is he talking to steve mccraw? to people below steve mccraw? we don't know those answers.ependent had to file a lawsuit to try to get those answers. unfortunately it remains to be seen that we're going to get the kind of transparency and that's why i demanded-to-get those answers at the courthouse. greg abbott can ask for that accountability, he can ask for those jobs right now but he refuses to act because he's stuck in his own ambition and unfortunately to the detriment of the people of uvalde, he refused to act. >> these kids are go to be heading back to school. it's going to be traumatic for that community and for the kids that are going on with the kids that are no longer with them. what are the results for the kids as they prepare to head back to school on august 15th? >> it's my hope that they plus up the number of officers. they had six officers for eight campuses. that's just not sufficient. i hope they'll be able do that. i don't want to step into their lane too much but we are 24 days away from school starting and we still don't have a governor to call a special

dps director steve mccraw calling his actions on the day of the massacre a, quote, abject fai failure. as more officers arrive and more inaction, you can hear police begin to seek direction. >> what are we doing here? >> reporter: we also have video from officer justin mendoza who arrived on the scene. at 11:58 local time, police helped the first students and teachers from a classroom escape. you can see sergeant arredondo move from a window. more than 12 minutes later we get our first glimpse of chief arredondo in the hallway of robb elementary. you can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up, seemingly unaware that children may still be inside the classroom. >> let me know if there are any kids in there or anything. this could be peaceful. could you tell me your name, anything to help, please? >> reporter: moments later a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera of officer mendoza. 911 dispatch gives a chilling account from a student still in the classroom. >> we had a child on the line. >> wait. what was that? >> rit's going to be room 12. >> reporter: yet even with that i

i want to know who he was talking to, who they were talking to and at what point did steve mccraw sayd to go in now. those are the people that are accountable most, not so much the city cops or the locals but i need to know why the state troopers that were massed in great numbers didn't go in. on august 4th we'll be going to court, mccraw will be subpoenaed and hopefully we'll be able to get some of the information. hi to sue them and i asked the questions and i got no answers in return. >> state senator, good morning. this is jonathan lemire. i wanted to get your update, what you think about how the state has handled this. in particular, governor abbott, who in the hours after the shooting praised the response of law enforcement, he then later said he was misled. he's come under criticism for not playing much of an active role. you could give us, enlighten us, has he been meeting with the families and offering help and comfort? >> listen, i don't want this to sound like a political assault on him, but at the end of the day, and i noticed he hadn't about there since day three, he hadn

look at himself or the governor needs to demand accountability of the director of public service, steve mccrawe, everybody that is hurting those agencies, that was on the phone, —— heading those agencies, that was on the phone, that was on those calls, they chose not to act, need to look at their futures within those particular agencies, people they self—directed, but take immediate action. a ferocious heatwave is continuing to cause wildfires and mass evacuations across much of western europe and parts of north africa. with the latest, here's our europe correspondent, jessica parker. a constant battle being fought in spain, portugal, greece and here in south—western france, where, in gironde, today... oh, la, la! ..the blaze reached the shore. it's driven people from their homes to shelter in the shade of an evacuation centre. translation: they told me to leave, i but i wanted to stay, so they came a second time and gave me five minutes to pack. i've been staying here since wednesday afternoon. voila. she worries for her house, and then spots something. canadairs — water bombers flying toward

look at himself or the governor needs to demand accountability of the director of public service, steve mccrawse agencies, that was on the phone, that was almost because, they chose not to act, need to look at their futures within those particular agencies, people they self—directed, but it take immediate action. self-directed, but it take immediate action.- self-directed, but it take immediate action. yes, a lot of demands _ immediate action. yes, a lot of demands there. _ immediate action. yes, a lot of demands there. senator - immediate action. yes, a lot of| demands there. senator roland gutierrez, thank you very much. you so much. —— thank you. a ferocious heatwave is continuing to cause wildfires and mass evacuations across western europe and parts of north africa. with the latest, here's our europe correspondent, jessica parker. a constant battle being fought in spain, portugal, greece and here in south—western france, where, in gironde, today... oh, la, la! ..the blaze reached the shore. it's driven people from their homes to shelter in the shade of an evacuation centre. translation: t

most damning piece here, of course, because we heard four days, and weeks, and months, we heard steve mccraw, director of dps, point the finger to the local school call, point the finger to a teacher, point the finger to local police. you had 91 dps troopers, many of which were in that hallway, and constantly were being told divergent narratives to shed themselves from responsibility here. the absolute truth here is that everybody on scene violated the attacker protocol, the active shooter protocol. that's what happened here, and dps steve micro can't run from it, nor can anyone of these agencies. we need to have accountability. there is a direct report to the governor, and greg abbott has yet to do one thing, or ask one thing for dps. we now hear today that they're finally starting an internal investigation at dps to find out if they follow the procedures. 55 days later, they finally start to have an internal investigation, that is absurd. >> well, governor abbott has the authority to call head of the state police into his office, or get him on the phone at any moment, and demand to know ev

