nearly waiting an hour to move in on the killer with full force. that delay adding anger to these mix of emotions that the communities dealing with right now. for the families of those children, it is unbelievable sadness of these lies, these babies, lives cut so short by what is becoming almost commonplace in america. among the victims, ten year old xavier lopez. we talked to his brother josé and his brother s girlfriend about the boy that will always remember they love to dance. he loved to dance. i love to. dance would you love to dance to? he was my dancing partner. he was your partner. [inaudible] my babies learn to dance also. how did you learn about the shooting? my mom. all of the full interview later on this hour. but it do want to talk about texas state police and their investigation into law enforcement s response to the uvalde school shooting, which has come under incredible scrutiny as it should. officials acknowledging that police waited an ho
teachers were slaughtered. they took no action to get into those classrooms as they waited for more equipment. we pressed for more of an explanation, and the response was devastating. listen. reporter: sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying please, send the please. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that s not protocol, is it? we re well aware of that. reporter: right, but why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject, that there was time and there were no more children at risk. reporter: and what time was that? based upon the information we have, there were children in the classroom that were at risk, and it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation, and not a barricaded subject. reporter: right. sir, if i can follow up. reporter: what can you tell parents who were asking to go in? there was 19. like i
jeff. a very frustrating community, and it all goes back to a video that s been making its rounds were about the last 12 hours or so showing parents understandably frustrated, standing outside the school at some point outside the mesh should have, held back by police officers. many parents wanting to go inside and do something and check on their kids. and now texas dps is responding. they tell us really right now they don t have too many details but they started filling in some of the blanks, especially when it comes to this timeline. if the one thing that stuck out is that it only took the shooter 12 minutes from the time he crashed his truck to get inside the school and investigators say they believe the door on the west side where he entered was unlocked. investigators also say that it was at this point during the first few minutes that he was inside the school where most of the shots were fired. texas dps also cleared up there was not an armed school police officer on c
he was preparing for the funeral of his wife of 24 years. they were college sweethearts. they were high school sweethearts. his death leaves their four children paralyzed. it is a reminder, as if this town needed one, the tuesday s tragedy is not over. the shockwaves will reverberate across this community in, countless ways, for countless weeks, months, and years. the raw grief among the residents here, of course, is no less than it was on tuesday. increasingly, the sadness is mingled with frustration, and anger, as people are unable to get them here on what they re happen to do here. it is over an hour before they were shot, and killed by law enforcement. they are trying to treat authorities as the massacre unfolded. in the aftermath of any horrific event, information is spotty. our understanding of what happens evolves over time, but even by those standards of breaking, and developing news, the inability of officials to give a consistent, and coherent account of a key porti
to speak today in the senate in michigan. so, she will speak here, tonight, about her feelings on this. we need to give voice to the people who want solutions, that are prepared to do something. i look forward to seeing the interview, lawrence. have a good show. thank you. we it is time to die. that is what the murderer told children his before they started shooting them in their classrooms. it is time to die. with the official dispensers of information, by governor greg abbott, told us at. they didn t tell us that. there it is going to go with an eyewitness. an unnamed, nine-year-old boy. his parents didn t want him to be identified, but allowed him to be interviewed. the boy hid under a table that was covered with a tablecloth. that is why he s alive. a tablecloth. it had blocked the murderer from seeing this nine year old boy with under the table we. there was a door in the middle, he opened it, and he came in and, he crouch a little bit he said, it s time to die.