learning police were outside the classroom but didn't go in. mireya villarreal with the chilling story from a child about playing dead so he wouldn't get shot, saying the gunman told the students, you're all going to die. new details about missed warning signs, authorities say the suspect, 17 at the time, asking his sister to buy him a gun last september. alarming instagram chats about buying guns, someone asking, are you going to shoot up a school, and how he responded. >>> massive protests outside today's nra convention in houston. former president trump speaking at the event. several other top republicans canceling appearances. what some insiders are saying about changing gun laws and tonight where things stand in washington on the debate over gun reform. rachel scott in houston. >>> severe storms threatening travel plans as the memorial day weekend gets under way. powerful thunderstorms slamming the carolinas into the northeast. rob marciano timing it out. and the soaring prices making this one of the most expensive holidays to travel on rec

the classroom door for more than 45 minutes before finally entering to take down the shooter. why they say they waited as they now admit this - >> it was a wrong decision. >> inside that classroom, terrified students calling 911 begging for help the new images as some children were rescued fleeing to safety. outrage from families tonight as well as the governor our reporter pressing for answers. >> who is going to be held accountable >>> also tonight, massive protests outside the nra convention held hours from the shooting site inside former president trump speaking to members. what he just said about gun control. >>> severe weather snarling traffic across the east coast and grounding more than 1,000 flights tornado warnings into the night just as tens of millions take off for the holiday weekend. >>> plus, the baby formula shortage is getting worse hitting 70% out of stock nationwide the new action the government is taking. >>> the blockbuster trial between johnny depp and his ex-wife amber heard. the vicious accusations during closing arguments. the case now in the hands of t

they didn't go into the classroom until a janitor brought the keys. second grader edward silver was in his class room when the shooting started. >> at first it started like something was popping. kind of like fireworks. >> just after 12:00 the 9-1-1 calls began from a child inside the classroom where shots were fired. >> she didn't find herself and whispered, she was in room 1:12. in 12:10 she called back and in room 12 advise multiple. did she called again on the phone, later and again it 12:16. she called back and said there were 8 to 9 students alive. 12:21, you could hear over the 9-1-1 call, three shots fired. 12:36, 9-1-1 call that lasted for 21 seconds, the initial color called back, student, child, was told to stay on the line to be very quiet. she told 9-1-1 that he shot the door. at 12:43 and 12:47 she asked 9-1-1 to police and the police now. >> 11-year-old bias of rio was inside the classroom with a giant gunman. her aunt said she had to save herself. >> media got some blood and put it on herself so she could potentially was dead. >> by th

the police. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives at risk. >> we are well aware of that. >> why was -- [ inaudible ] >> the on-scene commander considered it a barricaded subject and there was time and no more children at risk. obviously, based upon the information we have, there were children in the classroom that were at risk. it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation and not a barricaded subject. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >> the question is this, 40-minute gap. if the 911 operators were aware that children were live in that classroom, why weren't officers notified of that? if that's the case, why didn't they take action? that's the question. again, i will go back to the answer for right now is that it was considered -- the decision was made on the scene. i wasn't there. the same point in time, a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that po

in, in hallway, and why not fire through the exterior windows of the classroom. because some of the reports were that ramos was firing out of the windows of the classroom outside the school. that's some of the early read that we got from the texas department of public safety. again, all these facts just raise more questions, hallie. >> barbara, let me go to you. congressman joaquin castro wants a federal investigation into the response here. in your view is this something based on the facts that have been laid out now over the last two hours today, does this sound like something that would rise to a federal investigation into the police response? >> generally no. police investigations are typically based on violations of civil rights or patterns and practices of constitutional violations, discriminatory policing. this sound more like incompetence. the border patrol, the u.s. border patrol was involved. so there could be some investigation of their role. but it sound like the real problem was with the local police department that had this on-scene commander and had

