uvalde, texas. the president visiting this shattered community yesterday to grieve with those who lost loved ones in this horrific school shooting that took place behind me. the first lady, you see her there as well. adding the bouquet of flowers to the memorial of 21 white crosses outside of robb elementary. the president attending mass here yesterday. and as he left, he made a vow to the people that live here. the president responding, we will to those chants from the crowd, do something. hearing that all throughout town as he made his way meeting with both the family of those that lost loved ones and first

responders. we're also talking about the justice department this morning announcing, in fact, it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde. it is coming at the request of uvalde's mayor after authorities admitted to a string of failures in their response to the shooting. a justice department spokesperson said in part this, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. the doj saying after its review, it will publish a report with all of its findings. we are learning more about that chaotic scene that unfolded when agents did finally move in on the shooter. a u.s. customs and border protection official, who spoke to "the washington post," describing a chaotic scene, with no one really sure who was in charge. quote this, the agent saw bullet

holes in the classroom door and police told the agent that the suspect had attempted to shoot at them through the opening. the agents did not have a battering ram or breaching tools, a u.s. marshal provided the agents with a ballistic shield. the officers sent for the key, for the key to unlock the classroom. once they had that key, they were able to open the door while standing officers shielded by the outer wall of the classroom. ramos came out of a closet firing at them and they returned fire. the officials said, killing him. one of the agents grazed on the head and took some shrapnel in the foot but wounds to the officers, they were minor. not, though, to the students the 19 students inside along with those two teachers. students who survived the texas school shooting have been giving chilling accounts of what happened. "the washington post" reporting one of the students staid gunman looked at a teacher directly in

the eye and said good night before shooting her. the post writes this, students were next. according to witness accounts, children who had been watching lil & stitch scrambling for hiding places. hot shrapnel burned through the dressy outfits some had worn for an awards ceremony earlier on on the morning of may 24th. one girl smeared herself with a classmate's blood and played dead. how, in fact, a young glquote, music. imagine that. your own children being inside that classroom. hopefully none of us have that

fate before us as these parents are now facing the worst things in their lives, they could ever imagine they would be facing. joinings now from uvalde, texas, liz mclaughlin. liz, you've been covering this for the last couple days. i know you're outside that memorial in the town square across from the courthouse. it has been building throughout the weekend exponentially, people from all over visiting, not just from uvalde, throughout the state, people flying in from out of the state of texas, wanting to pay their respects, to give any kind of help they can actually give and, of course, i talked about the president's visit yesterday as well here meeting with the families of the victims. talk us through some of what you've been hearing in the community there as you've been covering this story from the memorial. >> reporter: well, we met with victim's families, as you mentioned, including the family of elliana torres, 10-year-old born in the 2012 the same year as the sandy hook massacre.

bright, shiny star described by her family, multitalented, loved dancing and softball. she wanted to be both a nurse and a lawyer, but those dreams sadly will never come true for her. her family pleading for change from biden. handing him -- handing a letter to their daughter to hand to biden demanding change. here is a little of what we heard from that family. >> it's devastating. you don't -- when you see things like this on tv in some other places, it hurts. you know what i mean? it's sad because you don't feel that pain until it happens to you. he has the power to change it. and he can do it. he can. and it needs to change because how many more lives are going to be taken? and another family is going to

lose their child. >> reporter: so much grief here in this community. and this will be an especially tough week, yasmin, funerals are set to begin for the 21 victims. funeral for torres will be held on thursday and visitation for another 10-year-old victim starts today. so the reality is really setting in as the shock sort of wears off that those 19 kids, those two teachers will never walk through those elementary school doors again. and a lot of families are just expressing their anger at law enforcement, their frustration. they want accountability and action. these funerals, an anonymous donor donated $175,000 to cover those expenses, but financial support can only do so much. this community will be forever changed. yasmin? >> liz, i'm wondering if you're hearing this. i think it's kind of this really

fascinating dichotomy that i'm seeing in this community. and that is this, we're talking about accountability, right, with the law enforcement? especially when you think of that 1:20 gap from the first time that 911 call came in to when the shooter was, in fact, neutralized and people are angry, as you rightfully said. but also this is such a tight-knit community. and these law enforcement officers they are neighbors, they friends. they barbecue together, they may very well be celebrating memorial day holiday. one officer lost his own daughter. so it is this difficult position for this community to be in to want accountability from their law enforcement, some of them, but also recognizing that these are people they have trusted for quite some time. as a fabric of this community. are you hearing that as well? >> reporter: absolutely, yasmin.

