firepower and adequate protective equipment, 58 minutes past from the time we see these officers in that video, in that screen grab, to when they ultimately breached that classroom. reporter: just 12 minute before. at 11:40, uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo called the uvalde police department from inside the school asking for help. according to a transcript arredondo says it is an emergency right now, we have him in the room, he s got an ar-15, he s shot a lot, they need to be outside the building prepared because we don t have firepower right now. it is all pistols. after reviewing body camera footage, the statesman writes arredondo was trying to find keys to open the classroom s doors, even though officials say they do not believe officers had tried to open either door. the texas tribune reports officers held their positions outside the adjoining classrooms as the gunman fired at least
shooting started and so we know that even if the chief was not in communication, the officers there knew that they were dealing with an emerging situation. that s the key question. we re continuing to see some of this information come out from reporting that, yes, the officers may not have been outgunned, that one image from the austin american statesman shows high powered assault style weapons those officers have behind the two ballistic shields. just an avalanche of failure here. it seems. i ll also point out that this is revictimizing this community, this kind of slow drip of information, this lack of trrns pa transparency. i was talking with a friend of mine who pointed out a good point, he said, look, in small town, texas, we were raised to respect law enforcement. the local police chief, the local state trooper assigned to a region, they were held on a pedestal. you can imagine putting yourself in the shoes of the people of uvalde, being revictimized by the lack of transparency i
was mentioning there are two hearings going on where hopefully we ll get more ansers from the state senate side where the head of dps is supposed to be testifying. we understand it is likely he s going to do somewhat of a show and tell about the type of door that these officers were coming up against. i was in law enforcement, not like the movies where the officer shows up, they pull up their side arm, they blow a dead bolt and it flies open. these are reinforced. if you re a police department with a school district in your jurisdiction, you might want to know how that building is secured, and if the threat is from within, you might want to know how to get in that building. those are all the questions we re hearing from the people in uvalde, they want the police to give them answers and so far there have been very few answers. yeah, and the answers we have, frankly, disturbing. especially those images we see today. josh campbell, thank you so much. the january of 6th committee s fo
response, while the gunman was inside that classroom. we now know, some of the pictures there, 11 officers responded to the school within three minutes and those images show officers not only heavily armed in the hallway, but also with protective gear. they still waited 58 minutes to enter that classroom, take down the shooter. cnn s rosa flores has the latest on the investigation. i find it shameful we had almost 100 officers on the scene and i had to leave work and save my own. outrage palpable in uvalde, texas, as first image from inside robb elementary during the shooting is released. this surveillance picture shows officers standing in the school s hallway with rifles and a ballistic shield with a time stamp of 19 minutes after officials say the gunman entered the school. it shows in the minds of at least some investigators reviewing what happened that day is that authorities had adequate
would impact abortion access, gun laws in this country, the epa s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. we ll bring you any developments from the supreme court as soon as they happen. also today, the january 6th committee will hold its fourth public hearing, expected to focus on former president trump s role in the scheme to submit fake slates of electors. and trump s campaign of pressure on state level officials to overturn the election results. among the key witnesses this afternoon, key state officials from arizona, and georgia. there is another major story we re following this morning, we re learning that uvalde, texas, school district police chief pete arredondo will testify today, this before the texas house committee investigating the law enforcement response to the mass shooting last month at robb elementary school. this comes as we re learning new likely disturbing details this morning on law enforcement s