straight ahead we ll get a reality check on where all this goes. we re also live in tulsa where the police revealed a gunman who shot four people bought his gun just four hours beforehand. in uvalde, texas, as more and more kids are being laid to rest today, a state senator revealing the officer in charge never got word that children were calling 911, basically calling for help. mike memoli is covering the white house, blaine alexander is in tulsa, oklahoma, thompson is in uvalde, texas and we re joined by security analyst clint watts, former head of the counterterrorist division. i think you can t technically call it an address from president biden. why now? we learned that the president would be taking to the white house and in prime time tonight, we noted it was a rare instance of him using the biggest stage a president has to use the bully pulpit to paint the case for gun action at a critical moment. when the white house made their announcement of making it official
of events, just a few days ago officials said the door had been left ajar. there are also new questions about the police response. ksat has obtained audio of the school district s message alerting parents of an active shooter incident. parents, there is an active shooter at robb elementary. law enforcement is on site. your cooperation is needed at this time by not visiting the campus. both the school s facebook post and the audio message according to ksat came during the time that officers were inside the school and apparently believed the situation had become a barricade situation. cnn has learned that chief pete arredondo has stopped cooperating with investigators, failing to respond to a request for a follow-up interview, but he was sworn in as a city council member on tuesday. also funerals will be held for irma garcia and 10-year-old joée manuel flores jr. family and friends will also gather today at visitation and rosary services for nevaeh bravo, jayce luevanos an
classroom, where all those 21 victims were killed. but in an exclusive interview with cnn this morning, chief arredondo is contradicting that. he says he is in touch with the department of public security. let s go straight to cnn producer aaron cooper, he just spoke with arredondo. aaron, what did he tell you? reporter: it was just that, he told me that he is in touch with the texas department of public safety every day. i asked him about the comments that they had been hoping to speak with him, to have an interview with him, and he had not been responsive, he repeated that he was in contact with them every day. he said he was focusing on the families. he was not did not want to talk about the investigation, did not want to talk about details of what was going on, but wanted to focus on the families. i asked him about being sworn in as city council member here in in his hometown in texas, last night. he told me that was a private affair, not something they wanted publi
shooter used to enter the school was actually not propped open as initially reported, but closed by a teacher once she realized there was a gunman on campus. investigators trying to figure out why that door failed to lock. shimon prokupecz, you spoke briefly this morning with chief aradondo, someone everyone has been wanting to hear from. what happened? reporter: yeah, certainly, we ve been trying to make contact with him for the last several days. we haven t heard from him since the day of the shooting. we ve been at his house. finally this morning, our producer, erin cooper, spotted him at his home, had a brief conversation with him, but then we were here at the chief s office here at the school district behind me when we spotted him coming in through the back and we approached him to ask some questions. specifically, the accusation that he was the one who ultimately made the decision, that he was the incident commander who decided not to allow officers to breach that doo
we begin with uvalde, a conversation with the school s police chief, the state says made that decision not to storm the classroom when 19 students and two teachers were slaughtered. the chief tells cnn he is quote in contact with dps every day. that is contrary to what they said yesterday. the chief repeatedly declining to explain his action. what dpa calls his wrong decision and storm that classroom. cnn has spoke with the chief. shimone, critical important reporting. what did the chief say? yeah, john, it s really critical. we need to get his side of the story. we have been looking for him, trying to get his side of the story after it was revealed that he was the man who made the decision not to storm that room, that classroom where the gunman was and it took over an hour for the police to eventually take him out. we spotted him, we are found him going into work this morning. we asked him those questions. he obviously dodged this. he didn t want to answer any of those que