straight ahead we ll get a reality check on where all this goes. we re also live in tulsa where the police revealed a gunman who shot four people bought his gun just four hours beforehand. in uvalde, texas, as more and more kids are being laid to rest today, a state senator revealing the officer in charge never got word that children were calling 911, basically calling for help. mike memoli is covering the white house, blaine alexander is in tulsa, oklahoma, thompson is in uvalde, texas and we re joined by security analyst clint watts, former head of the counterterrorist division. i think you can t technically call it an address from president biden. why now? we learned that the president would be taking to the white house and in prime time tonight, we noted it was a rare instance of him using the biggest stage a president has to use the bully pulpit to paint the case for gun action at a critical moment. when the white house made their announcement of making it official
first in uvalde, families of loved ones that killed 19 children and two teachers are mourning in that community. an investigation into what exactly went wrong. why didn t officers get into that school and confront the gunman much faster? here s how a texas lawmaker described his conversation with one little girl s father. the. reporter: their little girl had been shot in the back with one bullet through the kidney area. she likely bled out, according to the first responder. who is to know what would have happened to that little girl had officers showed up timely, had they gone in timely? we have comprehensive coverage for you this morning. nbc s morgan chesky is live in uvalde. howard litman, former attorney under president clinton, and cedric alexander is part of the national organization black law enforcement. he is now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. morgan, funerals start for the victims of this shooting soon. what else can you tell us from there on the ground? ch
she was a good girl? she was. shannon: parents and family members in shock and grieving over lives cut way too short including 8-year-old garcia who loved playing football with his grandpa and 9-year-old ellie garcia who danced along to tiktok videos. we ll tell what you we re learning about the victims who are being remembered tonight at vigils all across country. new details about the investigation into what law enforcement believes was a preplanned attack, what the shooter posted on social media beforehand with his motive still unclear. our law enforcement panel weighs? the american people demand we take action. my colleagues ought to be held accountable. the unlawful purchase of a gun i don t know how i i can t tell people i can t think of a law that would have stopped this particular shooting. shannon: and calls for action to reduce gun violence already ratcheting up, but are there places where members of congress can find common ground? our panel will di
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classroom. parents sharing stories about the wonderful young children they loved and lost. and the heartbreak that will last forever. our correspondents are covering every angle of this story, including cnn teams on the scene in texas. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, investigators are starting to put together the pieces of america s newest shooting massacre. the epidemic of gun violence invading yet another school and claiming 21 more innocent lives, most of them young kids. cnn national correspondent jason carroll begins our coverage at the scene of the attack in texas. jason, state officials revealed new details of how this horrible rampage played out. and wolf, just a day after the shooting, the gravity of what s happened here has begun to sink in even more with this community. the governor here is saying that as far as they can tell so far, the suspect, the shoo