have the actual crime scene, how many times the weapon was fired, who fired where, even police shooting, you know, at the suspect where any civilians or policemen injured by the crossfire, they can try to understand how the other police departments responded, what the timeline was. a bit more specifically what happened from the time the shooter left his grandmother s house and made his way to the school, and that, i think, is key to this timeline is understanding all that. these do take a long time, sandra, as i just said, there are a lot of moving parts to it, a lot of people that need to be interviewed, radio traffic that needs to be analyzed. i m not expecting it to date in the news conference that we ll have a complete report that can be submitted, the final on this. it will be some interim update on what they found and maybe some key issues that hopefully
right now is what happened when the shooter first encountered the school resource officer. all of us are saying, myself included, are saying that security guards, off duty police officers are the gold standard when it comes to security outside of any kind of school, especially elementary schools, you can t evacuate the students. so that s the big question mark here. i, you know, again, we don t know all the facts. there may be a question of why it took so long to get in, if he was in fact shooting, but i think at the point, at one point he stopped shooting and they had two officers down and decided to go in with the tactical team. sandra: chris, they are running a little behind, they said one point this afternoon and then said 2:00 eastern time. we are 23 minutes past that. you have to assume there are last minute details to try to
she was very happy and very outgoing. loved to dance and sing and play sports. she was big into family and enjoyed being with the family. more vigils of planned for these small children. the family continues to grieve. funeral plans should be as soon as this weekend. john: the entire nation is weeping for all of them. alexis, thank you. sandra. sandra: a look at the capitol this hour where education secretary cardona is testifying before a house panel. comes less than 48 hours after that massacre and as the gun debate is heating up in the country with congress and republicans now pushing for new school security measures while democrats are calling for tougher gun control laws. tony gonzalez, he represents uvalde, texas. joins us now, sir, welcome. our hearts are broken, we are grieving with those families, this is just awful, all of it.
sandra: congressman, appreciate you joining us, thank you very much and best to the community as you try to heal. and john, part of that healing process is the community coming together and to highlight some of the actions that some of the locals are there, hillcrest funeral home, some hid during the shooting, announced it s arranging funerals for the lives lost at no cost. many people are lining up to donate blood, others have started fundraisers for the victims families, and collecting teddy bears for survivors, and this is the moment we grieve and we try to heal and those communities are pulling together to do everything they can to show their support for those families and those victims. john: when you think of the scope of this tragedy and the fact it s a fairly small town by texas standards, how are they ever going to recover from this. this this will always be how
the video shows frantic and frustrated parents demanding they be let into the school. police keeping the distraught family members behind a perimeter as the shooting unfolds inside. it s still unclear when in the whole event cycle this video was shot. sandra: texas officials have yet to deliver a clear timeline of what exactly happened and when. we do know the gunman got into that school through an unlocked entrance, responding officers were met by heavy gunfire and the suspect barricaded himself inside the classroom with children and teachers. a community the victims, today would have been the last day of class before the summer break. john: texas republican congressman tony gonzalez represents uvalde, he joins us in moments. fox team coverage. alexis mcadams has more on the