reporter: in that crucial time, survivors inside both classrooms made desperate calls to 9-1-1. she identified herself and whispered she is in room 112. at 12:10, she called back and room 12 guised multiple are dead. 12:13, she called again on the phone. at 12:16, she called back and said there is eight to nine students alive. minutes later, a student called. reporter: student/child called back, was told to stay on the line and be very quiet. told 911 he shot the door. approximately 12:43 and 12:47, he she asked police to come now. something s got to be done now. where do we go from here, you know? you were wrong. what dwe do now? you know, it s my question. what are we gonna do now? the countability, you are talking about. right. accountability. somebody s got to be responsible. reporter: warning signs missed. ramos asked his sister to help him buy a gun. she flatly refused. that was in september of 21. reporter: with social media group chats and posts a
want answers. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. it was the wrong decision. period. reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. the
communication in our drills to be able to communicate in classrooms administrators and key personnel use radios that allow us to communicate so these are all parts of those procedures. i d add to that in a lockdown procedure that even those doors that lead to the interior of campus are locked at that moment. so the intention is to not only lock students and staff inside of classrooms, but to lockout anyone that is attempting to enter the building that is unauthorized. based on the lockdown procedures, should there have been an announcement over the intercom that went through the entire building saying there is a threat, there is a shooter in the build something. again since i am not there, i hesitate to speculate on the procedures that are currently used by uvalde. i can share with you that on the campus that i am currently the principal of, that s precisely what we do. we use the p.a. system as the primary means to initiate a lockdown. when you were in there, last ques
creating liabilities for people who provide access to firearms to kids. these are things that can be done. it s just requiring some politicians to put the politics aside and put the children and their needs and lives first. well, nicole hockley, i know that this is a difficult time for you as you wrote in your op-ed, retraumaized, but i thank you for spending a few minutes with us to help us understand what s ahead for these families and what you believe should be ahead for our country. nicole, thank you. thank you. it s the top of the hour, on cnn newsroom, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota in uvalde, texas, here at the scene of yet another hideous school shooting. victor, here we are again. i m in front of robb elementary school, the scene of the carnage where 19 kids, 4th graders, 3rd graders, 2nd graders were killed in their classroom. we just heard the texas lieutenant governor say in the last hour that there will be plenty of time to analyze what hap
but i m here on this floor to beg, work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely. dickerson: plus, president biden set to address the country. biden address the country. that and tonight s other top headlines. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dickerson: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m john dickerson, in for norah. tonight; another mass shooting in america, this time at an elementary school, where at least 18 children and a teacher were killed. on the brink of summer vacation, lives in the small town of uvalde, texas, have changed forever. this is the deadliest school shooting since the stoneman douglas high school shooting in parkland, florida, in 2018. texas governor greg abbott said the gunman entered the school with a handgun and possibly a rifle and was likely shot by a responding officer. police said the shooting happened at 11:32 a.m. local time at robb elemen