since then, many have been wanting to hear from pete arradondo, the chief of the uvalde school district's police force who is the incident commander and ultimately made the call to not go in immediately. a suspect >> did act alone during this heinous crime. that's arradondo right there. speaking at a briefing the day of the shooting news nation has been trying to track him down since but he was spotted heading into work this morning and told one news organization, quote, we're going play our decision eventually. obviously. and whenever this is done and let the families quick briefing, then we'll do that. obviously. and just so everybody knows. we've been in contact with dps every day. but that statement contradicts what texas dps said yesterday writing, quote, uvalde pd and uvalde see isd are still cooperating. however, the chief of police for see isd has yet to respond to the ranger's request for a follow-up interview that was made a couple of days ago. arradondo was recently elected to the uvalde city council. and last night the mayor of uvalde says all seats were sworn in, though the c

the texas department of public safety director says it was the school district police chief, pete arradondo, who made the decision not to breach the classrooms earlier. arradondo, who hasn't been seen publicly since the shooting, is facing harsh criticism and a department of justice review for what officers didn't do. as kids inside the school repeatedly called 911, pleading for help. >> you cry and you mourn harder here because they didn't have a chance. >> reporter: the first funerals for the victims in the mass school shooting in uvalde were held today. >> when that casket lowers, for me, it's the realization that you won't be able to touch them again. one more hug, one more kiss, one more good-bye. >> reporter: the funeral expenses for every family are being covered at no cost thanks to anonymous donor, according to texas governor greg abbott. >> off the top of my head, i couldn't tell you how many, but i think one every day. >> reporter: father moralez says he will preside at 12 funeral services for victims over the next two weeks. today, visitations or funerals were held for at least

the incident commander, meanwhile, at the shooting at the texas elementary school, police chief pete arradondo, didn't have a radio on him at the time of the shooting. cnn has reached out to the public safety officials and chief arradondo but have not received a response. a teacher aide from rob elementary is sharing her side of the story after police falsely blamed her for leaving the door open that the shooter used to enter the school. cnn's omar jimenez spoke with the attorney representing her and file this report. >> reporter: it was supposed to be an end of the year class party before it became a nightmare. >> she saw everything from the time he wrecked to the time she was taken out of there. >> reporter: the special education aide was meeting a coworker with food for the party when she saw a car crash, so her lawyer says she propped the door open, went back inside to get her phone and called 911 but to report the accident. then she returned to the door. >> as she looks and sees him, he has a weapon that she can't identify but a big weapon flung over him and he hops over the fence and sta

. >> reporter: that on-scene commander is pete arradondo, the chief of the uvalde school district police says the classroom doors were locked and he didn't have the equipment to break them down, but video shows there was no attempt by any officer to open the doors and the director of the texas dps says the doors were unlocked. arradondo also claims he didn't have the tools or weapons to respond yet video shows just 19 minutes after police arrived while shots are being fired and kids are still calling 911, police had rifles, a halogen ax to break down the door and a ballistic shield but did knowing. it took another 50 minutes for border patrol agents to go in and kill the gunman. here, again, the dps director. >> one error, 14 minutes and 8 seconds! that's how long the children waited and the teachers waited in rooms 111 to be rescued. and while they waited, the on-scene commander waited for radio and rifles. then he waited for shields. then he waited for s.w.a.t. lastly, he waited for a key that was never needed. >> reporter: he says even before the shooting began when the gunman was wal

(soft music) >>> sos aw jut saw, embattled uvalde police chief pete arradondo finally speaking out, thisribune and he is defending the hour-long delay where law enforcement did not confront the gunman who gunned down 19 children and 21 adults for a period of time. joining me now, texas state senator, rowland gutierrez, who represents uvalde. senator, thank you for joining me tonight. i -- i wonder who your immediate reaction is to this reporting that he is now saying, several weeks out, that he didn't think he was even the incident commander? what is your reaction to? that? i think we are having trouble hea hearing the state senator. i'm not -- i am not hearing you, sir. let's get -- let's get his sound up because i really -- given all work that he has done to try to get information from the officials, we have heard his voice probably more than any other voice in this investigation, thus far. and so, what he has to sayvi really important. so let's take a second to get it right, to regroup because the voices we invite on this show are the ones we need to listen to. let's go to a quick bre