it's some tension here as people just try to grapple with an unthinkable tragedy. you never expect this to happen. emotions are running high. people want someone to blame, something to make it justified or just try to cope with it. but i think that overall i'm seeing a lot of messaging of hope, of unity. you're right, this is such a tight-knit community that, in fact, everyone i talked to here seems to have some connection it to. i think there is some empathy. faith leaders yesterday were encouraging this community that calls itself very faith-based community to not hold on to that anger and instead focus on the beautiful time that they got to share with these wonderful people, to honor their lives and to celebrate that right now. and just try to focus on love and move forward. yasmin? >> yeah. it is fascinating, liz. you bring up a really good point there as well and that is this, we have been talking a lot about

the fact that this is not just about thoughts and prayers anymore. it is about action. much of the country is saying that as well. the president himself saying that, wanting those two things in lock step. it's important to remember this community, as you mentioned, is a faith-based community. so while they do want action, they also do want those prayers so many people are looking to their church right now and their faith-based community to lift them up in this unthinkable tragedy. liz mclaughlin, thank you. i want to bring in nbc's morgan chesky who has been covering this throughout this entire time. morgan, i want to dig into a few things with you. when we're talking about police accountability here, much is coming from that timeline, right, that was laid in and out that press conference that you and i sat outside of i believe it was on friday afternoon, all the days are melding together. >> sure. >> at this point. 11:30 first 911 calls comes in. >> right. >> not until 1:20 is that shooter neutralized. walk us through some of that and the questions we're hearing in the community as to what may

have gone wrong and what they want to know. >> i think a couple of key times people are focussing on the days following that announcement when dps laid out this play by play, this tragic play by play. 12:03, at least 19 officers were inside robb elementary school, local police officers, school district police officers and at 12:15, when the tactical team with border patrol arrived armed with shields. 12:15, we know between 12:15 and 12:50 they breached that door using the janitor's key, still 911 calls coming in from students inside robb elementary school. after 12:40, the final ten minutes multiple calls from a young girl asking in whispers for police to move in. i think that's what's created a lot of the frustration here is that they knew now that there was a still a threat. there was not necessarily barricaded, armed, sporadic

firing and still had kids calling for help. i think that what we're seeing in uvalde play out right now is you've got 21 crosses behind us where people are memorializing and paying tribute to these victims but at the same time, there's still very much a huge call for answers here. we do know the department of justice not necessarily investigating but they're going to be studying the law enforcement response here. >> studying, yeah. >> they're going to try to come up with an independent account, lessons, learned best practices going forward and texas democratic lawmakers calling on the fbi to do their own investigation into the response here. fbi has not responded to that request right now, but i think we're just seeing the beginning of what's going to be an intense look at how this played out from the moment that first call came in when those shots were fired to when that gunman was taken out at 12:50. >> do you think there's at all a possibility as if it seems governor abbott feels he was misled, walking folks through the timeline, knowing now that timeline was absolutely wrong,

right? the folks that were there, that were actually not there -- >> not just the timeline being wrong, big major facts here. the fact we were told a school resource officer engaged the gunman and found out 24 hours later there was no school resource officer on campus. and actually drove by the gunman who was crouched hiding outside the school. that in and of itself was a huge revelation. and so i spoke to one teacher who was a fourth grade teacher here. i said, do you know what you can believe at this point? >> yes. >> there's a huge seed of doubt in a lot of these people's minds because of the switch that took place in those ensuing days following this tragedy. >> yeah. >> especially as significant details changed as it happened. >> that's why it's important that this is an independent incident report that will be coming out of the doj but also i'm not sure the credibility, the belief in the community will ever be restored after what has gone on and how many people have been misled up until now. morgan chesky, as always, thank you. good to talk to you.