from someone who survived the shooting inside one of those classrooms. ls about what the shooter said before he killed the teacher. he said "goodnight" and then he pulled the trigger and opened fire. we were also told by this survivor that she did call 911, got someone on the line and told the operator we are in trouble, we are in trouble. she told us it felt like three hours that this was going on inside the classroom, it obviously was only an hour. she also said she was under the impression at the time that the police just weren't there. she kept waiting for them and became emotional over the last few days when she was aware that the police were outside. obviously there is this new timeline now being provided by law enforcement where they are correcting some of the things that were erroneously told to us by them. there was no school resource officer outside this building, no one who engaged with the shooter before he got in the locked door and we now know that he was inside for a full hour. an hour inside this building as anxious parents were outside, s

the classrooms he shot into were both locked when officers arrived. they killed a suspect at that time. and now i would like to go over the 911 timeline. which i warn you is not... it's better to read it than listen to it. the caller identified, i will not say her name, but she was in room 112 called 911 at 12:03. the call was one minute and 23 seconds. she whispered she was in room 112. after identify herself. at 12:10 she called back in room 12 saying multiple were dead. 12:13, again, she called on the phone. again at 12:16 she is called back and said they are 8-students alive. at 12:19, the 911 call was made and another person in room 111 called. i will not say her name. she hung up one another student told her to hang up. at 12:21, you can hear over the 911 call that three shots were fired. 12:36, 911 call lasted for 21 seconds. the initial caller called back student and child called back. was told to stay on the line and be very quiet. she called 111 that he shut the door at approximately 12:43 and 12: 47 she asked 911 at seven the police now. at

while elementary school students in the texas town of yuvalda, paraded in the classrooms and under the desks tried to to hide from the killer, the parents gathered at the entrance went crazy at the sound of each shot. you know that there are children there, there are small defenseless children, six-year-old children. they can't protect themselves from the shooter. all the while, the students call 911, begging for help from the cops, very close to confidently hold a cordon, but do nothing to stop the shooters must understand that when the police entered the building, they did not know where the shooter is located, so they came under fire if they went further, not understanding where he hid shooters they could be wounded or killed, and then this would give the shooter an opportunity. open fire on other people is exactly what the killer did for 79 minutes before he was eliminated by a group of special forces, seven armed cops. they could immediately give battle to an 18-year-old madman with a rifle, but it seems that they were just scared. they did not go right away because they came unde

why did law enforcement wait so long to breach the classroom? why did their story change about the gunman being confronted on his way into the school in why many parents were asking outside the school would the police not go in, and if they wouldn't, why wouldn't they let them go in? let's go straight to the scene to shimon. the kindest way i can describe what we've heard is it's contradictory and inconsistent. do we expect the authorities now are trying to give us a clearer, fuller factual timeline? >> reporter: hard to tell what expectations are right now. i can tell you that the -- someone from the dps told us the director here is going to take a lot of questions. they expect this to be an extensive briefing. you can see there's a white board behind me. i think he may be coming to the podium, but that's a map of the school and it looks like the director is taking the podium. john, we're going to wait. but they're telling us that this is going to be an extensive briefing. he's going to take a lot of questions. the texas rangers you see are behi

by 12:03pm, there were up to 19 officers in the hallway outside the classroom. ey do not try to enter. at 12:15pm, the border patrol tactical team started to arrive. minutes later, the gunman fires again. it is not until 12:50pm when the keys are found to open the classroom door and the gunman is shot dead. the police knew there were children alive trapped inside the classroom, but waited over an hour before going in. from the benefit of hindsight, where i'm sitting now, of course it wasn't the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there's no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn't there. we believe there should have been an entry as soon as. hey, when there's an active shooter, the rules change. protesters are out in force in houston because the powerful pro—gun lobby, the nra, are hosting a huge convention here today less than 300 miles from uvalde. the elementary school massacre has not stopped them, not even briefly, from passionately defending their right to own weapons. chanting: nra, go away! angry protesters outside are demanding new laws to restrict o

having these discussions in the classroom. the second critical, critical, pieced that is professional development for teachers. they don't know how to have the conversations safely. and a manner that doesn't turn political, or caused an uproar in their classroom, or land him on the front page of the newspaper the next day because some parent's map was discussed in the classroom. they don't have that training. they don't get the opportunity to go get the training. once again, social study is the bottom of the heap in the education world. they just are! with limited budgets, administrators, i hear this all the time from creatures, principles do not have the budget for social studies teachers to get substitute teachers in the classrooms and they can go take a day and get trained. even the teachers that want to get to training, even if there is access to the training, they can't get there because they don't have the budget to get out of school and have somebody take over their classroom. it's a really desperate state of affairs. we