noticeably absent today council member pete arradondo, the school chief of police angela gomez rushed in when she says police weren't acting quickly enough >> i just made my way in >> reporter: the mother captured on video, running from the school after rescuing her sons. >> i didn't see not one cop running with me or one cop run in there with me. they weren't doing nothing. >> reporter: after sharing what she witnessed, gomez said law enforcement called her, threatening obstruction of justice charges if she kept speaking out meanwhile, insid room 112, arnulfo reyes' class was watching a movie told everyone to get under a table and pretend to sleep he spoke with abc news about his anger how long it took officers to move in. >> you have bulletproof vest i had nothing. there is no excuse for their actions. >> reporter: reyes was shot three times he says he prayed under the table hiding with his 11 students >> the shooter killed every single student in your classroom. >> yes, ma'am. that's when i got to thinking, you know this family lost one. this family lost one. i lost 11 that day and

senator roland gutierrez says that the did not make their way to school district police chief pete arradondo gutierrez is calling it a system. failure, but the calls were going to city police but not communicated to evrod. the head of the texas department of public safety has said police did not confront the gunman more quickly because arradondo believed the situation had morphed from an active to a hostage situation. 19 children and 2 teachers died. the fbi is assisting the petaluma police department in its investigation of a threat made against casa grande high school. police are trying to track down the person. >> who's allegedly threatened violence on the last day of school. but for sleep gaal spoke with students trying to manage through this distraction. >> looming police investigators are working with the fbi to determine the specific details of a violent threat allegedly made against casa grande high school investigators only sharing that the threat is centered on june 10th, the last day of school and the day seniors graduate. yeah, i was scared that not all students are convinced the

chief pete arradondo has been publicly scrutinized in the days following a shooting over reports that he delayed sending officers into the school to confront the shooter. and despite claims from state law enforcement that he stopped cooperating. arradondo says that he has been speaking with investigators every day. meantime, funerals continue for the victims of that shooting. 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in this morning, mourners gathered to celebrate the lives of irma garcia who was a teacher that was killed and her husband jose who died of a heart attack days later. garcia was just finishing her 23rd year of teaching at robb elementary. she and her husband and their 4 children. devastated, obviously. in the south bay. a second person has died from last year's shooting that happened at the home of a gilroy. councilwoman rebecca and doris police say that 4 people were shot during a party on october. 30th 18 year-old michael zinn ago. macias died at the scene. 19 year-old jesse sanchez died last week from his injuries and 2 others have since recovered. police arrested 19 year

. >> the his name is pete arradondo says he has been speaking with investigators every day. >> he haseen publicly scrutinized. so in the days after the shooting over report said he delayed officers from going into the school to confront the shooter, 19 children and 2 teachers died in that attack at robb elementary school and funerals continue today for the victims of the uvalde shooting. mourners gathered this morning to celebrate the lives of irma garcia, a teacher who was killed and her husband, jose who died of a heart attack just a few days after garcia was just finishing her 23rd year of teaching at robb elementary. she and her husband had 4 children together. funerals for other victims of the attack are continuing this week. >> here in the bay area this weekend, the marion county sheriff is holding a gun buyback event. the county says it estimates that there are 100,000 firearms in marion county, homes and cars. the sheriff wants to prevent accidental discharge, domestic violence and guns getting into the wrong hands. the event is this saturday, june the 4th from 9 in the mornin

why won't that chief, pete arradondo answer the questions himself? he won't answer these questions from reporters. he won't answer them from a texas rangers. have not talked to them in two days. won't respond for a follow-up interview. why not? the 78 minutes to a time, this murder entered the school and when he was killed. the 19 officers inside robb elementary aware that there were 911 calls coming from children inside. did they know this call capturing one of those kids telling a dapispatcher, they go shot. >> what about this tape? the officer inside the school, do they know about this one? >> we have a child on the line, he's in a room full of victims. >> full of victims at this moment. so why were border patrol agents won't they go into act? why was it call a barricaded situation or instead of active shooter one? how so many valiantly. some saw the tower fallen and still charged in. the ones who run towards danger when the rest of us run away. the ones who know the risks of their own personal safety and take the risk any way. the ones we look fo

there is new evidence that school district police chief pete arradondo and other officers on the sceneted more than an hour for protective equipment. even though they knew there were victims inside classrooms at robb elementary that were still alive. that's according to video footage and other investigative material reviewed by the "new york times" but not confirmed by nbc news. the times reporting investigators have determined more than a dozen children in two classrooms were still alive. during the 1:17 it took to finally end the standoff. chief arradondo breaking his silence overnight telling the texas tribune when the first shots rang out he ran towards the danger armed with his glock service pistol, assuming he might die because he had no body armor. -- not one but two police radios behind, thinking according to the tribune that they would slow him down and that he needed both hands free. >> he said that was a conscious decision. he rushed in there with both of his hands on his gun because he was taught that that was the most accurate way to attack the shooter if he ran into him.