so democratic senator chris murphy, who is spearheading bipartisan talks on new gun violence legislation weighed in. here is what he had to say just yesterday. >> my hope is that this time is different. i get it. every single time after one of these mass shootings there's talks in washington and they never succeed. but, there are more republicans interested in talking about finding a path forward this time than i have ever seen since sandy hook. while in the end, i may end up being heartbroken, i am at the table in a more significant way right now with republicans and democrats than ever before. certainly many more republicans willing to talk right now than were willing to talk after sandy hook. these are serious negotiations. and we are going to continue to meet through next week to try to find common ground. what we're talking about is not insignificant. inside this room we're talking about red flag laws. we're talking about strengthening and expanding the background check system, if not

universal background checks, talking about safe storage and also mental health resources and more security dollars for schools. a package that really in the end could have a significant downward pressure on gun violence in this country. and break the log jam. maybe that's the most important thing we can do is show that progress is possible and that the sky doesn't fall for republicans if they support some of these common sense measures. >> so despite moves to call or cancel the event, the nra held their annual conference in houston, three days after 19 children and 2 teachers were murdered in uvalde. the event drawing thousands of gun owners, protesters, politicians and some leaders like texas governor greg abbott did, in fact, back out. senator ted cruz and former president trump kept their appearances in tact. former president centered around school safety, a common conservative talking point when ever a shooting occurs. want you to take a listen a little bit just to his remarks. >> this is not about virtues,

cycling and signing. this is about blaming your enemies, no. we don't want to do that. this is about saving our children's lives. yes, that's what we want to do. surely we can all agree our schools should not be the softest target. our schools should be the single, hardest target in our country. and that's why, as part of a comprehensive school safety plan, it's time to finally allow highly-trained teachers to safely and discreetly conceal, carry, let them conceal carry. the age old saying goes, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. have you ever heard that? no, you've never heard that. >> let me say there was one bad guy inside that school on tuesday. there were 19 good guys. armed through the teeth. that failed to go into that

classroom for one hour and 20 minutes. the former president also taking the opportunity to cover his other favorite points, the 2020 election. the border. and president biden. senator cruz for his part parting a talking point he used several times since the shooting. offering revisionist history of the failed gun legislation. >> i've introduced legislation to save schools like this elementary school behind me can get federal grants to harden their security, to put in bullet proof doors, bullet proof glass, to put in armed police officers to protect kids. $1.3 billion in federal funds available again. the democrats blocked a vote on it. and i got to say, this is frustrating here. >> yeah. it's all frustrating for a lot of folks. "the washington post" explaining how his background check bill would not have stopped the gunman. paper noting this, amendments

aplenty were proposed and defeated. one from cruz and grassley would have removed the core of the gun bill, the expanded background checks, the grassley/cruz plan more prosecution of gun buyers who falsely stated their criminal histories during the background check or process. cruz's amendment would not have prevented any of the six specific protocol failures at the air force that allowed kelly to slip through the cracks. the recordkeeping and reporting changes that cruz's office referenced already were being implemented by the justice department years before the shooting. we got a lot more coming up, everybody in the two hours ahead. we're going to be joined by a pediatric trauma surgeon who attended to several children wounded in the uvalde school shooting. also, texas congressman wa queen castro will be my cast. he met with families members who told him how worried they were about going back to robb elementary. he's pushing to get money for a new school. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ching "morn" we'll be right back.

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welcome back, everybody. we have an update on the victims of last week's horrific attack. they are still treating three victims, 10-year-old girl in serious condition, a 9-year-old girl in good condition and a 66-year-old woman believed to be the shooter's grandmother who is currently in, quote, fair condition. so as for the 19 children and 2 teachers killed, funerals will, in fact, begin this week. i want to go now to the director of pediatric trauma at san antonio. thank you for joining us. as of yesterday you had two survivors and the shooter's grandmother who are still at the hospital and under your care, i know. but just talk to me first about what you faced last tuesday afternoon when all of this took place. what went on in your hospital?

