texas. they will make a visitor robb elementary school, paying the respects of course to the elementary school, the memorial has been built up around that school there. they ll then move on to sacred heart. and a ten mass for an hour long service there. paying their respects to the community. and then it is the task that a president takes on every single time a mass shooting like this happens. and it is visiting with the victims and the victims families. paying their respects. this president knows all too well what it was like to lose a child as he did so many years ago. and quite recently as well. and i m sure he ll lend what he has learned in that moment to these families. but nothing can provide solace in the comfort that these families need right now. because all they want to survey these back in their arms. that s nothing this president could ever provide for them. he ll also be meeting with first responders as well. we re going to be tracking the location of the preside
weekend, right now president joe biden is in uvalde, texas. addressing privately those who ve lost loved ones and last week s horrific school shootings. at robb elementary school. all afternoon we ve watched the president, and first lady, a physical and emotional aftermath of that day. visiting, the towns memorial to the slain principle, and superintendent and attending catholic mass before sitting with the families of the two teachers that 19 students killed, and last wednesday s attack. america remains in shock as to what has been revealed about what happened in robb elementary. the growing firestorm over where, and how local police failed, corroborated by frantic emergency calls for children, literally trapped in a killing field. and the justice department just announcing today, a federal review of the law enforcement response. but that shot cannot take precedent over two things, remembrance which is the debt we owe the grieving. and the taking. and action which is the p
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
texas attacked an elementary school and killed 21 people. 19 of them, children. and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture of what now looks to be an extraordinarily inept police response, that allowed the government to be locked in a classroom with children, who were still alive for more than an hour! here s today s version of what happened on tuesday, may 24th. at 11:27 am, central time, a teacher at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, walks out of the building, and props the door open. and that teacher sees a truck crash behind the school. by 11:28 am, she is rushed back into the school to get her phone, lea
tragedy. ask the questions. those politicians don t want to answer. the running the clock. don t let them do it. love has to be the answer. decency must rule. nicole hawk lay, matthew dowd, thank you for joining me on this important friday night, at the end of a very heavy week. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of monday. be good. us i will see you and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture of what now looks to be an extraordinarily inept police response, that allowed the government to be locked in a classroom with children,