a state senator says the incident commander police chief pete arradondo did not have a police radio on him at the time of the shooting. we're also getting new information about a desperate 911 call made by a 10-year-old student while the shooter stalked the building. cnn's ed lavandera with the latest. >> reporter: new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. texas state senator says the school district police chief didn't have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate directly with police dispatchers. >> i have been told this person did not have, this person being the incident commander, did not have radio communication and i don't know as to why. >> reporter: gutierrez says he learned the school district chief didn't have a radio from a law enforcement official at dps. cnn has reached out to uvalde police and the school district for comment on gutierrez's statements and to chief arradondo to confirm if he had a radio, but we have not heard back. arradondo is facing serious criticism for making the

. >>> new tonight, uvalde school district police chief pete arradondo, placed on administrative leavetely, that's in the wake of the school shooting enuvalde that left 19 children and two of their teachers dead and more and more questions about the police response. arradondo has remained mostly silent since the day of the shooting, and that's where my next guest, kim hammond comes in. i had spoken with her before. she lives two doors down from robb elementary. and at a city council meeting last night the council was about to vote whether to vote arradondo a leave of absence when kim spoke up to speak. listen to what she said. >> your agenda number 6 is a decision on whether or not to give him a leave of absence. why the hell would you? let him miss. three meetings, he's my councilman. let him miss three. don't waste anymore time on him, but you can do something right now tonight and not table whether you're going to decide to give him that leave of absence. i implore you not give him that leave of absence. i don't know if this is a special meeting, this counts toward his absence, but

you know, we saw the police chief, pete arradondo, the school police chief today talking to shimon and claiming he's not going to say anything about the decisions he made or the response he was leading while the families are grieving. and that is essentially hiding behind the grief of families who have lost children. i mean, i don't know that there's anything more despicable than that, but it's really -- it's an offense to the community and to all of us who are interested. >> i grew up in a very small town with two red lights. i think they had that when i was there. it was really small. everybody knew everybody. could it be i think one of two things. either it's incompetence, right, whatever it is they handled it wrong according to everyone involved, all of our experts here on cnn. or they knew the kid and someone said, you know, i just can't go in and hurt andy's kid. you understand what i'm saying? i don't know. >> yeah. >> it just seems and i don't want to speculate about that, but for someone who has lived in a small town that's how things operate. >> i hear what you're saying, and

help from people inside robb elementary did not make their way to school district police chief pete arradondo, the democratic senator who represents the city called it a system. failure that the calls were going, 2 city police but then not communicated to the command staff and chief arradondo the head of the texas department of public safety has said that police did not confront the gunman more quickly because arradondo believe that the situation had changed from an active shooter situation to a hostage situation in 19 children and 2 teachers died and funerals continued today. the 18 year-old man accused of killing 10 black people in a racially motivated attack at a buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty in court today, a grand jury indicted payton gendron yesterday on a state domestic terrorism charge and a hate crime charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted. the suspect has been in police custody since the may 14th shooting. he's also been charged with attempted murders of 3 people who were shot in the attack. but they survived. new york does not have the deat

. >>> tonight embattled uvalde police chief pete arradondo is on administrative leave as more inconsistenciesn the initial police account are coming to light. according to the head of the texas department of public safety officers were equipped to take down the gunman three minutes after he entered the school, but they, of course, did not. surveillance images obtained by the austin american statesman also show responding officers had ballistic shields and rifles within 19 minutes of the shooting. but 77 minutes passed before officers acted to save a classroom full of children. officials originally said they were impeded by the classroom's locked doors. but now those doors may have been unlocked the entire time. the search for answers is why we're speaking to my next guest, texas state senator roland gutierrez is suing the department of public safety to release all records related to the shooting. thank you so much for being here, senator. >> thank you. >> can you give us a sense of why exactly you are seeing the department, what you are hoping to achieve? >> well, everything's been caught up

>> reporter: overnight uvalde school district police chief pete arradondo facing criticism for makingr-old amerie jo garza and 10-year-old maite rodriguez the first to be laid to rest. and people have come together to help the grieving families and support them during this difficult time including trey whose company made custom caskets for almost all the children, each with different themes to honor those kids. michael, it is a moving tribute to the young lives lost here. >> moving indeed, marcus. thank you so much. >>> and now we'll go back to london and the platinum jubilee honoring 70 years of queen elizabeth's reign, amy and t.j. are there with an unprecedented level of access. taking us behind the scenes of the buckingham palace stage. how is it going there, guys? >> reporter: that's right. not just behind the scenes, we're actually on the stage. this is where it's all going to happen, michael. this is the platinum party at the palace. >> reporter: nailed it. >> reporter: thank you. it's nice alliteration there but this is where we'll see people like, oh, i don't know, sir elton