>> i think it was a normal day for any of us up until 11:50 in the morning when some of us received a page and notification that there's a potential mass casualty event. and up until that point, it was running a normal trauma center and hospital for all of us working there. at that point of the notification, we began preparation for a potential event by notifying all the various departments involved. it's really, you know, hundreds of people within the hospital and various departments getting notified and preparing to treat injured patients. >> i know dr. liao, this is not the first time you have seen something like this. the shooting earlier, i believe, in christ church also treated at your hospital. there was a shooting -- as another shooting in texas as well. you along with other physicians there are efforting to make sure

this doesn't happen again. wanting to put a plan in place especially when it comes to trauma victims, children, children that are trauma victims. talk to me about that. what can be done. what needs to change. >> well, i think, you know, we're all very devastated. and we all want to do something, but based on our previous experience in sutherland springs in 2017 and based on this experience, we know that we need to have a consensus approach to address the problem, this public health crisis, that is firearm injury. and so i think, you know, for many, many years the american culture of surgeons have been working on a consensus statement and really it's to bring the two divided sides together and to have a common american narrative on firearm injury prevention

because i don't know if you know this but in 2020, firearm injury and death became the leading cause of injury and death in children in america. and i think that's a tremendously challenging problem that we're facing as a country, right? and it's multidimensional. it's not one thing that's going to address this disease of firearm injury. and if we approach it from a public health perspective, from many different avenues, making firearm ownership as safe as possible to addressing the underlying cause of violence i feel like as a country we can come together and work on this issue. >> that is the hope, dr. liao.

we're incredingly grateful for your service and your help throughout all this. i can tell that it does affect you emotionally despite the fact we feel our doctors are not affected by things like this. i can tell for you this is something that hits you home, as it does for all of us. and so thank you. the director of pediatric trauma at university hospital in san antonio, dr. liao. coming up next, everybody, we'll be joined by texas state senator gutierrez who represents uvalde and met with the president yesterday. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. she's feeling the power of listerine. he's feeling it. yep, them too. it's an invigorating rush... ...zapping millions of germs in seconds. for that one-of-a-kind whoa... ...which leaves you feeling... ahhhhhhh listerine. feel the whoa!

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speaking with nbc sam brock. i want to bring in state senator row land guterres. thank you for joining us. you met with the president yesterday. let's talk first about that and then let's talk about the actions that need to happen going forward. what was it like meeting the president? what did you say to him? what was his response? talk us through it. >> yeah. you know, basically the president came to comfort this community. he comforted me quite frankly. we spent time just moments on the tarmac. he had a very busy schedule. he said i'm not going to leave here. we're going to bring resources. we're going to look at bringing a federal grant to raise the school. those things are important to this community. every parent that i talked to doesn't want to see this school again. is traumatized. every little kid i talked to is scared to go near the school. >> of course. >> and so those are things that we're absolutely going to have to have. he talked about federal grants, bringing in money for healthcare. we need long-term health care in the community. i had a moment with his wife, the first lady.

and i just broke down. and she just said it's going to be all right. and so, you know, having them both here was really important for this community. really important for this community. and i think that if he maintains his commitment, i know he will, to be here, have resources, that's important to this community. >> as a parent, you think about your children's life sometimes in time, right, in days. last week we did this, next week we're doing this. kids love schedule. they need schedules in their life as we know. this is one of the last days we can say at this time last week, those babies were alive. >> that's right. i mean, you and i have been here everyday since day one. and it's -- we're -- what we're going through is nothing compared to what these parents are going through. multiplied a million times over. >> yeah. >> they're on a roller coaster ride. last night i met with another couple. i met with another couple here. and they're just in severe pain. and agony.

all i can do is say we're here for them. we love you. we're not leaving. i've closed down one of my field offices. we're going to open it in uvalde. we're going to make sure that we're here as well and that i have staff here to make sure we have all of the resources available at their disposal. >> you talk about 77 days, right? the school year is done. 77 days the new school will be beginning. >> that's right. i mean, we have to start talking about it from that perspective. greg abbott has 77 days from today to do something, to bring us back into the capital, raise the age limit, have a cooling off period, a waiting period, red flags, whatever. whatever common sense solutions makes sense, yeah, and their counterargument is people will always access guns. okay. let's make it a little harder. let's not make it like a trip to the 7/11 like this kid had. we have to make it harder to have militarized weapons accessible to these kids. >> i want to talk about police chief arenado. he is set to be sworn in at city