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both of the classrooms he shot into were locked when officers arrived. they killed the suspect at that time. >> reporter: in that crucial time, survivors inside both classrooms made desperate calls to 911. >> she identified herself and whispered she's in room 112. 12:10 p.m., called back, multiple dead. 12:13 p.m., again called on the phone. again, 12:16 p.m., called back, eight to nine students are alive. >> minutes later, a student called. >> student, child called back, was told to stay on the line and be very quiet, told 911 that he shot the door, approximately 12:43 and 12:47 asked 911 to please send the police now. >> reporter: says his daughter amerie may have been one of the students who called 911. she was killed during the shooting. >> you were wrong, what do we do now? what are we knogoing to do now? the accountability. someone's got to be responsible. >> reporter: warning signs missed. >> ramos had a sister, asked for help to buy a gun, she flatly refused in 2021. >> posts back as far as last february offering red if a flags. >> group chat was

salvador ramos barricade himself in the classroom shooting 19 children and two teacherers it took 53 minutes before armed police went in as the local people come to terms with tragedy, grief is turning to angen with tragedy, grief is turning to anger. sarah smith reports. the police broke windows at the school to get children out after the shooting, carrying some of them to safety. their earlier response is now under huge scrutiny. why did they wait nearly an hour after the gunman had entered the school and started killing children before they went in to tackle him? i got it, ok. hey, from the benefit of hindsight, where i'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period. there's no excuse for that. but again, i wasn't there, but i'm just telling you, from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there's an active shooter, the rules change. in houston, just four hours drive from uvalde, the powerful pro gun association, the nra, are meeting today. thousands of gun owners gathering to defend their ri

or why weren't even the classroom doors were blocked why? >> reporter: sam brock, nbc news, uvalde, texas. >>> so many questions. and now a federal investigation into the actions of police is requested. experts say the police decision to hold back defied what officers are trained to do, to act quickly. here's miguel almaguer >> reporter: as police waited to take down the gunman in uvalde, experts say that decision cost lives. the roughly hour and 20 minutes from the first to final shots should have never elapsed. what was happening inside the classroom former officers say was not a barricaded suspect but an active shooter. >> that was an active scene. we have to go in even if that shooting stops it is 100% wrong that it ever transitioned into a barricaded suspect the shooter will divert the attention to us so we will engage the shooter during that time he is not killing students and staff. >> reporter: the texas commission on law enforcement says time is the number one enemy during active shooter response and the number one objective of polic

was discussed in the classroom. they don't have that training and i will tell you from talking the teachers directly. they don't get the opportunities to go get the training because once again social studies is the bottom of the heap in the education world. they just are and with limited budgets administrators. i hear this all the time from teachers principles. do not i'll have the budget for social studies teachers to get. to get substitute teachers into the classroom so that they can go take a day and get trained. even the teachers that want to get the training even when there's access to the training they can't get there because they don't have the budget to get out of school and have somebody take over their classroom. it's a really desperate state of affairs. so we have to have accessible professional development. either tim or bob one of you alerted alluded to this as well earlier about the fact that most of our a social studies teachers a good majority of them frankly are coming out of college teaching these s

it is going to the hallway, and the children inside the classroom, who is holed up, and called 9-1-1. top police officials, now, admit that it was a mistake to not engage the shooter, earlier. have a listen. >> why was this decision made, to not go in, and rescue these children? >> the on scene commander, considered a barricaded subject, there is time, and no more children at risk. of course, it was not the right decision, it was the wrong one, period. >> parents of the victims, outraged, understandably, at these missteps. with one father, telling cnn, he wonders if his daughter, and others, may have survived if authorities acted more quickly. we now know the names, and faces, of all 21 live shot to cut short, with funerals begun next week. this is going in and lavandera picking up the story. >> i was misled. i am livid about what happened. >> explosive reaction from the texas governor, to new reactions from law enforcement response in the days of the evolving shootings. >> the information i was given turned out, in part, to be inaccurate. i am, absolutely, livid about that. it is imp