. >>> uvalde's school district police chief pedro pete arradondo has spent weeks avoiding speaking about mass shooting and specifically why it took 57 minutes to breach that door and take out the shooter? earlier this month he told our s shimon prokupecz he'd release more information, quote, the family quit grieving. he didn't consider himself the one in charge. arradondo says he never stopped anyone from breaching the door, quote, i didn't issue any orders in that because it was locked and reinforced with a steel jam officers were unable to kick it in. and arradondo said he left both of his radios outside the school because he thought they'd slow him down. cnn has reached out to dps and uvalde school district for comment. here with more is omar himen ezin uvalde. you sat down with the parents of an injured student. what do they tell you? >> reporter: well, john, for starters they say he's just not the same as he was before this shooting happened. he actually came to this memorial site with his parents but just saw the faces of his teachers, his classmates, his friends looking back at hi

. >> with the investigation, pete arradondo is blamed for the delayed response to the shooting. and this is coming as funeral services were held today for rob elementary school teacher, irma garcia and her husband, joe. he died 2 days after the shooting from an apparent heart attack after visiting his wife's memorial. contrary to reports, chief arradondo has just told cnn that he is in contact with state officials every day, but he refused to comment beyond that. >> we've been in contact with every day on the phone with them every are not cooperating the direct going wrong and that you were responsible for the season, right? we're going to respectful to the to parent. and just so, you know, we're going to we're going to do that eventually, obviously. >> also, state police initially said the gunman entered through a door that was propped open by a teacher. but now they're saying, but the teacher went back in and closed that door. but the door did not lock. tonight. the cities of gilroy and morgan hill will be having a vigil for the victims from shootings in california, new york a

response was not carrying a radio when the massacre happened, although it was not clear how chief pete arradondo was communicating with other law enforcement officials at the scene that wasn't mentioned. that included more than a dozen officers waiting outside the classroom where the gunman was inside. don doe has yet to respond. 19 children and 2 teachers were killed. 17 other people injured. a funeral for 9 year-old little jackie cazarez was held today at sacred heart catholic church in uvalde. her dad says that she was full of love. she had a big heart and also loved to sing and make videos on tiktok. she wanted to be a veterinarian. she loved animals and hope to visit paris one day, a little cousins, j and jc little bottles were remembered today. neither child wanted to go to school the day of the shooting for different reasons. jailers mother said her daughter just did not want to go that that they may be sensing something was wrong. jc wanted to go with his grandmother to the zoo. he made his grandparents a pot of coffee every morning and wrote notes saying i love you, grandpa. in what is

chief pete arradondo says. >> he has been speaking with investigators daily. he has been publicly scrutinized in the days following the shooting over reports that he delayed sending officers into the school to confront the shooter, 19 children and 2 teachers died in the attack at robb elementary school. >> and funerals continuing today for victims of the uvalde shooting. mourners gathered this morning to celebrate the lives of human garcia. a teacher who was killed and her husband, jose, who died of a heart attack just days later, garcia was just finishing her 23rd year of teaching at robb elementary. she and her husband had 4 children. funerals for other victims of the attack are continuing this week. >> house speaker nancy pelosi says the house democrats will consider legislation banning military-style assault weapons. speaking at an anti-gun violence event in the city today, the speaker laid out a list of gun control legislation that her party is set to propose this month, including the assault weapons ban, the so-called red flag legislation designed to kee

according to texas tribune, chief pete arradondo told reporters there was no way to breach the classroom'sced doors. they had to wait for keys. now, in the meantime, he did what he could. he told officers to break windows of other classrooms to evacuate teachers, and kids as he called for tactical gear, a sniper, and keys to get inside. and when those keys arrived, he tried dozens of them but none of them worked. and despite all of this, arradondo maintains that he never considered himself the scene's incident commander. saying, quote, i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. now, his belief was that someone else had taken control of the larger response, and he was just a frontline responder. i g get perspective now from the first responding officers to the sandy hook school shooting. chief, i'm -- i'm glad you are here. i do want to play for you, a quick clip of a conversation that i had with a reporter from the tribune, who was talking about that idea of being an incident commander or -- or not truly being. listen in. >> when t