council tomorrow, tomorrow. >> yeah. >> 182 total votes were listed for his city council position. he got 77% of the votes. should he be stepping down right now? he was the incident commander at that moment. he was here. and so if anybody is pointing the finger, it's likely at him, at this moment. i know there's an incident report happening on a federal level. but he's set to be sworn in to the city council tomorrow. >> yeah. i'm going to leave those personal decisions to mr. arradondo. >> where do you stand on it? >> i think he failed, but i think every officer at that scene failed until the ones that finally decided, okay, enough is enough. we're going in. i met with a family whose child was shot once through the kidney. likely bled out. that child might be alive today had officers gone in 20, 30, 40 minutes earlier. listen, you and i aren't police

officers. we didn't sign up for that gig. >> no. >> but these guys did. >> yep. >> there's a protocol that says you do it this way. that didn't happen. so i've talked to congresswoman sheila jackson lee. she wants to have hearings in this community. she wants to have people testify. she wants to bring those witnesses here. but to put it on the local school cop and say, it's just him. well, that's not right either. every law enforcement agency that had more manpower, that had more equipment, that had more fire power. >> more tech, dhs, dps. >> absolutely. they were here. that's where this investigation needs to go. i had a very long discussion with mcgraw on saturday. and it was based on that. i want to see ballistics. i want to see times when each officer -- >> seems like he was passing the buck in those press conferences. >> you can't allow them to do that. because, yes, arradondo messed up. i don't know arradondo. he messed up. but so did everybody else. so did everybody else here. there are protocols. no one said, hey, this is what

the book says. we go in now until finally an hour and 13 some odd minutes later someone says, the hell with it. we're going in. we have to have accountability here. for the governor to put thousands of officers on operation lone star this trumped up border crisis and not have them here, not having joint training with writing tickets, that's just not good enough. it's not good enough. >> it's not good enough. question is those officers didn't go in that day, are lawmakers going to go in and are they going to create change? rowland gutierrez of texas, thank you so much and for all the work and the voice you've been providing the community. thank you for joining us. up next, everybody, we are marking memorial day amidst all this, it's memorial day. first time in two decades the u.s. is not actively involved in a war, shockingly. we'll be right back.

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day in 20 years with the u.s. not actively at war. and this morning, we want to highlight a group that's been going the extra mile to honor our fallen heroes. on memorial day 2020, washington, d.c. resident emily went viral, offering to pay her respects to service members buried at arlington national cemetery for family members who could not themselves due to covid restrictions. the online response, it was overwhelming. and she kept her word, laying down flowers, dusting off gravestones and posting them on twitter. for 60 veterans whose loved ones could not do it themselves, but now she's going even further. pairing up with ryan manion, who founded the travis manion foundation to help veteran's families and named after her brother who was killed in iraq 15 years ago. together they started a new campaign called the honor project to recruit hundreds of volunteers to honor fallen troops. they honored 4,000 in arlington last year and now they're hoping to expand even more nationwide.

let's talk about this with a cofounders of the honor project, travis manion and political strategist emily dominich. welcome to both of you guys. appreciate you joining me on this. emily, let me start with you on this one. you had the support of the community when you went in on this thing. what was it that drove you to want to honor the veterans during that time in which their family members could not? >> so, my grandfather is buried in arlington cemetery and i visit every year. i visit on memorial day and on veterans day. as i was pulling into the cemetery in 2020 i realized not only would there be thousand of family members who couldn't travel across the country but also many military service members who couldn't visit their fallen battle buddies in arlington due to covid restrictions. so i offered on twitter to visit them, thinking i would get a few tweets and response. it just went viral immediately and there were thousands of responses. i knew even by the end of that day after i spent the whole day in arlington cemetery, i knew i

needed help to scale up this project because there would be a need for many years to come and ryan and the travis manion foundation volunteersstepped up in incredible way to help us do that. >> ryan, talk to me because this is going to mark 15 years that your brother was tragically killed in iraq. we showed a photo of him a little bit earlier on. i guess i first want to hear about your brother. tell me about him. >> my brother was my best friend. we were 15 months apart. he was a first lieutenant in the united states marine corps, killed on his second tour of duty by enemy sniper. and before travis left for that deployment, he was asked why he had to go back. his response was very simple, if not me, then who? and we took those five words and we turned them into a rally cry to start the travis manion foundation to make sure all of our fallen service members are honored and remembered. >> why did you want ryan to team up with the efforts that emily

