welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. on may 24th, 2002, a gunman walked into robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. what makes it even harder to understand is that 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers, and through sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage, and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all this evidence. neither have the families of the victims until now. in this next hour, we re going to show you new video from the after
teachers weave he was finally killed by police 77 minutes later. it s one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history. 376 law enforcement personnel responded to the scene, but it took them more than an hour before they actually moved to breach the classroom and confront the shooter. they waited while children inside lay injured and dying. over the past year, cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team have been digging for answers and through sources they have obtained the entire investigative case file which includes thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of footage and multiple audio recordings. uvalde city officials haven t seen all of the evidence, neither have the families of the victims until now. in this next hour, we re going to show you knew video from the aftermath. it s tough to watch and sometimes shocking. the only images and sound from children are those who survived that day, and the only gunfire you ll hear is from police and the shooter. we have shown the foota
viewers joining us here in united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. and i m rosemary church. just ahead, students demand action on guns in the wake of the michigan state university shooting. we ll discuss what needs to be done to prevent the tragedies we re seeing all too often in america schools. former south carolina governor nikki haley throws her hat in the 2024 presidential reign. but she will likely face some stiff competition in the republican primary. and as the death toll in the turkey syria quake continues to rise, images of rescue teams find a survivors under the rubble offer a glimmer of hope. we begin this hour in east lansing michigan. the community is mourning three college students killed in a mass shooting and praying for five others still in the hospital. we have new video showing students at michigan state university hiding from the gunman in the classroom. it s stupid. they already evacuated the other room. [screaming] get
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