grieves a flurry of unanswered questions linger, including more about texas school's police chief pete arradondoas incident commander during the shooting. >> i have been told this person did not have -- this person being the incident commander did not have radio communication. and i don't know as to why. >> reporter: and question if the 911 calls were properly relaid to first responders on the scene. one of those 911 calls came from a 10-year-old student inside the classroom. according to transcripts reviewed by "the new york times" the student said, there's a lot of bodies. and i don't want to die. my teacher is dead. my teacher is dead. please send help. send help for my teacher. she is shot but still alive. the call lasted about 17 minutes. gunfire was heard in the background at times. and the call was made more than 30 minutes after the shooting began, the times reports. the teaching aide, emelia now filed legal documents to get a deposition from daniel defense, the manufacturer of the gun used in the shooting. with her attorney saying because the shooter got the weapons on his 18th birthday

according to texas dps they say it was pete arradondo, something he refuted in an interview with the texas tribune. shortly after he arrived an off-duty border patrol officer was asking for help evacuating students, so he helped evacuate four to five classrooms, then he said the shooter was found and he got closer to where the shooting happened. i asked why didn't officers go in to stop the shooter sooner, and he says from where he was he never heard gunshots. now, jessica, if you're like me you're wondering how's it possible someone can be on the scene on that campus and not hear gunshots? well, i talked to a woman who lived across the street from the school and away from where the shooting happened and she also told me she never heard gunshots on that day. jessica? >> rosa flores for us, thanks so much. >>> and another astonishing moment that might have changed the course of this tragedy, "the new york times" reporting a uvalde city police officer who himself had an ar-15 rifle hesitated when he had a brief moment to shoot the gunman before the killer went into the school. a senior

now, the reporting cites transcript of body cam video and official statements from pete arradondo. because they said he thought the gunman had barricaded himself in and the children weren't any longer under that threat arradondo has defended himself saying he didn't think he was in charge journalist tony poletski broke the story tonight and what more can you tell us about what you've uncovered this evening? >> reporter: eamon, i think you've really underscored in that we have been hearing since that tragic day, may 24th, that law enforcement had a delayed response in terms of trying to stop this gunman from potential potentially hurting anymore more teachers or students now we're seeing for the first time that more than an hour or about an hour i should say before they breached that door, that authorities did have weapons, high caliber weapons as well as at least one ballistic shield long before they decided to, oh, ultimately, breach that classroom and take the gunman down again, i think what really is unfolding tonight is that we are having the ability for the first time to see t

authoritiesn did not mention how chief pete arradondo was communicating with other law enforcement officialse scene, including the more than a dozen officers waiting outside the classroom where the gunman was or john doe has yet to respond. >> 19 children 2 teachers were killed that day. 17 other people were injured. survivors and family members of the victims in the shootings in both texas. also in buffalo, new york. they will be testifying before the house oversight committee next week. that hearing is coming as lawmakers are trying to reach a bipartisan deal on tougher gun laws. the house is expected to vote next week on a series of measures including federal offenses for gun trafficking and raising the legal age to buy a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21. president biden says that there have been an additional 20 mass shootings in the country since the recent shootings in texas and buffalo and in tulsa. while the president pushes congress to try to pass gun control legislation. >> lawmakers will hear from survivors and parents of victims from both e uvalde in buffalo shootings next week.

from some state law enforcement officials that he had stopped cooperating, talking about chief pete arradondo who says he is still speaking with investigators daily. he's been publicly scrutinized. has the school district police chief in the days following the shooting after the top state law enforcement officials said arradondo made a mistake when he delayed sending officers into the classroom to confront the shooter as kids inside recalling 9-1-1, 19 children and 2 teachers died in that attack. it robb elementary school. and funerals continue today for the victims of the uvalde shooting. mourners gathered this morning to celebrate. >> the lives of irma garcia. she's the teacher who was killed and her husband, jose, who died of a heart attack. just days later, garcia was i was just finishing her 23rd year of teaching at robb elementary. she and her husband had 4 children together. funerals for other victims of the attack are continuing this week. >> in the east bay, 16 year-old has been arrested after apparently police say trying to recruit other students to participate in a school shooting