was spearheading with her viral twitter post? >> well, we knew that with the travis manion foundation, we have a ton of -- thousands and thousands of volunteers across the country. when emily brought this idea to us and i saw and i was watching in realtime when she was doing it on twitter, and i thought, this is the perfect opportunity to give a tangible way for people to honor the fallen on memorial day. for our volunteers, they've always wanted to know what can we do? and to know that as a gold star sister, for me to know that someone has paid their respects at my brother's grave at memorial day it means everything. i know that gold star families collectively want to make sure that their loved ones are not forgotten. that their service, their legacy lives on. >> emily, what else can we do as we listen to both of your stories? >> so, i think the story of the honor project is that no action

is too small. so, for regular americans who don't have any connection to the military, as you go out this memorial day weekend, take a moment to learn the name of a fallen service member, to visit their grave, to share their name with your friends and family, and then go home and enjoy this incredible, free country that their sacrifice provided for you. they sacrificed for you, and we should remember them, but then we need to live the way we were meant to as americans. i'm just so touched to see so many volunteers come and be a part of this project and i really look forward to working with ryan to expand it all across the country for like i said for many years to come. >> ryan, last one to you. and that is this, as we talk about the fallen heroes, the people that have served this country for so long, we cannot not talk about the veterans that are still alive and the services that they need. they cannot be forgotten by this country. what is it that we need to do for them? >> we need to understand as a

country the incredible assets that our veteran community represents. this is the most diverse group of individuals that our country has. they come from all walks of life, all different socioeconomic backgrounds, but somehow they come together to accomplish a mission. and they do it in a great way. so think about if we could take that same practice and spread it out among the country, think about how amazing it would be to take that idea. and i think for us, we need to understand that our veterans, some of them are hurting, some of them are in bad places. we need to support them. each and everyday we need to make sure that our veterans, our military community knows how incredible they are and how much we appreciate their service. >> emily, ryan, thank you guys both and the service of your family members as well. we are live here in uvalde, texas, everybody. we're going to continue to bring you live coverage from here on the ground of this tragic shooting that took place behind

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north of napa. his bail was set at $5,000. he was released a couple hours later. we hear pelosi's office releasing a statement saying she is not commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the east coast. we're also talking about memorial day weekend. travel is off to a challenging start. thous of delays and cancellations over the weekend. we have this report. >> the holiday weekend is kicking off summer and a chaotic start to the season's anticipated travel boom. as thousands of passengers face flight delays and cancellations amid bad weather and staffing shortages. >> i never had anything close to this. darrell burg resorted to driving seven hours after delta canceled the last leg of his flight. >> i asked them at the service desk why the flight was canceled. they said we don't have crew. >> are you worried about your trip home now? >> absolutely.

his travel woes, a sign of what comes to. seven million taking to the excuse this holiday weekend. that's up 25% from last year. and just shy of predemic numbers. there are thousands of fewer ploys than they had in 2019. small disruptions can have a rippling effect. there is congested airspace. they are trimming summer flights by 2%. joining jetblue and spirit in pairing back schedules to reduce disruptions. passengers stuck in atlanta -- >> i want to get home. >> reporter: compounding frustrations, the average cost of a ticket nearing $400. that's 28% increase from 2019 and the result of the summer season steep jet fuel prices and surging demand. but will that demand hold? >> at what point do people say enough? i'm going to change my plans and

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up from delaware a few moments ago. he is on his way back to washington. the farmer iraq war veteran and delaware attorney general died on this memorial day seven years ago from brain cancer. later on today, the president set to visit the time of the unknown soldier. yesterday he was here in in uvalde. grieving with the families of those who lost loved ones in that horrific school massacre that happened behind me. the police chief of the uvalde school district made the call for officers to wait to take down the gunman. the killer entered the school through a back door that was propped open earlier in the day by a teacher. two minutes later, at least three officers followed him in through the same door. i student inside one of the classrooms made the first of

several 911 calls begging for help. 19 officers were in the hallway outside the classroom. officers were told not to breach the door because the commanding officer determined the active shooting situation had ended and believed no more children were at risk. there were gun shots being heard. it wasn't until 12:50 that the classroom door was breached and the gunman was killed. that waiting was in fkt the wrong decision. >> waits the wrong decision. period. there is no excuse for that. we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. there is no longer, okay, there is no longer a barricaded subject. you don't have time. you d