prevention number and easy to remember. dial 988 like you would dial 911 in a medical emergency. instead of a dispatcher sending police or first responders, 988 will connect you with trained mental health providers 24/7. anderson, thank you so much. i am laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. listen, i want to be up front with you. we re doing something different tonight, something frankly that s extremely difficult. but we truly believe that it s important to do. you know, there s a tendency to want to turn our eyes from what is difficult, a tendency to just want to move on. it s human nature. i understand. believe me, i understand that. and sometimes the news does require a shift in focus. but just because the cameras leave a location doesn t mean the quest for information has ended or that the trauma has ended or that if we simply close our eyes that it can t happen or it won t happen. this is especially true when we re talking about the pandemic of gun violence and th
they ve got equipment. they ve got everything they need. they ve got the personnel. the only thing they re missing right now is courage. shimon, i m looking at all the different uniforms. just looking at this for the first time for many people who are watching this unfold, we have been told for several weeks now the name chief arredondo. are we seeing him still? i don t see him anywhere. this is not just the school resource officers anymore. is border patrol here, are uvalde police here? what are these uniforms? you see border patrol obviously. you see a sheriff s deputy there kneeling with one of the ballistic shields. i think the border patrol may be there behind him. at this point those swat team members, for lack of a better word, they start arriving here. these are the guys that arredondo says he called for