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. >> now, students, educators and others testify on free speech in the classroom, academic censorship and parental rights. this has oversight and the subcommittee on -- it runs just two hours. >> good morning, welcome to today's remote hearing, we are in hybrid form today pursuant to house rules, some will appear remotely via zoom. you all know zoom by now but if you points first. you've been using active view, this will work but you get better overall perspective. we have a timer visible on your screen. numbers who want to pin it to the screen, and third see you so please have your cameras turned on at all times during the hearing. all times during the hearing. we are not recognizing that you remain muted against background noise from dogs and cars and all that. you can seek recognition from the chair verbally or by chat or by e-mail with the staff and i will recognize members in seniority order for questioning. finally if you want to be recognized outside regular order you know how to do that. and we will begin the hearing in a moment when they tell me they are ready to begin the ac

why was the gunman able to stay inside a fourth grade classroom for an hour? and why was the school side door unlocked? tonight, the growing outrage. as a community mourns, police defend their response to one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. plus, the death toll grows: the husband of a teacher killed dies of a heart attack. the family says it was grief. inside the classroom: >> and then he came in and he crouched a little bit, and he said, "it's time to die." >> dokoupil: we hear a devastating firsthand account from a nine-year-old boy. remembering the victims-- the brother struggling to understand why his sibling won't come home. students across america demand action. thousands stage walkouts to call for more gun control. protecting america's schools: what's being done nationwide to keep our children safe? fighting the rise of gunld arogn atlanta be the key to and instead, walking away from a fight?opstng remembering ray liotta.r the legendary "goodfellas" actor dies at 67. and finally, the community here in uvalde, texas, planning to cel

the next couple of years. a big problem is a shortage of classrooms. be given exclusive access to the first 30 printed school in dagascar. it is only the second in the world. our correspondent has this report. >> it's moving its first layer. i can't believe it. 2 this is -- reporter: this is maggie. a 22 who set up her own ngo when she was a teenager. her idea is to use 3d technology to ive access to education. starting in madagascar. >> i was adopted from china when i was about 18 months old. i was from a poor village. so i really relate to the but i guess car people and a lot of the ledges here. if you have access to school, then a lot more opportunities arise from the. reporter: one in five primary school-aged children are not getting an education in madagascar. part of the problem is classrooms are overcrowded and some people have to travel long distances to reach a school. >> i first heard of 3d printing about seven years ago. i thought we could use this technology to build schools faster. reporter: here at this university in central madagascar, th

why did police take more than an hour to breach the classroom and stop the bloodshed? 19 children and 2 teachers killed and now tragedy upon tragedy. the husband of one of those teachers died as he prepared for her funeral. >>> also, the nra set to hold a meeting just hours from the site of the shooting in washington a bipartisan group of senators meeting in the hopes of breaking a gridlock on gun legislation. can they cut a deal? >>> also tonight, the massive fire aboard a cruise ship. passengers prepared to abandon ship >>> the monkeypox outbreak growing where new cases have been found in the u.s. >>> and the sudden death of ray liotta, best known for his iconic role in "goodfellas. the tributes pouring in tonight >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt, reporting tonight from uvalde, texas. >>> good evening from uvalde where the memorial behind me is growing tonight and so are the questions. questions and anger over the response by law enforcement after a gunman walked in a school, locked himself inside a classroom, and carried out the unthinkable.

