the country and not just the mass shootings, racist against children but a growing level of

sense of people under threat. it could come from violent crime or even trivial things. i talked to a guy who owns a restaurant and he says yes to kick out someone each week are rude and brutal behavior. school board meetings. churches. a rising tide of menace peg noonan, a columnist in the wall street journal said that people are proud of their bitterness now. i worry about the whole moral atmosphere of this country in which these mass shootings are only the most cancerous of facts. judy: and as we all know come the shooting and texas happened 10 days after we had a shooting in a grocery store in buffalo, new york where 10 people were mowed down. all black. following other mass shootings. there have been dozens. you talked about --what will we do about it?

what are we going to do about it? we look to washington and our leaders, what do we see? >> we see in action. i interviewed senator chris murphy on my show the sunday after buffalo. two sundays ago. i asked him -- what can you do? you were there during newtown and nothing happened, not even a background check till could get through. overwhelmingly popular with the american people. several gun safety measures are overwhelmingly popular with the american people and yet congress cannot do anything about it. he said to me -- he always has to be helpful but he is skeptical and that may be the only thing they can do is bring bills to the floor and have people vote and be on record. and i am adding this -- standing against the safety of children, grocery store shoppers, parishioners, movie theatergoers

-- it is heartening that senator joe manchin, a part of that way back when, 10 years ago, when the background check bill did not go anywhere and now says, i think about my grandchildren. that is nice. good. think about yourrandchildren. i do not have children and my heart still shy wish i were a member of congress. i wish i were in a position to cast a vote that would make it possible to do something about this. but, americans will have an opportunity in november if they are tired of seeing what is happening. they can do something by voting with their feet and voting -- going to the ballot box and putting people in office that will do something to protect us because i agree with you, there is an aft -- an atmosphere of menace in this country. i feel it as an lgbt person and as a black person.

i do certain point, i will feel under siege as an american. that is no way to lift. judy: large swaths of these -- of this country believe that a gun is a right. donald trump said we need to focus on mental health. no new gun law could have prevented what happened. >> their argument is it is a right guaranteed to them by the constitution and they have and eat those of, we are there to take care of our self and provide our own safety. and finally, it has become a culture war issue where the gun has become a mythic emblem of rural life and a lotf people who support gun rights state it a bunch of coastal elites telling us how to live our lives. i am a little more hopeful for two reasons. every time one of these events

does happen, it does change minds. if you look at the history even through all of these shootings, you see a spike and support for gun regulations which then drops over time but not all the way back. gradually -- and then i think there is a possibility of changing the way we talk about this in order to get people that are winnable. that is to phrase it as gun regulation like we have driving regulation. we have cars and we regulate the cars. there are all sorts of things you can do like we do with cars. raise the age limit of buying a gun. background checks. the red flag laws. if you see someone in your orbit who is suicidal, you can go to law enforcement and make it impossible for them to get one. someoneade the point, i think it was my colleague nick kristof, if i lose my point and

-- my phone and you pick it up, it isseless to you because you don't have my code. why can't a gun be like that? we have to somehow stop this from being a culture war issue because that is hopeless. judy: my sense is that even moderate republicans, many are resilient to doing even these modest steps. >> and i have no explanation for it. i seriously don't understand. what about a 48 hour waiting period? or for someone that is 18 years old, parental consent? they are willing to put those restrictions on young women seeking report -- reproductive care, why not do the same thing for anyone wanting to buy an assault rifle. a weapon of war. i seriously do not understand --

how many more babies are going to have to be slaughtered in classrooms before congress does something? before moderate republicans come out saying, this is not what we are for. nra members -- them -- the vast majority of them are nuanced and yet their leadership is doing something completely different. i would love it for someone at the nra convention happening right now as we are speaking were to rise up saying, we are in -- this is not who we are. judy: you think something could happen? >> there are majorities and i do think public opinion is overwhelmingly in one direction. i just have to hope -- that something can be done. judy: we have to have hope. we mentioned forr president trump. he was not on the ballot but his choices were on the ballot. some more of these primary races

this week. several of the people he endorsed did not win. there are still some out there rnning who very much have the trump imprimatur but does this say there is a weakening of his influence? >> i think it depends on the state and the jurisdiction. david perdue got stomped by more than 50 points by brian kemp thomas someone who trump was desperate to knock out. brodd, another person survived the challenge. you look at j.d. vance who trump swooped in at the last minute and put him over or mastery on no in pennsylvania. -- mastriano in pennsylvania. to me, the bigger picture is how far is the person who was not endorsed by trump, licy wise, how far is that person away from

trump? to me, trumpism with or without trump is here. brad beat out the trump-endorsed candidate but i don't think there is a lot of daylight between trump and brad beyond the big lie. judy: is there much distance? >> trump was trump. in 2016, the republican elite was over here and the voters were over here. the republican elite is now over here. and this is what normally happens in american history. you get a third-party candidate or a new force and one-party collapses. that is sort of what has happened. i think that makes trump weaker because there are trump u

ists everywhere. i also think it is a sign in georgia with all the republican leaders standing up against trump together showing if you combine together, you can beat him. it also shows that january 6 -- this is more about january sex then any other primary and it could be a sign that the big lie is not something republicans want to go to the mat for anymore. judy: it could be. a number of them may be changing their mind. but a number of them are saying i don't want to talk about it. >> that is an issue. as i have said before, i am hard-pressed to tell you what any of these republicans running for office are for beyond their position on the big lie. and when it comes to the gubernatorial candidate in pennsylvania, if he wins, the big lie will be front and center