police chief pete arradondo facing sharp criticism now finally talking about his decision to wait before entering the school in an exclusive interview with the texas tribune, arradondo says i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. claiming the door of the classroom was locked and reinforced with a steel during that time. more than an hour went by police and families hearing the gunfire knowing their children needed medical the new york times reporting a redondo was even aware not everyone inside the classrooms were dead and reports that he knew a police officer's wife. a teacher had been shot but still are read out just as he held back 40 minutes to avoid provoking further gunfire and also waited for gear. a sniper and keys. they were there without her brooklyn. that's out there. >> 15 later came with shields. look at action of in their cars, you going in that we need 30 45 minutes to get our down to also goes on to say each time i try to key. i was just praying claiming he tried dozens each one failing to work. arradondo told

uvalde school police chief pete arradondo claimed it took more than an hour to breach the room whereoter was holed up because law enforcement needed to find a key to unlock a door similar to this one, the one you're looking at here. arradondo previously said officers checked to see whether the room was locked shortly after the shooter arrived but the dps leader cast doubt on that story yesterday, saying he doesn't believe the door was ever checked at all. the confusion surrounding the police response also drew sharp criticism from uvalde's mayor yesterday, who accused dps of lying to the public. >> mcgraw continued, whether you want to call it a lie, leak, excuse me. lie, leak, mislead or misstate information in order to distance his own troopers and rangers from the response. i'm termed out at major when i get through. i don't want to seek political office again. i don't want any of these elected officials not a damn thing. i'm not covering up for anybody. if you're guilty, we'll throw it out there. you want to cover up, we'll throw it out there. there's no more. no more. no more. >

grieves, a flurry of unanswered questions linger, including more about texas school's police chief pete arradondo as incident commander during the shooting. >> i have been told this person did not have -- this person being the incident commander did not have radio communication. and i don't know as to why. >> reporter: a question if the 911 calls were properly relaid to first responders on the scene. one of those 911 calls came from a 10-year-old student who was inside the classroom and according to transcripts reviewed by "the new york times" the student said, there's a lot of bodies. and i don't want to die. my teacher is dead. my teacher is dead. please send help. send help for my teacher. she is shot but still alive. the call lasted about 17 minutes. gunfire was heard in the background at times. and the call was made more than 30 minutes after the shooting began. the times reports. teaching aide has now filed legal documents to get a deposition from daniel defense the manufacturer of the gun used in the shooting. with her attorneys saying because the shooter got the weapons on his 18th birthd

the school district police chief pete arradondo was criticized for, ordering police to not to enter there the children were still alive with a shooter, and calling 9-1-1 for help. with reportedly not even carrying a police radio, as the massacre unfolded. that is according to state senator, roland gutierrez. nbc news has not independently verified this claim. meanwhile, three more victims of this deadly shooting were buried today. cousins jayce carmelo luevanos and their classmate jacqueline cazares. and families and friends say that legal fight may be growing. the father of a student killed in the shooting, in the robb elementary school, have filed paperwork, seeking details from daniel defense, the manufacture of the assault style rifle that the gunman used. next week, in washington d. c., the house oversight committee will hear from the parents of victims of the uvalde and buffalo shootings, and a fourth grade survivors from uvalde. the traditionary committees will vote to pass a package of company for measures. and surprisingly, the boat broke down 25 to 19, with all committee repub

pete arradondo also says his officers were waiting to get a key to unlock a 4th grade classroom documentsrs were also waiting for more protective gear. arradondo insists that he took what he thought were the right steps to protect lives. however, the chief of texas's state police department says that arradondo made the wrong decision. the u.s. justice department is also investigating the police response. 19 students and 2 teachers were killed on that horrific morning. the man suspected of opening fire at an orange county church, killing one person and wounding 5 others is expected to be in court today. 60 year-old david chou faces one count of murder and 5 counts of attempted murder. investigators say that his attack on a presbyterian church may have been politically motivated. the suspect was reportedly upset over alleged tensions between china and taiwan. he is being held without bail. next at 3.30, dozens of volunteers get together for the first habitat for humanity project the pandemic. the gun. and we're live from boston where the warriors are looking to tie things up during the fina

police chief pete arradondo facing sharp criticism now finally talking about his decision to wait beforetexas tribune, arradondo says i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. claiming the door of the classroom was locked and reinforced with a steel during that time. more than an hour went by police and families hearing the gunfire knowing their children needed medical the new york times reporting a redondo was even aware not everyone inside the classrooms were dead and reports that he knew a police officer's wife. a teacher had been shot but still are read out just as he held back 40 minutes to avoid provoking further gunfire and also waited for gear. a sniper and keys. they were there without her brooklyn. that's out there. >> 15 later came with shields. look at action of a in their cars, you going in that we need 30 45 minutes to get our down to also goes on to say each time i try to key. i was just praying claiming he tried dozens each one failing to work. arradondo told the texas tribune he purposely left his police and cam