with a rifle shot children 19 officers were in the corridor at that time, the girl who was in the classroom was able to pick up the phone. and call 911 she called several times to report many of the dead, there were several children who called from this hell. almost none of them waited for help 19 dead special forces, waiting for a set of spare keys, the name opened the door to the classroom, and then destroyed the attacker. now people in uniform give explanations and bring

the police. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. >> we're well aware of that. >> why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? >> again, the on-scene commander considered it a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no more children at risk. obviously, based upon the information we have, there were children in that classroom that were at risk and it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation and not a barricaded subject. >> reporter: and you hear there the head of the dps exactly saying that, this was not a barricaded situation. this was an active shooter situation. and now, of course, the question about that resource officer, the director of dps was asked about that. take a listen to what he said. >> that officer was not on scene, not on campus, but had heard the 911 call, a man with a gun. drove immediately to the area. sped to what he thought was the man with a gun, to the back of the school, what turned out to be a teacher and not the suspect. in doing

police in texas say it was the wrong decision to delay entering the classroom in a school in the city of uvalde, where 21 people were killed by a gunman on tuesday. salvador ramos, who was 18, barricaded himself inside the room, shooting 19 children and two teachers. it took 53 minutes for armed police to eventually go in. as local people come to terms with the tragedy, grief is turning into anger. here's our north america editor, sarah smith. terrified students were rescued from the school whilst the gunman was still in one of the classrooms. the children trapped inside were desperately calling 911 for help. one young girl called back five times telling the operator, some of the student are still alive, and pleading, please send the police now. authorities now have to explain why there was not a much faster response. we why there was not a much faster resonse. ~ . why there was not a much faster resnonse-_ why there was not a much faster resonse. ~ . ., ,., response. we are here to report the facts as we — response. we are here to report the facts as we know _ response. we are here t

the gunman was in that classroom. the adjoined classroom. what should have happened? >> first, i think it's important to understand an active shooter is a threat classification. the tactics that are utilized to neutralize that threat have changed dramatically since i first started as a police officer. and now, they require only a singular officer on the scene, and their job is to pursue that threat, to identify that threat, and to neutralize the threat, and not to stop until they have done so. even if they are receiving fire, i mean, unfortunately, it's not a job for everyone, but that is the job. >> that's what it requires in that moment. do you think the commander, this chief of police, should turn in his badge? >> i would say, you know, emotions are high, and i certainly understand -- i mean, i'm a parent myself. i have three children who are elementary school age. it's important that we wait until the completion of the incident report and understand exactly what was going through the incident commander's mind at the time, what he or she and the other officers were

the teacher backing into the classroom, the gunman following. he looked one of the teachers in the eye and said, good night and then shot her. then he opened fire shooting the other teacher and a lot of mia's friends, she says bullets flew by her and hit her shoulders and her head. >> good lord, i heard you describe earlier how she is conscious, but her share falling out around the wounds in her head. i understand according to this child the heater is went into the adjoining classroom? >> reporter: yeah, mia says after shooting a lot of students in her class, he went through kind of an ad joining door between the two classroomles. she heard screams and heard him shooting and heard a lot of gunshots. after the shots stopped, though, she says he started playing music, loud music how would you describe it? she said it was bad. like you want people to die. it's how she described it. >> for a little girl to have to go through that. so what did she then do in the midst of all this? >> reporter: mia told me she was scared of the gunman would come back

that gunman fired more shots as those children inside the classroom called 911. of the victims of course

each graduate has his own version of the exam started in the classrooms suffered absolute silence. nducting the exam are invariably with schoolchildren. passport handle bottle of water, they left the rest in the hallway. for example, someone's chocolate bars of medicine. napkins, even to us journalists were forbidden to use any means of communication, no phones and tablets. public observers have not canceled anti-covid restrictions this year, but nevertheless they have become less rigid and canceled the chess seating in the classrooms. uh, the wearing of gloves has been abolished, but it remains mandatory for all staff at the exam site. this is the presence of masks in the classrooms, when e organizers work with children, schoolchildren have the right, at their own request, to either wear personal protective equipment, or no, the knowledge test relay race has started in kamchatka for today's exam, each subject is allotted, three to four hours are accepted for those who are late, but there are no concessions to finish. they should at the same time as the rest of the graduates. in yak

