brutal lockdown but will newfound freedoms last? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett, several developments in the investigation of the school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. texas officials tonight revealing the incident commander during that shooting, pete aradondo is now not repeating to investigator s request for a follow up interview, this comes aztecsous department of public safety tonight confirms the elementary school teacher who propped open the door right before the attack did in fact close it before the gunman entered. the teacher initially propped open the door with a rock then ran back inside to get her phone when the gunman crashed his truck and according to the official, she then removed the rock, closed the door, it just didn t lock and now investigators are looking into why. this information is not what police originally said during their press conference on friday. we know from video evid
you are doing nothing. tonight, as the nra heads to texas, the uniquely american crisis of guns in this country. a former firearms executive on what he calls his battle against the industry that radicalized america. and david hogg on the possibility for progress and what we are still learning a community in mourning. win all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are all in this country in a state of mourning for the 19 elementary school children and two teachers massacred in uvalde, texas yesterday. and there is a feeling of palpable overwhelming rage and frustration, a feeling that i share. and watching this perverse and particular ritual, which is what it is, play out, in the aftermath of a preventable tragedy like this one, hoping that some tragedy, like this one or the next one or maybe the one after that will be the thing the thing that finally cracks the resistance of the gun lobby in the republican party. but we actually have eviden
and david hogg speaks on the possibility for progress and what we are still learning. a community in mourning when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are all in this country in a state of mourning for the 19 elementary school children and two teachers massacred in uvalde, texas yesterday. and there is a feeling of palpable overwhelming rage and frustration, a feeling that i share. we re watching this perverse and particular ritual play out, in the aftermath of a preventable tragedy like this one, hoping that some tragedy, like this one or the next one or maybe the one after that will be the thing the thing that finally cracks the resistance of the gun lobby and the republican party. but we actually have evidence that the opposite is true. listen to this. a 2019 study found that, after high-profile mass shootings, like the one in uvalde, not only do legislators and governments failed to pass gun safety legislation, but in republican st
authorities believe carrying out reconnaisance just one day before the massacre. the suspect taken into custody on saturday. police say he was heavily armed wearing tactical gear with a camera, livestreaming his rampage. authorities say they have uncovered efvidence that this supermarket was not his only target, and if he had not been stopped, the death toll would have been much higher. he got out of here to continue his rampage and continue shooting people. he had even spoken about possibly going to another store. the scene of this massacre has the highest black populated zip code in new york. police say he posted a manifesto online, describing himself as a white supremacist. we have omar jimenez. reporter: details show the suspect planned the attack months in advance. investigators say he is believed to have scoured the store in early march to prepare for his gunfire. because of the body armor he had on, he could have easily retreated back into that store where ther
coming to an end and it s a high stakes election day in five u.s. states with donald trump s influence looming large over key primary races. we will take a look. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. u.s. president joe biden will travel to buffalo new york in the coming hours, where he will meet with families of the victims of saturday s racially motivated shooting. a white house official tells cnn, the president will make remarks in buffalo and condemn the shooting as terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology. and he is expected to call on americans to quote, give hate no safe harbor. this comes as we learn new details about the 18-year-old accused in the attack that killed ten people. brian todd has the latest. reporter: this was a straight up hate crime. pure evil. police revealing details about the planning that went in to the massacre of ten people in the buffalo store and how it could have been worse. he had plans had he go