. >> i think steve mccraw needs to look in the mirror when he talks about abject failure.eight different law enforcement agencies just walking around, milling around, waiting what to do. not one radio worked inside that building. they were all on their phones. i'm not talking about the gentleman that was texting his wife as she unfortunately succumbed. i'm talking about everybody else that was on their phones. those phones weren't working because they just were inoperable in there. we can get into that story of neglect down the road. but there was one officer, and if you look at the back of his vest, he was being followed around by the body cam officer. both of those were state employees that one officer on the back of his vest, it said texas ranger. and that texas ranger spent most of his time walking around that building, walking in that hallway, talking to someone. so someone was telling him what to do. who was that person? i filed a lawsuit, my office will be in court to get the rest of the material that we've asked for so that we can get to the bottom of what happened

at the end of the day, it was very quick for this dps director, steve mccraw, to point the finger atointing a finger at a cop with six people under him. i don't need pete arredondo. don't need to know him, don't want to know him. at the end we had 12 dps officers on scene. nine were 12 dps troopers. where are the systematic failures? why didn't all the radio communications come in? the governor's office knew that radio system was failing in the community for seven years. why are we not looking at the broader systematic problems that created probably the worst mass shooting, i say the worst not because it was the highest in number but it was probably the longest in having to wait for law enforcement to go in. we don't know how many children -- but the systematic failures and human errors were abound. >> you recall that shortly after the shooting took place, officials came out and praised the law enforcement officers that responded to the scene, but as details started emerging about what actually happened, even the governor himself, greg abbott, came forward and said he was lied to abo

hallway for over an hour while a gunman was firg inse of the classrooms drawing tough criticism from steve mccrawor of the texas department of public safety. >> the on scene commander who decides to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> last month he was put on administrative leave after texas public safety head called the police response an abject failure. arredondo maintains he was not the ins tent commander that day and his lawyer said he did not issue any orders to other law enforcement agencies. >> he failed at his job. failed our kids. >> reporter: javier lost his 9-year-old daughter jackie. >> we can't have our child back. so for me it is never enough. >> now we reached out to arredondo's lawyer to see if he could communicate with us, we have not heard back yet so we don't know what he's going to do with his job as a police chief as that investigation by the texas department of public safety continues into his actions on that day. erin. >> gaud venegas, thank you so much. >>> well, coming up, a new poll reveals a record low number of adults are extremely proud to be

steve mccraw calling his actions on the day of the massacre a, quote, abject failure. as more officers arrive and more inaction, you can hear police begin to seek direction. >> what are we doing here? >> we also have video from officer mendoza who also arrived on the scene. at 11:58 police helped students and teachers escape the building. at the same time sergeant coronado can be seen helping children escape from a window. it had been 25 minutes since police first entered the building. 12 minutes later, we get our first glimpse of chief arredondo in the hallway. you can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up, but seemingly unaware that children may still be inside in the classroom. >> let me know. are there any kids in there or anything? this could be peaceful. could you tell me your name, anything i can help, please. >> moments later, a critical piece of the puzzle when the camera of officer mendoza, 911 dispatch gives a chilling account from a student still in the classroom. >> what was that? >> room 12. he is in the room full of victims. full of victims at thi

as i questioned steve mccraw, he acknowledged we had done no joint training.billion on this operation lone star greg abbott wants us to have on this border and no joint training with other agencies. that is absurd. >> that coming from your state public safety head. so i just want to kind of summarize for people who just maybe are tuning in to this report. this is fact-finding. there were something like 376 from the local level through the state and even federal, that there appears to have been no leadership on the scene. there was no unified response involving those who were there. there was poor cell service, coordinating communication was complicated. there was even some blame being placed on the school itself that it had poor wi-fi, broken locks, noncompliance with safety policies, all of these things. failures all the way around. while this promotes even more frustration, i'm wondering how this can also, then, promote some real accountability. do you see this more likely to happen? >> i certainly hope so. with greg abbott at the helm, i'm not sure. we've b