she was a wife and a mom, gunned down doing what she loved in the classroom. her family calling her a hero. >> she put love into everything she did, with her daughter, with her family, with the school, and i will always remember her, honestly, as a hero for doing what she did, especially as a mom to having her own child. i would say that. >> photos of the five killed out of the 19 kids. this is 10-year-old xavier, 8-year-old, 10-year-old, and two more 10-year-olds. they were in a classroom yesterday afternoon getting ready to go on summer break in a couple days when the gunman walked in, barricaded himself in the classroom and opened fire. reports say one of the little girls in the class picked up the phone and tried to dial 911, but she was shot and killed. police say all of the families have now been notified. can't imagine what they are going through, these were families that did not know if their kids were alive, out there for hours with the confusion, chaos and heartbreak as they searched for these little kids. family members tell me other students just do

yeah i don't think it's been widely adopted for a teacher to lock the classroom in the class. when the class comes into class, i think that it it is, uh, definitely protocol that if there is a breach if there is an announcement that there is some sort of threat to the campus at the teachers do so but not necessarily. as soon as the kids come in something that will definitely be talked about here and we learned today. that the commander on the scene back to that subject tuesday shifted to from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. all right now, how can any such decision like that be made inside of a school where we don't even know if all the children are catapult at that moment. it's unconscionable. i don't know how anybody could have made that decision. none of the my former appears that i've talked to can understand it. uh the only thing that i could think of is it somebody with not a lot of experience. i know that the chief arredondo, uh, has apparently had three decades of law enforcement experiencing from himself, but i don't know where that was. or you know how, um

you have 8, 9 and 10-year-old in the classroom. you can't use the aggressive tactics outside the door for fear of injuring or killing more young kids who are in that classroom. >> harris: that's the case when you think there might be hostages. you are right. tenderness of their age. the school was supposed to be o*b on lock down. there was a door unlocked. i just want to know the basics once he left his grandmother's house. there is a bit of a timeline coming into clearer focus and you're right. you heard bill melugin just reporting, was it 40 or 60 minutes? 40 minutes or an hour? this is what the texas department of public safety director said about the timeline. let's watch. >> went down a hallway, turned right and left. two classrooms adjoining. that's where the carnage began. as he was shooting it would be within 40 minutes or an hour but bottom line is law enforcement was there. they did engage immediately. they did contain him in the classroom. >> i can relate to the fog of gathering information in that situation. shots fired.

the classroom censorship laws being passed today are the hallmark of authoritarian regimes. removing anything from the public sphere that does not comport with a strict party line and demonizing it. in russia and belarus, a crime to disseminate so-called lgbt q plus propaganda or discredit the institutions of family as it is a crime to describe the war against sovereign democratic nation of ukraine as a war, that can get you sent to prison in russia. a proposed law in tennessee would prohibit the use of any classroom material addressing lgbt q lifestyles. the proposed kansas bill, a misdemeanor to use any class or materials depicting gay people. these are not passed for the benefit of students and their educational progress. they are not being passed to support parents rights to transparency and involvement in children's education. they are being passed to enforce the will of a right-wing minority hell-bent on destroying public schools against the exhausted authority of parents to support education or trust teachers, principals and elected school boards to do right by their

they made forcible entry into the classroom. one of those officers was met with gunfire, he was shot. nonlife threatening injury, at that point they were able to shoot and kill the shooter. >> all the injuries and fatalities took place in one classroom? >> that's correct. >> one classroom, that the shooter barricaded himself in, and that's where all the deceased, wounded are. >> right. it was a classroom setting, he was able to make entry into that classroom, barricaded himself by locking the door and started shooting children and the two teachers inside that classroom. just goes to show you the complete evil from this shooter. >> that is horrifying. >> it is. >> how long was he in that classroom? >> so, again, we're trying to determine all those timelines from the time the initial event took place, from when he actually shot the grandmother, from the point he made it to the school and how long was any that school, so we're trying to talk to witnesses, anybody that was envelope involved or in that school at the time that was pres