chief pete arradondo that has been publicly scrutinized in the days following the shooting over reports said he delayed sending officers into the school to confront the shooter despite claims from state law enforcement that he stopped cooperating on our and says he has been speaking with investigators every day. meantime, funerals continue for victims of the shooting, 19 students and 2 teachers were killed. this morning, mourners gathered to celebrate the lives of irma. garcia teacher was killed and her husband jose who died of a heart attack days later, garcia was just finishing her 23rd year of teaching at robb elementary. she and her husband had 4 children together. >> in new york, the gunman in the deadly supermarket shooting in buffalo is now charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate. today, a grand jury in new york with turned the indictment against 18 year-old payton to engine. he is also charged with attempted murder as a hate crime and weapons possession. he's been in custody since last month's mass shooting. there. his arraignment i

more than two weeks after the fact, uvalde school district police chief pete arradondo gave an interstrew the texas tribune by phone in written answers and in statements provided by his attorney george hyde. arradondo grew up in uvalde. he attended the robb elementary school where the shootings occurred. he told the tribune that several factored impeded a quicker response. among them, he went in without his police and campus radios because he wanted both hands free and thought the radios would be a physical impediment and likely wouldn't work inside the building. because of this, he was not in contact with the scores of other officers who arrived. he didn't know of the 911 calls from inside the classroom. the classroom doors had been re-enforced to keep intruders out, so to get access he was waiting on tactical gear and keys and this i think is key, he assumed some other official had taken over the command. arradondo told officers to start breaking windows from outside other classrooms and evacuating those children and teachers. he wanted to avoid having students coming into the hallway w

>>> the uvalde school police chief, pete arradondo, who has come under intense scrutiny for the massacrending and in some cases explainings his choices. he spoke to the texas tribune and provided responses. >> this was his explanation for why he did not have radio communications during the massacre. thinking he was the first officer to arrive and wanting to waste no time, arredondo believed that carrying the radios would slow him down. one had a whip-like antenna that would hit him as he ran. the other had a clip that arradondo knew would cause it to fall off his tactical belt during a long run. arradondo said he knew from experience that the radios did not work in some school buildings, but that decision also meant that for the rest of the ordeal he was not in radio contact with the scores of other officers from at least five agencies that swarmed the scene. joining us now is retired lapd sergeant cheryl dorsey. sergeant dorsey, thank you so much. so explain this. so he said it would hamper his running, slow him down while he was running, his radios. does that make sense? >> listen, rat

. >> john: i saw an interview with pete arradondo and he clearly was stone walling the journalist interviewingoint he will speak to the events of that day. it would seem to be pretty clear, chris, that battle lines are being drawn between the local police force, the school police force and the greater texas d.p.s. you mention you don't have to make a statement if you are involved in a shooting, but he did not do shooting as far as we know. he was the incident commander and shouldn't the incident commander be held accountable? >> he should. you don't have to do the actual shooting. if you are involved in an actual shooting incident and he's in command, he's giving the orders, probably until the border patrol took over, but that all also to be sorted out. my educated guess here is he's consulted an attorney and perhaps f.o.p. attorney, they know how to deal with these situations and as you see, the battle lines have been drawn. and i think they were drawn the day my former colleague, colonel steve mccraw gave that press conference and said they made the wrong decisions. this is a state agency, t

now to uvalde texas for the city council has denied councilman pete arredondo's request for a leave of absence arradondo who also served as the chief of police for the uvalde school district. i wanted to be excused from future meetings after 3 missed meetings, the council can vote to have a member removed from their post. arradondo has come under heavy criticism for his role in the police response to the robb elementary school shooting that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead. and we also learned several chilling details about that response during a texas state hearing. this was yesterday. top officials accused arradondo of putting the lives of his officers ahead of the lives of the children in the classrooms. at one point, the texas department of public safety had there. steve mccraw said officers were looking for a key for a door that wasn't even locked and police shield police shields arrived 19 minutes after the gunman started killing children. and yet the officers did nothing for yet another hour. >> doctors had weapons. the children had none. the officers had body armor. the children had doubles

