that was really a great report on. it thank you. thank you. thank you a man. we have some breaking news from you all day right now. this is stunning. absolutely stunning news. yesterday afternoon, on our special memorial day coverage, i was echoing from six to 8 pm. and we reported to you then, that peter i would hondo, who was the commanding officer in the school, for those 78 minutes for when the police was doing nothing. he is the chief of police of the school district of you ve all day, that very small by person police force that he commands. he was also three weeks ago, an elected to the city council in uvalde. he won an election three weeks ago to the city council in uvalde. he was scheduled to be sworn in as a member of the city council today, at a city council meeting involved a. and yesterday, we reported to you, that that meeting of the city council for today was canceled. that was the end of the story. for today, as far as we knew. and now, tonight, the city
all day, that very small by person police force that he commands. he was also three weeks ago, an elected to the city council in uvalde. he won an election three weeks ago to the city council in uvalde. he was scheduled to be sworn in as a member of the city council today, at a city council meeting involved a. and yesterday, we reported to you, that that meeting of the city council for today was canceled. that was the end of the story. for today, as far as we knew. and now, tonight, the city council, the mayor of uvalde a, republican mayor of uvalde, has just issued a statement, indicating that no, they did not have the city council meeting. but, but, the police chief was sworn in. as a member of the city council today. and that that happened while he has been hiding out from investigators, who were trying to get more information from this police chief who has been a wall for two days. but he did get sworn in tonight as a member of the uvalde city council. and here is the wri
if i commit a little speed limit. over the speed limit, they will stop you. you have 20 cars searching you down. but they could not go in there and break that effing door? they are darn cowards? cowards. they let those kids get slaughtered. texas officials say officers waited outside the barricaded classroom for nearly an hour while trapped students frantically called 9-1-1. joining me from the town square, nbc s liz maclachlan. liz, we ve seen long lines at the memorial in uvalde today where i am standing near robb elementary. the lions are wrapped around the corner. what are you hearing from people coming to pay their respects? alicia the crowd here has also been growing all day, people waiting in the hot sun to pay their respects to lay flowers in front of their 21 crosses here. 22, actually 21 for the victims of the shooting and another cross added for the husband of one of the teachers who died from a heart attack just a couple of days later. a lot of people from t
elementary school. she saw her teacher killed. for the first time we learn what the killer said before he fired his gun in that classroom. we hear new details about what he did, this witness says he played music during the massacre. and we learn what this brave 11-year-old did to stay alive while it was all happening. all of this at the top of the next hour. in the meantime, the police response to the tragedy that took place here is facing intense scrutiny and there are new questions about the timeline. this is what we know. the 18-year-old gunman was not not confronted by law enforcement before he entered the building. this contradicts what we were told repeatedly by law enforcement. officers at the scene we are told were calling for backup as shots were being fired inside the school. a source close to a teacher who was inside says the school was not on lockdown before the shooter entered, even though he fired shots at two people near the school 12 minutes earlier. fra
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