is when that gunman first got into the classroom at the school. no resistance whatsoever, more than 100 rounds are fired in that classroom. that's when much of the killing and the massacre took place. the first officers don't get there until a few minutes later, 11:35. he goes into the class at 11:33, the cops get there 11:35, and they approach the door, they get shot at, some are injured, they fall back, they don't leave the school, they fall back, they stay in the hallway, train their guns on the door and a decision is made. the local commander decides we are not going to breach, we'll sit back, keep an eye on the door and call for back-up and a tactical team. texas dps says that was the wrong decision in hindsight. and as we get a timeline of the 911 calls as well, 12:06:00 p.m., 19 police officers in the hallway of that school. at 12:16, a 911 call comes in saying there are 8 to 9 children still alive. it was not for another 35 minutes before that tactical team made the breach and killed the gunman, and you mentioned off the top, we are also le

marys. >> annabelle rodriguez loved to dance, in the same classroom as her cousin. her father called her a firecracker, postic his range of emotion first at the cowardly way his daughter was killed. it hurts us to our souls. then, a note to his daughter. be in peace with the rest of the angels, sweetheart, baby girl, we all love you with all our hearts. at a community vigil in uvalde, the dead are mourned. they include teacher garcia who was in her fifth year teaching along side eva morelles, both die they say shielding students from gunfire, not lost here, the children still being treated in the hospital. described as critical but stable, wishing there were more live she's could save. >> i think that's what hit us the most, not of the patients we did receive and we are honored to treat them, but the patients that we did not receive, that is the most challenging aspect of our job right now. >> reporter: the flores family among those who rushed to hospitals in search of their children. it was there that jose senior lived the moment that would befall families in his cl

the school for more than 45 minutes. never once trying to get into that classroom. the gunman wasn't shot dead until 90 minutes after he arrived at the school. police also contradicted an earlier statement that officers confronted and shot the assailant before he entered the school. >> in fact, the gunman roamed outside the school for 12 minutes before entering unchallenged. the door used to enter the school had been propped open by a teacher who used it to get out and get her cell phone after seeing the shooter crashes truck. >> video of the events unfolding outside the school. the chaos show frustrated parents being tackled in some cases in handcuffs by police as they were trying to get in the school themselves. they knew the gunman was still inside. they could hear gunshots. the person on site who made the call not to have officers enter the classroom to breach it and to confront the shooter. well, the person charged was the school district police chief today, the texas department of public safety director said that decision not to enter the classroom was the wron

the investigation. it appears victims were in four classrooms. on't know whether the gunman fired the weapon in four classrooms or they were injured. this is a high powered rifle. was there any sort of ricochets, as an example. did bullet goes through a wall? it's possible, depending on the type of walls there, through windows. we see classrooms have windows. that is a key thing we want to find out. what windows where is there? windows to the outside, to the door where the shooter could have been engaged, and an important component, you know, people focused on active training, if the shooter is engaged with the police, trying to shoot the cops or the cops or firing back at that active shooter, at least they are not shooting at kids. >> reporter: or people in an office building. that is an important part of it. really interesting information i just received from kxas in dallas, a great investigator and colleague. he sent to me a guideline, a handbook for officers in texas. this is put out by law enforcement officials what to do in an active shooter

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the authorities now say it was the wrong decision not to breach the classroom. but there are still a lot of unanswered questions including the governor saying he was misled about all of this. and that he's livid. i mean, doesn't seem -- it seems like there's a lot of finger pointing going on. >> yeah, jim, absolutely. a lot of finger pointing. there's no reason for any of that. you know, obviously, the texas rangers, dps have started to peel back the onion a little bit and get to the truth. you know, there's a saying, the first forces on the battlefield are greatly exaggerated. people want to embellish and cover for some of their mistakes. just by a simple investigation that dps and in suggestion with the fbi, they're finding out the initial stories were fabricated or exaggerated. and they're getting to the truth now. the truth is just, you know, i have listened to that press conference by colonel mcgraw earlier, and the truth is it's actually frightening. it's very disturbing. >> it is very disturbing. and jonathan, the incident commander treated it almost like