come 2020 four because he as governor appoints the secretary of state and we would have a major electoral stink that could mess up a peaceful transfer of power. judy: no matter what, we will end on a hopeful note no matter what. david brooks and jonathan, thank you to you both. ♪ as we have been reporting, 21 people died in uvalde in texas this week in the shooting at robb elementary. we want to take a moment to remember the 19 children and two teachers. the lives they lead and the legacies they leave behind. ♪ >> 10-year-old xavier lopez was an honor roll student who never

shied away from a camera. his mother told reporters he could not wait to start middle school. that smile i will never forget, she said. it would always cheer anyone up. 48-year-old irma garcia was a fourth-grade teacher at robb elementary where she taught for 23 years. she had previouslwon the school's teacher of the year award. her husband of 24 years, joe died of a heart attack two days after the shooting. their nephew john told reporters , i am really in shock right now. nine-year-old eliana garcia was outgoing and loved to sing. her aunt syria, a middle school teacher in uvalde, spoke about her knees. >> she was very happy and outgoing and loved to dance, sing, and play sports. she was big into family and

enjoyed being with the family. judy: makenna lee elrod was a natural leader and loved tumbling. her aunt allison said words cannot express the pain my sister and my family are going through. i know in the coming weeks, my sister will be overcome with so much. she was 10 years old. anne-marie joe garza loved being a big sister and had just trying to call 911. her father wrote on facebook -- i would do anything to have you back. visit me in my dreams anytime. cousins 10-year-old annabelle rodriguez and nine-year-old jaclyn cause arrays were in the same class at robb elementary. durham poly posted to facebook, my beautiful angels, at least you are together. our hearts are broken in a million pieces. we love you.

urth-grade teacher evo morales, 44, had an expertise in special education. one parents said she will never forget how eva went above and beyond for her daughter gabby who has down syndrome. >> it was more than anyone else has ever poured into my child. i just have never seen anyone quite so dedicated. judy: the family of 10-year-old eliana cruz torres waited for hours for information about her whereabouts. she was to play her final softball game of the season the day she died. her aunt told reporters that she had mixed emotions about the day. she did not want softball to ends. fourth-grader tess mata loved ariana grande and the houston astros. her big sister faith wrote on

facebook, i am angry because a coward took you from us. sissy, i miss you so much, i just want to hold you and tell you how pretty you are. test was 10 years old. eight-year-old uziyah garcia liked playing football and video games. his grandfather told reporters, he was the sweetest little boy i had ever known and i am not just saying that because he was my grandkid. 11-year-old layla salazar was fast winning first place in several races at the schools field day. her brother nicholas spoke to reporters about his sister. >> we are just glad we gave her the best life we could while she was here. there was never a dull day with her. judy: cousins jayce luevanos and --, both 10 where the babies of their family and had just mourned the loss of their grandfather.

their grandmother linda said she told her daughter, just look at it as your daddy taking your baby with him. hours before the shooting, alexandria rubio made the honor roll and her mother wrote on facebook at the 10-year-old also received the good citizen award. we told her we loved her and we would pick her up after school. we had no idea that this was goodbye. 10-year-old josé floris had also just received an award for making honor roll. his uncle christopher told reporters that pose a loved going to school and he was very smart. alethea ramirez was a kind and caring soul good when a good friend was killed in a car accident, the 10-year-old continued to send artwork to his family. her friend's mother told reporters, that shows how pure and kind her heart was. no veil bravo also 10 could put

a smile on anyone's phase according to her cousin. the family waited for hos to find out what happened to her. her cousin told reporters, we thought she was missing. it feels like a nightmare we cannot wake up from. might rodriguez was 10 years old and her family said she dreamed of going to texas a&m to become a marine biologist. a family member rode on facebook, her mom wants everyone to know her baby girl had a dream. rachel leo taurus, 10, was known as a verymart and loving child. his mother remembered her son. >> he loved us. he was the one -- all my kids make me smile and happy but to think i lost him. judy: and friends and family of

11-year-old rhonda mavs remember her as fun and spunky. her older cousin deanna rode on facebook, my sweet baby cousin, we love you dearly. i'm so sorry. our hearts go out to the loved ones and the families of all of these innocent people. we are crying on the inside here. and for more on the horrific events in uvalde this week, join our moderator and her pan on a specialty dish in washington week tonight on pbs. and tuned into pbs news weekend tomorrow and sunday for the latest from texas. also tonight here on pbs, you can watch the latest episode of this seans beyond the canvas sted by, no vase. show features interviews and profiles with some of the

brightest stars in music, art and more. tonight's episode is called art innovative. here is a sneak preview. >> on beyond the campus, we speak artists who are true invators in their field. >> i want to tell about the past and order to project about the future. >> that is the point, bringing people together. >> it is living in its own world. >> the legacy i want people to embrace is black man majesty. judy: the latest episode of beyond the campus premieres tonight at 10:30 p.m. on most pbs stations. check your local listings. and that is the "newshour" for tonight. i am judy woodruff. join us online tonight. for all of us at the newshour, thank you, a hug your loved ones, please stay safe and we will see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs "newshour" has been funded by

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