now they are waiting to head off to the robb elementary school. a scene that we have all witnessed over the last four or five days. the makeshift memorial, 21 crosses there. however, we should note, there are now 22, as of today, a 22nd cross was added to that memorial. the husband of teacher irma garcia. who, two days after her shocking death, died himself of a heart attack. in some cases people are calling it a broken heart. after laying flowers at his wife s memorial there. that senior, white that is where the president and first lady will be heading shortly. they are, speaking of course, with the dignitaries who are making them at the airfield airstrip. in uvalde. but they will make their way by motorcade to the central of town, that memorial is makeshift. a gunman opened fire inside a classroom, that is why this is happening. there is also what about rated of the late police response to this shooting. which is only adding to significant agony in that small community toda
from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex witt reports. welcome to breaking news from uvalde, texas. this is what it looks like outside robb elementary school today. 21 crosses, one for each person killed and the deadliest school shooting in a decade. also, growing outrage to the police response to the shooting in the heartbreaking details of children calling 9-1-1 begging them to police and the police now. grief stricken parents and state officials are angry over the decision from preventing federal tax to to from taking immediate action. you know every officer lines up, stacks, up goes and finds where the grounds are being fired, and keeps shooting until the subject is dead. joining us now from uvalde is nbc s liz also and then from houston shaquille brewster. liz, delays by police have grabbed the nations attention. what more are we learning about the timeline today? alex, after days of confusion and conflicting reports, we are hearin
this. if you look behind me, you can see the 21 crosses with the names of 19 little kids and two teachers killed in their classroom. 2 place they were supposed to be safe. what we re learning about the police response raises some disturbing questions. police vealing nobody was there the try to stop the gunman when he got in through door that was apparently locked and he was inside for about an hour before he was killed. how can that happen? what happened? an hour when desperate parents were all crowded outside. they were pleading with police to go in and let them go in or let them go in themselves. that is so hard to watch. so hard to listen to listen to their screams. the father of one student says he pleaded with officers to give him their gear so he could go inside as the shooting was happening. his son did survive but 19 ore children, two teachers did not survive. also joining us, cn nrknn law enforcement analyst, anthony barksdale. it s good to see you. i wish it was und
uvalde. how school security roundup in the wake of previous mass murders continue to fail and why all of us are concerns about margins keep getting ignored. and as the architects of america s gun crisis meet at the nra convention going all about the potential for congress. why only in the your country, why isn t only in america? why is this exceptionalism so awful? when all in starts right now. . good evening from new york, i m chris hayes what we know happened at ramallah matthew school in uvalde texas is that 90 children and two teachers were shot and killed. they were murdered by an 18-year-old who purchased two weapons as soon as he was legally able. right after his 18th birthday. there s a lot we do not know. in particular, about the timeline of just what happened on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, o
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