burnett, welcome to a special edition of outfront and tonight, growing outrage in uvalde texas, new footage appears to show police knew the children were still alive inside that classroom as they waited outside for back-up. listen. a child, she is in the room full of victims at this moment. cnn not able to independently confirm the source of that audio not when it was heard exactly but this adds so much to questions about why the gunman remained inside the classroom with students more than an hour before he was killed by a border patrol tactical response team. now the justice department is conducting their own independent review of the police response and president biden vowing to get something done after meeting with the families of the 19 students and two teachers killed in that mass shooting. most who are victimized, their families, they spent three hours and 40 minutes with me. the pain is palpable and i think a lot of it is unnecessary so i m going to continue to
covid concerns on memorial day in the usa. why case counts are at least f five times higher? should we expect a summer surge? we ll take a look. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thank you for joining us. for the second time, u.s. president biden and the first lady mourned alongside grieving and devastated families who lost their loved ones in a mass shooting in a texas town of uvalde. the bidens laid flowers outside robb elementary school where 19 students and two teachers were killed last week. mr. biden and the first lady also attended mass where jill biden could be seen reaching out and touching the hands of several people as they walk out the isle. outside the church, some gathered, urged the president to do something to which he responded, we will, take a listen . cnn is following development and has more now from uvalde. president biden spent about seven hours on the ground here in uvalde, texas, on sunday trying to offer some s
treated victims for second time in five years. at the university health hospital. all of us would be in level one. blood bank is on their way. reporter: doctors prepared to receive the most critically wounded. one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation. reporter: cnn got exclusive access inside as dr. william and her team demonstrated preparations for a mass event. anesthesia is here. this is one of the team that is we form. and the day of the mass casualty event, we form multiple teams such as this. reporter: it was not a drill on tuesday when a teenage gunman burst ins inside uvalde element