podium right there, to address this preliminary report by the texas house into failures during the response to the robb elementary school shooting that happened in may, two months now since that horrible massacre. and now this texas house report, which is a fact-finding report, which says there were multiple failures involving multiple agencies. of course we ll bring that press conference to you live as soon as it begins. so back with me right now cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe and analyst juliette kayyem. you were talking about the 20 agencies that responded to this massacre at uvalde at robb elementary school, and you said it s time for them to either revisit or now get training in incident command.
shooting drills and responses, all of that is highlighted and written about in this report and really in the end what this highlights, this report highlights there was no command of the situation. there was no one leader who was leading the law enforcement response. it was a collection of agencies, of officers really kind of operating on their own, they talk about at one point it was two different scenes. one side of the hallway you had officers and officers on the other side of the hallway and no one was working together. that s what this report talks about, the collection of failure that we are now reading about. we certainly have seen and heard about for nearly two months. this community is still demanding a lot of answers and they re demanding accountability. and, shimon, what will happen next? this report, fact-finding report now revealed, but then what? reporter: what we re actually
committee found systemic failures and egregious poor decision making by multiple entities including law enforcement, the school and the shooter s family. the report also says the attacker likely murdered most of the victims before responders were able to get to the school. 19 children and two teachers were killed in may when an 18-year-old gunman broke into the school and opened fire. we are joined now from uvalde, texas. this is the first we re hearing now in this report that in this fact-finding report that the committee believes that most of those 18 children and two teachers killed were killed before the first responders got there even though in the surveillance video you can hear rounds of gunfire. so help us understand the report. reporter: well, some of this is, sadly, they re basing this
people both here and uvalde and in austin. they also visited the scene. and so they gathered all this information and produced this fact-finding report that has a lot of information that we hadn t heard before. a lot of the information we had heard before was really coming from texas dps, the elite law enforcement for us here in the state of texas. so this is a different approach from the texas house. now, what the texas house is going to do now with this report, the texas house investigative committee, they re going to hand it over to two other committees within the texas house that will then look through it, figure out if there are recommendations to be made to school districts across the state of texas, and also perhaps draft legislation. now, the building you see behind me is the sieving center in uvalde, and we re expecting a press conference at 4:00 local here where the press will also be able to answer questions.
screen it at an organized briefing on sunday with counselors present, but they decided to release it early. what are the families saying today? the families are outraged. they were preparing themselves emotionally to watch this video in full, to be presented with a full report, a fact-finding report, and they were going to have the opportunity to ask the texas house committee questions about what was in the report. questions about the accountability. they were going to have that opportunity, and they were robbed of that opportunity. that is why they are outraged because we should make one thing very clear. they have been wanting for the video to be released for accountability purposes. they were hoping that the individuals that did not do anything to save their children were held accountable, but they were hoping this could be done with some compassion. that they were going to be able to view the final moments of their loved ones before the