the only reason that came, out was because i cross-examine steve mccraw to that, during his testimonys the kind of government we are dealing with in texas. >> so where are we going to go from here? are police going to face any consequences? is this current texas government going to face any consequences? or not, if they keep getting reelected? >> that's the unfortunate thing, it's my hope stephanie. that people finally get tired of. this they finally get tired of the neglect. and as i have done my own investigations, you will start to see very soon, that in texas. there are many things, that light up to this massacre. including the, fact that greg abbott knew about the failed radios, the other thing that was important about that video. everybody was on their cell phone. they were on their cell phones, because of the radio systems didn't work. the governor has known that for seven years, and he's been asked for money, to fix those radio systems for seven counties. and he has refused. >> can -- >> this is a story of neglect. >> those kids just went to school that day. two days left in t

dps director steve mccraw calling his actions on the day of the massacre a, quote, an jungt failure. you can hear police seeking direction. >> what are we doing here? >> reporter: we also have video an officer that arrived on the scene at 11:58 local time, police helped the first students and teachers from a nearby classroom escape the building. at the same time sergeant coronado can be seen helping children escape from a window outside. at this point it had been nearly 25 minutes since police first entered the building, more than 12 minutes later we get our first glimpse of chief arredondo in the hallway of robb elementary. you can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up but seemingly unaware that children may still be inside the classroom. >> let me know if there are any kids in there or anything. this could be peaceful. could you tell me your name, anything i can know, please? >> reporter: moments later a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera of officer men dose sza. 911 dis pitch gives a chilling account of a children still in the classroom. >> we have a child on the

i want to know what steve mccraw knew and when he knew it.t what point does a next supervisor in those agencies that have higher firepower and manpower and resources, at what point do their bosses say go in or why they didn't say go in. that's what i want to know going forward. >> who do you think is going to answer those questions? >> well, i have a lawsuit, i have sued the department of public safety. what we saw yesterday is just the beginning of this thing for me. i need to know that the agency that is accountable to the legislature and that's the department of public safety, is going to do the right thing in the future and is going to correct the things that happened and is going to hold the people accountable that violated their training in not going in. and this notion that the other guy was the incident commander, that's the cafeteria school cop. i mean, let's be very clear. that's what that report is saying. let's not also forget the larger question here is that we shouldn't have weapons of this type of caliber in the hands of 18 yea

the fact is steve mccraw works for him. and he can tell him to resign. can divulge to the community what they fail toddy as a result j. they hid behind some investigation. there needs to be people at a high level. and a federal government should have this discussion too. i know they waited for 30 minutes while kids bled out. >> let me ask you about the governor more. he was in uvalde the day after the attack patting people on the back. hasn't been there since. he didn't go to any of the funerals. why has he been absent? >> you'd have to ask him. but i will tell you that the last day he showed up was the fifth day when the president showed up. on the third day he showed up to tell us what kind of state resources that the state had to offer. i think the mayor and the county judge know exactly what kind of state resources. what we needed is actually an execution of those state resources. we had a family given two weeks of lost wages by this district attorney. that's just wrong. we have families that have not been adequately taken care of when it comes to vi

dps director steve mccraw calling his actions on the day of the massacre a, quote, abject failure. as more officers arrive and more inaction, you can hear police begin to seek direction. >> what are we doing here? >> reporter: we also have video from officer justin mendoza who arrived on the scene at 11:58 local time, police helped the first students and teachers from a nearby classroom escape the building. at the same time, sergeant coronado can be seen helping children escape from a window outside. at this point it had been nearly 25 minutes since police first entered the building. more than 12 minutes later we get our first glimpse of chief arradondo in the hallway of robb elementary. you can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up, but seemingly unaware that children may still be inside the classroom. >> let me know if there's any kids in there or anything? this could be peaceful. would you tell me your name, anything i inside to know, please? >> reporter: moments later a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera of officer mend o mendoza. >> you have a child on the lin

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for over an hour while a gunman was firing inside the classrooms, drawing tough criticism from steve mccrawhe director of the texas department of public safety. >> the on scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> reporter: last month when arredondo was put on administrative leave after texas public safety head called the police response an abject failure. arredondo maintain he was not the incident commander that day and his lawyer said he did not issue any orders to other law enforcement ages. -- lost his 9 year old daughter jackie. >> -- never going to be enough because we can't have her back. for me it is never going to be enough. >> reporter: do we know if arredondo will resign from his school police chief position. >> wee appreciate out to his lawyer but have not got an response back yet. so there is no indication whether he's going to be stepping down from that position as well. right now he does remain on that administrative leave. while his response that day is still under investigation by the texas rangers. >> thank you. >>> we turn