pete arredondo. last night, they were going to grant the arradondo especially of absence from his job as a city counselor so that he can then hold on to his job as a city counselor, because, the rule is, you are not allowed to miss three meetings of the city council, which pierre nano is on the verge of doing. if they granted him a leave of absence, then he would not be recorded as missing three meetings. the plan did not work, because -- rose to speak to the city council. >> you said that we don't have the power to fire him, let me give you a simple out. you can remove him because he's going to vacate his seat. you're agenda number six is a decision on whether or not to give him a leave of absence, why would you? let him miss. three meetings, he is my councilman, let him miss three. the investigation is going to come in and tell us why and what we can do better, what you can do right now is not give him, if he requested it, a leave of absence. don't give him an out. we don't want him. we want him out. you can do something right now tonight and not table whether you would decide to give him that leave of

police chief pete arredondo facing sharp criticism now, finally talking about his decision to wait before entering the school. in an exclusive interview with the texas tribune, arradondo says i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. claiming the door of the classroom was locked and reinforced with a steel during that time. more than an hour went by police and families hearing the gunfire knowing their children needed medical the new york times reporting a redondo was even aware not everyone inside the classrooms were dead and reports that he knew a police officer's wife. a teacher had been shot. but still i read out just as he held back 40 minutes to avoid provoking further gunfire and also waited for gear. a sniper and keys. they were there without her brooklyn. that's out there. >> 15 later came with shields. look at action of a in their cars, you going in that we need 30 45 minutes to get in our down to also goes on to say each time i try to key. i was just praying claiming he tried dozens each one failing to work. arradondo told the texas tribune he purposely left his police and campus radios behind befo

pete arredondo, according to ronald gutierrez, who asked the commission on state emergency communication, if arradondoetting communications about those calls, and they specifically said no. it is unclear, right now, if arradondo had a police radio on him. some officials are saying that different agencies use a different frequencies, use different radio companies. state senator gutierrez is calling this a human error and a systematic communication a failure. it is unclear. there were so many agencies onsite at the time, including federal agents, a city police who would be getting word on that call if that was orally communicated to the chief, arradondo. so many questions right now. this revelation is unlikely to ease the criticism over the police response here. now, it is raising questions about transparency on this case. we reached out individually to a lot of state agencies here. there has been no comment. they are all referring to the da who is staying quiet on this. there is really a question of transparency, not only for the public, but for the victims families, katie. >> liz, a lot of unanswered

pete arredondo, was placed on leave. what does accountability look like here? >> listen, what they do to mr. arradondoare not accountable to me. state troopers are. there was not one state uber onsite. within 60 minutes, the first trooper arrives and left. there were 12 troops in that power. we got that list last tuesday in a hearing. i filed my lawsuit because there is a lot of contradictory information and evidence that's the remains to be on earth. we need to get that information. we know that none of the radios worked inside the school. we need to fix that going forward. without this information, we will never be able to solve the problems going forward and hopefully not be able to prevent this from another school down the road. >> senator, the sister of one of the students killed and uvalde beg texas lawmakers for tougher gun laws this week, take a listen. >> i should not have to be here or now. i should be at home watching a movie with my sister. but i am not, and i am here begging for you guys to do something. to change something because the people that were supposed to keep are safe at school

police chief pete arredondo facing sharp criticism now, finally talking about his decision to wait before entering the school. in an exclusive interview with the texas tribune, arradondo says i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. claiming the door of the classroom was locked and reinforced with a steel during that time. more than an hour went by police and families hearing the gunfire knowing their children needed medical the new york times reporting a redondo was even aware not everyone inside the classrooms were dead and reports that he knew a police officer's wife. a teacher had been shot. but still i read out just as he held back 40 minutes to avoid provoking further gunfire and also waited for gear. a sniper and keys. they were there without her brooklyn. that's out there. >> 15 later came with shields. look at action of a in their cars, you going in that we need 30 45 minutes to get in our down to also goes on to say each time i try to key. i was just praying claiming he tried dozens each one failing to work. arradondo told the texas tribune he purposely left his police and campus radios behind befo

police chief pete arredondo facing sharp criticism now, finally talking about his decision to wait before entering the school. in an exclusive interview with the texas tribune, arradondos i didn't issue any orders. i called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door. claiming the door of the classroom was locked and reinforced with a steel during that time. more than an hour went by police and families hearing the gunfire knowing their children needed medical the new york times reporting a redondo was even aware not everyone inside the classrooms were dead and reports that he knew a police officer's wife. a teacher had been shot but still carried out just as he held back 40 minutes to avoid provoking further gunfire and also waited for gear. a sniper and keys. they were there without her brooklyn. that's out there. >> 15 later came with shields. look at action of a in their cars, you going in that we need 30 45 minutes to get in our down to also goes on to say each time i try to key. i was just praying claiming he tried dozens each one failing to work. arradondo told the texas tribune he purposely left his police and campus radios behind before e